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I think you're slightly missing the bigger picture, but of course I can understand how some people have a differing opinion on this. I guess as I'm getting older I start to care more about people's wellbeing, as well as taking into account the long term investment we've made as a club. The lad has made a massive mistake, hopefully he'll be able to get help for his addiction and turn things around. I certainly don't think we as a club have a duty to make him suffer any more than he already is. I'm sure a lot of people would love to sit back and get 10 months free pay whilst not being able to work, but I'm not certain peak footballers have that same mindset. He's got a lot of rebuilding to do now, both for club and country. He'll hardly be sat back rubbing his hands together purely because he's still getting paid. On an aside, footballers are massively different to the majority of other occupations in many aspects of life. You must be able to see that, right?

Erm, yeah?

That's a fair point Won't somebody please think of the kids?

FFS man I guarantee that the club will handle this 1000 times better than certain fans wish to, thankfully.

Are people seriously thinking we shouldn't pay his wages, regardless? Do we actually not give a flying fuck about his wellbeing now then?

You could argue we don't have that many players who would play for those teams. Bruno, Trippier, Isak, Botman? It's gonna take years to get the full squad we want to be able to challenge on all levels. Longstaff has a few seasons left in him yet.

Nope, hoping to start training again in the new year.

Guess not then

They beat us, it’s about results against

Was in the pre-match thread where he said he had a shite record.

I recognise the name, didn’t nemtizz used to be an ok poster?

@Beren

You not seen a stiffy post before?

Hello shit post

That’s some take. He was by far our best player tonight (with AG)

I was really excited seeing Tonali take our set pieces too

Ahh ok, but if they beat us 12 nil here we’d need to beat them 13 nil there if we end up on level points?

Genuine question though. Is it goal difference or results against?

I probably don’t even care. I love the fact we’re here. We’ll be here plenty in the future and we’ll win it soon enough.

I really don’t think we’ve been that bad tbh. A couple of dodgy performances (Joelinton, Wilson, Longstaff) but otherwise we’ve just missed that bit of quality you need at this level. no way have Dortmund been much better than us. Injuries are a massive worry though.

We can’t expect Southgate to pick him for England whilst also complaining that he’s not good enough for the CL ?

Do results against not count?

That’s not 100% how it works is it?

Surprised Reyna didn’t start tbh

Isak would have been the difference.