Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

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we kinda ruined him to be honest, we signed him at his peak with Charlton, and he was thrown in to a squad where Lampard and Makalele were the midfield pairing, and he was never going to usurp either of them in the starting XI, was he.
We did the same with Shaun Wright Phillips, like he was ever going to displace Arjen Robben, Damien Duff or Joe Cole.
Mind you, they knew the score when they signed, so it was on them
Well he did choose to leave all that to go to the other extreme of being managed by Graeme Souness and playing alongside Amdy Faye and Lee Clark, which didn't help either. He was never that great for us anyway, brilliant sometimes, but patchy a lot of the other time and injured loads.

He was our captain in 2006, I remember him collecting the Intertoto cup for us, for being the last one from that in the European cup, the trophy was literally like a tile sample for Wicked.
 
What job did you go for in the end?

It's ****ing insane mate - heart said go for the closer to home one - but both have come back in the interim with improved offers conditions etc... Head is spinning - got two contracts in front of me... can't sign both.

Local opportunity is a huge multinational... more remote one is much smaller (business wise) but owned by US billionaires and in a very cool industry...

Not the worst dilemma to have - but its completely ****ing with my mind ... and my stomach. <yikes>

If I was your age I'd probably take a punt on the second, for sure...

... but I ain't...