Daily Discussion Thread - 31 August 2023

In other news I think someone is brigading me cuz I was talking about nuclear fission power needing to be considered an option and not just discarded out of fear and now every single one of my comments from like the past day has a downvote on it, lol.

To be clear; there are very good arguments against nuclear fission power. But most of the ones people use aren't.
Growing pains I suppose. A few weeks ago someone said the same thing on !support@lemmy.world (different political issue).
- Yeah I remember seeing something like that. Personally not too bothered, the admins have enough on their plate

Just realised that Partey and Tomi are gonna be gone for January cuz AFCON / AFC Asian cup (which Hong Kong has made!!! Finally!!!!!!!)

We really need another player in defence.

13 hours til takeoff...

Brentford away is a really poor draw in the Carabao cup. They're a tricky opponent, so will actually be a test. Plus they're a London team with a fairly small stadium, so I won't have enough away credits to get a ticket.

On this day Mikel and Per joined the team, and the rest is history.

Do we think there will be any more outgoings today and tomorrow?

Outgoings yea, incomings is what I'm thinking about. I doubt the likes of Cedric would be happy completely not playing for a few months. I think Holding will head to Spain, we'll sort something out for Lokonga, Tavares will officially leave, and Pepe will take a few more days. Cedric is anyone's guess cuz I've not heard anyone interested. Okonkwo I hope gets one for his sake, and Elneny will stay. That's what I think at least.
- I won't get to know until it's almost over cuz of my flight though 😅 heading to the airport rn

I'm off to my step-father's funeral later today. He was a good old guy, and a gooner too. Not really looking forward to the day.

Saliba getting called this international break. Lovely.

Lemmy.world been down for so long today, glad to see it back lol

I can't disagree

Topping the group so we can face Bayern after they finish second on goal difference. I don't even remember what season that happened to us.
- IIRC it was the 10-2 season

How was Seaman our last GK of the year before Ramsdale lol, that's actually mad

Chelsea's away kit.... do they realise the purpose of an away kit?

Eddie, Saka, Rice, Ramsdale all get an England call up.

No Sterling, no Pope. Interesting.
- Maguire is still there. How.

Brentford away for EFL Round 3, it's gonna be tough

Don't worry about milk cup
Can't be worse than last season.

https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1697218078000447571

Another one???

Queseda-Thorn getting a senior call up for Costa Rica. Assume it's to lock him in? Feel like they've gotta have better players to call up than an 18 year old youth player lol

PSV and Sevilla don't give off good vibes. Both will be looking to counter and we cannot repeat the mistakes we've made in the PL so far.

@astrealix@lemmy.world this is still stuck

Bonucci is going to Union Berlin. Did anyone have that on their bingo card? Lol

Balogun must be seething at Eddie rn...

He's probably happy for him. They grew up together, and if he thought he was better than Eddie enough to force his way into the side he'd probably have stayed I reckon lol.
- He’s probably happy for him
  that's what he'd say in an interview but it's clear as day he wanted to be England's Centre forward

Nuno to Forest agreed, apparently. No loan fee mentioned but 12M option. Pretty disappointing overall.

I swear it was a 1M loan fee, no? Also apparently the option can become mandatory and has 3m addons looking at Romano
- I was getting this from Insta, which just reposts all of his tweets, so it's very possible that just wasn't reflected there. But 1 + 12M would still be disappointing for him at the end, so I hope he really impresses and gets at least 20M.
@sensiblepuffin
Arteta and #Edu have tanked the value and a hell of a lot of players.
The total numbers of millions lost must be eye watering for #Arsenal
Although clearly not for #kroenke

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