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This is the key and you can use Man United to see how it can be valuable. In 2022/23 Man United finished 3rd and won the League Cup. They were also third in the league in SOT. All hail ETH. But there were concerning signs like a GD that was more in line with 6th-8th and an xGA that said they were fortunate. Their xPTS were 6th, almost 9 less than what they actually earned, and they were trending down over the last 2.5 months of the season. You could have argued heading into this season they underperformed their xG by a pretty large amount and so any defensive issues would be balanced out by more goals (which, to some extent, is what happened to us). But, instead, they created less chances and conceded more goals as the underlying stats said they should. Despite a worse defensive record they once again outperformed their xGA by a ludicrous amount this season, which is why their xPTS have them closer to relegation than top 10. Injuries definitely account for some of this, but two seasons of this trend should be highly concerning. And it's not like you watch them and come away impressed by a world-class GK and sublime counter-attacking football. These stats match the eye test far more than a 3rd place finish and then what was looking like 6th until a month or two ago.

The Ramsdale links make far more sense if we're trying to get him on the cheap. That fits our MO. Can't see us agreeing a deal <£20m though.

The final being held in the third biggest stadium in Poland is hilariously on brand for the Conference League (no offense to Poland).

Now that we've finished ahead of Man United / every club over the course of the PL ... are Spurs the only other club to do that without having won a title? I didn't check every season but I don't think Everton have ever finished ahead of Arsenal.

The magic hat

That’s less of a pen than the one on Gordon.

Feel like Mbuemo is auditioning right now.

Man United 1-0 up at the same time

What could have been with him all season

Went through the back of Bruno for now reason.

Him and Sean the clear weak links.

Bruno is so done with Longstaff.

Really hope tomorrow isn’t his last game for us.

This is why I'd be so underwhelmed. I don't think I'm good at evaluating GKs and, if it's true we're interested, I'll accept Ramsdale is better based on our staff thinking so and him being higher in the England pecking order. But there's absolutely nothing to suggest he has a ceiling order of magnitudes higher than Pope that would justify us spending our limited resources on him. I can accept spending money on a GK for a potential transformative upgrade, not a moderate one. Hopefully it's just like many other links where we'd be interested at a big enough discount that is likely not coming.

It’ll be the most disappointed I’ve been in our transfer business if we spend a bunch of money to replace Pope with Ramsdale.

Counterpoint: everything is bad. Always.

The only saving grace of this season is that Bruno stayed healthy and miraculously avoided the two game ban.

It's so stupid that we're losing this game.

How many games against Man United has this been said?

I barely get excited when we win a corner these days.

How is that not a penalty and how did that not go in?

Krafth claimed Garnacho there and then just let him go.

37 minutes to go

Is Miggy not fit for 60 minutes? Would far prefer him at RW, especially with Trippier back.

It seems illogical but I'm worried about their front four.