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He's right though. Doesn't make sense having two domestic cups.

Sign this kid up.

If he wants to go to games, is there anything stopping him from getting a ticket?

First La Liga match I've seen in a long while. Everybody throwing themselves screaming to the ground to provoke yellow/red cards. Hope this is an anomaly rather than the norm. It's embarrasing to watch.

Kounde red card for throwing the ball in the face of Jordi Alba from like 60cm

In order of priority for me (if we could only make 5 signings) 1. CM 2. CB 3. CM 4. LB 5. RB Before Lewis went out with that nasty hamstring injury I'd probably put RB at 4 and CF at 5 but Joelinton, ASM & Gayle is better cover for Wilson than what we have as cover for left back.

I thought it was a case of them having the money, but aren't allowed to spend them due to FFP?

He's got (or at least had) a good top speed, but not very fast over 10 meters. Benitez made Clark look competent and Lascelles touted for England. Of course he looked solid under him I doubt he can replicate that when we are playing a more attacking style of football that leaves him more exposed, and he certainly won't improve any of our attacking play.

Everton aren't skint. I doubt there's many clubs out there that would be willing to pay what would be necessary to get Digne considering his value will only decrease from now on due to his age - we may be one of the few willing buyers, purely out of desperation.

To be fair, Tino was 27 years old, had been a regular player for Columbia for 5 years, came from a trophy winning Parma side and had his debut against mid-table Middlebrough when we were the best attacking team in the league. Not quite the same as throwing on 19 year old Elliot Anderson with 1 senior cap (subbed on after 87 min, almost 1 year ago) for one of the worst teams in the league against the best team in the league. That being said, when City went 3-0 up there isn't really much to lose, and no pressure, so it's as good a time as any to give youth a much needed opportunity to gain some experience.

I can't believe anyone would say that either. Worst footballer in our entire squad. Let's hope Howe is not aware that this man exists.

Not really surprising that it's two midfielders that are at fault for that goal. Murphy not able to stop Jesus, Ritchie not alert nor fast enough to track Sterling.

So I get home. Fire up the live text updates, see it's already 0-2. First goal description starts with something translated to "Howler by Newcastle" and second goal "Worldlie by Cancelo". As soon as my stream is up and running there's protests from Newcastle for something that looks like a blatant penalty not even being looked at by VAR.....man...sounds like a carbon copy of the Liverpool match compressed into 30 minutes. Wish I had something better to do than to suffer myself through the rest of the match.

Wolves also still play a lot of players they had in the championship. With €160m net spend over 2 seasons you'd surely expect to be higher than they currently are.

Last season only Chelsea had a bigger net spent than them and this season they were 7th in the net spend league. They are 9th in terms of net spend over the last 5 years which is quite the achievement since most teams have a 3 season head start. I don't know much about Leeds or Bielsa, but he doesn't strike me as a manager that would settle for whatever the owners give him, and they seem, from another perspective looking from the outside, to back him with more or less whatever he asks for. He should be more worried about getting sacked than them being worried he is leaving imo based on how they are performing at the minute

At the time I would probably had been happier with Jeffers and Zenden than Bellamy and Robert. Wouldn't be surprised if those rumours were true. SBR always had much faith in English talents, and Jeffers was considered to be a better talent than Bellamy. SBR also had good connections with PSV and Barca, Zendens two former clubs before he went to Chelsea.

Giving him waaaaaay to much credit to even suggest it may have been even partly intentional. He's just a bit daft and/or easily distracted. Norwegian studio yesterday highlighted him during half time, showing Dean looking away from the football at one point, and having some sort of conversation with himself in another instance where he was doing gestures for something that didn't even seem remotely relevant for football.

Lens is finalising the purchase of central midfielder Patrick Berg from Bodø/Glimt, most likely confirmed officially today. Bigger chance of them letting Fofana go now?

Bit of speculation on my end, but get a feeling the highlighted are the key things we are looking for consultancy on.

He's the worst player in our squad by a comfortable margin. Edit: Dummett that is.

In addition to winning a lot of duels, tackles & working hard, he got the ball out of tight areas under pressure and passed the ball on to a team mate several times which were good opportunities for the team to build an attack - not his fault we only have one or two other players in the squad capable of doing the same to build as the attack broke down 1 or 2 passes afterwards.

Yes.

Or buy highly rated young talents and use the championship season to prepare them for the premier league.

Left back immediately becomes another high priority depending on how bad the Lewis injury is.