Jackie Broon

The keeper sees Gordon coming sprints six yards and then lunges into that contact. Whether Gordon hoped for the keeper to be daft enough to do that or not, it's still a foul.

Watch it from here in slow motion, the keeper is committed and lunges to get the ball but Gordon gets there first, it's not like he's just standing there and Gordon runs into him https://youtu.be/eRI6MZmQSlg?t=491 The way he turns his body is to be able to keep the ball in, if he doesn't turn like that he could only kick it out of play or back heel it straight to the keeper. he doesn't get the chance to because the keeper takes him out.

Brighton can make any team look lost, they did the same to Arsenal last season, 7 days after they'd beaten us at St. James'. We're a top team with a top manager and we will bounce back, it's what we've continuously done every time we've looked lost in a match under Howe since January 22... 21/22 Chelsea A 0-1, Everton A 0-1, Spurs A 1-5 > won the next 4 21/22 Man City A 0-5 - Arsenal H 2-0 22/23 Villa A 0-3 > Spurs H 6-1, Everton A 4-1, Southampton H 3-1

A Jesus poo is one of the greatest feelings in the world.

Anyone else hear "record number of clean shits"?

Maybe, depending how much we've manged to increase our revenue by and how much our profit/loss was in 22/23 and is this season. The £70m loss in 21/22 is probably a big part of any FFP issue we have and that will be gone from the FFP calculation in 24/25.

It seems more likely that it's this period that's the main issue, rather than the years ahead when our revenue will be much higher than it has been in the past three year period.

Look back at some articles about his time at Arsenal and what went wrong for him (after 11 wins in a row in his first season) and it's identical to what happened yesterday, the insistence on a high line and playing out from the back even when they're constantly getting caught out. The pace of the PL makes that style very risky if they lose a bit of confidence I can see it snowballing and he's shown in the past he will just stick to plan A.

I thought after the friendly that they might under perform this season if teams start to exploit their high line and insistence on playing out from the back more. Seems like a carbon copy of what happened with him at Arsenal. Went on a great run after he took over then teams started to exploit their high line and playing out from the back, but he just kept on playing the same way.

Aye, like Liverpool for example.

Ritchie, at least, is very unlikely to be in the Champions League squad though.

Aye, it's embarrassingly anachronistic.

The issue is that our current spending power within FFP is based on the past seasons' profits/losses, we might well be near the point where even with transfer fees being amortised over 5 years we couldn't afford the proportion of the amortised fee that would count towards this season, even if we will be able to afford that in the future based on our increased income.

Yeah, where I looked had it at €60m, seems like it's reported as €55m elsewhere though.

Ruben Neves £51.5m

Based on what? Nearly all of our signings since the takeover have been players who are on another level from what we had.

He might have some different attributes but we already have ASM and Gordon who naturally play in that left side attacking position and Joelinton, Willock and Isak who have been keeping them out of the starting line-up. I know we need squad depth but, unless ASM is leaving, it seems like we would be very overloaded in that position.

Yes but I don't think there's any advantage to that if we don't absolutely need to, only the disadvantage of having the amortisation on the books for a year longer.

Yes, but unless we're currently perilously close to failing FFP there's probably no advantage in waiting because the amortisation would count towards the FFP calculation for a year longer.

He's a handsome fucker too, has a bit of Schär about him, we could be the tallest and fittest team in the world potentially.

The 25 man A list needs to include at least 4 locally trained players, so in reality we will need to put him in the A list squad.

For the PL yes but for the CL the 25 man squad has to include 4 players who have been at the club for at least 3 years between 15 and 21. Other than him the only players we have in the first team squad that qualify are Longstaff and Anderson and Dummett (and that's almost certainly why Dummett is still at the club).

We need 4 home grown players for our Champions League squad, if he's good enough to play a part in that squad he's too valuable to let go on loan, home grown status is literally something that you can't buy.

I would've loved Everton to go down but quite enjoyed seeing Leicester go by two points after the way they played against us.