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They’ve been poor compared to their normal level but still better than Real even today.

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Signing permanently for us in January would have made absolutely no sense for him.

Howe’s ability to motivate players who know they are done here after this season is the thing I’m most impressed. I see almost no risk with Lingard coming and only collecting his paycheck.

I think the World Cup means he’ll be highly motivated.

He’s not played a lot for a 30 year old so would be expecting him to have 2-3 good years left. Perfect bridge player for us right now IMO. Starter next season and decent squad player after that with his versatility.

Not a yellow?

Fucking CB acting like that.

Had forgotten Bojan existed and is somehow still only 31.

Genetics also play a role as some people just never pull a muscle and maybe Liverpool are targeting players with good injury history.

Freak injuries always happen like the one van Dijk had but I would be expecting more muscle injuries considering their play-style and the minutes some players are playing. That said, knowledge about muscle recovery has to be much better now than it was when Kieron Dyer got one every two months. Also don’t like the blaming without any evidence but must admit it’s a bit suspicious.

I think it’s suspicious too but age doesn’t really take away stamina, just pace and general quickness?

Has to save that.

I’m so conflicted, would love to see City-Pool final (with City winning) but it would be fucking gorgeous if Liverpool gets knocked out today.

Get the fuck in!! They’ve been absolute class tonight.

You don't see how these two things could possibly be linked? I can understand people being frustrated with ASM right now but find your campaign against Targett fucking weird tbh. We are so far from being good enough to say that Targett isn't good enough for us.

Yup. They've been almost Bruce-level lucky this season based on xG, have 11 points more than they have "deserved".

If you exclude Zaha's penalties, he has six goals and one assist. ASM has 5 goals and 4 assists. Their expected goals+assists per 90 without penalties is exactly the same at 0.33.

I think TAA, Robertson and Cancelo are making other fullbacks look worse than they are with their ridiculous offensive contributions. Targett's basic goals+assists stats from the past 4 seasons aren't that different from Kyle Walker or Luke Shaw. He's decent enough going forward but having ASM ahead of him limits him right now. Felt like he was getting forward more when ASM was out for that little spell.

Don't think the analogy really makes sense unless you think we are buying close to 20 players in the summer.

Are Wood, Almiron, Fraser and Murphy getting in that team?

I don't believe it has anything to do with degenerative brain or anything else like that. It's just that once you get deep enough into that conspiracy rabbit hole anything that conflicts with your new views is just fake government propaganda and gets brushed aside. From there you start to apply those conspiracy theories to anything happening in the world and Le Tissier is now at that point IMO. IIRC @BlufPurdi probably knows most about the subject here.

Fucking hell.

Yeah, fuck stopping the clock though because TRADITION.

Poor ball from Bruno.