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Utter garbage

Embarrassing stuff

No one would "win" the competitions that might get stripped. There's no way to replay the competitions and there's no way to say that if Man City hadn't illegally signed a bunch of players then perhaps they sign for Liverpool or Chelsea instead and they would have been the winners rather than City. They just get a note to say that there was no winner that year.

No idea how we've managed to get 3 points out of that but a win is a win.

Beautiful goal

Huge deflection. Who cares?

Giving the ball away too cheaply yet again. I've no idea what they're trying to do with the very short passing attempts but they need to knock it the fuck off as they're giving the ball away too much or they're causing out own players to stop and retrieve the ball.

Come January there will be a handful of clubs looking at the relegation places who might want to give Wilson a chance. Even if he's only fit for 10 games, with his scoring record that might be the difference between relegation and staying up. Could easily be worth a few million to clubs in that position.

Both we & Forest needed money. They agreed to buy Anderson for £35m if we agreed to buy Vlad for £20m. Thanks to the way that transfers are banked for FFP purposes, we bought a player for £20m on a 5 year deal so get to amortize that over the length of his contract so he only "cost" us £4m last season. The £35m from the Anderson sale however gets included all at once so we made a £31m profit on the deal in last season's finances. Same goes for Forest, they sold a player for £20m and bought one in on a 5 year deal so they were able to put that down as a £13m profit.

Because even though he's saying it needs to change, he'll want any change to benefit Man Utd.

It's going to turn out that the players have an elaborate prank competition going on. First, Tonali is persuaded that Wetherspoons in Gosforth has great Italian food, now one of our Brazilians has persuaded a connection at Sao Paulo that Jamal Lewis is a brilliant player.

Nice win in the end

He was fantastic in his debut for us, had the MOTD pundits raving about him as I remember. The very next game he got absolutely destroyed, was dropped and never recovered.

3/10 For Guehi especially, if we valued him at £50m then we should have stood firm at that figure and walked away instead of making ourselves look like utter fools, chasing a player who clearly wasn't too bothered if he moved or not, at a club who were determined to take the piss out of us. We shouldn't ever allow ourselves to get into the trap that Man Utd got themselves into where there was an immediate 30% price lift the moment they wanted a player, all because too often they simply paid up. Our scouting team needs a good examination too. I can't believe that there aren't talents out there, outside the English leagues, who could be purchased for significantly less and improve the squad immensely. Some of our best signings have come in from abroad, why do we waste time and money chasing players based in England? Finally, we desperately need to find ways to get rid of players that we want to move on. We can't be sentimental about players, if they're deemed to no longer be good enough they should be shifted on. If we value Miggy at £15m but no one wants him at that price, drop the asking price. It's better for us to get something for a player than it is for them to run down their contract and leave for nothing whilst adding nothing to the team.

Undeserved win considering how bad we were for most of the game but a win is a win.

Feels like we play well for 10 minutes and then just stop, inviting pressure. Mad way to play and it clearly doesn't work.

lol

I wouldn't imagine that we only have a £60m budget. Instead, we currently have too many players on the books. Even excluding injured or outcast players we have more than 25 players over the age of 21 that we'd need to register. If we want to add any new players we need to shift some of the ones we already have. We won't sign a new RW simply because our budget is gone, we'll not sign one because we can't get rid of the ones we already have.

This all comes back to the idea that the referee is God on the pitch. With Joelinton, the referee saw the incident and immediately gave him a yellow card. If VAR does take a look they're only going to ask did you see this foul properly? and the ref is going to answer yes, I deemed it a yellow card. That's the end of VAR's intervention. The referee saw the incident and took action, VAR can't intervene further and can't override the referee to say that it should have been a red. With Schar last week, the moment that the referee gave the red card there was little chance of VAR overturning it, as long as there was something there to indicate that Schar had committed an offence the red was always going to stand (though they should have suggested that both players should have seen red). Liverpool away last season with the dive, as long as VAR could see how the referee had come to their decision, even if it was wrong, they will always defer to the referee on the pitch. A lot of the issues with VAR could be solved by treating the referee on the pitch and VAR equally so that VAR can properly intervene and tell the ref that despite them seeing an incident and deeming it less serious, VAR have seen it and they believe there should be further action taken, or correcting a referee when VAR and everyone seeing replays can see that a foul was actually a dive.

Made a decent start in the first 10-15 minutes and then just did nothing for the next 45 minutes. Finally get going and get back into the game only to need VAR to save us at the end. I've no idea how we went from being the hard-pressing team that other teams loathed playing to being out-pressed by fucking Bournemouth. Something is wrong with how we're setting things up and it's pretty fucking awful to watch.

Fuck's sake

All because we keep dicking around with the ball instead of playing a simple fucking pass.

Ha! Fuck off you cheating cunts.

Should have walked away a week ago. A complete waste of time. Palace have no need to sell & can just keep upping the asking price. We should have moved on to other targets days ago, long before this became a fiasco.

His performance against Stevenage in the FA Cup was possibly the worst I can remember. Playing against players from two or three divisions below us and he looked like the worst player on the pitch. Couldn't complete a pass to a teammate standing 5 metres away. Woeful player.