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Or they should just suck it up and play somebody out of position, or change formation, or play one of the many kids they've consistently broken the rules to sign *grumble*.

I’ve not been paying attention. Have Barca actually been given special dispensation to ignore the window? I mean, what? it's a la liga agreement that applies to all clubs as far as i understand it - certain circumstances have to be met, player out for x amount months and has to be removed from the squad etc. they can all do it if they met the criteria Ah right, that makes more sense I guess. Not enough sense to be legit because of all the knock-on effects though.

I’ve not been paying attention. Have Barca actually been given special dispensation to ignore the window? I mean, what?

Well, quite. We just lost Son to injury, after Kane - them’s the breaks. How exactly has the Barca situation come about?

Posted this back at the beginning of the season: Jesus and that's as a fan of a club who are going places too. Imagine how we feel Personally I still love it as a neutral and from a fpl perspective I've avoided posting too much about it on here because I was worried I'd overstep the mark. Obviously I've become pretty disillusioned with many aspects of the game, despite my own team being on the up and up. My wife's a Villa fan, and I've had similar conversations with Villa fans, but many of them are suddenly back engaged because their team are not as shite, got promoted, and have spent money. I mean, I get it, but it doesn't change the underlying problems, and it rather suggests that the real season they became disillusioned with football was just that their team were shite at it. Which brings me here, I guess. I didn't post too much about it because I suspect I was concerned I was being a self-righteous bastard who felt walking away while we were good was somehow more meaningful than, say, walking away while Mike Ashley systemically destroys your club. I don't want to be like that. Someone did say essentially "cry me a river", but I truly am sad that the sport I love has come to this. I can't be neutral because I've been a fan for 40+ years - there is no neutral . I still wanted Man U to get stuffed tonight, as soon as I realized they were playing. Anyway, that's my slightly sad rant over, just got off work and going to see if an IPA helps . I don't really want to get into the reasons too much. Suffice it to say, parity and a sense that clubs are truly rooted in their local community is important to me, and is no longer the case at the top level. I'm fortunate, in a way, that my club is doing pretty well, so that it couldn't be dismissed as just being fickle.

Liverpool Leicester Spurs Sheff Utd please.

Some terrific schadenfreude here

There's zero consistency. It's fucking wild. One thing is consistent. The clue is in Pata's post .

Been so disengaged I had no idea you were on the same points as them. Southampton too, who have been good in the small bits I've seen of them.

Ah, booo Scratch that - hooray! Had Salah as vice-captain. On 54pts now with Grealish and Aguero© to come. Been a good last four weeks, actually 8th top scorer so far this month in N-O. Should probably have paid more attention earlier.

There are many Spurs fans who grew up with Hoddle and still think Gazza is the best Spurs player they ever saw.

That Italy trip sounds magic Sewelly, nice one.

Ah, booo

I dunno -feels like if you join Barca at 24 then Dortmund at 27 then you’ve probably not had a great three years.

Man, the tough bit is when do you play for your own club? Do you give them your best years or the most money? Presuming they all have to be different: Leyton Orient Ajax Spurs Real Madrid Barca (imagine how good you’d have to be to make that move) Bayern Munich Columbus Crew

They keep on digging these results out. Never seem to let in much.

Wrong end of the bench, sadly.

Will be staggered if they don’t play this next weekend or at least in midweek Presumably logistics will be an issue - policing, transport etc

It will go to the vice but won't count the City game unless they manage to replay it next week and include it in this gameweek.

So much for Aguero ©. Nearly brought in Mahrez for Sterling, but thankfully went elsewhere.

I’m still trying to figure out what this means. You could’ve put the team name and league I'm just glad Mickey Hazard is supplementing his Black Cab income.

I'll take 13 from two players. It's a bit tedious seeing a top score of 78 so far this week. It would be nice if there was an option to "mute" or exclude the divvies who start new teams each week.

Slightly ironically, had he done the same thing at a Spurs match he might have been done for racist behavior anyway. Pathetic decision, mind.

They always did anyway after 1981. I will say that they have no right to have football-related emotions any more .

To be fair, that is the classic shithouse Mourinho performance from minute one. We're going to see a lot more games like that.