El Rojo

Just watched the first one. It’s great stuff.

Didn’t realise that he didn’t go out on loan. Surely he’ll get an opportunity or two once we start hitting two games a week. Alonso trying to sign him for Leverkusen is a hell of an endorsement.

Away to Southampton in Saturday’s early kick-off. Gareth Southgate will be watching this one with interest.

I think I’ve just been set a challenge.

Ah, I thought Arsenal were the home team. Would you mind negging my earlier post, please?

I’m no fan of Arsenal’s, but they should be refusing outright to accept that. Just show up in their home shirts.

Is six string a euphemism?

Fair play to him.

A poor Championship side a couple of years ago, maybe. Worse than that now, with no cause for any future optimism. Can’t think of a European country who wouldn’t beat them now.

They’d have gotten in a mass brawl among themselves in the rush to get to him.

It might have been relatively restrained given the poor opposition, but it was lovely for the Manchester United fans to see a bald Dutch manager celebrate at Old Trafford.

Mark my words - they’ll have murals and statues up for McTominay in Naples in the coming years. Finally an heir to Diego.

Hopefully he will, but if Curtis Jones is still unavailable by then he should just change his name to Thiago.

Apt enough given that listening to any of their post-1995 output is like wading through a tunnel of shite.

By watching the match tied onto a bunch of balloons. Not red ones though.

I call my wife Old Big Ears.

Salah’s record (and maybe our trophy haul) would be even better if he hadn’t played those in-season ACN tournaments.

Much better shine off Slot’s head.

Well we’re heading from brat summer into demure autumn so things change.

Just started For All Mankind. Great premise and an enjoyable first few episodes.

Don’t shoot the messenger, mate. I’m just relaying what Richard Hughes told me.

Apparently we wanted to bring this kid in from the Pumas in Mexico with a view to loaning him to Sunderland for the year, but the Sunderland part fell through. Would be interesting to see us go direct for South American and Mexican players rather than waiting to see how they do in the Netherlands, Portugal or Brighton. The obvious problem is they’ll struggle to get game time with us unless they’re exceptional. The loan aspect makes sense in that regard.

Pretty clear that Ornstein will be getting the first word on any transfer developments in the future, given that particular back-scratching exercise. Would be nice if it was an actual purchase.