The Prophet

"I've looked when we had a few days off at how many long balls we already had to defend - 178 in seven games and then United came and we had to defend 59 long balls. That's different from the first half of last season. The way to unlock it is a moment of magic, which we had in the first half of last season a lot with Mo [Salah], or a set-piece, which we had at Frankfurt as well, because that again was a low block. But two set-pieces unlocked the game for us." Slot not being rattled again.

His tone towards Wilson is night abd day compared to Mitchell.

Commercial profits exceeding £400 million is some going like.

Nah. Don't get me wrong, he's a bigger cunt in many ways, but Pardew did way more damage to the club.

Not the thread for it, but Spurs have flattered to deceive this season. Their underlying numbers aren't good.

Class display...

Allows us to rest Trippier and one of the CMs.

It seems quite common for players to take qualifications and pitch up at their former club. Wouldn't be suprised to see Fab Schar do the same.

He was an extremely low risk gamble when Krafth was knackered, leaving us with no back up to Trippier. It didn't work out, but he'll find himself a Championship club snd we'll recoup some of the negligible fee.

RAWK collectively relived he's injured, not just pants. Though they seem to be underestimating the Eddie Howe effect.

I wonder if we'll see Murphy at RWB for this.

There's a lot to unpack here...

Succulent.

Zero preseason can disrupt your whole campaign and the silly cunt only has himself to blame.

The red card was an awful challenge, not seen any of the pels. Zwayer is generally a mad man though, loves his cards.

When's Isak coming on?

Frankfurt are pure, unadulterated Fraudesliga. This is why we love it.

Absolutely textbook we went down to ten against these cubts when there for the taking.

Shocking challenge from Taylor.

It's going to be some party when we bring ol' big ears home from Budapest.

I thought the Gordon shout was 50/50, but it'll always go with the onfield call. Bruno's should wasn't. He had hold of the defender as much as anything else.

Maldini was onto something.