The Manchester United friendly has prompted some reactions, while we also have mails on England’s ethnicity and more…
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Do friendlies matter or not?
F365: friendly games don’t matter.
But this last one did. But it doesn’t, even though it kind of does.
Pick a lane guys.
Alan
…F365 says: Manchester United and Spurs fans so desperate for clues that training has become news.
Preceded by – F365 says: Ten Hag baby steps as Man Utd thump Liverpool in Bangkok.
Matt Carr, Spurs, Wilmington, NC
They matter
Well, we’re getting relegated.
Niall, LFC, Annapolis
Ronaldo will stay after that
After watching the mighty Man UTD utterly destroy, ruthlessly expose and completely humiliate the hapless LFC, Ronaldo has withdrawn his transfer request. In fact, his agents are now actively pursuing an extension to his current deal according to inside sources. Oh, and de Jong has already packed his bags while waiting for Barcelona to get their sh*t together…
Iborian Aynek
Ronaldo probably has no choice
I take a certain amount of glee from imagining the slow realisation in Ronaldo’s head, the truth exposed to him only after the thick layers of vanity and denial have been eroded by each ‘sorry not interested’ message relayed from Mendes. Like a recycled debutante he expected a swath of eligible suitors baying for his hand but one by one they’ve all turned away.
The elite clubs of Europe have spoken and Ronny just aint worth it anymore. To be fair he wasn’t worth it last summer either but found a home with a once betrayed lover who wanted nothing more than to rekindle some of their lost passion. I would hope the rejection would bring him some humility and rededication to a shared goal but no, of course not. Instead we get the painful haughtiness of ‘well actually you lot are coming up to my level now so perhaps I’ll stay’.
Though I take pleasure in his apparent misfortune it’s a double edged sword. There were a few days there when I actually believed he would go. There was a brief hope of what this season could be, some random little known forward flourishing in a dynamic pressing attack, Rashford and Sancho revived with freedom to express themselves and Garnacho getting a load of minutes. But now that hope has gone and United will be proceeding into this new season with a weight around our necks, like a skinny white teen sporting an oversized gold chain and a rhinestone bejewelled CR7 pendent…
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