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I have to say I don't feel particularly threatened by Arsenal pinging the ball around in our half and we look dangerous every time on the counter. Oh great, I've gone and jinxed it now.

What is Gordon doing

I would like this match to end now.

Hold on, Pope is fit but we've not been playing him? (sorry, out of the loop)

Nah I'm just preemptively pessimistic about how disappointing it would be to lose in the finals again.

Fucking Isak with that touch, that run, that shot that is absurd.

This alternate universe where Jacob Murphy is a good player is weird, but I'll take it.

Botman looked so graceful turning his ass around to block that

Every time the ball goes near Isak I get this visceral "oh fuck he's going to score" feeling I used to get whenever someone like Henry, Drogba, or Ronaldo was bearing down on our goal. It's simultaneously amazing and disorienting that he plays in our shirt.

Every possession ends in "free kick to arsenal"

Went against us so I hate it forever now.

My Lord this Isak fella is good

Of course it’s fair market value. PSR is a reality of the market now, and it should surprise nobody that player prices are shifting to adjust to demand that is arising under the new rules.

I'm sure there's some kind of weirdo PSR reason why it makes sense to take on a third-choice goalkeeper who is probably on his way out of the league as part of the deal, but I don't know what those reasons are and I don't really care to learn.

I watch mostly US pro sports now, where "salary cap management" is considered normal and part and parcel of being a good organization. So I have no inherent dislike of complex financial accounting rules and clubs having to make creative but facially absurd deals to circumvent them. The issue is that there, the salary cap rules exist to promote parity, and are generally successful. PSR exists for precisely the opposite purpose. If the rules are going to be this draconian, where up-and-coming clubs that are spending far below what they are capable of sustainably spending are repeatedly punished for the fact that they happened to be outside the big-money cartel when the rules were made, then you need a second set of rules to ensure that the revenue gap between clubs is being gradually equalized as well. For example, a luxury tax imposed on the highest-spending clubs that is then re-distributed as solidarity payments to the rest of the league.