Beside the last 16 game where winning the group deserves a favourable tie. It is total luck from there on in as to who you get. The only time we havent had a favourable tie at that point, it was the last world cup and we went out. You clearly are totally blinkered on England similar to how chaddy is with Rovers. Alcohol may play a part as you had us down to lose v Holland before a few drinks. We hardly had a shot on goal. We had more of the ball but it again was slow, meaningless passing that Switzerland were happy to defend. As extra time went on they looked most likely to win again down to the imbalances in our team.

Is it true that even a shirt for a baby/toddler is £48?

Vale wont be suited to playing Championship football. End of.

Switzerland were comfortably the better side, we were poor and again im not sure if we even had a shot on target before the goal. If that was considered a great improvement, and for me it wasnt. It only highlights how poor we were v Slovakia.

Although you cant argue with how far he has got in tournaments, as I have said before, its not as clear cut as say league football where everyone plays all teams home and away and you finish exactly where you deserve. There is a huge factor of luck in how the draws fall and in every tournament, things have fallen in our favour. Compare that to the teams that Sven played in early knockout games. As soon as we have played an elite side, we have fallen short. Lets see if he can change that in this tournament. Also, the balls to drop big names? Kane, Bellingham and Foden all play together as a non negotiable when none have the pace to balance what they bring to the side.

Another boring and poor performance and so lucky to go through although was a great feeling to see a penalty win. Holland are a step up in quality albeit not at the level of the big guns on the other side of the draw so if we play at a similar level with the same imbalance then we will be out. The left hand side is a huge issue with Trippier and bizarrely Bellingham offering nothing. Kane is clearly not fit and trying to put all the big names in the same team leaves us lacking pace and lacking excitement. We have struggled to create throughout the tournament and are reliant on occasional individual brilliance. We got the equaliser when we had thrown loads of attackers on the pitch and momentum swung back with us. Southgate naively left them all on and a lack of balance (Eze at left wing back for example) meant that Switzerland were able to be the better side in extra time and were very unfortunate not to win it. We were the poorer team across the 120 minutes.

Why people go asking Nixon on twitter as if he knows all is bizarre and just feeds his already astronomical ego. His answer is typically vague, alongside the irrelevant snippet about Wharton installments because any deals we would do would also be in installments, so its just offsetting a new smaller creditor against that considerable debtor. What happened to Tyjon getting a super agent to seal a move to United? The thing is with the amount of money we have received, Venkys defenders often mention the losses per year. Losses are unfortunately par for the course if you want to own a Championship club. But even if they were to put the whole club record Wharton sale aside to offset losses, which should then cover at least a full year of losses without investing a penny. And that goes against any drivel of a project. We should then have the Raya, Kaminski, Ennis and Phillips money that we havent spent a penny of (Wahlstedt went in and out) to then invest. So we could still have an 8 or 9 million budget without touching the Wharton proceeds to cover losses for over a year.

Exactly, we did sign 2 but one was Mola as a last gasp panic loan. The owners have history in doing this.

Surely if it was a simple case of Hyam becoming available last minute, then we wouldnt have offered him 1 year, the offer would have just been withdrawn totally. Its another example of us treating a player shoddily yet even now, people still give the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a reasonable strategic decision made in good faith. So what do you think of the previous assumption that a suggestion of funds being available suggests that the club had authorised and confirmed such news? Do you still expect a decent budget or has this changed?

I cannot access that article about Leicester as it is behind a paywall. But I am guessing that you have got your wires crossed and that is not a direct response to my point about your suggestion that a previous assumption made by Elliott Jackson that we have money to spend would have been authorised by the club. As this now doesnt seem likely.

The numerous games all at dinner time on the same day is an absolute joke by Sky. As much as having a few games moved around at different times was excessive, at least it was sort of understandable. But having more than 1 at the same time is unacceptable and again shows that all that stuff the commentators spouted during and after covid about football being nothing without fans was bullshit to them.

He really wont be. Hes shit.

@chaddyrovers you were insistent the other week that we must have money to spend based on an assumption by Elliott Jackson near the bottom of an irrelevant article that you claimed must have been club approved. Has that changed at all?

Of course, but its not much of a crumb if comfort to resort to the fact that other favourites have also failed to wipe the floor with teams. The concerns with England are seperate from any comparisons with other nations. I think pre tournament hopes came from a flurry of emerging talented players, you looked down the attacking list and we have a number of players that have either emerged since previous tournaments (Palmer, Eze, Gordon, Mainoo, Wharton etc) or ones that have thrived since the last tournament like Foden and Bellingham. But looking back, although previous teams perhaps didnt have the same talent on paper, its never been as disorganised and I dont know how that can be overcome. We literally dont have a left back and thats caused issues. There is no balance in the midfield and all of our attacking players seem to want to do the same thing. You look back, Shaw was fit for those tournaments. The likes of Henderson and Phillips were not stand out names but they at least provided balance and we had players running in behind Kane which we dont have now. Slovenia are reliant on Sesko but to the point where he has been taking shots from silly areas. But otherwise, and aside from a world class keeper, they are just a solid and well organised side full of players who are playing at lower levels. Switzerland have quality across the team. Defenders like Akanji and Schar are really good, Xhaka will fancy his chances of running the game against our midfield and unlike previous Swiss teams they have loads of pace across the whole attack.

If Leicester need to sell Dewsbury-Hall for FFP purposes then surely that would have had to happen before the end of June to ensure that the profit was included in the accounts to the June year end. That is why a number of clubs had to rush through deals in June. Newcastle sold Minteh and academy graduate Elliott Anderson on the last day of June for that very reason. Any team who were facing a breach of FFP and who failed to conclude sales prior to the end of June will now suffer potential deductions. The system is a joke. Youve got teams now essentially trading players at inflated values (often graduates whereby any proceeds are purely profit) to get around it.

They have.

Everyone remembers how poor Portugal were. The fact that they won one game after 90 minutes is always mentioned. Would say a lot about the others. It seems remiss to write them off as bang average considering the respective performances especially in the last 16. They look more than merely organised, lots of pace and movement in attack and Xhaka can dictate the game.

Its down to Venkys. We had to sell because of them so we could never hold out for a good fer regardless of who was negotiating.

Does any other journalist tell everyone days in advance that he has a story on a certain team to the point that he has a cult following asking him for hints and more often than not it ends up being something really minor or baseless.

Mercer with his annual prediction that we are about to go under and how "the warning signs" are flashing. Chaddy with his annual analysis that we have a good squad, echoing the manager that it just needs a bit of help and predicting that money will be spent and we will have a play off push to look forward to. Likelihood is another summer of frugality and an underwhelming campaign again but one that will last a full course without the club ceasing to exist.

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No, Chaddy does. At this time of year, agents are busy linking their players here there and everywhere to get the best deal. Thats all it is.

Hes also named Gallagher and Leonard yet considers (rightly) a striker to be the priority. And also Sigurdsson who he thinks will be sold.

He is crap, he hasnt suddenly become a different player in 6 months. Obviously Eustace will decide, amidst various factors including budget. Doesnt mean that his decision will be right. If he plans to use him this season then its time to worry. The squad nearly went down, and would have comfortably without Szmodics. How can it be considered as good when it did so poorly? And you wouldnt want 7 or 8 players (basically a new team, which is correct) if you genuinely believed it was a good squad. If you think that the current squad is a good one then yes, your standards are too low.

Theyve maintained throughout that funding will be unaffected by the court case. So its clearly not true.