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They're probably offering him silly wages for a year or two

 

almost as if it's not a one team league then

 

Also kinda rich saying France is a one league team when you look at the league in Italy the past few years.

 

By the end of the transfer window, Monaco might not even be the third best team in Ligue 1.

 

By gum, you could be right!

 

Juventus are one of the smartest and best run teams in world football though. Their dominance, after recovering from their relegation, is surely incomparable to PSG's?

 

Italy is a one team league mate, if you go by league tables. France, is not. If you want to know, he burned bridges with Juve and said Dybala should leave to reach the top of the game. They "mutually" came to a decision to release him.

 

True that Juventus may not be the top of the game and Dybala will leave in the next couple years. Top of the game = Barcelona & Real Madrid. We can guess which one of the two Alves would prefer him to go to, so you can understand his comments.

 

Tell that to Juve.

 

What a club.

 

Really good article on pre-season tours and how they connect Asian/American/Australian fans to the European teams they love. Can't say as a fan who lives just over an hour journey from The Emirates that I ever really thought about it like this.

Premier League pre-season tours: a feast for fans in far-flung destinations

 

This is piss poor

 

Good night our B-team is more like a C-team.

 

Yikes, Guzan hadn't made a mistake in quite a few games for us before that.

 

ffs we're terrible

 

Gylfi is gone

 

Abdelhak Nouri has severe and permanent brain damage.

 

Seriously sad news. Looks like not only is his career definitely over, but that he won't ever regain full function.

 

On a happier note, Lacazette scored on his debut, albeit a friendly.

Shout out to our media team for the hashtag #LacaNewSigning

 

So gutted at that news. He's been at Ajax almost half his life and is loved by the fans already. This was gonna be his breakthrough year too

Pic of him with Suarez and Huntelaar, around 2007/08:

 

Kyle Walker to Man City...

bummin.

 

That's absolutely horrible. As soon as they mentioned he was in a medically induced coma, I did wonder whether he'd be OK. I can't think of another news story where that has happened and the ending has been happy. :(

 

Losing Walker stings because he was one of my favorites, but I think we'll be ok. The big run we went on at the end of the season Davies and Trippier were the starting fullbacks for most of the games. And I imagine we'll sign someone else at RB. The only thing that makes me upset is that we sold him to another top 6 team.

 

Trippier looks a ready made replacement and seems a bit less hot headed as well. If you can sign another good wing back or dig another one out of the academy, I don't think you'll miss Walker that much.

 

Rumours of Eric Dier to United, which would worry me far more if I was a Spurs fan. Dier is absolutely fantastic and I'd want him at Arsenal in a heartbeat.