The Rolling Football Thread: Season 2025/26 - thread 2

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i don't think Sommer will come back to the Bundesliga - although his wife is from Cologne, i think. Broke a lot of hearts here when he got married.
I suspect he will go back to Switzerland, have one or two last seasons at Basel and then go on to a media career.
Xhaka is quite good looking, not really my cup of tea though.

Sorry for the derail.
Anyone got any thoughts about the Middlesbrough trainer thing?

Surprised Welbeck missed out on the England squad although also quite pleased as he could probably do with a rest and the last thing we need is him injured!

Funnily enough, I thought exactly the same thing after I posted.

Yes, I thought the same about MLS. We have enough players on international duty.

Do you mean Rob Edwards?

Yeah, I'd rather MLS went and Saka and Rice got a break!

Yes but that's not going to happen!

He is not managing Boro today

My DH is spitting feathers about him (yes, Rob Edwards). The word "snake" ia being deployed. A lot.

I am not surprised Brefugee

Rob Edwards has form - he will be hoping leaving Boro for Wolves will work out better for him than leaving Forest Green Rovers for Watford did! You can see the attraction for him as a former Wolves player, but he could come to regret the timing. Imagine if Wolves go down and Boro get promoted the other way!

@TheNewGaard and yet if the season was based solely on the 3 games of October, United would have come out on top due to GS and GD despite Arsenal's perfect month so ... 🤷🏻‍♀️

He could face something similar this month again even if Arsenal win all matches if West Ham get more points from Bournemouth/Liverpool even 8-10 points could do it

Scored 5 goals but only 2 counted and a clean sheet, happy days 💙

After only managing 1 point for the whole of last month Gillingham beat Bristol Rovers away 1-0. Welcome back Gareth (sat in the stands but was in attendance and has been taking charge of training again)💙

Thought Man Utd were the better team today against Spurs so not overly displeased with a point.

Barton also found guilty of the Ward/Aluko/Vine tweets so hoping the book is thrown at him come December 8th.

I agree with your point about Spurs! I’m still trying to work out why they seem to be playing so much worse at home than away.

I think a point apiece was the fairest result - if only the Man Utd fan had gone for 5 unbeaten rather than 5 wins (which is actually much harder to achieve)

Yes I'm wondering if he's ever going to get that hair cut 😂

So Merino gets a blatant elbow to the face, but because it's "accidental" even though he was clearly leading with his elbow it's fine and not a penalty...

A loss away for Arbroath. I wasn’t there but was following their updates. One interesting one said we had a player kicked in the head but we were denied a penalty from it and then the other team scored but had it ruled out all within a minute apparently. The highlights will be interesting later.

Happy with the West Ham result at least.

But it has made him famous so I guess there is that! But there is no set I can see where 5 games winning could be done!

yep that wasn’t a penalty at all and no one has said it should be surely?

That's a bummer. Sunderland gave us a really hard game though.

Wouldn’t worry it’s the North London Derby next!

What's to worry about? After all, Saka, Rice, Merino, Gabriel, Trossard, Eze, and Calafiori won't get injured during the interlull...

Stop looking for excuses for bottling it 😂