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Sheyi Ojo going from Cardiff to KV Kortrijk on loan
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It’s because it has long been a home for washed up players looking to eek out a pay check from the last couple of years of their career. They have not been exactly buying top quality merch
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Pretend to speak a language that no one in the room knows and no one can call you out for being a bullshitter
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I wonder if they will be the hardest hit in the short term with Saudi Arabia entering the transfer market in a big way as that could reduce the number of players they could pick up. In the long term it could be really beneficial as they may invest in local talent instead?
I think so. You look at players like Mertens and Icardi at Galatasary. They are exactly the sort of players you’d think would be targets for the Saudi league.
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Bumped into Gary McAllister at Brancaster Beach today. Seems a nice chap. As quirks would have it his first wife’s parents lived next door to my mum in Leicester.
Still looks in good nick. Was tempted to ask him if he might give the number 6 role a go for us.
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Had completely missed Bellamy being assistant coach to Kompany, as well as the troubling story about his time at Cardiff academy.
Here you go, freed link: https://archive.is/20230805160842/https://theathletic.com/4745759/2023/08/04/craig-bellamy-burnley-coach/
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please god never let Gerrard anywhere near the reins of this football club
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Have to say in the small period of which Alonso has managed Bayer Leverkusen if we were going to go for an ex player after Klopp he has to be an early favourite.
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Needs more experience. The trouble is, that a few of years down the line, when he has that experience, a couple of his other former clubs may be looking for new managers.
He seems to talk about us a lot and his son is a fan.
I generally can see him coming here before the other two.
Let’s see though, Klopp may do two more years on top of his current contract. Someone else may emerge, he may flop.
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This has just got me wondering whether there were any footballers whose careers were both delayed and curtailed by both world wars. I thought Elisha Scott might have done that but he retired from football in 1936.
Sir Bob went away to war in 1939
Paisley came from a small County Durham mining community and, in his youth, played for Bishop Auckland before he signed for Liverpool in 1939. During the Second World War he served in the British Army, and could not make his Liverpool debut until 1946. In the 1946–47 season he was a member of the Liverpool team that won the First Division title for the first time in 24 years. He was made club captain in 1951, and remained with Liverpool until he retired from playing in 1954.
Sorry just saw that you said “both world wars”. Sir Bob was just the 2nd World War.
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