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Four points off fifth place with a win

You could set a soft wage bill cap at say, what Villa and us are spending now and the PL would still comfortably outspend every other league in Europe.

It is really unfortunate how we benched him for Wissa and killed his rhythm and confidence, and then Wissa turned out to be shit but Woltemade is ruined too.

I agree there should be spending restrictions to prevent stuff like City and Chelsea happening again. But they should apply equally (or somewhat comparably at least) to all 20 clubs, as opposed to 5-6 clubs being able to do whatever the fuck they want and the others being caught in a PSR death grip they can never escape from.

If Bruno went on an Isak-style strike to force a move to Man United I think that would literally make me turn off the football forever.

This game is going to change the whole feeling about the remaining season. Win and I'll start to believe we can make a serious run at 5th.

Honestly, I like this new format better if only because we get to play a wider variety of teams in the "group" stage instead of being stuck with whatever three we draw out of a hat.

There are still like... five more goals left in this game. We can do it.

I didn't think I could hate Yamal more and then he did the Pardew dance

Fucking hate this

Don't be a fucking idiot and grab an arm in the box. if he gets to it he gets to it. Like what the fuck, he should know better.

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT

Yeah they're 10000% getting this

It's fucking Barcelona man

All the bad luck this season getting paid back to us in 45 minutes

how

It's Barcelona. For them, that's everybody's weak spot.

This is going to end like 6-4 to somebody.

Hold up, they got rid of fucking away goals?

How does arguably the best team in the world have no answer whatsoever to Anthony Elanga mashing the turbo button like me playing PES as a teenager.

Tino Elanga

Eddie clearly had him taken out with AI to throw Barca off the scent.

Bruno secretly being fit would be the biggest pre-game hype moment ever, except that we would look extremely silly if he played and we lost 3-0 anyway.

Villa have been the luckiest team by xG by a wide margin all season and have hit a horrible run of form. Liverpool and Chelsea also looking extremely spotty. We've gotten through the toughest part of our season and our remaining fixtures are pretty easy with the exception of Arsenal (a). They could basically have the title in the bag by the time we go there. We've screwed things up enough already so it's not going to be easy, but you can just barely see the outline of a world where we go on a run and squeak into 5th. Would be an insane result after the season we've had.

The PL is in an era of extreme parity and even the shit teams are pretty good. Makes sense that most of the top teams can't get a consistent run of results and the middle of the table is wide open. If everyone is underperforming maybe nobody is.