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We are about to get Man City away.

We've been absolutely fucked by injuries for ages - Slot was yada yada ing about us being full strength in the week whilst ignoring the fact we have two centre backs out, and the best defensive midfielder in the league after Rodri - and playing so many games. We've been defending abysmally, unable to build any consistency, and plenty of not losing but not winning either. Too many chances to score untaken for too long. Too much giving the opposition early goals, I don't get where that comes from. Too much playing one good half and one bad one. I'll take where we are in the wider picture, CL, league, FAC etc, but I do think Asensio and Rashford is some clever use of the loan market. Asensio is unbelievably talented and Rashford has already started to produce. I dunno, we might finish fourth, we might finish tenth, but I don't care right now, it's exciting as fuck. and we were in the Championship five years ago so this is really great stuff.

Exeter keeper doing a passable Peter Shilton 1990 impression.

Vidagany is a big fat lad, like.

What will happen is Man United or Man City will win it, and their fans won't give a shit, because it is basically nothing to them, while fans of the likes of us and you, for whom it'd be everything, get fuck all * * of course we'll be alright because we'll need to be resting players for the Champions League final around that time ** ** only joking

Either you or us win this this year, nailed on.

No, that was posted on twitter this week and our CEO said it's untrue, we don't charge anything.

Much as it makes me want to puke my liver up saying it, that was an excellent goal.

Blues are putting way more energy into this than you are. They're not going to be able to keep that up for 90 minutes. 70 mins+ the quality will show.

Fucking hell.

*sick in mouth*

Come on, you fuckers.

Revenue for this season is massively up already - £70m earnings from UEFA alone in the CL this season, that's not including matchday revenue, significantly more lucrative sponsorship and shirt deals, a youth policy that generates decent revenue, astute spending, clever recruitment (Tielemans and Kamara for no transfer fee) - the NBA commercial bloke (who is a massive wanker) they brought in has the target of hitting £400m revenue asap. For years the club was run like a corner shop, and that didn't stop when Ellis fucked off, Lerner was the same, threw money at it but had zero idea how to run a football club. Finally, people who understand it, and have the money to back it in charge.

They're here for possibly as little as four months each, so it's not a multi year commitment to stupid wages. We're in the last 16 of the CL, and clearly in need of a shot in the arm. Football is for fun, fuck it, have a go at it. The alternative was what, mook about fretting about wage bills? The people running us are not stupid, they are aware of the rules Again, I keep saying this, but we are really clever in the way we move players around. We've sold two youth products twice each in the last season and a half because of clever sales deals. We've just booked, what, £50m profit on a player who wasn't even a regular starter for us, who we bought from the MLS.

gambling the house how? Three loan signings plus Malen plus we’ve sold 85m worth in this window. We’ve got plenty of money, we just can’t spend it as we want for the same reasons you can’t. The difference is we make a ton of money selling players too.

That is correct. What an awesome beard he has.

Yes, standard arrangement these days on loans with options / obligations to buy. Agree the personals up-front. Not saying it happens every single time, but i think it is the norm.

Ever since we bought Iling-Junior, every time i see his name, "You Be Illin'" by Run DMC launches on my internal jukebox

Not sure I see why. When he came it was largely accepted he'd probably go out on loan.

I don't have anything against Arsenal particularly, but I always hope they fuck up games like this just because their fucking moron internet fanbase is so amusing afterwards.

He is unspeakably shit, isn't he?

We've apparently made over 70m from the Champions League so far, it is insane, no wonder the gap is so huge - and that's just the money from UEFA. As far as I am concerned, any club taking it away from the usual suspects even just for a bit is to be applauded. I hope Forest stay in the top four, for the same reason.

Worst comes to worst, we send him back at the end of the season.

He'll stay but having said that, if we signed Rashford, Asensio and Felix, I'd suggest something might be happening. He's great, and vital to how we play, but then again, he's also 29 and if someone waves 60m at us, then you've got to think, is there something worth considering here? Also, his goals and assists figures are awesome, but fuck me, I don't know how he manages that AND manages to miss so many easy chances.

Well, strictly speaking, if you look only at things that have happened, it has been pretty shit, we're weaker than we were at the start of it.