Karjala

And good luck finding better for £15m. I'd hate it to happen, but I could understand if we accepted £70m for Joelinton or £100m for Bruno, but this will hurt us more than we can gain from it.

Any a very cheap one seemingly

Who hasn't been picked despite Burn and Targett missing most of the season?

How much is this asset worth fee wise? £10m? Will make little difference to FFP and we simply can't replace him for less. He's worth way more than that fee to us. Something else to this story than FFP I feel.

Doesn't make any sense to me this, unless Trippier wants away, which I would also doubt. A loan or fee isn't going to be sufficient enough to help out FFP efforts, and we'll be weaker for it. If Bayern were stupidly bidding over £30m I'd see why, but of course they aren't.

Since we spanked them I've really started to think they honestly don't want to go up, and recent decisions seem to be suggesting that too.

FFS

FFS

Looked good last night and should have gone 2 up minutes before the Liverpool deflected effort changed the game. Take it away goals only count after extra time? Here's hoping for a long night in leg 2

FFP protecting the European cartels...

Until Eddie rules him out on Friday, I'm telling myself Joe will play on Sat. If it'd been that bad, surely he wouldn't have came out for the 2nd half. Second goal was perfectly timed in that respect.

You'd think the Saudi's are either going to start putting some pressure on and making some ultimatums, or get sick and sell. Totally holding them back ridiculously.

Joelinton plays and I think we have a real chance. If he joins Willock on the injury list, I'd be delighted with a point.

Top 6 would represent a good season for me, what with a champions League campaign. Top 7 should still be European qualification though, and possibly 8th?

Could be one plan I guess. Personally can't see them coming up under KLD, there's always going to be teams with the above mentioned parachute payment competing against them, until they do go up.

After the weekends match, do safc really want to be promoted? If they go up, they could spend £250m and still be relegated, they are light-years away. What exactly is 'the model' that gets referenced all the time? Looks like Mike Ashley buy cheap, sell for a profit, without the premier League survival part.

The gap between the clubs is as big as it's been in the last 30 years, if that team got promoted they'd need to do a Forest and sign a whole new squad. Boro looked decent against Villa, and gave them a good go in comparison.

If the VAR system changed to a appeal system where the manager has 1 per half, would Eddie have used it for the Ballard foul on Isak, I'd say so. How on earth Hulme didn't get a second yellow is beyond me. As others have said though, better not to give them some rubbish "we'd have beat you with 11 men" excuse for the next 10 years.

Can't have any complaints about that team

Are you taking the piss?

Trippier and Livramento both start for me, centre pairing can be any out of the 4.

Got a feeling that despite myself and many others having had enough of Miggy, it's just the sort of match he'll end up becoming a toon legend in.

We can't use injuries as an excuse, the 11 that will be put out, will be 11 players who've played regularly for us and performed well. I'll guess Pope will be the only 1 people will really wish was fit. Other injuries will impact our bench, but the starting 11 should be capable of doing the job themselves. If not, it'll be extremely disappointing.

Dubravka - Tripper, Schar, Botman, Livramento - Longstaff, Bruno, Joelinton - Hall, Isak, Almiron

Certainly has been far away from the Botman of last season, since he returned from injury