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***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's okay, they've lined up Ings as replacement.

Nah seriously reckon this maybe groundwork for a Marquee signing. We'll see.
 

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
I will be okay as long as he doesn't stay in England. If he goes to Chelsea or something I'll nuke the entire country.

Surely they will be looking at the likes of Haaland, Mbappe etc... and not Ings.
Haaland is the guy. The club has already been talking to Alf. Mbappe already turned the club down twice and Qatar would never sell to Abu Dhabi.
 

Niall

International Coach
Surely they will be looking at the likes of Haaland, Mbappe etc... and not Ings.
Ings story may be press bollocks, think City are more likely to look at Haaland and then possibly Lukaku as back up this summer.

Mbappe probably stays unless Real somehow find a few hundred million behind the sofa.
 

Pothas

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I think other than a few Arsenal games during the invincibles era the most fun I've had at live football was with Pothas at Griffin Park when Brentford were in League 1/2. The matches were usually objectively terrible but there was always just a sense of fun and randomness about everything that made it so enjoyable.
The Leon Legge era. Good times.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
'Where did it all go wrong Jon' was almost certainly heard, was a guy that used to shout that at anyone who had played even a few Premier League games.
 
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flibbertyjibber

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Finding Jack Charlton was quite hard to watch, the moment when he recognised Paul McGrath was really sad but touching at the same time. You could see the love Jack had for him but moments before he was just staring not taking it in. Feel so sorry for anyone affected by dementia and all the suffering it causes loved ones.
 

Lillian Thomson

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Finding Jack Charlton was quite hard to watch, the moment when he recognised Paul McGrath was really sad but touching at the same time. You could see the love Jack had for him but moments before he was just staring not taking it in. Feel so sorry for anyone affected by dementia and all the suffering it causes loved ones.
This was very sad. After seeing him as an old man with sadly vacant eyes and impaired memory I went back and watched his interview with Garth Crooks from 1999 to see him at his best.
 

Red_Ink_Squid

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Henry top for mine. Aguero battling with Shearer for 2nd. Suarez was as good I think but doesn't have the longevity in the league. Kane could join that group depending on how his career goes from here.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
I'd probably have Aguero 3rd. I don't think he quite reached the peaks Shearer reached at Blackburn or Henry hit between roughly 2001 and 2005.
 

Uppercut

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Henry top for mine. Aguero battling with Shearer for 2nd. Suarez was as good I think but doesn't have the longevity in the league. Kane could join that group depending on how his career goes from here.
I'd agree with this except that Kane's surely already done enough to be up there with Shearer and Aguero. His best seasons were probably even better than Aguero's best seasons and he's not too far off Aguero's number of goals.

Kane and Shearer look like having similar careers where they're ATG level for a couple of seasons, then injuries kept them to being "just" very good strikers for a long time after that. Van Persie kinda had the reverse career trajectory. He'd not be too far below.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
I sometimes forget how good Shearer was. I don't know if it's because he retired from England fairly young and played for Newcastle long after they were a force. And also because he's such a bland pundit. But man he was good.

If Robbie Fowler hadn't got injured in 98 he'd most likely be part of the conversation, though being around at the same time as Shearer didn't help him even when he was at his peak.
 

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I sometimes forget how good Shearer was. I don't know if it's because he retired from England fairly young and played for Newcastle long after they were a force. And also because he's such a bland pundit. But man he was good.

If Robbie Fowler hadn't got injured in 98 he'd most likely be part of the conversation, though being around at the same time as Shearer didn't help him even when he was at his peak.
Maybe but getting injured at 24/25 then never getting back to pre-injury level is almost the norm for the best PL strikers. Shearer, Owen, Fowler, Torres, Kane. Shearer and Kane stand out for having still contributed a lot after their peaks, whereas the others quite quickly became very mediocre.
 

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