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You've got to consider that there's a fair chance that you might be offered the manager's job at half time.

We never learned one of the biggest lessons from 1966 - the best team doesn't always contain the best players. Can you imagine the furore today if Jimmy Greaves was dropped from the starting lineup? He was the greatest English striker of his generation by some margin but the team worked better without him. Look at Mbappe, PSG look like a far better team without him and Real look worse, but he is an amazing talent.

He's not a terrible keeper by any means but he clearly doesn't communicate with the defenders well. You could see clear hesitation from the defenders where they would be expecting him to come for a ball, or at the very least shout that he wasn't, and it led to mistakes and poor clearances. Ultimately, players will prefer to play alongside someone they trust even if they're technically worse.

£100k is nothing these days, especially for a forward. We're paying Wissa a lot more than that.

Might just be a contractual issue. Sack him now and they might have to fully compensate him. Wait until he's banned and then sack him for gross misconduct with no payment.

Some players peak very early. They can be extremely good for a 15 year old but never improve beyond that whilst they get surpassed by their age group peers over the next few years.

No way that he'll choose us if he's seen other training grounds. Our training hovel might look good compared to a 2nd division team but up against anything else it's going to look ridiculous.

He always struck me as the type who would make a decent manager. I'm sure he's been involved with the PFA previously as well so he may end up in a governance role somewhere.

Wish this was a ranked choice vote. I think Osula's goal against Man Utd was probably the goal of the season but that Dan Burn curled header was a very close second.

Imagine getting to the final of the Champions League and managing to make under 200 accurate passes.

lol

With 3 alleged bidders, if he'd been agnostic about where he was going, we might have been able to bid them all up. But once he made it clear that he only wanted to accept the Barca offer we've likely accepted their offer to keep everyone happy and show that we're the reasonable ones who won't stand in a player's way.

The same method we used to make a PSR "profit" from Chris Wood.

Owen really didn't help himself. I'm sure that he refused to learn Spanish and his idea of fun was buying an English newspaper at the airport on the way to play golf. If Gordon tries to learn Spanish and socialising with his teammates he'll be fine.

Just think how much experience he'd bring in though, plus the stories he could tell about Napoleonic Spain.

Flick apparently doesn't like Rashford. He wants wide players who will track back and contribute to the press. Rashford doesn't do that, it's one of the reasons he's been playing less lately. Gordon will do all of that, and do so for 50% of Rashford's wages too.

Assuming they're found guilty of some, if not all, the charges, doing nothing or attempting to gloss over everything will also damage the league's reputation. It will show that if you have enough money you can just cheat and there'll be no comeback.

Absolute dogshit performance that epitomizes a dogshit season. Sloppy passing, sloppy defending and clueless up front. Massive improvement is needed for next season.

Wissa can't even foul someone properly

I know that it's the last game of the season & a lot of people, players included, don't give a shit, but this lineup isn't working and needs to change at half time.

We always seem to go through periods where we're absolutely stacked in one or two positions whilst being threadbare in others. Right now we have number 10s coming out of our ears but all our good number 9s are over 30. We'll probably have some great forwards in a few years but then manage to have no midfielders.

We also desperately need someone who can substitute for Bruno when he isn't available. We can't continue being unable to play football when he's unavailable.

From what I've read elsewhere, the consensus seems to be that it was a very clear penalty but Barnes was in an offside position and the defender only made the arm movement because of Barnes so it would have been a free kick to West Ham anyway.

It really beggars belief that anyone could have watched Wilson last season and thought Yes, that's the guy we need to lead our line next season. He looked completely finished as a footballer by the end of last season and whilst he's scored a handful of goals this season it's absolutely not surprising at all that they've failed to win games with him up front.

Bruno & Willock both desperate to score. Woltemade doing everything he could to get in the box and get his goal.