brummie

I agree.

I still wake up sometimes in a cold sweat and in my mind, I've seen Bruce do that 'world-weary, winking, self aggrandising' "That's the Championship" thing. Fucking hell, I still feel sick if i think of that.

I was listening to a Villa podcast today and they were saying how Lampard said keeping them up was the biggest achievement of his career, and one of them pointed out that he'd managed to take over Everton when they were 16th and 4 points off the relegation places and guide them to, errr, 16th and 4 points off relegation.

I think so. We offered for Bissouma in January but they wanted stupid money, and I am pretty sure Phillips will stay at Leeds anyway. We have desperately needed someone in this position for ages now - at least 3 years - and the three options out there were always Kamara, Phillips and Bissouma, We're only going to be looking for one of those, so I would be amazed if we were still prepared to spend huge amounts on either of the other two. Only thing that makes me wonder re that Telegraph stuff is that it came, I think, from John Percy who is basically always correct in what he writes about us.

No, because they're not pissing it away stupidly like Everton did. They're different to Lerner in that respect as it's part of an actual sensible approach rather than just burning money because you left Martin O'Neill in charge. Two signings so far and the season only just ended - Coutinho and Kamara for a total of £17m in fees. That's sensible spending (and yes of course Kamara will have picked up a big signing on cheque).

They have had no choice - when they came here four years ago, we were literally one day away from going into administration. They've been great though. They're also putting a ton into the new inner city academy (next door to the ground), and are rebuilding the North Stand after this coming season. They've set up a group company and are bidding for the new MSL Franchise in Las Vegas, Las Vegas Villans. They are in it for the long term, clearly.

Ha ha ha.

Ha ha the Dogheads.

FWIW DM is a position we have really suffered from not filling for a few years, it is absolutely our number one transfer requirement this summer, so not at all surprised if we have thrown money and effort at it to sort it out quickly. All three of those are great players, though.

Innit. The difference is, it won't be costing us anything like what Bissouma or Phliips would as a fee. Gerrard said a few weeks ago that they know who their targets are and want them all in place before pre-season starts. I rate all three of Kamara, Bissoumna and Phillips but regardless of what happens to Leeds, any moves for Phillips and Bissouma would drag on for ages as Brighton and Leeds extracted as much money as possible.

BTW - if we are signing Kamara as a free agent, it'll involve a nice signing on fee for him, I am sure.

Coutinho and Digne are both within our wage structure - which doesn't go above 125k a week. (I know, it is fucking OBSCENE that that figure is now considered par for the course, and I feel sick even typing it tbh)

We were going down under Smith, Gerrard's record here is much better, tbh.

Fucking Lampard doing the tour of the VIP area like he's expecting to receive a cup.

It's the away end, Burnley have only sold out the lower tier.

Remarkable, Lampard having it large, utterly oblivious to the circumstances.

Mings with a miracle stop to stop Burnley scoring.

Nick Pope is playing a blinder.

Have a piece of that, you BNP loving cunts.

Lampard is such a fucking imposter.

Do Everton have any celebrity fans these days? Back in the day I remember Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart. These days, though...

When you're in the situation Everton are in, you need to be able to turn to subs with big hearts like Delle Ali.

Surely you're not really interested in him? He's shit.

Our game is going to finish 0-1. Burnley will now park the bus and create exactly the scenario in which we traditionally have no idea what to do, beyond play nice passes around the halfway line.