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Rapidly coming to the conclusion that the best chance of being in Europe in 25/26 is by missing out in 24/25. Howe inherited an awful squad and unfortunately, for mainly injury reasons, too many of that squad are playing way too often. It's not a management issue - it's an ability issue throughout the squad. You can only work with the raw materials you've got and we still have so many substandard players in that squad that maintaing progress is always going to be virtually impossible. You simply can't expect to name Longstaff, Almiron, Dubravka, Murphy, Krafth etc so often without them producing their average levels of performance. It's going to take a few more transfer windows until we get the squad into the shape it needs to be in. They're trying their best but their effort alone just isn't good enough, their ability just isn't there and never will be. Time to be ruthless and cut them free 3 or 4 at a time per window. They're millstones

Who's playing for those cunts?

Joelinton reducer in the first 5 mins. First one's free - smash. Fuck

I think we'll simply go back to the bigger clubs getting the majority of big decisions without any way of correcting things then the whole argument will start up again. Just needs changing, laws of the game twisting and clarifying. The tech is good, the officials are inept and the laws are confusing and way too open to interpretation. Can anyone tell me exactly what the handball rule is and if it's applied consistently?

Type of game we should be looking forward to. So by all means enjoy it, but let's enjoy it by being fucking disciplined, eh?

Jesus. That's like the Martinez one in the world Cup final

Rewound it

He's 100% done him there. Knows exactly what he's doing the horrible twat

Switching to Optus

WOOF!

See folks? Instantly better Also balances out the black and white rather than one colour dominating too much

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