Brighton: £50m?? Well in, lads.
Chelsea: Pending results of The Operation
Leeds: Danj-Ames! Danj-Ames! Danj-Ames!
Liverpool: Because FM contract renewals are the best bit!
Manchester United: Ronaldo 1-0 (plus some other nobodies.)
The Villa: Young.
Tottenham: Levy will be delighted to keep Charlie Kane around.
West 'Am: Big Mark Noble's presence is like three new signings.
You didn't list [somebody else] Webly, you cunt.
If we don't talk about 'tiers' ever again it'll be too soon.
I think so too and the rules should be changed so players aren’t as easily eligible, the granny rule especially is a joke, but so many are playing that game now that there should be a definite move towards locking in players based on scouting.
If I had my way then every international player should have to make their mind up by the U19’s and only play for someone else if both parents are from there.
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Do Russia still have Brazilians that they managed to register somehow?
Ronaldo better slap that little geek for copying his celebration.
He's miles offside there but that's a class chip.
I thought Declan Rice at least had Irish parents, since he looks Irish, but lol it's one set of grandparents. He's as Irish as Ryan Giggs is black. Turning out for them suggests a lack of confidence in his own abilities, so we ought to drop the coward going forward.
After 30 seconds of listening to him talk you know there’s not an Irish bone in his body (and I don’t just mean the sickening innits), but he still should have been tied in while they could for the lols. It’s a bit like Josh Cullens haircut; plays for Ireland, lives in Belgium, looks like Bam. English to the bone.
He loves the IRA though. Great guy.
Giggles Walsh, he’s in the ‘RA.
I'm a twit
You could just about wrap your head around it if his grandparents were particularly influential in his life to the point where he could convince himself he had some cultural ties to Ireland, like people who play for Scotland/Wales because their dad from there forced them to, but this David McGoldrick getting in on a blood test come on mate you can't need the money that much.
What has happened to Iceland.
Americans probably think Citizenship rules should go back to the 1700's.
You still missed that penalty son.
Brazil of all places. (I appreciate they're probably only doing it because it's Argentina)
I like how they say it’s because they lied about being in the UK like they weren’t on TV last week.
Their president has had COVID more times than the Argentina team combined.
Wait, Brazil require UK arrivals to isolate/quarantine for 14 days but they were pissing and moaning about not having premier league players released to them? Doesn't that sort of undermine their position?
Yeah but they don't care about them missing club games.
Put the players in a tough spot.
Did they post an Instagram of the 4 of them lolling into Brazil on a private jet? Not exactly doing much for the thick footballer stereotype if they did.
Giggles I think the fact that they were playing a televised match in the Premier League last week might have given the game away.
I don’t know who they play for or when they played. I just like seeing the drama.
I think Argentina need to be kicked out of the World Cup for this. They've put the entire competition in jeopardy.
Lock the cunts up. Just because they're footballers doesn't mean the rules don't apply.
Also like the banning Argentina idea.
If them’s the rules then them’s then the rules.
Seems a foolproof gambit and I'm not sure why other countries haven't been outlawing people from playing football against their national side.
Certainly something for your mob to think about.
Aye, this is what I thought. Then thought there was something more daft at play than mere pettiness.
My original point was that the Brazilian FA can't really complain about clubs not releasing players who wouldn't have been able to play for the national team anyway, but I guess they could then roll out the lol wot well they could have played in the away games defence.
Meanwhile Guinea have upped the ante by staging a coup to get a game called off.
I can't be shocked by that. Although they usually time it around the African Cup of Nations.
Brazilian nationals are exempt from quarantining apparently.
No they’re not and also it’s training not an international match where Brazil can lose.
The coup d'swag.
Argentina should be awarded that match. If Brazil let them in the airport in the first place, that's their problem, not football's problem.
Indeed. Ridiculous behaviour.
Spurs are now missing 2 of their centre backs for the next 2/3 games as Sanchez he went to a red list country too.
Is the point not that were allowed in but need to isolate, which they didn’t do, because they lied on the forms.
Whether or not it was done for shithouse reasons, you lie on an entry form to a country to avoid following the laws/rules of the land, then they have every right to impose their authority.
If a non footballer said “aye mate, I’m just here for a weekend with my pals and I’ll be leaving on Monday anyway so I’m not isolating” that wouldn’t work, nor would telling the authorities “gimme a couple of hours to smash out this pub crawl and then I’ll leave”.
Nah. If they’re weren’t supposed to be there and tried to circumvent the rules then they deserve to get chucked out. Argentina could’ve fielded a team without them. They chose to lie and bring them along.
Laws of the land trumps sport.
They're now having to isolate back here and have been fined by their clubs. Idiots.
Brazil remain a shambles. It should have been picked up at the airport or - failing that - at any point before they were on the fucking pitch. It was done for effect.
This is a fun read:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58468085