Off Topic International Break Thread

11.5 million Belgians. 26 names. 1 goal. No left-backs.

Some interesting youngsters on the back-up list.
We should probably be looking at Verschaeren, de Ketelaere and Lokonga now, rather than later.

 

Lokonga's got family ties to Spurs, as Paul Jose M'Poku is his brother

 

That's up there with Left-Arsecheek being Carl Cort's brother, in terms of unguessable connections.

 

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None of ours, but Croatia's squad includes players from Real, Atletico, Inter, Milan, Marseille, Lille and... Luton?

 

Ivo Grbic not getting a second of football this season probably explains it

 

This is a vicious lie. He played 90 minutes against CD Cardassar in the Copa del Rey. Kept a clean sheet, too.
For those who don't have an absolutely ludicrous knowledge of football, they're a bunch of part-timers from the Balearics who play in the 4th tier.

 

The fact he wears the No1 Jersey yet hasn't played a league game west of Split is both funny and pretty much a guarantee us making an approach is doomed to fail

 

Lloris and Sissoko in the French squad.

Ndombele not selected.

 

Just when I thought that I could look forward to the Euros to take my mind off of Spurs for a month or so, I see the TV schedules have been announced and 2 of Englands group games are on ITV and our record in tournament matches on the 'independent' network is atrocious, Good news for Scotland though.

 

Aouar not selected either

Don't suppose Lyon want to swap midfielders who didn't make the squad?

 

Think I'd rather avoid buying from France at the moment. Njie, Nkoudou, Stambouli, Aurier, Lucas (though to a lesser degree) and Ndombele... It's not been a great place to shop, lol.

 

Probably a question for another thread, but it is worth asking where we'll be staking out this summer

If there's half a dozen Premier League clubs staking out Ligue 1, for example, we run the risk of getting gazumped by one of the monied clubs while the selling clubs will adjust terms accordingly as they know there's interest out there

So...anyone know any hidden gems in the Ukrainian league?

 

Some Brazilian from Shakhtar... probably. Tete or Marcos Antonio.

 

Or Fred

 

Come to think of it, we were linked with Shakhtar's Mykola Matviyenko

Yes, that is a real person's name, even if his agent sounds like what EA are calling lootboxes in FIFA these days...

 

Experienced, relatively young, left-footed centre-half? Someone's going to buy him, even if it's not us.

 

The one wish I have in life is to live long enough to see Fred score with one of those attempts at goal from outside the box.

 

Reguilon not in the Spain squad