Lamine Yamal has now won a World Cup, Euros for Spain & 2 League Titles for Barcelona…
Pau Cubarsí has now won a World Cup & 2 League titles for Barcelona….
Both 19 years old - the future is bright for Spanish Football. Wow! Congratulations 👏🏽
#fifaworldcup#fifaworldcup2026
Watch Spain at 1-0 last night. That’s courage. That’s bravery. And then watch England at 1-0. What’s the difference?
We are a better team than Argentina, I’ve no doubt in my mind. But we deserved to get beat in the end. In fact, it could have been 4-1.
Bringing on 3 defenders at 1-0 up. What message does that send? I wrote it in my Daily Mail column after the Mexico game. Until we understand that courage and bravery is controlling possession under pressure and not booting / heading it up the field 40 yards then this will always be the end result.
I've been pondering this since my comments in real time to the trades. Let me make sure I've got this straight:
- Moved Nurse and his contract to SJS for Mukhamadullin and Zach Sharp
- Moved out a 3rd in 2028 for Devon Levi and a 2028 7th
- Signed Ryan Shea to 5x$4M. (This is a sneaky good get)
- Re-signed Kasperi Kapanen to 1x$2.4M (slight overpay maybe, but I think that's ok given the other moves in context, term is absolutely correct)
- Re-signed Max Jones 1x$850k
- Signed Eduards Tralmaks 1 year 2-way $850K out of europe.
- Signed Frederik Anderson 1 year, $1M (possible up to $2.8M with bonuses, very good structure for the team with his injury history)
- Signed Mathieu Joeseph 1x$1M.
23 man roster, no retention spots used, and still $6.5M left to play with, absent any more subtractions, additions or sending people out to the minors.
In addition they have QO's out to Stastney, Dach, Jarventie (TBD), and Owen Michaels.
Every single one of these moves fills a need, moves money, gains assets or otherwise seems like a move a smart team would make, the only one even remotely risky is Kapanen, and he earned that paycheque for his playoffs alone. That's a risk I'd also take if I was in the chair.
Stan Bowman takes a lot of shit around here (including occasionally from me) but it would be absolutely obtuse of me to say Stan did anything but cook today. Incredibly tidy, methodical work, I am super impressed, and I rarely am impressed these days.
I'm not sure there's a team that did better but the Oilers would be very near the top of the "W column" for free agent frenzy. Unbelievable.
Edmonton signed Murphy to $4.1M AVV whilst Washington paid Desharnais $4.2M
Jenner got $5M+ whilst Dickinson got $4M
Nurse got dumped full for a young 3rd pair guy
Levi is a young and promising goalie with lots of potential
What an offseason by Stan Bowman so far