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Missed a trick not calling it the Cup Winners Cup. Sack Thelin

Wow. 5-4 to Real, massive punch up between technical areas at 4-4 in the 94th minute, and then THAT goal by Modric... Ok, fine. 4-0 PSG. Don't fancy Chelsea's chances.

Correction. 3-0 PSG after 24 minutes.

PSG-Real match starting at 1000mph. 2-0 PSG and only 8 minutes gone.

I thought Ambrose was our most technical player - every description I hear of him is "technically, he's a footballer ..."

Al-Hilal penalty award overturned in the 1st half, and further attempts booked for diving in the 2nd. Bet that didn't go down too well in Riyadh, there's a ref who won't be officiating any World Cup games any time soon.

We sure we are all talking about the same Soumano? All mention of Brentford interest (and apparent 3M bid) for Mousa Soumaso back in April originates from just one article from "AfricaFoot" - however Brentford are also linked with 2.5M-rated Sambou Soumano of recently promoted Lorient, which seems more plausible. What's the chances they picked up on the wrong gossip?

I cannot vouch for the accuracy or provenance, but came across this earlier from Jan this year: https://targetscouting.com/2025/01/19/kjartan-mar-kjartansson-stjarnan-gardabaer-scout-report/

Would be inclined to agree. That ship has sailed, bridge is burnt, sheep has bolted etc

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/clynqpvg783t

Cormack stating Keskinen not going anywhere this summer (as always, apologies for source): https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/topi-keskinen-aberdeen-transfer-fate-35468390

True, opportunity missed. Or they could've had us down for a shock reunion with an unsettled McInnes to replace [insert English Championship club]-bound Thelin. Clearly not trying.

Pretty sure there would have been "Miovski to..." stories lined up in case we had drawn Celtic or Sevco as our opening game rather than Hearts. A Hearts-Hibs derby on the first day would be "Hibs considering Shankland", and so on... Bait and click.

Unlike Inter Miami, who are basically Messi's +10 on the guestlist

Interesting read - feels a little Pape Gueye MkII https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-fc-news-kusini-yengi-australia-transfer-5127783

Ambrose would've saved that. 1-3 Iceland

Sub keeper is having a nightmare. 1-2 Iceland

Depends who's better at dealing with penalties, I guess

Thats...mental. Surely they should be delighted he managed to bag them all that lovely Champions league money without the usual faff of having to win all those tedious league games?

might be enough for them to break even this year though

Tbf it was probably the emotion of it being his last chance to win a cup in Scotland.

Knoester. https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spared-aberdeen-fifth-penalty-taker-reveals-why-scottish-cup-triumph-means-more-than-league-winners-medal-5145661

Looking forward to our new signing Charlie Smirnoff.

So far, one of Belgium, Czechia, Turkey, or Switzerland. Admittedly there might be a few other countries still to emerge...