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So it wasn't all down to Rangers and Celtic then, like you said? Just to be clear given what you said earlier.

Oh don't try and switch away from you getting down on your knees for Celtic and Rangers. Are you saying that 3rd and European football isn't an achievement?

That's the main reason we were guaranteed group stage football.

I could argue it bud.

Nope.

Not a whole fact.

Not quite, no. I'd say there's a difference between qualifiers and qualifying for the tournament proper, hence why the national team have made a big deal about qualifying for the Euros and they don't celebrate losing in the qualifiers.

I agree, if both somehow got through there is no way either of them cope with the demands, bigger, better sides have struggled.

Qualifiers, actual group stages are alien to him.

With no experience in proper European football, don't care how good a manager is but with that and a small squad there's no way they would cope with the demand of it.

Excellent achievement

Hahaha, based on what exactly?

Maybe our analyst who was with Croatia can help tempt Modric here, surely he could manage 2 years at this level?

I totally get where you are coming from but if he comes back from his injury and fails to replicate the form as his contract runs down I'm almost certain will take an offer that comes their way. That would be ideal, he's still young and appears to be as good of a professional as you get, so hopefully that helps with the recovery process. Would be daft to be counting on that money when you don't know what can happen, so aye he probably did use it to convince Thelin.

When I say cheap I'm meaning around 15m with a year left on his deal or so. It very much looks like he was going this summer and that would have been for £30m+ Now he could easily get back to the level he was at pre injury but it seems unlikely, at the end of the day as well Bologna are a selling club and each player has a price and a window to be sold in, him failing to get back to this level would see his value fall a fair bit.