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Pretty even half. We really came into it after the first 10-15 minutes. They could have scored, same for us. Hoping we can keep up the last 15 minutes. We’re creating chances and have the ball in a lot of dangerous positions.

Need a classic Aguero hamstring injury otherwise I’m fucked. Can’t believe Pep’s benched Jesus.

I thought Coloccini gave us 4 good years plus the year in the Championship. He wasn't a captain but he was a good footballer and at his peak, he was very, very good for us. That was a good transfer IMO.

I tried speculating in my head but it's pretty tough, but let's say we finish 12th this year, he should get around £80m to spend in the summer. Let's say he spends it, other teams also spend but because of his management, we end up 8th the year after. He spends another £100m. Is there really any route where we achieve a top 4 position in 3-4 years? I think it'll take a long, long time. We'll need to do it the Spurs route. I think we can do it because of Benitez so I hope he stays for a long time but the money is so much these days that it'll be hard to catch up without having spending power.

We're not going to win every game. I would take a draw to keep our good run going. We have two relatively tough games after this one. A win would be a crazy good start to the season.

Yeah, I'm not transferring Kane in. Huge, huge risk. Going to stick with Jesus as captain.

You're very well run, though. I don't think that's true for a lot of the big teams, like City.

Personally I'm enjoying this Messi renaissance. He has been too passive since the CL win with Neymar in the team. You'll need to be better when you get deeper into the CL but it's not a bad plan to rely on Messi for now.

That's a crazy number and shows that for all the complaints about the rich owners, most of the action is occurring because the British consumer. The money flow is basically British consumer -> Sky -> football clubs -> foreign football clubs. It all starts with the British consumer who seemingly can't get enough of football on TV. I think the biggest beneficiary, besides Sky, are owners of second tier foreign clubs as they're able to ask for insane prices for their clubs. The biggest losers are owners of top tier foreign clubs who don't have their own domestic TV money to support their spending, meaning they either have to fork over their own money or accept that they can't compete at the top of the market.

What's his vert? 45"? Looks like he could have been an NBA player with that jump.

Exactly - and you've seen where the policy has got us. Relegated twice. I'd hasten a guess that Rafa thought he had a greater budget left than he actually had as Murphy was fairly early in the window from memory. We've never targeted young local players like Murphy. Lascelles is, if I remember correctly, our most expensive young British bought in the last 5 years. Our policy has been cheap foreigners which resulted in relegation.

Fans complain about agents, clubs complain about agents, but I don't really see players complaining about agents and they're the most important people in this issue. I also don't see why fans complain about agents, they're only working for the players. The rise in incomes for footballers is a good thing, even if clubs lose money (which they generally don't).

Fuck off talking about a good player leaving the club. He's played 3 games for us. He reminds me a lot of Speed. Less physical but better on the ball. We have a good manager who will hopefully be supported next summer. If he's supported, there's no reason we have to sell Merino.

6 points from the first 4 games is what I would have definitely taken at the start of the season. Hope we can get 3-4 points from the next two matches.

Lascelles!!

Perez more involved now, looking good.

Perez, man. Needed a better finish.

Hayden has no fucking composure.

Well done captain

Yeah. Pretty even. We can win this but can obviously lose it as well. Perez is so anonymous in game play, hope he creates some magic.

I'd hope so. Our opponents are Welsh ffs. I have missed gamethread Dan.

Murphy is too tentative.

How is that not a yellow?

Shit that was close.

Nice dive.