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But a dead sheep would be an improvement on Lukaku?

 

If you don't feed it then the results would be the same.

Do you really think Kane could fill Ronaldo's place?
Like I said, he would be a more direct replacement for Benzema but in no way would fill the roll of Ronaldo.

 

Not so sure about the juxtaposition of this one...

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The Ronaldo of the last couple of years and Kane aren't that different. Ronaldo's pace has been leaving him and he's restricted himself to moving more like a no. 9 and being in the box when the ball arrives. The Ronaldo of 5 or 10 years ago are chalk and cheese. There is no direct replacement for him or any special talent but there are plenty of ways to skin a cat.

Does HK have it in him to score 50 a season for Madrid?..........Yes, of course he does and it would be that ability that they'd pay a world record sum for..................but he's not for sale, at any price and RM aren't going to go to war with DL right now as was seen with Mauricio Pochettino. So, it's a dead issue..............like Lukaku.

 

*cough*MBappe*cough*

 

Yeah unbelievably, I forgot about him [it's an age thing] but will PSG sell him when Neymar wants out, supposedly?

Madrid may be hugely wealthy but there are a number of clubs that can turn them down in the current market and Mbappe's at one of them. If PSG won't sell Mbappe [and they'll fight might and mane not to], Madrid will still look to buy someone to replace those goals, whether they play like Ronaldo, Mbappe, Neymar, Kane or whoever?

 

I couldn't help but notice the BBC were trying to sell MBappe during last night's game, in much the same way ITV were trying to sell Bale when we played Lyon in the Europa League a few years back - both of which apparently failing to realise that, unless they had Spanish subtitles, they weren't speaking the language of their suitors.

It wouldn't surprise me if Los Ladrones issuing statements saying they have absolutely, positively no interest whatsoever in neither Neymar nor MBappe feels like some kind of backhanded tapping-up, almost as if they're waiting to see if either player responds by handiong in a transfer request so Los Ladrones can sign them out of the good nedd of their cold, dead, Francoist heart.

 

They tried something slightly different with Mauricio Pochettino, rather than unleashing the full apparatus of previous tapping up campaigns.

Mbappe's playing in his home country for an enormously wealthy club, having been there just one season and rightly, being the darling of the French international team. PSG have enough money to turn down whatever Madrid offer them for Neymar and/or Mbappe. If they had to keep one, I'm 100% certain that it would be Mbappe and he's far, far more likely to want to stay than a Brazilian who has no loyalty to anything, apart from his home country and large amounts of cash.

If they want either or both, I'd lay money on them getting one and not the other.

 

I am plotting Neymar + Hazard to them, and Bale returning to us.
Modric coming home with him is ok too (though I would be able
to just about tolerate Kovacic in his place) .

 

Funnily enough, the "MBappe is unhappy at PSG" stories have started to surface...
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/10/kyli...neymar-treatment-paris-saint-germain-7698751/

Is it worth mentioning that El Pais, who ran the original article, are based in Madrid and they really don't like Catalonia?

 

One of the countless vocal idiots among Arsenal's support says...

...and then follows it up with...

Small club mentality or what?

 

Answered well by one of our other former players:

 

Ugh, as if the actual FBPE mob weren't obnoxious enough, the Spurs version keep popping their heads above the parapet...

 

With Isco and Bale to feed him, he wouldn't do a bad job.

 

...this is why proofreaders exist

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Now THAT'S a comeback

 

....made Mrs B and the girls laugh out loud.

 

Today on Harry Hotspur, an article where the thicket is actively hoping we get gazumped on Jack Grealish (not to be confused with his witterings from a few weeks ago where he was actively hoping we got gazumped on Ante Rebic)

Personally I find myself rooting for the day somebody gazumps his spot on NewsNow's feed...

 

Hack chatter today that Son is definitely going to the Asia games.

 

I thought we'd already given him permission?