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They can't generate higher gate receipts as long as they keep giving tickets away.

Nice win. No on-pitch injuries, no red cards and a bit of a morale boost ahead of the final.

Well, that was a fucking disaster

I fucking hate Liverpool, and the commentators who spend the entire game felating their players. Can't wait to watch us put in another uninspiring performance against them in a few weeks.

It's utterly bonkers. Saving a few pennies here and there behind the scenes but ignoring the massive pile of cash being burned in the dressing room. All the money they've so far saved by being penny pinching twats was thrown away on extending ten Hag's contact and then terminating his and Ashworth's contracts. It's like using a gallon of petrol driving somewhere to refill for a penny less.

Not really. Shearer's testimonial was 10 days after Miley was born but Shearer was injured so couldn't do more than kick off at the beginning of the game. So no, he's not old enough to have seen Shearer kick a ball competitively for us.

Just to depress everyone. He wasn't alive when Shearer got that 50-league-goal achievement with us. Not sure if it's more depressing that we're all so fucking old or that we've had so few players reach that milestone.

Shocking second half after some fantastic football in the 1st

If they have any sense they'll wait until he's 38 just for the Man City sign Old Trafford headlines.

The worry is that the players are backing off slightly, knowing that an injury or suspension might rule them out of the final. But in doing so, they're surrendering games before they've kicked off and risk going into the final in really poor form.

Disgraceful performance from everyone involved. They need a serious word with themselves if they think that sort of performance is anywhere near acceptable, especially with the cup final looming.

Not a pretty game at all & really showed up the limitations of the 2nd string players.

It's worth pointing out that this is an automatic thing. We have to submit a 25 man squad and once you've excluded the under 21's, we had less than 25 players in the first team squad so he gets added automatically. If Isaac Hayden had still been here he'd have gone in too. It doesn't mean that he's suddenly back in Howe's plans.

But, the amortization of his purchase would be changed as well. The remaining unamortized portion of the transfer fee would be spread over the length of the new contract so we may have been amortizing £12m per year for 3 years but now we'll be amortizing £6m per year instead so giving him an extra £2-3m wages per season actually saves us money (on paper). Utterly ridiculous setup and that's the most times I've ever used amortized/ing/ation in my life.

Spurs just seem hopelessly naive. Huge, obvious gaps in their defence that they're inviting Liverpool to run into and then at the other end they telegraph their attacks and lose the ball so easily. If you didn't know that they were a Premiership team you could be forgiven for thinking that they were a Championship side.