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Agreed, was probably why the pen was given imo. Without that it would have been yellow for diving imo.

Should be a yellow for diving.

One hoof and lost possession, no pressure on Brighton half. Looks like we're playing Man City. Gonna be a hoot watching this shit.

Fuck off Jones. Let's hope we fluke it somehow, but I doubt it. Fuck you Jones. Good luck all. Hope a seagull shits in your mouth Jones.

Fucking Jones and his line up man Should be booted out of the club the minute Howe and his team is there. Let him cheer for the team from the stands along with other fans. He clearly has no fucking clue when it comes to assessing players.

Without knowing any context, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean the £40m was needed.

With the right player acquisitions in January I think he should be more than capable of achieving that.

While I agree with the part in bold, I also think the part underlined is a very weak argument to excuse the new owners. 1. They came to a club with a structure in place to take care of all day to day stuff with the club. 2. The purchase have been in the works for years, so it's extremely incompetent by the owners if there isn't already a clear vision and strategy established which can be presented to potential managers 3. The only thing they needed to focus on when they got control was to sack Bruce and get a new manager in. Based that, I can sort of understand why people are getting a bit agitated, but to quite a few the irritation is clearly OTT. This season isn't salvaged this half. The owners need to ensure the new manager has time to assess the squad and identify players needed in January to save our spot in the PL during second half of the season. My fear is that the same people that are OTT with the manager situation now, are the same loud people that will panic and maybe even want the new manager out again before he is even able to get new players in.

There's bound to be unreasonable and emotionally loaded whining no matter what, simply due to the wealth of the new owners. I was absolutely desperate for them to get Bruce out as number one priority (I'd set it higher than meeting & greeting with players, staff etc), but now that he is gone I don't really mind them taking their time to appoint a new manager, as long as they leave enough time for said manager to get familiar with the squad and identify potential targets ahead of the January transfer window.

What's wrong with them? Only problematic one I see is Pepe in hindsight. At the time it seemed like a good signing albeit fee was very high.

Santos < Conte Bruce < Emery Smith < Fonseca Quite the upgrade of managers for a large portion of clubs in the PL in a short space of time (assuming all of them signs). Will be interesting to follow second half of the season.

Doesn't look good for Smith. That being said, are the results that surprising? I don't think they have a particularly good team, and even if they've lost 3 in a row before this match, with exception of Arsenal, they have been by 1 goal margin against teams with better squads. Before that they won against Man Utd, drew at Chelsea and demoished Everton.

It's baffling. Every single match, one of our players jogs towards the opponent. Opponent passes ball, player runs back into postion and another player jogs towards the new opponent that got the ball and so on and so on until the opponent find a run or some space to create something. Every single match, whenever we get the ball, the opponent team closes our player down with at least 2 players resulting in either a back pass, an aimless hoof or outright losing possession.

Good thing we got Almiron on now when Chelsea can sit back a bit, instead of that point in the match where they were chasing the lead and we could have exploited that with his pace and directness.

It doesn't really matter as we wouldn't have gotten anything from this anyway....but still Can't wait for a new manager soon who can identify our strongest team and hopefully 2-3 quality additions to the squad in January.

Really can't wrap my head around keeping Almiron and Willock on the bench. I could to some tiny small degree see the benefit in keeping it tight and unleash them onto a tired Crystal Palace team, but against Chelsea it's very risky to assume we'll be able to contain them same way. Game will most likely be over when it's time to sub them on so won't matter anyway.

Understood, thanks for clarifying.

I haven't really paid attention to the discussion around sponsorship money, but I'm a bit surprised and confused at how it would be enforced. Surely there's no requirement for any club to disclose commercial deals to other clubs? So if we were to announce a new sponsorship deal without disclosing the value of it, can we just not tell the other clubs that it's within true market value and reject any request for information on the value of the deal?

Get Rafa back home. He's most suited to drag the team out of the relegation battle this season and he can lay the foundations on and off the pitch for future success. Worst case scenario a few years down the line if the investment & quality in the team dictates we should do better than what he is achieving it will most likely be a case of seeing out his contract with no hard feelings on either side.

Only watched ~2 matches of Everton this season and he was really poor so not shocked to read that. One of the games he started well in the opening 10 minutes where he looked a bit of a threat and that was about it. Didn't work particularly hard, poor at holding up the ball and never good into any good positions in the box. He's had a long career and is 32 now, could just be he that he's finished at this level.

Free header? Did you see how Clarke was literally pulled away?

Damn my feed is far behind some of you Good use of VAR.

Wilson