Taylor Swift

Are you drunk?

Yes, my attention has turned to FF now.

And that's that.

Son is going to fuck us.

Shelvey's stupidity won't be tolerated all year. Points are too important to give away.

Mbemba started well in our last season in the Premier League. He's young enough to have improved. Still has the physical attributes.

Yup. I'm worried about where our goals will come from. I expect Benitez to be able to make sure things are tight at the back.

We're playing title contenders. If they get out 2nd gear they'd beat 95% of the league.

We need more pace.

Glad to be back in the league. I'm hyped now.

These stats are useful for seeing which results can be expected to regress to the mean. Someone scoring a bunch of 30 yard screamers won't keep it up but someone tapping in goals every other game can be expected to keep it up. You can break it down to every facet of the game. In other sports I think it's extremely useful, in football less so because football is far too dynamic to break it down this way. A team analysis would be more useful and in that sense, goal difference has always been extremely useful in identifying teams that are getting more points than their level would suggest. Of course, there aren't enough matches for the sample size to be big enough.

The same Paulinho that was atrocious at Spurs? Bartomeu will end up like Rowell in jail.

Physical attributes are more important to a team like ours at this stage of our revival. Maybe a couple more years down the line, if we have established ourselves in the league, we can look for improvement.

Barca don't have enough pace in their team anymore. Dembele will help, but he's replacing an extremely fast player. Their midfield is too slow. Messi has obviously lost pace, and I think him and Suarez will find it hard to score against the better sides if there is no pace in the rest of the team.

So the Coutinho deal is off then? Will Barca get him to hand in a transfer request?

If Kane was out for the season, Son would get around 20 goals, IMO.

Son is that player. And he's the perfect player for that role.

But continuity for them is important. It's a success that they haven't been forced to sell their best players. With Walker they already had a ready replacement. I like what Spurs are doing. Their best players are all young enough that an improvement can lead another run at the title.

Is the Coutinho news legit? I've got money on him going.

Banning loans and buyback clauses would do much to create competition than having a transfer fee cap. The money is what it is. As long as people continue to watch on TV and in the stadium, the money will grow.

Happy for Neymar if he goes, to be honest. Make the most of his career financially. Rather that than the owners making a profit. His deal will also set the benchmark for other players, pushing up wages for everyone else in the industry. This includes manager, coaches, scouts etc.

Wow this is fast. Looks like a good signing too. Young, highly rated.

They've stopped paying hefty amounts for mature players and have become so much better for it.

Madrid always bet on teenagers though, and their bets turn out well so often.

After 3 years of non investment before. Ashley hasn't shown that he's willing to even run the club at break even at all.