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Rather than Watkins. Remarkable.

If Jordan Henderson had a leg amputated and was playing in the fucking Sri Lankan league, aged 42, Southgate would still pick him. What is the point, really? Kalvin Phillips who has spent less time near a pitch than your average ball boy, too. Bizarre.

Am i missing something? Genuine question. After he left Bayern, they won the league every year for the next seven years, did the double twice in the next three or four years and won the Champions League under the managerial genius of Hansi Flick. I'd take that kind of drop off willingly.

Endlessly signing players again. The big Greek lad is doing what any of us would do given the transfer fax machine for our clubs, just spaffing money everywhere. He's having the time of his life. It's going to end badly when they invariably go down, mind.

Forest are absolutely incredible.

Ha ha. I knew that was going to happen. sorry.

Get in, we got a bye.

Jesus listen to Dyche normalising this shit. They are 72 places below you, you moron. Everton are so depressing and I don’t even support them. Or care about them.

I read this quote from Matty Cash after our match at the weekend. Try, with your finest imagination, to EVER EVER imagine a player saying this about Bruce. “The manager spoke before the game and gave us a game plan, and it’s crazy because whatever the manager says, he knows how the game is going to go before. He does that all the time, he’s incredible." To think that fat fucking dinosaur was lapping up the £3m a year here not too long ago.

Chelsea accurate passes: 300 Wimbledon: 19.

Their transfer policy is so nuts, they're probably scouring some scouting database for players called Emerson and Lake right now, just for shits and (expensive) giggles.

A great illustration of the way City, like Chelsea, make FFP work. Sell homegrown, not exactly a regular like Palmer for £45m. Jesus, that's massive.

He's not awful. He's also very good on the ball and with the passing forward, which is what UE loves. Emery killing two birds with one stone. Mings out for the season probably. We also need another option at RB, which is where he sometimes uses Konsa. Only now, given we are a CB down, that is riskier. So bringing in Lenglet for the season makes it easier for him to push Konsa to right back, which means we don't have to buy another dedicated RB. Also makes it easier to play the occasional weird formation, like Sunday's 3-5-2 if we are going to use three CBs. It all makes sense.

Forest must be having some sort of collective mental breakdown.

It'd be like something from the Goon Show.

There's zero chance we're selling him.

I'll be honest - the result the first day of the season probably set an unrealistic expectation which was an extenuating factor given it was followed by the hardest game of the season and one of the next hardest, which ended with a freak set of circumstances. It's like us - we got a 5-1 pounding on day one of the season - that was very, very bad, but it's one game and not reflective of where we are. We then followed it by scoring 12 goals and conceding 1 in winning the next three games. Just like the first day of the season, that is not going to be reflective of the rest of the season either, because the opposition across however-many-games is going to be better than the matches played in that sequence. You can form any opinion you like by zooming in on a small set of matches - positive ones or negative ones - but you still can't really draw much from them because they're a tiny sample.

It's interesting seeing how quickly - and wrongly - a peak is treated as 'the norm' or 'the minimum'. Don't get me wrong, I reckon this could be the same of any other club with a manager in the same position, so it's not you lot, but some of the stuff on here - as viewed by an outsider - is absolutely fucking mindblowing. What he achieved last year was an absolute miracle, yeah you spent money, but not enough to outright buy fourth place, you got it mostly because of excellent coaching. To then be even looking remotely at him like some people are on here after three games is absolutely insane. It's like a misplaced sense of entitlement has kicked in - you are quite obviously a project in progress, you've not just won something and set an elevated 'norm' for yourselves, thus far you've achieved nothing concrete, but the fact is, it's in very recent memory that you were stinking the league out under Captain Steak Bakes. If you zoom out a bit from where you are now, ie the here and now of matches happening this last week or two, and look at the bigger picture, it is still insanely impressive. All teams (except you know who) have questionable patches, it's not that they happen, it's how they react to them that matters.

Amazing stuff, Chelsea genuinely just incessantly buying midfielders. Is this all the result of joined-up thinking? I reckon if i made myself a wikipedia page describing myself as a midfielder, took 30 years off my age, and sat tight, they'd make a move for me eventually.

I had no idea there were two Scott McTominays.

Klopp is such a cunt. Look at him.

Once we get some of our injured players back, we're going to be a properly good side. Hopefully the outgoings this week are to make some FFP wriggle room for one more, big buy this window.

Absolute turd. Cheered me up seeing someone achieve so much better with the same players more or less. That first half just now was total control.

entirely agree. that is insane money.

I wouldn't be too sure about City's owners not getting their money back, if they were to sell up, at the sort of ridiculously high price morons are prepared to pay for football clubs, there'd be several billions more than they paid for them plus what they've invested along the way.