Lrrr

My guess would be England use that third spot for Trafford and give him experience of a senior major competition with eyes on him being number 1 in years to come, no expectation for him to play, like England did with Walcott and others when they’ve been young

Betting on any football for anyone who works in football is banned, be it players, back room staff and potentially even those who just work for clubs. Essentially its something like the equivalent of insider trading for football because you can have information thats not available publicly. And if players were allowed to gamble it opens up the risk of spot fixing in the game where players deliberately get booked or concede fouls etc and manipulate the outcomes, that one yellow card may not influence that game itself but the accumulation can affect when their game is they're banned for etc.

For me they look almost too far the other way

Cheaper tickets, doubling the wage bill and what are likely some expensive loan signings which I imagine won’t just be this season, if they don’t go up in a couple of seasons they could be in trouble

Yep still the pair of them

Evans and his assistant must be the most disliked manager/assistant in the top 4 leagues and not in a ‘I’d like them to be our manager’ way

For me just in performance you take Cavill's style of performance from the man from uncle, he showed in mission impossible his fight scenes are good if he has a good choreographer.

I thought it was Pisano outside another coffee shop getting leaked again

I'm not sure why you wouldn't put the L1 or L2 play off final with the FA cup

Most do, you hear stories of some who don't and think 'they are so ****** if they go down'

Steve Evans? Comparative age to Warnock at least...

He's not the worst choice for Bond, would have preferred Henry Cavill but ah well

They got Olympiacos to buy Nelson Abbey from Reading as they couldn’t spend anything further in January, odds are on him moving to Forest in the summer.

I’d rather not have someone who only wants to work 3 days a week

How many 'new' devices can someone have in the space of 2 1/2 weeks

Looked fine when I saw him play a couple of weeks ago

Feel for Reading, I know someone who works there, apparently they got rid of all the chefs as a cost cutting measure, lots of microwave meals. I've been lucky to go to Bearwood and its an incredible facility, the mocking Charlie Savage got for saying it was as good as Man Utd's training ground, well he's not far off, genuinely could be a PL training ground. I don't really get the Wycombe hate, if they'd said no (heard somewhere they were approached over buying it) then I imagine it probably would have been sold to property developers or something and a waste of a great facility. Bolton sold their training ground to Wigan who sold it to Preston and there wasn't really a fuss. Also, supposedly some serious money behind Wycombe now, new owner not announced yet.

He’s had nearly a year off through his own fault. ‘Probably’… and if he doesn’t improve his form? This was a good chance to get Solanke some senior experience against good opponents and see how he got on. On form right now I’d be taking Solanke.

Just realised he’s gone Toney over Solanke, Solanke has been great this season where Toney has barely showed anything since the ban ended

Surprised Butland didn’t get a look in

I thought one of the whole things in the creation of the PL was the financial support of the EFL? So can’t see how clubs attempting to pull any deal have a chance.

Clearly does well enough making the case for us if those players then still want to come in

I think part of it comes from the lack of an experienced CEO/COO alongside him, if Gould or Alexander were still here or a replacement hired there may be less of an issue, its that lack of experience working at first team level in the roles people are doing. Brian's main success has been working in the academy, developing players and working on the pathway, that I don't think any City fan really questions that. I also agree when the club are looking for a Technical Director they're probably either looking externally or the most likely internal candidate is probably Tinnion at that point. Personally I don't think our recruitment has been bad for 90% of the players we've brought in since Tinnion has had greater first team influence, people can cite the lack of reinvestment but quite frankly that could be a decision made above Tinnion's station and he's left trying to give a plausible reason to the public, I'm sure he'd love to recruit the best players we can afford with reinvestment. Similar with Pearson's sacking, few people will know the genuine things that happened behind the scenes that led up until that point, I think most people on here acknowledge the reasons given publicly are probably a sham, but again perhaps the real reasons were to be kept quiet and Tinnion/JL left to try and make something sound reasonable to the public. what if it was also a case of it being SL/JL's decision to sack Pearson & Tinnion just had to go along with it. I'm completely working off guess work here, but say Pearson's health issues had reached such a point that it was clearly impacting his work in a negative way but he refused to resign, City can't fire him on that basis and performances are likely cover story, the real reason has to stay concealed and a sham reason in public which people then base their opinions off. A lot of fans don't realise just how much said by managers, CEO's, technical directors etc in interviews is flat out & deliberately untrue, but because its appeared in an interview its taken as gospel at times. This isn't supposed to be a 'Tinnion has been treated too harshly and should be let off' post, but more of a how much has Tinnion had lumped on him from above and had to try and make palatable to the public and therefore he takes the brunt of it. Personally I wasn't really in favour of Pearson going and I'm unsold on Manning thus far but I can factor that not everything can be a matter of cut and dry as it appears.

But Curtis has turned out for their 21’s

Bell is assistant