I speak a little Portuguese so was excited to go there to practice on my roadtrip after driving to Bilbao for the Ange Europa League Final. To my disappointment found out that most Portuguese speak fluent English.. their government made it the official 2nd language like India, a generation ago...

Souttar has much more compelling cv than Sainsbury did, and even more so than that, Sainsbury wemt to Inter, Souttar going to Cagliari... big big difference!!

Spot on.Playing for a Feyenoord, or even more so an Ajax or Sporting is indicative of a player being a WAYYYY higher level than playing at say Troyes or St Pauli, even if troyes and st pauli are/were in top 5 leagues

Hes dominated at 2 world cups now, has premier league experience on his cv and a previous big transfer fee. Thats enough for a lowly serie A side coach to give him an extended run of games and we all know harry is easily good enough for that level. Italian league suits a low block defender like...

Ukrainian league is very very low now on ELO (as you can imagine), on par with the Israeli league, below even Scotland. Unless he is playing for Shaktar or Dinamo and dominating he wont get called up.

His style would suit Italy very well. Better as a deep lying defender than in a high line. Lot of teams in Italy play 3 CBs with wingbacks.

Will be the last we ever see of him in a Socceroos shirt

Just checked ELO... Sporting are ranked a whopping 1848 which is the 11th highest club!!! Prob the highest of any australian playing regularly since at least Kruse at Leverkusen in 2013, and before that Kewell at Liverpool.

Yes most definitely is at least according to all league comparisons systems. Actually Sporting would probably be the highest ELO of any socceroo whose playing regularly. Dare say would be above Levante, Sassuolo, Troyes, the club Okon moved to (cant remember name).

6th after France. Looking at ELO theres a big gap between the top 5 and Portugal, but then a big gap between Portugal and 7th best league which for past few yrs has rotated between Netherlands, Austria and Belgian leagues, usually Netherlands though. Prior to 2022 the Russian and Ukrainian...

Everyone speaks English in Portugal. The government made English mandatory from first yr school onwards. Only the baby boomers dont speak it.

My new team i think if this happens

Still way lower than his true level. If not for injuries i genuinely feel he'd be at a top top club

Id say Serie B slightly higher than A league which id rate equivalent of top of league 1. Agree league 1 move is sideways. Id say serie B is bottom of Champ.

On transfermarkt hes listed as a CF. Played 21 games last yr at CF, scoring 6 goals and 4 assists. Right Winger only played 7 games, scoring 2, no assists. Attacking mid played 6 games, 2 goals, no assists. This season played a game each at CF, LW, LM, scoring 2 goals. If you ask AI this...