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Excellent. That'll be close to finishing his career here, will mean we still have an experienced head secured for when Smith hangs up his boots, takes him to 8 years at AFCB, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see it leading into a coaching role with the club afterwards. He's obviously tactically...

It's important not to lose sight of the key metric on which to judge him. His goal celebration is fcuking stupid. So, on that basis alone, it's a no from me.

Inzwane in the membrane, inzwane in the brain.

The best thing about their performance so far is that I've yet to hear a vuvuzela.

Big mistake that gave the ball away for the first goal and now sent off. Bit of a shithole performance for that player.

Meanwhile, absolutely love that stadium. What a footballing venue!

In another universe, 35 year old AFCB striking legend Tokelo Rantie is capping off 11 successful seasons in the Premier League by leading the line for South Africa at another World Cup.

Fair play UEFA, that's pretty funny.

Named like a Football Manager regen.

Wolves sack their manager. Bit odd, it always felt like an appointment to rebuild and come back up after relegation. Seems like they expected him to keep them up. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13552944/rob-edwards-wolves-sack-head-coach-after-seven-months-in-charge

I was thinking bigger than that and not only about us. Sure, as a general rule we might do that and we're now in a strong position to do so. However, things can change. Three years ago that would have been a harder sell when we signed, say, Scott as we were relegation battlers. A crazy fee for...

Some reports out there that FIFA are going to make release clauses mandatory in all player contracts in all markets. Finally, the football authorities are looking to change the rules to benefit the big clubs. They've been so disadvantaged by every single fecking change over the past 20 years...

Four years since this thread was created now, and it keeps popping back up. Does that make him the Colombian Demarai Gray?

I think criticism of the World Cup format is fair enough. The lack of reasonable jeapordy in the group stages renders a huge chunk of matches into feeling pointless. Sure, the final round will always generate some drama because that's an actual knockout fixture. And sure, some unexpected teams...

True. Traore is on there as well but I think his obligation to buy was triggered so he'll also be gone from the list when the window opens.

Hang on, why is Sinisterra on there? I thought Cruzeiro announced him as a permanent signing?

Interesting that they're classifying Matai Akinmboni as a first team player. Promoted to the group next season, maybe? Shame to see Purches leave, who would presumably have been an AFCB scion.

I think this is one where we'd need to trust the club as acting on a lot more knowledge than any of us will have. Let's see if there's anything behind it.

Darren Fletcher retired, joined Man Utd to coach their Under 16s in October and by March was their technical director. I'd imagine the time Pinto has spent with Ritchie over the past two years would probably be similar to that six months. Possibly the biggest club in the world, and a similar...

Doesn't bode well for Tuchel...