The College Dropout

Babayaro & Carr our Everton era.

Janmaat was a proper wing back. Awful at defending.

^^ Aye shit refereeing. It happens. I think that's worse than the Liverpool goal. The Liverpool goal was bad communication / shit procedure. That was just 3 people all agreeing and being wrong.

ON PAPER: I don't know much about the PSG CM's so it looks like a weakness to me... they got that Ugarte lad, a wonderkid 17 yearold, Vitinha from Wolves and another youngish Portuguese international. 2 man double-pivot. I've decided that we can kill them in the middle with intensity. Everywhere else is pretty much star-studded.

So excited.

Crying about VAR is annoying. People ultimately use VAR. People make mistakes. Having VAR should reduce mistakes, but it won't eradicate them. In the Liverpool game only the offside was a mistake. The original lino made a mistake but it was super poor that 2 other officials made the same mistake. Especially when there's a process in place to prevent it. But.... that happens sometimes. But if not for VAR that mistake happens 4x a week and everyone has to suck it up. Now... it happens less. It's open to interpretation for stuff like fouls, particularly for penalties. So.. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Edit: Just read the thread back. The process was followed, but there was miscommunication which was down to an inefficient/vague process. The process needs to be changed. And refs should be accountable for not following procedure even if nothing goes wrong. I have no issue with the "no bringbacks" approach even if it means breaking procedure causes massive mistakes. It just opens a can of worms.

Beye. Debuchy Enrique at left back. Bernard. Hughes. Not close really. Gap is massive.

A level above anything I’ve seen from a Newcastle United fullback. Might be p4p top 5 player I’ve seen for us.

Cmon man. We’re such a momentum club atm. Positive atmosphere of being in the CL or at least in Europe is worth points to us (hopefully more than the extra games cost us). R16 exit to Real Madrid minimum pls.

The Ryder cup weekend you always get a filler match on Sunday.

9 goals and 1 assist in 9 sequential games. 3 goals and 1 assist in the 25 games total before and after that 9 game run. Including 2 in 18 to end the season. ‘He scored throughout the season’. Just factually incorrect. He scored 75% of his goals in about 26% of his games. This isn’t to shit on him. He was MOTM for me against Brighton when he didn’t score. He does a lot of good work. Particularly off the ball. But this idea that he’s a regular goal threat if not for mismanagement is untrue.

If they sack ETH they fold imo. I’m really flip floppy on him as a manager. But him going would end their season.

Didn’t mention Man Utd. They too are obviously contenders and a lot depends on them. With the toxicity around the club it could implode. If they implode and there are 5 CL spots. I really fancy our chances.

Obviously thoughts will change base on performance, injuries, signings etc. Brighton crashing out at the group stage but being top 4 in the league come Christmas for example - changes things drastically.

Liverpool can challenge for the title. They’ve got the best attack in the league and tremendous depth in attack. Man City and Arsenal are shoe-ins too obvs. All 3 of those could get 80+ points. Spurs were awful last season and finished on 60 points. They were also in the CL. If they can keep Son and Maddison fit they’ve got a good chance of getting 70+ points this season. They’ve got a positive atmosphere. It looks like they’ve added 3-4 good additions to the squad. I think Spurs are a bigger threat than Brighton and Villa (and West Ham). those have to be better than they’ve ever been in the PL before and have European football to contend with. All 3 have the potential to go deep. Getting 70+ points for the first time in the PL And 10+ games in Europe until April I think is beyond them.

I think it's more confidence. When his confidence is up he can do great things. But he doesn't have a cash money left foot like Larry Robert.

Could've said the same about us last season.

Thought the only wrong decision was the offside goal. Jones red is a red. Jota red is a red. First yellow was unlucky if it was an accident. But the second was dumb.

Absolutely wonderful hit. When he’s confident he’s a real goal threat.

Not having European football is a massive advantage. Maddison is him. Son is him. Atmosphere around the club is best it’s been in a long time. Not being in the CL is massive for Liverpool as well.

Minteh lad had a bigger reputation tbf. The fee for him was not insignificant and he’s gone to a much bigger club and is getting good game time.

Haven’t seen this one. But saw some say it wasn’t a penalty in the match thread. I don’t think the Brentford one was one. Sid he win one last week? He might get a reputation for going down easily but atm who cares? It’s getting us goals. Our lads are automatic from the spot too.

Gordon’s not suspended for that like.

Had wonderful luck with injuries last season. More games more injuries. Not to say our medical staff can’t be improved.

I was a big fan of the ASM & Gordon double sub last season. Hope Tino and CMs can provide extra zip to pull away late in the half