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I'm extremely in favour of innocent until proven guilty, but surely it's dodgy to have a guy playing who might have been fixing games?

I've got a random extra bone in my right knee, maybe he's one of me.

Don’t want to alarm anyone but Isak doesn’t have a shadow.

Assume this is bait, otherwise it’s the ramblings of a lunatic. Seek help.

Imagine what Slot might say if he wasn’t cruising to the league title.

Same.

Guess it takes all the stress away from the final (and season) if Isak is out. It's pretty much game over.

No match ticket?

Don’t do this to yourself.

He could start for most teams in the league TBH, but the category definitions mean he’s a C. For B, he would get game time for most teams in the league and is a level below the elite (true). Is one of the best in his position (maybe but I’m not confident to say that).

It’s nowhere near that, surely. Hall injury is awful but Gordon will be back in a couple of weeks.

Apart from Isak probably the player I’d least want to lose.

I believe he’s a good player, just Gordon making the LW his own (and his injuries) have scuppered him. More difficult decision because of the stakes in the final, but generally I would play him as much as possible while Gordon is out.

We’re not going to take players that random clubs just want to get rid of. We’re looking in forensic detail at every potential signing. If someone wants Isak they will have to come up with massive, massive money.

Guaranteed loss.

I think speeding up the communication and the decision would obviously help. It normally takes about a minute for the screen in the stadium to update to tell us there’s a check. And usually the game has been restarted by the referee before the result of the check even comes up. Those practicalities are a shambles and TBH a disgrace to an elite sport. With automated offside it might eventually even be possible to indicate whether a player is offside before they even shoot.

For me it’s mainly the fact there’s something a fan watching the game can never see (a millimetre offside call) that can potentially rule out a goal. And we won’t know for sure that it’s a goal until the check is complete. And there’s also a chance a replay will be reviewed and an inexplicable decision will still be made (a foul that was a dive, a handball that was accidental). Of course goals could be disallowed by referees and assistants before, but it was instant and pretty rare. Although goals being disallowed is relatively rare, the check is routine and the possibility always exists. It can’t really be compared to an asteroid or car crash because it’s forced into the front of mind by design. It’s more like if there was a thing on your screen every time you started the car saying how likely this journey was to end in an accident Don’t get me wrong, I still forget VAR exists sometimes and celebrate a goal fully. But after a second or two I’ll be looking for the VAR. It’s mainly when it’s a through-ball or something like that where I don’t celebrate because of the offside potential. The feeling is more like, “OK, we’ve registered a potential goal here, let’s see if there’s anything that stops it”. I mean, decisions are a thing in football and always have and will be. So in that sense nothing has changed. I just feel the addition of this extra examination has killed some of the joy.

There are no jobs in scarf twirling TBF.

There’s no way we’re even considering resting people.

Yes and no. At least our position is clear, which is nice. But we’ve got a low chance of winning the cup, which is bad.

I don’t know how important the amount of goals that get disallowed is. The point is that a wait period has been created, involving something that the fans in the ground cannot know. So if there’s a chance of offside, it’s now more a potential goal than an actual goal. It’s not a goal until a couple of minutes later. It’s mainly those goals with a possibility of offside that I can’t celebrate now. This may make me an asteroid denier, I don’t know. But it’s how I feel.

It’s only resolved if he goes though, surely. If he stays it just continues until the following summer.

Sell every decent player actually.

Talk of him leaving is surely ridiculous. A summer where we have to buy starting wingers for both sides.

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