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Was he looking at the ball? That's the main thing. I thought the ball was pass Hayden before he even attempted the tackle, and the tackle came in hard.

I thought that was a clear yellow.

Excellent post! Spot on. Of all the issues football has, this resolves none. Adds to them if anything and dampens the spectacle. As Wullie says, the Mane one is an example of an incident that people will still argue about after 50 replays. Fuck it right off. goal line technology was as far as it needed to go. We're about 5 years away from all ball out of play situations can be decided by a computer. The ref would only have to decide who it touched last. I would be in favour of this. We're also not too far away from offsides being automated. 10 years.

Aye I made this point recently too. It's something Vickery will be all too well used to watching South American club football. What would it consist of? Passing around at the back? I don't see what could be done to slow the game down that the other team could not react to, if the ball is in play.

Yeah, I'm with this solution. 60 minutes, ball stops everytime it goes out or play is stopped for whatever reason. Cuts out diving and time wasting near the end of the match etc too.

I'm 100% certain an insurance company would offer him a policy and it would be close to 50/1.

He could get insurance. A local business in Cleveland took out $75,000 in insurance on their 'if the Indians win 15 in a row, every customer in August gets a refund' for their windows and siding installation business. They just paid out because the Indians have won 17 in a row. The business owner said the pay out would be $1.7m. Glad he got insurance. Edit: story here: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/08/cleveland-company-to-pay-out-1-point-7-million-after-indians-win-15th.html

This is a low probability event but generates good PR, IMO.

I don't think Benitez has a problem with buying young players. He just wants good players. Murphy and Merino are Benitez type players but also Ashley type players. I'm sure Nickson scouted them both at the U21 tournament. I'm sure we tried for more players of that ilk too but we didn't pay enough.

You would think we would have figured this out ages ago and gotten really good at it considering how ruthless Ashley supposedly is, but it always feels like every window is an opportunity to show how we're run by amateurs.

Quickest ever that a statement has come back to haunt me.

Leaving us with Joselu and Mitrovic? no thanks. Yup. That's basically admitting we'll score less than 40 goals this year. Relegation would be a near certainty.

I'm really hoping there's an option to buy as well. A straight up loan is basically punting a year for us to get a long term LB. We've punted it ever since Enrique left.

It's only 18:20 right now. I'm not happy about the window, mate. Just saying.

That's LB sorted. Still need a #10.

Ashley has entered the Yao Ming phase of his tenure. I'm offended by this.

Under the radar only in the sense that we probably just decided to go for him this morning. Yeah, seems rushed but I get the feeling the club might hit the bullseye with him. Assuming there's an option to buy. If it's simply a loan then it won't matter whether we hit the bulls eye or not, he'll be gone in 10 months.

That's a ridiculous amount to pay for a loan fee.

Gayle isn't a Benitez type striker, IMO. His hold up play isn't good enough.

We don't. If we can keep things tight at the back, 40-50 goals will be enough to survive. Easily. Let's say it goes something like this: Mitrovic - 10, possible because he's done it Joselu - 8-10 Perez/#10 - 5-8 Shelvey/CMs - 3-5 Wingers - 5-10 Defenders - 3-5 That gets us 35-47 goals. Stoke scored 41 last year, Swansea scored 42, Watford 40, West Brom 34, Palace 39. We'll be in the range. A 15 goal a season striker is almost a guaranteed top 10 place if he's not the only contributor.

I would take a draw from this match. Our squad is still weak, a point will do while we win our home games.

Dembele should be bought with another winger, someone like Lemar. Who's to say Dembele starts out on fire. There's going to be far too much pressure on him because he'll be the only pacy player Barca will have in their front 6.

You should be buying them both. Man, Barca have spent a fuckton of money recently and not got a lot to show for it. They need someone to replace Iniesta, another high quality central midfielder and another winger. It should be Coutinho, Lemar plus another midfielder. That would make them competitive for the CL this year. Messi's slowing down, you need pace around him.

I would still like more pace in the team but Richie's not going anywhere at the moment.

Yeah. This is my feeling on this now. Jovetic plus a LB would make it an acceptable window. Jovetic would be a huge upgrade on Perez.