Today’s tittle-tattle is lapsing into a Como
The Mill is winding down for its seasonal spruce up, a chance to pick old bits of fluff about James Rodríguez and Philippe Coutinho out of its cogs. It’s an opportunity to look to new things. Fresh things.
In that spirit,
Paul Pogba making it on to the pitch for
Manchester United has, happily, quietened the murmurs surrounding his January plans. Thanks too to Graham Souness, certain that the way to put a rocket up Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s forward-thinkers is to … er … sign Jonny Evans. Mercifully, a bit more forward in all respects is word that Solskjær is interested in Jude Bellingham, the 16-year-old who back in August became Birmingham’s youngest ever goalscorer and has since made a starting XI spot all his own. Mike Phelan was dispatched to “track” the
England youth international at the weekend, almost certainly less sinister than that sounds. Meanwhile, “vocal calls” (aka “calls”) for Mauricio Pochettino to come in and help bolster the side’s place in the top half of the table were apparently heard in the Vicarage Road away end on Sunday. Fresh.