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I've cheated and googled. Korean and Japanese teams have won more Asian Championships than Saudi teams. They're third though so I'd say pretty decent company.

Surprised at that. But anyway I reckon the Japanese and Korean leagues are better. They've produced more top level players.

And even more when it's someone who's been so vocal on those causes and you're showing you can buy them out. 'Sportswashing' is not about the player.

One of the YouTube guys doing videos on the build, KC Imageworks, said he heard that from a source that's been reliable for him. If true, a month behind, to be announced in the next few days.

He seems a lot more vocal and having a go off the ball too.

Remember seeing them in their scousemartins days. And them getting the hump with everyone wanting them to play Happy Hour. Think they gave up and went off early that night.

My impression of Spackman was that he was a better player than I thought he'd be. Though these days I have no recollection of what gave me that impression.

That's my take. I think we'll be his last team and whenever he finishes with us, he's pretty much done. Unless he fancies the national team for a while before retiring properly. Let him write his own contracts, two-year extensions or whatever he's comfortable with.

Looks like a prototype European league. Off the back of a fag packet.

I met him at an event shortly afterwards. He said he'd never had any direct contact with us. I told him I knew what really happened, that he'd turned up for talks in a pink leather suit and John Smith took one look and wouldn't even talk to him. But he denied that of course.

Gary Pallister. We were made up at first that we'd gone for Glenn Hysen instead. Didn't really work out that well in the end.

Thiago's been a disappointment to me in that he's played less than I thought he would. I was expecting 20-25 starts a season. When he's on the pitch you can see why we brought him in. Fair play to Bayern for offloading him when they did. He's no dud but his body obviously isn't up to our league.

Tyler's way worse.

I agree with this but I hope there's a real negotiation that can make everyone happy. The other day someone on here listed the players that earn less than Keita, and with that in mind you'd think making Salah a special case wouldn't cause any real friction in the squad. I'm up for making him work for it though. Appearance bonus, goals bonus, assists bonus, YouTube views bonus, whatever. Come up with a formula so he can earn more than what he's asking for. If he's performing and the team's winning trophies, it's worth it.