The College Dropout

Let's play 60 minutes with a weaker team so we can have a better team for the final 30 minutes.

Can we just enjoy the lad please?

If we keep him and buy a new RW, i'd only sell one of Murphy or Almiron.

This line of thinking doesn't make any sense. I do agree that fundamentally Howe see's Barnes & Gordon as LW's. So if both are fit and we have a striker - one will sit on the bench. I agree that having Gordon RW is a suboptimal use of his skills but he's better there than what we have so it's for the best. That's the whole issue with the Barnes transfer. He's brought in to rotate with someone we thought could be a star player for us. Meanwhile, we have 2 players at RW who are incredibly short of quality and consistency required to be mainstays of a top 6 team.

The numbers are entirely made-up mate. Every other team is widely incorrect too.

His numbers are wrong. All clubs eventually report accounts to Companies House and it will include a wage bill for staff.

You've replied to an old quote. Kieran Maguire has the most accurate wage bill list. They are old (based on last years accounts) but they are accurate. He's shared this from The Times so I assume they are using the same methodology. Villa & Chelsea are reliant on academy sales to keep them FFP compliant. Chelsea still hasn't released their accounts for last FY. Full list - some of these don't include up to date numbers from Spurs and Fulham and maybe a few others.

Ah yes the old - let's have a stronger bench than starting XI strategy.

RIP Joe Kinnear. It’s just football.

Massive if Chelsea can hold on to this lead. They finally seem to be going on Arun.

I pray to God we try to hit Spurs on the counter.

Liverpool are winning the league if they can nab this.

Ah Salah is off pens? He should be. MacAllister is better at them.

I can see Salah missing this.

I like Diaz. But he’s currently a level or two below prime Mane. He’s not clinical enough. Mane was good for 11-22 league goals all open play. Diaz is busy. A good ball carrier but he’s not the same level of match winner.

If there’s a jammier team than Liverpool it’s Man U. This is why I always assume they’ll get 6th. They’ll do it somehow some way.

Mainoo is him.

Aye. Arsenal had a dip in December that might cost them the league. Imo they’ve been the best team across the season. Liverpool aren’t that good. But win in clutch moments - our game at home for example. No CL football is probably worth an additional 3-5 points for them.

If he were to get solid minutes next season I would keep him. If we can’t get him good minutes I would have him back out on loan to Feyenoord. Hes done well there but I’d love for him to have a season there he just dominated.

We’re fighting.

Would like to see him start left Gordon on the right.

This team is way better than lasts.

Don’t watch the game but what people are saying is consistent with what I’ve seen from him previously. I’ve assumed for some time he’s just not as developed as Eddie needs so he’s just not been considered much.

Tonali doesn't have Bruno's distribution but he's more athletic.

Tonali is closer in role to Longstaff than Bruno. Bruno's book value is less than £10m and he earns around £7.5m per year. It's a lot of wriggle room. But fuck that. We need 1 more year.