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I think he benefitted from playing centrally moreso than any kind of issue playing with Bruno. I think for whatever reason he's a bit lost on the right side.

Brentford play Chelsea away before this. We are home to Leicester and then away to Ipswich after. We play Brentford away 10 days before this.

Someone on the US coverage just said “Newcastle think they are a big club” and Nigel Reo Coker interrupted him to say “Newcastle are a big club.”

Tonali as the 6, Bruno right of the midfield three, Gordon RW, and the Joes on the left might be our best team at the moment. Barnes supersub.

Tonali staying central is intriguing.

A third would be massive to convince them to abandon the game and let us fully rest Bruno, get Isak/Gordon off, etc.

Liverpool, City, and Villa going out would be a dream.

Would much prefer a Tonali inswinger there.

Did Pope just give Tonali a right hook?

Centrally / everywhere and excellent.

Good things happen when the ball is in and around their penalty area. We've spent far too much of the season playing miles away from our opponent's goal.

This is so much more enjoyable to watch.

The biggest issue to me is we seemed to be fully set on the Klopp mould and, for a time, we were awesome. But now we're not playing that way anymore, possibly wanting to transition styles, while also not having any money for a major overhaul. I can understand wanting to see more of the ball and I can understand why we can't do 90 minutes every week of a hell for leather style. But I don't get why we aren't doing a lot more targeted pressing, why we don't sometimes play that way, and why we've ended up in this sort of no man's land version of what we used to be and what we maybe want to become.

It depends which ones you're referring to. People are overreacting to the Longstaff/Burn one year extensions.

This is possible. But while revenue has grown considerably since Ashley, so have costs (wages + amortisation). Barring a not-yet-announced rise in commercial revenue the finances are very likely pretty tight.

I think it’s just you. Clubs have huge demand for tickets and TV ratings are setting records both in the UK and internationally. Some of the global viewership estimates, while likely inflated, are staggering. It makes what’s happening behind the scenes all the more ridiculous because the biggest threat to the Premier League is coming from within.

I was going to respond with the same. Some home stats were jumping out to me as concerning, but they need this context applied. And 2 of our next 3 home games are Arsenal and Liverpool, so realistically we're not going to know for awhile if there are larger problems. Based on the fixtures, if our home form hasn't seriously dropped off, we should have a barnstorming second half of the season at SJP.

How much depends on if he really was on a 3.5 year deal initially and what his original wages were.

The way it's being reported we're activating a one year extension. I would assume that carries very similar wages to what he's on. Burn's was similar. Both of those make a lot of sense to reduce the number of players we have to replace next summer. Ideally they won't play nearly as much as they are now, but they can plug in and help keep our amortisation number lower.

You keep saying this and I know what you mean, but one of the best teams in the history of the league played this way.

If we tried that I can't imagine Tonali wouldn't be part of the two.

A few of us were saying the existence of the Guehi bid wasn't necessarily an indicator that we had that much to spend without sales (whether in August or June) or new revenue. What Edwards says here matches any math that can be done with publicly available numbers.

Pretty confident for this. We're so much better at home and I assume they'll make at least a few changes. At least a couple of the better teams will be out after this round. Please don't mess it up.

16 errors leading to a shot last season (0.42 per game). This season is 1.11 per game. Dispossessed 10.5 times per game, which was 4th worst.

We are such a sloppy team. Currently joint 2nd in the league with 10 errors that have led to a shot. In the entirety of 2022/23 we made 10 errors that led to a shot (4th best). We're also 2nd in the league in number of times dispossessed (12.4 per game). This was 9.55 in 2022/23.