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Long sleeves just make everything better

He was always going to have loads of offers if he's decent and out of contract. No point getting all chewed about him signing, if he comes then great. If he goes elsewhere then fine. It's his decision and he'll have his own priorities

He seemed quite an affable bloke when he was at Dortmund, probably helped because he was always the underdog compared to Bayern. Once he came over here and took them over he just kind of clicked with their superiority complex and became arrogant as fuck, just like their fans are. Massively over-inflated opinion of themselves and their club and he fit them hand in glove. They're a match made in hell

Aye, needlessly dickish there. Could have handled those questions much better than the way he did without sounding like a bit of an arsehole doing it. Not saying I disagree with his overall message but he was way too abrasive there, no tact there at all

Can't deny it, I'm absolutely delighted to say I'm never going to have to watch another second of Klopp's Liverpool ever again thank fuck. I'll be avoiding them totally for the next few weeks and any tributes or farewells they have for the obnoxious cunt will completely pass me by thankfully

That's about as 5/10 as you can possibly get for a kit

Right, put this shit on mute for 15 mins

No card? Like at all? Of any colour? Fuck me

Oooopsies

Fully expecting Fernandes, Martinez and Rashford to all either start or get at least 30 mins from the bench

Very true. I look at it from the perspective that they've been allowed to get away with it because of the idiocy of the situation the PL has created. If they just allowed rich owners who 100% can afford to spend to do so then they wouldn't have to find ridiculous workarounds like this to comply. It's an absurd solution to an absurd problem. The more ridiculous it looks the better. The more people are outraged the better. The more scrutiny of the rules shit like this creates the better

At this point you can't fail to be impressed by how much they're taking the piss at this point. Like, they've assessed their own financial situation, looked at the horseshit rules that they're bound to follow and just thought 'fuck it, let's just sell parts of ourselves to ourselves' knowing the rules are so fucking stupid and backward that I'm actually impressed. They know fine well the PL won't hold them to account or want a legal challenge so they'll probably get away with it too. Fair play to them, it makes a mockery of the rules but it also shames the people who threw the rules together in the first place. The more ridiculous it looks the better

Big bonus that we've now effectively got 2 bites of the cherry to get into Europe. If the worst comes to the worst and we lose on Wednesday we can still claw things back on the final day, it's not like it's an end-of-season loss if it happens. We still have 2 huge games to go and definitely everything to play for next weekend

Southgate would be a genuinely amazing(ly shit) appointment like

Who's going to get the bullshit red card in this then? Bruno? Isak?

Casemiro is lazy as fuck. Visibly thrown the towel in and can't even pretend to give a fuck

More concerned about the referee than any individual Man U player tbph

I'm not against Howe subbing him but leaving him on could have turned 1 point into 3 this afternoon. Bringing off your 20 goal striker with 25 mins to go and chucking on a midfielder is a bit of a risk if it doesn't work out. I understand the logic but it's a bit of a risk either way. Let's see how he does on Wednesday, I hope he gets 4

I know But he could have left him on. He wasn't noticeably struggling physically

His performance on Wednesday night will decide if Howe got this right or wrong today

Agreed and I don't blame him in the slightest. He made it perfectly clear he was going to chew up as much time as possible from the first whistle and the spineless cunt allowed hi and the rest of the team to do it all afternoon. It's not their fault, an early yellow would probably have stopped it but he didn't show it so they continued to do it. They played him like a fiddle and I've got no problem with them at all.

Was just about to mention this actually. We all want European football but there would be some advantages to finishing 8th and trying to break into the top 4 without the extra games. Bouncing from 11th to 4th a year ago was staggering but one of the main reasons we did so was because we put most of our attention on the League games and it paid off massively. I'm not trying to find the silver lining here, I still want Europe for lots of reasons, I'm just not going to be devastated with 8th and a strong squad to attack the League with next season. There are pro's and con's to 6th, 7th and 8th tbh

He's been relying on his squad fillers for months now and that's always a risky business. They're not starters in the first XI for very good reasons but having 5 or 6 in there every week AND getting good results isn't sustainable and I think we saw that today. It was a substandard performance but the team was full of substandard (relatively speaking) players. If we'd been able to start Pope, Trippier, Botman, Schar, Tino, Joelinton, Bruno, Tonali, Gordon, Barnes, Isak today then we'd have won by a couple. But having to switch out 7 of them and slot in the likes of Longstaff, Krafth etc makes things really fucking difficult like. I think he could have changed it up a bit earlier and tweaked a few things but it's not always going to go our way at times. They dug in and made it difficult and we didn't do enough and that happens. Not going to flip out tonight about things, it's not the end of the world

If Brighton play like they did today then I can't see either Man U or Chelsea beating them at home. They seem to be a bit streaky and know exactly how to see a game out. Was really frustrating to watch the last 20 minutes today but credit to them for hanging on for a tough away point. We did it loads last season and you can't really complain when you get some of your own medicine, they're a very able team