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What does Karen Carney bring to any game she's chatting about? Not picking on her because she's a woman either, plenty of blokes just as vapid.

To flip a free transfer for circa £20m (ish) in 7 months is remarkable and I'd do it in a heartbeat. Krafth and Lascelles are on the way back and we've only got 23 more games this season if we make both finals. It's exactly the type of thing Chelsea would do and we'd all stand back and applaud their smarts in dealing with PSR. Anything decent - do it. He's far from irreplaceable

I'd agree with that tbh I think he's also pushing some of the responsibility onto the squad too. I get the fact he's asking a few of them to change their normal game and do slightly different things in different areas but they're just not producing. They either can't do it technically or they can't be arsed to do it consistently. They gave Liverpool a hell of a game at Anfield not long ago - was the system an issue for the players that afternoon? Yet so often they've looked like they just couldn't give a fuck. And if that's the real issue then that club is utterly fucked. You can change formations, managers, coaches but unless you gut the dressingroom then that stench will always be there. Like sewing rotten fish into the seams of the curtains, it's always going to stink

Can't fault his honesty, at least he's owning it tbh. Seen plenty of little fucking worms, and a few fat ones, blame anyone and everyone before they face facts and take some responsibility and accountability.

Nah, they won't sack him like and nor should they. He's inherited ten Hag's sack of shit and hasn't had the chance to remove that stench before he even tries to implement his own stamp on his squad. I know he's brought his system with him and he's adamant that he's not changing it in any way - it's admirable but by coming out so publically and insisting on it he's painted himself into a corner, managers and players know exactly what's coming meaning they're predictable and if he does change it it looks 'weak' because he's insisted he won't. Even if it's the right thing to do, he's tied his own hands together. Also, I know that squad isn't suited to that formation but surely players costing millions and millions of pounds can be sat down and told how to modify their normal game. Insanely talented players should be able to make a decent fist of adjusting their game using their skills and doing the job that's being asked of them rather than just doing their normal thing? Blaming the players for not being able to slightly change the way they play is about a damning criticism as you can get - running/working, controlling, passing and shooting the football are basics that they should all be excellent at - yes the tactical/positioning side of things needs a bit of time but they're stinking the place out

Awful result and a truly stinking performance in isolation but heaps of perspective needed here like. We've been utterly unbelievable for the past 5 weeks, blowing teams off the park game after game after game. Today was such a gigantic anomaly of a result and performance that I'm already over it and laughing at just how bad it was. I know it sounds daft but it was so different in tempo, attitude and performance that I've already written it off as 'one of those days' and moved on to thinking about the Southampton game. Games like today happen. So fuck. Move on

Not sure this is fair on Burnley tbh. No-one in the Champo should have to go up against a combined midfield valued (by themselves) at circa £150m+ AND not one, but 2 generational talents. Doesn't seem right to me

Impossible to reject that offer, no axe to grind with him, he tried his best but ultimately way too limited. Just need to hope the cash is put to good use replacing him, sure it will be

No need or point in having a dig about him tonight, that performance today told us absolutely nothing we didn't already know about what he offers. A move away is best for all concened tbh

15700 is utterly pathetic for a club as big (as they claim) to be. I get it's just after Xmas and people are cutting costs etc and would give them the benefit of the doubt if they the slightest humility about their own club. If you constantly bang on about how massive you are and how fucking brilliant your attendances are then you've got to take that squarely on the chin at filling barely a third of your own ground on Saturday at 3pm against an equivalent club. Had they shown the smallest amount of modesty about their crowds then they'd get a pass for today They're the biggest set of bullshitting, chest-thumping, bottling, insignificant cunts in the country. They're a complete myth, absolutely nothing more

Premium product as I say. They've built up the demand for it with the advertising of it and now they'll want to earn it all back. Pricing it just a bit over what you'd expect it to be and hope people shell out anyway, they're not daft

It's a premium product that's probably targeted at the generation who were just a bit too young to have it when the originals came out. Expensive enough to make a killing but not too expensive to put it out of reach. If people want it then they'll get it

Tenner more for a premium product? It's not ridiculous imo. I'll not be buying it btw, I've got the original and don't need or want another one so it's a bit moot for me. I'm just saying the price of everything has just about doubled in the last 30 years naturally and although £90 is high for a football shirt, so is £6 for a pint, so is £12 for a cinema ticket, £3 for a coffee and so on. Things just get more expensive naturally

The original in 95 was circa £40 iirc. 30 years of inflation have pretty much doubled the price of just about everything so £90 in 2025 isn't that far away from lots of other goods. I know it's just a heap of polyester at the end of the day but the price tracks well to 30 years ago tbh. If people want it then they'll get it, if they don't then they'll leave it alone

CFS have the Germany track jacket reduced to £60 and the originals to shirt down to 30. Add the discount code and you can get both delivered for £81 I know it's not Newcastle but it's a good deal for the same style stuff