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possible targets (not in any complete order, and just so no one asks where he is, ZZ will likely never manage in England, also NO to Mou and Conte) Julian Nagelsmann Hansi Flick Luis Enrique Joachim Löw Mauricio Pochettino Rúben Amorim (Sporting Lisbon) Lionel Scaloni (likely no chance atm) Zlatko Dalic (but just renewed until 2026 with Croatia) Diego Simeone (not a good fit though) Luciano Spalletti Gian Piero Gasperini Oliver Glasner (Frankfurt) Christian Streich (Freiburg) Urs Fischer (Union Berlin) Franck Haise (Lens) Régis Le Bris (Lorient) Philippe Clement (Monaco) Kasper Hjulmand Thomas Frank Roger Schmidt (Benfica) Sérgio Conceição (Porto) Abel Ferreira (Palmeiras) Marcelo Gallardo (last job, River Plate) Hugo Ibarra (last job, Boca Juniors) and one to watch down the road Karel Geraerts (Royale Union Saint-Gilloise)

Chelsea https://caughtoffside.substack.com/i/112358504/Chelsea Chelsea officially announced the decision to sack Graham Potter last night. Bruno Saltor will take care of Chelsea as Interim coach. The Chelsea board always supported their manager in difficult moments but things changed yesterday as they held internal conversations over his future. They were not happy at all as they dropped out of the top half of the Premier League table. Graham Potter’s sacking is not surprising as the situation was very tense after Villa game, and the feeling was that some of the players were not happy with how things were going. The Chelsea board decided about it in the night between Saturday and Sunday with communication to Potter around lunch time. It was not an easy moment because the whole board supported him for a long time and all really wanted him in the summer when they replaced Thomas Tuchel. It was not easy to communicate on the human side, but this is football. They decided to change as they felt this group needed different kind of ideas and different energy; Potter was no longer considered the right man for the job. I think this is a decision we can understand as the feeling was never so positive on this appointment. Chelsea also still feel they can do something in the Champions League, and a change in manager can be the right kind of shock for the squad. Julian Nagelsmann is emerging as a strong candidate for the job. He’s really appreciated by the board and the owners, so he’s an option for sure. I think he’s an excellent, talented coach who could do great job in the Premier League. Chelsea like his vision, fresh ideas, they know the next coach has to be the right one for many years and they feel Julian could be perfect. It’s important to remember that Nagelsmann is still under contract at Bayern and there has been no agreement yet on terminating the contract. Still, he is considering the option of going to Chelsea, but it’s not clear yet if he will come straight away or at the end of the season. Chelsea will try to have Nagelsmann as soon as possible, but let’s see what he will decide. He’s very disappointed with how things ended at Bayern, it was a shocking story for him. From what I understand, Nagelsmann has already spoken with those close to him to get their opinions on the Chelsea job, what they think about the club, and the project, and whether it would be good to join now or at the end of the season, so these talks will be crucial. Ruben Amorim and Luis Enrique are also appreciated; no contacts with Mauricio Pochettino at this stage, but he was on the list last September before Chelsea appointed Potter. We know Pochettino is a big name on the market right now, but at the moment he’s still not speaking with Chelsea, and he’s also an option for Real Madrid in case Carlo Ancelotti leaves at the end of the season - the Champions League will be crucial to determine his future. Enrique has fans on the Chelsea board and he’s been public in saying he’d love to go to the Premier League. Amorim, meanwhile, is doing great work at Sporting, he has a great relationship with the club’s board and with the fans, he’s doing an excellent job and he’s one to watch as well.

Labour in any form is vastly better than the oligarch-driven, freebooting pirate Tories (and their even more extreme and despicable Nigel Farage type of cousins) Sorry but I will never be down with destruction of the welfare state and massive wealth extraction/transfer from the broad base up to the narrow top of the pyramidion, all underpinned with an appeal to xenophobia, classism, and racism (bother overt and covert). The Lib Dems can sod off too, as they for years propped up the odious austerity-ghoul driven agenda of the feckless Cameron (and also campaigned on a Brexit style referendum). The Lib Dems are deeply stained by austerity. Don’t trust them With a new leader the party is enjoying a resurgence, but its support for the Tories in coalition can’t be forgotten so easily https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/23/lib-dems-stained-austerity-trust-tories The Liberal Democrats are back, or so we’re told, with Jo Swinson’s leadership victory being pitched as the rebirth of the party. The unique conditions of Brexit have given the Lib Dems not only a reason to exist but the opportunity to detoxify their brand after their fatal coalition with the Conservatives, and to cast themselves as a reforming, progressive party in troubled times. And yet remarkably little has changed since the days when Nick Clegg stood laughing in the Downing Street rose garden next to David Cameron as he signed Britain up to years of sweeping public spending cuts. When asked throughout this summer’s leadership campaign, Swinson (and her opponent, Ed Davey) consistently defended her party’s role in austerity measures. In an interview with Channel 4 News, Swinson said she had no regrets about the coalition, stating it was the right move “to get our country back on track”. This is despite the fact it has been shown that austerity shrunk the British economy by £100bn, and has even been linked to 130,000 preventable deaths. Swinson acknowledged “there were policies we let through [in coalition] that we shouldn’t have done”, naming the bedroom tax, but remained unrepentant on a whole host of others. Instead, Swinson repeatedly claims credit for the Lib Dems being a moderating influence on the Tories. They may well have helped to rein in the Conservatives on some things (the party is said to have forced George Osborne to temporarily shelve child tax credit cuts) but this fundamentally misses the point: the Lib Dems weren’t coerced into the partnership, they voluntarily chose it, and as such were a reason every Tory cut that was passed was possible. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says the party was a moderating influence on the Tories. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters This isn’t about holding grudges or some sort of ideological purity. Political parties naturally evolve depending on the political times, and progress in policy positions should be credited. It was four years ago this week that the Labour party adopted its abysmal abstention strategy for key “welfare reform”, but the party has since wrestled internally to have the strong anti-austerity message it holds today, winning back support in the process. The same cannot be said for the Lib Dems. This is a party that as recently as last year spoke of sacrificing some of the poorest people in society to benefit sanctions in exchange for a 5p tax on plastic bags while in coalition. Nor are their MPs against forming a pact with the Tories again, with Swinson simply ruling out joining forces with Boris Johnson or any Brexiteer. Swinson, for her part, could hardly be called a fully progressive figure. As employment minister, she reversed workers’ rights by introducing charges of up to £1,200 for the privilege of attending an employment tribunal (a move later ruled unlawful by the supreme court) and even considered cutting the minimum wage, all at a time when workers faced an unprecedented squeeze. There is a sense in some circles that disabled people and working-class families should “get over it”; that those who can’t summon optimism for the revived Lib Dems are too tribal, irrational, or stuck in the past. But this insultingly dismisses the scale of suffering austerity has caused – typically by commentators who have never experienced the pain themselves – and recasts it as a historical slight. Go to your closed local Sure Start centre or try to get your elderly mother a social care package and this all seems ever-present news. Similarly, it’s often inferred that compared with Brexit, cuts to services are insignificant. The danger of no-deal Brexit is real and this will hit the poorest hardest. But the idea that this is enough to revive the Lib Dems – and that all else should somehow be forgotten – is a symptom of a political discourse that too often suggests nothing but Brexit matters. Some voters may find it easier to switch back to the Lib Dems, but large numbers of disabled and low-income families will find it considerably harder to trust them ever again. If you’re queueing in your wheelchair at a food bank because the coalition took your disability benefits, it’s unlikely you’ll be tempted to the yellow fold, even by the promise of a second EU referendum. Besides, the two issues are linked. While credit should be given to the party leading the charge against Brexit, there is irony in the Lib Dem position. After all, savage cuts to services and living standards helped create the conditions for the leave vote in the first place. Indeed, it feels a bit rich to see a party that helped heap austerity on to struggling families now leading concern for the country over Brexit. For many disabled and poor people, years of Lib Dem-enabled cuts mean hardship is already here. Austerity has harmed millions of people in Britain, and continues to wreck lives. It is not too much to ask that the politicians who administered it learn lessons before their rehabilitation begins. As it stands, the rebirthed Lib Dems are still deeply stained.

nice to see Manure getting beat (and clean-sheeted)

1 nil NUFC

ah yes, Billy Reid lol, he IS a fat dwarf

I normally do not disagree with you, but Conte is poison after his inevitable honeymoon period

17:30 - 19:15 | CET PREMIER LEAGUE | NEWCASTLE UNITED VS MANCHESTER UNITED – S1 also https://www.vipleague.st/newcastle-united-vs-manchester-united-1-live-streaming

Mykhailo Mudryk is looking atm like an insane bust this is the first bad thing I have said about him on here but ffs, he looks pants

who is the fat dwarf?

fucking joke banter club

this cunt is destroying our team we may end up yet in a relegation battle

Potter OUT!

both are shit I said NO do not buy and once again they prove they are shit

fucking CuCu and KK get the fuck off our team!!!

well FUCK

my stream is delayed so I am not going tobe watching the chat

2022-23 English Premier League Chelsea Aston Villa https://www.sportshub.to/sports/2023/premier-league-Chelsea-vs-aston-villa-s1/ https://www.vipleague.st/Chelsea-vs-aston-villa-1-live-streaming

16:00 - 17:45 | CET PREMIER LEAGUE | CRYSTAL PALACE VS LEICESTER CITY – S4 16:00 - 17:45 | CET PREMIER LEAGUE | ARSENAL VS LEEDS UNITED – S1 16:00 - 17:45 | CET PREMIER LEAGUE | BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION VS BRENTFORD – S2 16:00 - 17:45 | CET PREMIER LEAGUE | NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS – S3 https://www.vipleague.st/football-sports-stream

City v Pool streams https://www.sportshub.to/sports/2023/premier-league-manchester-city-vs-liverpool-s1/ https://www.vipleague.st/manchester-city-vs-liverpool-1-live-streaming

Fabrizio Romano's Daily Briefing 🚨 the Daily Briefing - Can Chelsea retain Mason Mount?, 'crucial' Jude Bellingham point, Ansu Fati crossroads, and more Friday's transfer round-up, featuring Liverpool, Real Madrid, Romelu Lukaku, Evan Ndicka.... and more https://caughtoffside.substack.com/p/the-daily-briefing-can-Chelsea-retain [From left to right: Ansu Fati, Jude Bellingham and Mason Mount… who will be due for some summer changes?] Good morning guys and welcome to today’s Daily Briefing, an exclusive round-up of the biggest stories and headlines, brought to you ad-free and straight to your inbox. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy! 🙂 Today’s top stories: Could Ansu Fati leave Barcelona this summer? Chelsea’s hopes of securing £70m for Mason Mount… The one ‘crucial point’ for Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City on Jude Bellingham transfer Barcelona Ansu Fati wants to stay at Barcelona but of course, things have to change for him as he needs and wants to play. His agent already brought interest and approaches from Premier League clubs in the last two years; this summer could be the same, but it’s still early. 📢 What Ansu Fati’s father, Bori, told Juanma Castaño on El Partidazo de Cope about his son’s situation: “Ask Xavi why he's not playing Ansu. I don't have any answer. Xavi wants him to work hard, and he is. I feel disappointed as a father. I just say: give him an opportunity. Should we forget about Ansu Fati now?” Chelsea I think it’s going to be difficult to get £70m for Mason Mount. At the moment, Chelsea and Mount have still a small chance to continue together with a final round of talks in the next months… but if there will be no agreement again, Mount will be available on the market. Liverpool remain interested, as said many times; and for sure Chelsea will try to sign a new midfielder in the summer. [💭 Is Mason Mount’s time at Stamford Bridge now over? How much can Chelsea realistically charge for him this summer? Let us know your thoughts below! - (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)] Liverpool Evan Ndicka is one of the names they are considering, not the only one. There are 4/5 clubs keen on signing Ndicka as free agent - and I’m sure Liverpool will have a list with many players as they plan to strengthen the defence. 📰 Liverpool and Manchester United could battle it out for Evan Ndicka this summer [Football Insider via CaughtOffside] Manchester City 📰 Man City are reportedly planning to cash in on Erling Haaland soon as the Norwegian striker is not seen as the long-term future of the club [Football Transfers via CaughtOffside] Manu Kone 🗣️Jonathan Johnson’s CaughtOffside Column: “Manu Kone is a fine young player who’s making the headlines a bit more recently, with links to the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea.” Real Madrid I’m not aware of any spending cap honestly when it comes to what Real Madrid will be prepared to pay for Jude Bellingham. It’s about convincing Bellingham — that is the crucial point for Liverpool, Real Madrid and Manchester City. [Jude Bellingham on international duty - (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)] Romelu Lukaku Inter will speak about Romelu Lukaku’s future with Chelsea at the end of the season. It also depends on their coach situation. Lukaku wants to stay at Inter, it’s his priority.

Fabrizio Romano's Daily Briefing Jonathan Johnson's Mercato Magazine - Man Utd & Chelsea could have edge over PSG in midfielder chase, William Saliba future, Jules Kounde development since Chelsea deal fell through, & more Our French football expert with the low down on this week's big stories. https://caughtoffside.substack.com/p/jonathan-johnsons-mercato-magazine-7bd Manu Kone will surely be on the move, but PSG switch looks unlikely Manu Kone is a fine young player who’s making the headlines a bit more recently, with links to the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea. In terms of rumoured interest from PSG, however, it’s hard to see them having a major overhaul of their squad this summer and being able to pay the kind of money that would be needed for a signing like Kone. He’s obviously a very talented young French footballer and it makes sense that he’d be of interest to PSG, especially as he’s on the verge of breaking through internationally as well. Still, as long as the contract situations of Sergio Ramos and Lionel Messi remain unresolved ahead of the summer, it’s hard to see PSG winning the race for Kone, and it’s difficult to see them doing much else with their squad. He’ll likely have other big clubs watching him from across Europe, and it’s not a big surprise to see him succeed on what is becoming quite a well-trodden path, having moved to Germany from Toulouse. He now definitely seems like a player who could be on the move this summer, with a number of big clubs likely to show an interest. I think PSG would be the only ones who could bring him back to Ligue 1, but there are plenty of other big teams looking for midfielders. Manchester United seem to be one of those, having been linked with both Kone and Enzo Le Fee, who plays for Lorient and is another impressive talent who I expect to be of interest to a number of big clubs right now. There’ll be the temptation to draw comparisons with someone like Aurelien Tchouameni, who made the big move from Monaco to Real Madrid last year, but to be honest I don’t see Kone being ready to make quite that same jump right now. That’s no disrespect to Kone or the level at Borussia Monchengladbach, but he’s not quite where Tchouameni was with Monaco when he then made the move to Madrid. Still, that’s not to say there won’t be big clubs interested in him. We know Chelsea are targeting the talents of tomorrow, so to speak, so he could appeal to them. Gladbach also seem to be coming to end of a cycle, and are facing losing Marcus Thuram for nothing, so they’ll need to bring in some money from somewhere else, so Kone seems a logical choice given the clubs looking at him at this moment in time. Still, my personal opinion is that he’s not quite ready to join the European elite like Tchouameni was, but that could also mean Chelsea is a logical next step for him because if you look at how their season is going, Champions League qualification looks unlikely, so it could be the right sort of project for him to start with. PSG will keep an eye on William Saliba but a deal won’t be straightforward I’m aware there’s been some talk of PSG having a long-standing interest in William Saliba, and it makes sense that he’s someone they’re likely to keep an eye on, but it’s looking highly likely that his immediate future lies at Arsenal. He’s really come into his own in Mikel Arteta’s side and is starting to establish himself as a French international under Didier Deschamps ahead of Euro 2024. Saliba obviously has Parisian roots, he comes from Bondy, the same place as Kylian Mbappe, so that will appeal to the French champions. However, one complicating factor with Saliba that shouldn’t be underestimated is that loan spell with Marseille that he had - a very succcessful one at that, and I think that will stay fresh in the memories of some PSG fans. I think PSG, like a lot of top teams, will keep a close eye on Saliba, and see if an opportunity comes up, but given the amount of money it would now take to prise him away from an Arsenal side who could be on the verge of winning the Premier League title, it seems unlikely to me at this moment in time. While Saliba is clearly an exceptional talent, there is perhaps better value on the market at this time, for example with Evan Ndicka at Eintracht Frankfurt, who also comes from the Parisian region, and who wouldn’t cost the kind of transfer fee or wage packet that Saliba would command. Is Axel Disasi what Manchester United need? Monaco defender Axel Disasi is an interesting player who’s starting to attract links with the likes of Manchester United ahead of the summer. He’s in that kind of ‘finishing school’ phase that Aurelien Tchouameni was in when he was there, and that someone like Wesley Fofana is in with Chelsea right now. He’s now made the breakthrough at international level and that’s helped get him onto the radar of a number of big clubs. For someone like United, I think he would add competition to their squad, but I do have questions about whether or not he’d be the best fit for Erik ten Hag’s side and where they are now. It would be a fairly decent fit, but given where they want to be going, and getting back to under Ten Hag in the near future, I do question if Disasi would be the best option for them. Don’t get me wrong - he’s a strong talent with plenty of good attributes, and the potential to improve, but I wouldn’t rank him alongside the very best talents in that position right now, compared to say Saliba, Fofana, and someone like Ibrahima Konate at Liverpool, or Dayot Upamecano at Bayern, I wouldn’t put him in the same sort of category as those guys. I think Disasi will definitely be coveted by Premier League clubs in the future, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it ended up being someone a level below Manchester United, one of those clubs aspiring to get it into the Champions League reckoning. Why former Ligue 1 stars have struggled at West Ham We saw two big talents from Ligue 1 move to West Ham last summer, as Lucas Paqueta made the move from Lyon and Nayef Aguerd joined from Rennes. It’s disappointing to see that they’re now struggling to reproduce their best form in the Premier League. Equally, however, if you were to ask me if I was surprised to see Paqueta flopping at West Ham, I’d have to say I’m not entirely shocked. I was more surprised by Aguerd, who is a really solid defender, but with him I think you have to factor in that he had a very bad injury quite early on in his West Ham career. It’s also worth noting that it’s not generally been a great year for West Ham, with some of their other big names also going through a dip in form, and they’re now in a relegation battle. I think Aguerd was an astute signing, a good fit, but Paqueta was always going to be a bit of a gamble. Before he moved to West Ham, we heard of interest from big clubs like Arsenal and Manchester City, and there’s a reason Paqueta has had admirers like that before, because technically he’s got phenomenal ability, he’s a very fine player on his day, but consistency has always been a big question-mark for him. In the Premier League you always have to be at your best game in, game out, but Paqueta, throughout his career, has never been that kind of player. Throughout his career in Europe he’s had some sublime moments and eye-catching performances, but also games where he barely even registers, so I’m less surprised by his struggles at West Ham. What could the future hold for them this summer? I think it would be difficult for West Ham to keep hold of them if they were to go down - there’ll be a number of clubs, if not quite at the top tier, but perhaps at a sort of Europa League level, who will be looking at those kinds of opportunities. Jules Kounde’s development since Chelsea move fell through As was widely reported at the time, Jules Kounde was very close to joining Chelsea last summer, but things just didn’t quite fall into place as they did with Barcelona. I think in the end he was quite happy to see Barcelona coming in for him, even if there was some uncertainty when he first joined and there were those registration issues, which are still a problem with Barca even now. It’s hard to know how his development would have gone if he had joined Chelsea, but his re-positioning as a right-back at Barcelona has been very interesting - it’s useful as well, because the full-back positions are an area of weakness in the French national side, which is bizarre considering how stacked they are for talent in almost every other area. With a lack of options on either flank, it’s logical for Didier Deschamps to experiment with converted full-backs, he’s done that with Benjamin Pavard and he’s now doing that with Kounde, and it’s been mirrored well at club level. There are a lot of players coming through as options at centre-back for France right now, so it wouldn’t surprise me if we saw a few more who might follow the path of Kounde. I don’t think this is necessarily limited to French football either - if there’s a shortage of full-backs, you’ll probably see more and more of those slightly more versatile players making that kind of move, for example in the way Ben White has to great effect for Arsenal this season. Players like him and Kounde can contribute going forwards, but offer some solidity in that position as well, so it’s a bit of a no-brainer for managers to at least try them in those positions. It’s interesting that that now looks like being Kounde’s long-term role.

cannot rec this enough

retarded corrupt