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The more interesting opinion would be whether City were too quick fire Farke and appoint Smith in the first place.

Looking forward to playing the Tractor Boys again next season. Why wouldn't you? Would be even better if we were both Premier League teams too.

As many others have already said so well, thank you Ricardo. Enjoy the Summer, and see you again next season.

So Teemu’s off to Villa then? No surprise, they always get our man.

Nope, looking forward to another season competing against like-sized clubs , Ipswich, Forest, Boro, Derby (hopefully soon), Coventry, QPR, Swansea, Cardiff, Southampton, Bristol, West Brom. Best league around by a long shot.

Nope Reading heading back to where they belong and where I first watched them (or was it Div 4) back in the days of Kerry Dixon.

He won't, he's off to Rangers because Todd is off to Ipswich (as they couldn't get Maddison)

And there is that aspect too.

No, it's like other aspects of Brexit, if you limit the market size you shop in / you sell into you get fewer choices and prices go up / fewer sales and prices fall. You can choose to play different tactics, as the rude Scottish fella did to equally great success, but if you want to play the way Farke did - to great success - after several years of dross with the remnants of the rude Scottish fella's UK based squad - you want to access as many talented technical players as you can. And Brexit has shut down that supply route for our club, and the sporting director got rid of that manager.

Fair enough.

You are putting words in my mouth, I didn't say we weren't using UK talent, we had Aarons, Godfrey, Cantwell, (and McClean and Hanley) in that squad. What screwed us was losing the manager who knew how to add European talent like Pukki (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Krull (Newcastle couldn't sign him now because of Brexit) Stieperman (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Tettey (we probably couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Zimmermann (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Vrancic (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Buendia (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), Vrancic (we couldn't sign him now because of Brexit), plus admitted underperformers Trybull and Leitner plus Heise and Drmic (at least the first two of which we couldn't sign now because of Brexit). You think we could have found equivalent payers at similar prices in the UK?

That, with all due respect, is a stupidly ignorant comment. We walked the Championship twice, and had a first half of the first Premier league season that gave us performances against Man City and Tottenham everyone could be proud of. The failure was not to upgrade the talent in the system, not the system itself.

Well, if you list a set of players over a 35 year period, of course there were more UK successes than European ones. Not really the point, Farke had a system that transformed us, European players who could execute that level of tactical awareness allowed that to happen, we were starting build a conveyor belt of talent in our academy that could carry that forward - and Webber and Brexit threw all that away. Of course we could also have kept our other transformative manager - the nasty Scottish fella - and signed more Holts, Martins, Morisons' but he threw his toys out the pram and ****ed off to Villa.

Well thank you for removing the context of Farke. Fake plus European talent transformed our club. Losing Farke AND access to European talent is what screwed the club.

Uh huh. That was the turning point for the club - and Brexit. Which shut down our access to European talent.

Let the games begin .... I've just ordered a beer and popcorn. That Guardian headline buries the true lede - indicted on 30 counts of business fraud. It was never just about that sex worker, despite what Fox/Republicans are spinning.

Meanwhile, just sure if this is doubling down or tripling down .... of course, Jim Jordan was one of the Republican lawmakers (sic) who requested a pardon from Trump. Not sure if that has ANYTHING to do with this unconstitutional draft legislation / PR stunt.

But for all the ever-widening chorus of GOP political leaders throwing chaff into the air to distract our attention...maybe all Donnie actually bought with his "I will be arrested on Tuesday" tweet was winning a news cycle or two before the really big national security hammer hits him.

:-). Meanwhile ..... GOP in full-force interference.

I won't repost Trump's post about De Santis, but it's tasteless, would get you sued for libel in the UK, and may also be very effective in putting an end to De Santis' (for legal reasons still undeclared but also very obviously already started) presidential run.

The problem for the GOP will be that they are very publicly backing him up. For example just today: I know it's just Jim Jordan and Marjorie Taylor Green pulling McCarthy's chain, but they are the GOP the public sees.

Crikey, he really has lost it...

And more this morning ... Rick Scott's company was convicted or defrauding the Federal Government of hundreds of millions of $. Of course, as a rich. white, well-connected male in America he personally got away with it and now he's a US Senator. During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.

Meanwhile, MAGA works in absolute meltdown over Trumps' self-announced indictment .... we don't yet know that he will be, or what the charges are, but if it it for the payment and subsequent mis-reporting of the $130,000 hush money, it's the same crime that Trump's own Department of Justice convicted his personal lawyer for.

By caving into every tyrant he met ..... (there fixed it for you) Russia - caved, Korea - caved, Kurdistan - caved, Afghanistan - caved.