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You’re mistaking effort for the style of game. And Leeds we were rabid, just sloppy.

How good would we be if we had replaced Isak with him.

Oh fuck off

Knew they were going to score and we really deserve to be ahead.

I look forward to Gordon’s next open play goal in January 2027.

Yeah I think we’re probably being nice and not putting him in a position here he plays twice in February and then never again once Tino is back. But someone else will probably get hurt. We should be less nice.

I think I hate that shirt and also want to own one.

Should have ended with a "it'd be nice to go to Paris sometime and not feel like we got robbed. Maybe I'll take a holiday this summer."

The type of goal our current team is dying for. Just a few of those and we're all having a laugh this season.

I don’t know. Comparing different eras and positions is near impossible though.

Yeah, thinking very short term. There's a lot of games just to get to Tino being back and that's without losing anyone. And Schar is mostly a lost cause this season. I like the flexibility of that formation, but just struggle to see how we can handle it at the moment.

Yeah, I just don't see how we could do it with any regularity with 3 fit CBs and one LB (and also one actual RB). Same problem with Nick and Wissa; really need a fit Osula to even consider playing two up top.

The Targett situation has so much we don't know and I'm sure he only wants to come back with some assurance he'll get to play. Seems a very obvious move to help facilitate playing three at the back. The only explanations are: 1) Three at the back was a total one off so Burn can rotate with Hall (but this also means Burn basically doesn't rest) 2) Eddie thinks he's totally shit and/or their relationship is broken 3) We have another option

We wouldn't be though.

Might need a US VPN:

Some of the passes he made against their press were terrifying but also the type of thing really needed to break it. The fact he can do that or beat a man is a great attribute.

Yeah, we all want different formations and maybe Eddie does too. But we currently have 3 CBs and if we play all of them we have only one LB. We only have one RB right now without impacting our CM options. And if we play Woltemade and Wissa together then they we don't have a rested striker.

Out til ~April per the latest from Hope. After March 22 there are only 7 league games left. He's effectively not an option for the rest of the season.

Well that's a lot of new names.

I don't know how or what could happen, but anti-PL sentiment has to be growing across the rest of UEFA.

Look at the image below: This does not include player sales, due to the lumpy nature of them. What's encouraging about this is we are firmly in the Atletico / Villa / Milan / Juventus tier in a season without European football. When this comes out next year I'm quite sure we're going to be 13th, ahead of all of those clubs unless Atletico or Juventus make a very deep CL run. We are also creating a growing gap with every English team below us. But now look higher. If we come in next year ~€475m we're still €50-100m behind Dortmund, Inter, and Chelsea when we do have CL football. We're still a €200m behind Tottenham and €300-500m behind the rest, which includes four English clubs. If we want to be #1 -- and realistically to me that does not mean actually producing more revenue than Real Madrid; it means being amongst the top 10 here because at that point you can compete and win anything -- then there can only be one answer on the stadium.

Juventus would be very winnable and also iconic. Sign me up for that. Nailed on we're going to be staring at a Chelsea > Liverpool path though.

And how often do we (and other teams) come storming out of the blocks at home in a big game? It's a pretty normal thing. Another example of people pretending we're the only ones with a say on the game.

He has a great and mixed set of CBs to practice against in training. Could really help him whenever we get time to train again...

Beat Barcelona / Chelsea > beat Tottenham and suddenly find ourselves in a CL semifinal. The stuff dreams would be made of. We better not lose to Qarabag.