Jackie Broon

Looks class, amazing ability to fire off an accurate pass at pace with no backlift.

Other than Wood, our recruitment team has had an incredible hit rate. If they think that risk is worth it I'd trust their judgement.

Eddie has at least brought him on from the bench in nearly every match so far this season. I can't see Eddie agreeing to him leaving now if he's not confident that we have another forward lined up.

He's just looked overwhelmed since he arrived, he knew he isn't a £25m player and was signed out of desperation, I think that's weighed on him. He did the job he was brought in to do in contributing to us staying up and good luck to him, it's not his fault he's not good enough for the level we now play at.

He really shouldn't have been allowed to play on, I thought that as soon as I saw his ankle turn like that, it just wasn't worth the risk of potentially turning a minor sprain into a serious injury. He was never going to be able to run it off.

1:19 for the angle the ref was shown

I don't think they showed the angle where it's clear that he stood on Trippier on the monitor iirc.

The angle he was shown did look like a (soft) pen tbf.

And they took about 5 minutes looking at it, just absolute incompetence.

Whereas they totally didn't make any fuss about their pizza cup finals at all.

I could forgive the miss, it was his all round play and seeming lack of effort that's unforgivable. I'm sure he's really trying, but it just doesn't look like it. The very least that can be expected of him is to physically impose himself on defenders and he's not even doing that.

Defended him in the past, indefensible now, he's not even League One standard, we just need to cut our losses.

It depends what the actual circumstances are. Are we actually going to be looking for independent main sponsors at actual market value or will we be getting sponsors connected to PIF as a way to pump as much money as the PL will allow as fair market value into the club? No one outside of the club really knows that, although most assume it's the latter. If it's the latter qualifying for the CL is likely to allow us a sudden huge jump in revenue because we'll be able to make a strong case that our fair market value is the same as the other PL clubs in the CL; Whereas if we're relying on 'real' sponsorships that real market value will probably rise more gradually.

Yeah, I think the Leeds match was a bit of a turning point, we're now going to be coming up against teams who will see 0-0 as a great result against us much more often and we need players who can unlock teams who sit back against us.

Yes, most are. There's little/no money on terms of operating profit in PL clubs, the real money is in increasing their value and selling on.

No because we have much lower revenue. Chelsea have much more ability to spend within FFP, despite their spending they're probably still within FFP limits.

Debt makes no difference to EPL FFP other than the cost of interest on it.

How's it any different to our owners buying the club and wiping out the debt the club had to Ashley? As far as EPL FFP is concerned Chelsea haven't been given a clean slate, the debt to Abramovic made no difference to that. Chelsea have much higher revenue than us and so much more ability to spend while staying within FFP limits.

Amazing how often opposition fans say we're not a great side and they played poorly / we were lucky. Nothing to do with us being a nightmare to play against and ruthless as fuck of course.

I don't think that's correct, debt is not relevant to EPL FFP other than cost of interest, if any. Anyway, Chelsea have taken on £850m of debt since they were taken over.

He was pretty much neck and neck with Messi to be considered one of the all time greats until not that long ago but he's completely fucked his legacy with his arrogance

My Mum just texted me to say what a brilliant match it was, she's only watched two full matches in her life, the 1966 final and this

I have the same relaxed feeling about this window. I don't think we need to focus on replacing those players though and I don't think we will. I think we'll be buying under 21s with high potential and first team players who improve us. I think it'll be a case of the right players at the right price when they become available rather directly targeting replacements for squad players. Those players will be gradually squeezed out of the squad rather than directly replaced I think.

And also a fascist, racist and unrepentant supporter of a genocidal war criminal.

No Kenny Wharton?!