The College Dropout

La Liga has a salary cap funnily enough. It also entrenches the status quo. Real should win La Liga more often than they do - their salary cap is close to 2x second place iirc. Although Barca max theirs and beyond and Real don't.

Believe salary cap idea was defeated in the football league by the PFA. Salary cap is a crazy idea anyway imo. The revenue to player cost and transfer idea is a soft version of a salary cap and a better idea for sustainability. I prefer the anchoring idea where if owners want to go over a certain limit of their revenue - they need to have funds proven. And an upper limit for everyone if you can prove the funds are there.

Mate - like wtf was that? We were bad but Bournemouth were unreal

Unreal how fresh and sharp they’ve been. We’ve been sloppy.

Honestly 1-4 is fair from the little I’ve seen. Bournemouth looking like they are on performance enhancing drugs.

Steroids. I dunno. We’ve been brilliant recently. But today’s been a horror show.

Tired performance.

We’ve been shit. kluivert finishes the game. Hatty.

12 goals in his last 75 appearances in all comps.

The emirates level deal we could arguably do now. That deal was done almost 20 years ago.the stadium. Man U is a bad team example. The brand is too strong. They are the LA Lakers of the PL. they’ve been poor for the last 2 years and have achieved more than us.

It’s not being a downer. It’s the financial reality. Positively if we don’t expect a big summer, it’s likely we don’t want to sell our best players either.

It's not. The LA Lakers are the LA Lakers. Man U are Man U. Even Arsenal are Arsenal. But aye if we become CL regulars that will change. That's a massive if though. We haven't qualified for next season so it's not even a pattern . If we get 3 out 5 or better, that's a bit of a pattern emerging but you also can't ignore it's 3 out of 20. And to do 3 out of 5 probably means keeping our best players or somehow selling them and getting better.

Agreed. League is desperate for a good Man U though.

Big fan of Mbeumo but it doesn’t make sense unless we’ve found a money hack.

Comparing to Henry is crazy. But Isak is the business. The real business and the league should want to promote him. Good looking lad and a proper baller. Haaland is amazing but he's not that enjoyable to watch.

It's the general play on the ball that is fairly easily improved. The creativity will be pretty hard to equal let alone surpass.

Miggy seems a nice dude and was a real grafter. Not very good at football though. The way some of you really like the lad as a player troubles me. Are we seeing the same thing? Anyway best of luck to the boy. Always tried his best. His pressing was key.

That's how much they bought him for

I feel like you lot bring up DCL just to make me mad.

His fbref suggest he's been doing that well for some time now. Last season he got 10 goal contributions in 14 starts and 7 further sub appearances. This season he has 10 goal contributions in 14 starts and 4 appearances off the bench. That's a year of being pretty effective in the final third. It's the all-round game and goalscoring that's sometimes very, very bad. He creates chances though.

Almiron has something like 6 assists total right? Put it this way - Cisse scoring banana shot volleys and worldies every week was clearly going to be unsustainable. Miggy had a version of that. Murphy legitimately creates a lot of chances from RW. His general play can be hit or miss but he does create quality chances.

Well he's getting into positions and creating chances. He just needs to keep doing what he's doing. He's been doing that consistently from the start of the season. Miggy had a proper purple patch - where shots he/other players would normally take and miss were going in. Apart from the elite, that's not sustainable for any player. Miggy had a slight uptick in expected goals but a massive uptick in actual goals - that was never going to be sustainable.

Big difference between Murphy's form now and Miggy's form - is that Miggy was overperforming his expected data by quite a stretch. Suggesting it wasn't sustainable. Murphy's genuinely lining up Isak with tap-ins. He's playing at a great level in the final third at times. 11 goal contributions already.

Loved Andy O'Brien, Titus & Nikos... but they weren't good.

Jacob Murphy has 11 PL goal contributions in January. Howe deserves tremendous credit for getting the most out of the likes of Murphy and Burn. 2 players if sold, i'm not convinced go to top half PL sides, Murphy - not a PL side at all. I thought Tonali would come good... but I didn't expect him to be this good. So again, I give him credit for getting the most out of him. This is by far... the best central midfield pair i've seen us have. It has everything.