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oldtype

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  1. Imagine the state of this forum right now if we were only one goal ahead
  2. Can only imagine how tense the inside of SJP must be right now. Would be so unimaginably horrible if we fucked this up.
  3. Newcastle United kindly reminding us that we're never allowed to be happy.
  4. Not really surprising that the players seem a bit nervous and tentative when they're two goals ahead and fifteen minutes away from the club's first cup final since before any of them were born.
  5. Thank God we have a two goal cushion because if we were just one goal away from going out I think I might have had a seizure by now.
  6. Even I'm feeling extremely complacent so I imagine the risk of complacency for the players is high.
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    Anthony Gordon

    I happen to think it's actually kind of endearing when our talented, multi-millionaire football players who are handed every imaginable luxury in life from their early twenties also happen to be sinfully ugly. Makes them more relatable. Nobody has it all.
  8. Hold on, Manquillo and Krafth still play for us?
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    Anthony Gordon

    IMO there's a reason you often choose to play homicidal pressing machines like this guy on the wing as opposed to through the middle. He seems to run enough to cover the whole pitch no matter where he starts from, and having him on the wing makes it less likely that we'll lose our shape when he's out of position putting the fear of God in some poor fool trying to clear the ball.
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    Anthony Gordon

    Got to be Longstaff so we can push Joelinton back to the middle.
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    Anthony Gordon

    Just keeps running and running and running Genuine JS Park flashbacks.
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    Anthony Gordon

    I'm sure he has warts, both on the pitch and personality wise. That's why we're getting him at a discount. Yes, for a twenty-one-year-old English attacking player who is already starting games in the Premier League, 40 million (or being available at all, for that matter) is a discount. It's part and parcel of being an elite club with good recruiting. Buy low, sell high. Identify players who have become a bit toxic due to issues that we think we can fix with our good culture and coaching. Sell players who are over-performing due to that very same culture and coaching.
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    Anthony Gordon

    So I know nothing about this person but based on some googling, seems that he’s a decent player that people don’t like because he has a reputation as a complete dickhead. Good thing we’re bringing him into the best team culture in the league then? I can’t imagine we’d be paying this much for him unless management had considered the risks and determined that a lot of his problems are just the product of him being in a shitty environment.
  14. I just realized that I can't go to the UK for the finals because my US permanent residency is processing and I am absolutely gutted. And yes, I am totally jinxing it by thinking this far ahead.
  15. Imagine letting this slip at home. That would be like having all the pain of Alan Pardew's tenure as NUFC manager concentrated into a single football match.
  16. "First league cup final in 47 years" Feels longer tbh.
  17. It's hard to imagine us not going through now. (knocks on wood furiously)
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