The Lusophone

So that's LeBron at Liverpool, Brady at Birmingham, Farrell at Leeds and Reynolds and McElhenney at Wrexham. Feels like American celebrities are just spinning a wheel at this point and going with whatever pops out.

So, I have a dilemma. these guys are loved by the fans and relatively good. But one of them is my closer who just gave up five runs in the 9th innings of a deciding playoff series game, and the other guy is a useful hand but wants to start, but he's no longer the guy.

If I get rid of them, the fans will hate me, but I really think I can upgrade on them. What would y'all do?

After playing Leeds about 22 times this season, I wouldn't mind never seeing them again.

1 hour ago, The Lusophone said:

A monster header from Joe Edwards has us 1-0 up and staying up. Birmingham get the relegation they've deserved since sacking John Eustace as it stands.

On the final day of the January transfer window, some bald fraud who was allegedly our manager told Joe Edwards he should find a new club, after Edwards came to him with concerns about how the club was performing. Today, the bald fraud is unemployed and Joe Edwards scored the goal that keeps us in the Championship!

A monster header from Joe Edwards has us 1-0 up and staying up. Birmingham get the relegation they've deserved since sacking John Eustace as it stands.

It's the year of the IPP player.

West Ham are hiring a Spanish-speaking former Real Madrid manager who won their first trophy of note at a different Spanish football team. I hope things work out well for Manuel Pellegrini Julen Lopetegui.

Gilchrist was definitely on Pro Evo's Master League.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam was the 99th richest American on Forbes 2023 list of the 400 richest yanks. If he wants a stadium, he should pay for it.

He's such a sad little man, judging by his social media activity.

And of course we'd go onto win 111 games... and get swept by the Cardinals in the playoffs.

The Bills have picked a guy who the term 'physical freak' seems to have been invented for. 6 foot 7 inches, 303 lbs, ran a 4.79 second 40 yard dash. Former Rugby player who interested the IPP, just turned 23. Could be great, and as a 7th round pick and that extra practice squad spot for IPP players, very little pressure.

22 hours ago, Mick said:

Tampa (Bay) Buccaneers:

Speaking of Buccaneers, using Loiw's fictional sets, I expanded the MLB and took over one of the teams, the New Orleans Buccaneers. First season saw a visit to the wildcard game (bloody Mets) and the second season is going alright: 

I like the logo, but it's not the best one in the pack, that's definitely this: 

He's just what happens when you try to make a trendy, forward thinking manager in a video game but you've got the quality settings down too low, so the beard hasn't rendered.

9 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

Slot to Liverpool for £9.4 million seems to be agreed. Is that a good price to pay for a manager these days?

Graham Potter's move to Chelsea set a new record at the time, at £20 million. Ruben Amorim, linked with Liverpool prior to Slot, held the record prior to that when he moved from Braga to Sporting Lisbon for £15 million. He was rumoured to have a release clause of at least £20 million though other reports suggested it was actually closer to what Liverpool are paying for Slot.

1 hour ago, Hobo said:

Salah is still Mo Salah. It would be weird to sell him. Unless he really didn't want to stay.

There's lots of "X Saudi Arabian team wants Salah" stories flying around, though the Athletic pointed out a few months ago that the messaging being put out by the Saudis is quite confusing - the focus for this summer is supposedly younger players except the top targets are guys like Salah and someone else whose name escapes me but is equally old and accomplished.

Not a single defensive player has been picked yet.

Do you ever see a bit of news that just makes you tilt your head like a confused dog?

Think the owners probably given an instruction, both to the Twitter admin and Clattenberg to go off.

Is Onana banned for the final?

A Man Utd goalkeeper saving a penalty? Football is rigged.

1 hour ago, Colly said:

Ruddy council.

Makes the local council elections a bit spicier at least - a full third of the council is up for re-election on May 2nd.

It's a very bad day.

41 minutes ago, Colly said:

Presuming they've not done anything sensible like having the lower ranked side being able to choose the venue?

It wasn't in the press release.