Oh so that's why the Argentina players kept going to ground.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/cagliari-calcio/startseite/verein/1390 Cagliari played a back 3 and currently have 3 somewhat decent centre backs so a Souttar transfer makes sense for them.

Well that shows they're damn serious. Will he be alright with the language and cultural barrier along with his attitude? The trouble is as a foreigner you don't get much leeway with stepping out of line and they have the buying power and production line to replace him in a heartbeat.

I'm not suggesting he isn't good enough but Italy is just less ideal as Italy has numerous factors such as big benches, cultural differences and an ad hoc survival mentality that is devoid of building anything up. We saw it with Hrustic. The Sainbury saga should never have happened. Souttar is...

It's an exception because he was raised there. Most Australians without Italian heritage get treated like dirt. They have big benches which gives the manager too much opportunity to rotate and the second half of the table simply exist to make up the numbers and are a waste of time every season.

Not Italy though. It's a backwater and they treat most of our players poorly.

A Socceroo off to Vietnam? 🇻🇳🇦🇺👀 According to Vietnam VN (Minh Hoang), Australia international Ajdin Hrustic has attracted interest from Hanoi FC in the Vietnamese top flight 🟣⚪️

Full season League One or German third league loan would be good at this stage.

The way the team mate starts pointing like something had gone wrong in the back play.

Should help us win a lot of dodgy pens.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Money can't buy class yada yada yada.

Portugal has a lot of also rans so in the worst case Irankunda would get many games there but European competition is the goal.

Absolutely but I'm referring to people who compliment South Americans for being cunning yet went hard on Redmayne making out how hypocritical he is when they themselves are being hypocritical.

Just wow...

Watford were on unsteady ground but started the season well. I think Spurs will be more steady. I honestly hope Bournemouth go down. I think the new teams will have it tough but hopefully survive.

Tired of our players taking the bait of big clubs. We're just a number there.

I can't wait for the English fans to go hard at every Argentina player in club football. Yeah, they're rich and don't care but let them have it!

The way Australia slow down a game, even if they do, is nowhere near the blatant cheating other teams do. Officials need to clamp down on it. The injury and throw time rules were good.

Gauci back at Villa since 1.7 in a contract sense but he'll definitely be loaned or hopefully just sold for a permanent gig.

Congrats to the winners and I'll take 3rd. Did I give up a decent lead?