From Claudeā¦
Callum McTominay has failed every field assessment MI6 has ever given him. His tradecraft is average, his languages are patchy, and his cover identities tend to collapse within a week. But he is a third-generation officer, raised inside the Serviceās walls, and he is the last living link to the founding codes, rituals, and unwritten loyalties that have held the old institution together for a century. The Director calls him āirreplaceable.ā His handlers call him āa liability with a pension.ā Both are right.
Then a dead drop in Prague goes wrong, and a rival network begins dismantling the Service from the inside, one burned asset at a time. The only person they canāt seem to find, and the only one who still knows where the old safe houses are buried, is the man no one ever trusted to do anything important.
Now McTominay has seventy-two hours, a borrowed passport, and a trail of secrets stretching from London to Istanbul. The Service spent decades keeping him for what he represented. For the first time, it needs what he can actually do, and heās the worst man alive to do it.
Because the Service has always known he wasnāt good enough. It just never had to find out whether that mattered.
A spy thriller about loyalty, legacy, and the man everyone kept for the wrong reasons.
Slow Carthorses
I do wonder if they get Conte, will he insist on bringing McTominay back?
Probably make him the captain.
Never realised this pleb was still at it 
Ten Haag was the manager when he started!
I think he has more chance of going bald first.
Heāll probably have a better chance if he changed it to losing 5 in a row. 
They handed the job to a bloke whoād managed Middlesbrough for three seasons and failed to get them promoted before being sacked.
If he hadnāt played for United he wouldnāt have been in with a sniff of getting the temporary gig, let alone the full time one.
They talk about āthis is Manchester Unitedā and then have now twice hired blokes completely unqualified for the job simply on the basis of them being former players and their temporary stints being slightly less shit than the bloke thatād just got booted out the door.
Theyāve spent a fortune and yet three of their starting back four are still Dalot, Maguire and Luke Shaw. Thatās eight seasons of underwhelming performances with those three in the side and still theyāve not been able to find anyone better than them.
Still, building a new stadium that looks like a big circus tent will at least make the clowns feel at home.
Ffs sssshhhhh, donāt tell them, we like their current plans. Pfffft
Sancho anyone. What was his transfer fee and wages ?
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MANCHESTER UNITED: THE BILLION-POUND CEMETERY
[ 
TOTAL WASTED CAPITAL: Ā£911,350,000 ]
THE INDIVIDUAL DISASTERCLASSES (FEES + WAGES MINUS RECOUPED)
PAUL POGBA Ā£164,300,000 (Left for free twice)
HARRY MAGUIRE Ā£139,200,000 (Unsellable bench asset)
JADON SANCHO Ā£129,600,000 (Walked as free agent)
CASEMIRO Ā£119,000,000 (Left for free in 2026)
ANTONY Ā£89,650,000 (Sold at a Ā£60m loss)
CRISTIANO RONALDO Ā£78,200,000 (Contract terminated)
ANDRE ONANA Ā£69,320,000 (Loaned to Trabzonspor)
DONNY VAN DE BEEK Ā£61,200,000 (Sold to Girona for 1%)
THE MANAGER REVOLVING DOOR (SEVERANCE PAYOUTS)
POST-SAF SACKINGS Ā£86,500,000 (10 Fired Bosses/Staff)
ā³ Erik ten Hag 
Ā£10,400,000
ā³ Ruben Amorim Ā£16,700,000
THE FINANCIAL REALITY CHECK
Wiping out core net financial bank debt (Ā£577.6m): 100% COMPLETE
Clearing the entire global transfer tab (Ā£375m): 100% COMPLETE
Premier League / Champions League Trophies won: 
ZERO
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#MUFC ā¢ THE PRICE OF MEDIOCRITY ā¢ BALANCE SHEET WRECK
Routine AI usage , fees spent on player includes both transfer fees and wages
And there still might be other players here that I didnāt prompt AI to finish.
Iām going to ask AI which player has been the biggest cunt. Itās going to need huge data centre powerā¦..
Heās managed every club going and itās time to bring in the big one. Steve Bruce come on down.
Headlines next week.
āSouth gate enters revolving doorā
Heāll flop too.
Apparently Southgate is sick of football and doesnāt want to get involved.
So he should be ideal for Utd.
Comment I read this morning
that first look at Tisdale acting the prick on the touchline will be what finishes me off
