All purpose football thread 2023/24 Season

[tqineil]

Add that to the Coutinho money that still remains and you've got a massive budget for the rest of the transfer window.

aye, the pot that keeps giving!

 

[Spraggons Den]

Thundering 5-0 start to the season for the inevitable winners of the 23/24 PL.

I’ll get a crisp £20 note out of my wallet ready in anticipation of placing a bet on Londons favourite Russian oligarch slash US global capitalist team should they start well as my betting on them for the PL last season seemed to precipitate their slide into mediocrity

 

[tones]

The astonishing penalty shootout between Northern Ireland's Glentoran and Malta's Gzira:

 

[Weekender]

14:47

 

[Weekender]

Lionel Messi: Inter Miami debut goal in added time for Argentina star seals win over Cruz Azul - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66266410

 

[gavreid]

Lack of scruples, not money, is what attracts the Saudis to modern global sport
Kenan Malik
Their sportswashing seduces players and leagues – and the real targets: people who should know better

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/saudi-arabia-sportswashing-arms-sales-uk-us

 

[notaclue]

27-0.

 

[Bob McC]

It’s a tradition.
Every pre-season they hammer some amateur team.
Pointless in my opinion.

 

[Bob McC]

RIP Trevor Francis.
What a player he was. Like greased lightning.

 

[gavreid]

It’s a tradition.
Every pre-season they hammer some amateur team.
Pointless in my opinion.

Most teams wouldn't want to embarrass fellow professionals in a friendly - maybe that's why it's an amateur team! Honestly!

 

[gavreid]

RIP Trevor Francis.
What a player he was. Like greased lightning.

Bloody hell. Nearly signed for us instead of Clough!

 

[Weekender]

Meanwhile...this really befits the word, astonishing:
Kylian Mbappe: Al-Hilal make £259m offer for PSG and France forward - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66291108

 

[gavreid]

Who was the first £1m+ player to have died?

 

[Salamander]

and Cloughy told him he wasn't guaranteed a first team place.

RIP Trevor.

 

[Bob McC]

Who was the first £1m+ player to have died?

Ray Wilkins perhaps.

 

[webster]

Meanwhile...this really befits the word, astonishing:
Kylian Mbappe: Al-Hilal make £259m offer for PSG and France forward - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66291108

Unbelievable Jeff.
It'll be interesting to see how this plays out - can't blame PSG for taking their current stance.

 

[gavreid]

Ray Wilkins perhaps.

I've got Dalian Atkinson so far. I don't actually know the answer

 

[Bob McC]

I've got Dalian Atkinson so far. I don't actually know the answer

Justin Fashanu - quite a few years earlier.

 

[Spraggons Den]

I am going to go with Gary Speed.

 

[Weekender]

I am going to go with Gary Speed.

Nope. 2011 rest his soul.
See above. Fashanu died in 1998.