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Efan Ekock-eyed more like it.

Should be sent off from the commentary box and told to get the bus home.

It's a pen, got to be.

Yeah we are just calling it on what we've seen so far.

We'll need to find some quality to unlock these. So far it's missing.

Like last week.

We're losing, what were you expecting? Celebrations?

Final passes still missing their mark.

So is our forward line so far.

Well we played some nice football except in the penalty area. They played shit football except in the penalty area.

Some great positions wasted already by Joelinton, Gordon and Livra.

Yes, they earned the right to show it was an off day.

Would be more a case of rotation for me, not because I think the replacements are better. After all, the reason we were given for getting turned over last week was fatigue.

No one is rushing to get on board with PSR. Most of us fucking hate it, but what choice do we have if we want to improve the squad?

Trippier, Willock and Miley? Miggy as well if you wanted to include him (which I don't personally). That said, other than Joelinton, I agree with keeping the same side mostly, this team should be itching to put things right. I said last week this would be Howe's approach.

Still fatigued a week later?

Howe's gone more or less for the same side that got battered last week. Probably giving them the chance to put things right against a shit team.

Burn getting the nod over Botman then.

Yes, and they do it by keeping a healthy wage to revenue ratio like you said. To do that they need to keep selling players who are doing well, and replace them with cheaper versions who they hope will do the same thing. As you agree, they are a traditionally smaller club so for them that model is perfect. Is that one we should be expected to follow though?

I think Eddie really wanted him otherwise it would never have dragged on that long.

I said it was a better run version though. Brighton don't have any ambitions to win anything, their aim seems to be buy low sell high. Nothing wrong with that either for a traditionally smaller club.

We were never going to sign Guehi for £70m. We reportedly went up to £55m before pulling out. Presumably he was a player Howe wanted as part of his long term plan, so I imagine the idea would be to then sell someone by next summer who wasn't part of our long term plans.

Brighton are just a better run version of Mike Ashley's Newcastle. It seems that is what PSR is aiming for other than the established cartel clubs.

Yeah can't really blame the players or the club tbh, the contracts have to be honoured. But it is costing us players down the line ultimately, again a roadblock placed on us by PSR when there was no need for it in our case. We have the money to keep the players and buy new ones.

The irony that it was brought in to stop clubs using owners money to bankroll squad building, then City are the club who sign him.