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With the timing of the window, I don't even bother trying to assess the team and its outlook until September.

Relegation or liquidation? If it's neither, then I'd suggest nowhere near a disaster.

FIFA will make sure Messi gets to the final (allegedly).

It's often a challenge for young keepers to break through at their parent club. You can see that across the leagues. As a result, until they hit their late twenties or older, a keeper's career seems to be a series of loans or training every week as 2nd or 3rd choice. It's a tough gig. I don't think Connelly in the Hibs game was any worse than the first few performances from Ward, so I still think he can develop into a decent keeper.

It's Italian food I'm fed up with here. The vast majority of local restaurants are some variation of Italian cuisine. Don't have to travel too far for a better choice, but not as convenient. When I was working in an actual office we had everything from Spanish and Turkish, to Sushi, Indian and 2 Peruvian places all a short walk away.

It's nice once in a while, but along with clam chowder seems to appear on every menu in every restaurant in New England. One of my favourite seafood dishes is from a local joint that serves shrimp stuffed with crab meat that you dip in melted butter. I like soft shell crab too.

Close enough to Cajun and Creole country, so lots of great food depending on your preferences. From grits and collard greens to jambalaya and chitlins. Red beans and rice is my favourite with skillet corn bread. After testing out loads of recipes I make a mean version myself with Andouille sausage, Tasso ham and "the trinity". Seafood too, of course - lots of blackened fish, but not a Boston scrod in sight.

He's not in the squad, but on the roster as a freshman. How American does that sound? https://www.gochoctaws.com/sports/mens-soccer/roster He'll be in the deep south. A world apart from life here in New England.

He's right about some of the big college American Football teams averaging crowds of around 100k every week. It's quite incredible. If he's expecting a similarly large crowd for the Choctaws college soccer matches, he'll be disappointed with the 1 - 200 in attendance. Interesting opportunity though if he takes advantage of it.

To be fair, nobody at either club has ever said they want to sign any of them. It's just a daily procession of ex-players saying that they should/have to sign them because they are too dim to think they might want to play anywhere else.

The original El Loco with his scorpion kick.

Is it a "confirmed by club" 6 figures or "some guy on twitter" six figures?

The one around 5:12 tells me he'll fit right in.

They started running into problems when players were getting cup tied because they played in one competition and then the selling club dropped down a league e.g. from the Champions League to the Europa League. That meant your new signing was suddenly cup tied from the Europa League, even though he wasn't at the time of signing. With so many teams in European competition these days, and so many teams moving between Champions/Europa/Conference, they decided just to scrap it. They scrapped it in the English Cups as well I think. In the days of transfer windows as opposed to signing any time during a season, I'm not sure it's really needed.

Well that's the first rule broken.

So all the Ross McCrorie stories were off the mark. His credentials seem decent.

I always tell people if they want to test how good AI actually is, ask a question on a subject where you have decent knowledge.

I'd also suggest the team that starts the HB game will be pretty different from the team that starts against Hibs.

It would interesting to see the percentage of converting chances to goals compared with previous seasons. I think it becomes more obvious when you have so much possession and miss chances, but if you look teams like Man City, who have world class players and playing this way for years, they still have many games per season where they only scored one or two goals. And that's with Cherki, Doku and Haaland in their starting 11.

The second album is always the most difficult.

Sounds like Curtis Main or Ryan Bowman. I don't really consider Just to be a forward. more of an attacking midfielder. I suppose that's the modern game, though.

Same for Mbappé.

Less of an issue for me watching it from my sofa on MFC TV.

I was more concerned about Slattery in that game.

He's on a beach, lighting cigars with hundos.