leffe186

You can click 'Points' and it shows you the points that you have during this gameweek. Yes, yes I know - but I don't want to make one click more than I should have to .

I wish we would start playing the Ryan Giggs game with our players a bit more. Rose gets injured, misses a few games, comes back for the City game then plays for England and gets injured again. Sterling plays against us, misses the England games through "injury" then is playing again today.

Got a couple of pet peeves with the new format (apart from the fact that I am completely shit at it this year). I wish the "My Team" tab didn't change to the following week the second the current week starts. During the games I want to check the points, not make transfers. Hate the fact that clicking on a player shows me his results rather than his fixtures. Usually the reason I click on a player is to see what games he has coming up.

Costa was born to be a baddie in a Spaghetti Western.

Been a great half of football.

It's not not funny though .

How are we not winning this? Seems like refs have decided to go back to not giving us any penalties this year.

...and they're still in the relegation zone. Bloody good job they didn't have any big games early on. From the sounds of it, a game against - say - Spurs or Chelsea would have ended up as absolute carnage in the stands. They have got to do something about the policing/stewarding.

I am making an absolute pig's breakfast of this season.

Getting fucked off with this. Liverpool at home, stonewall penalty, Hull down to ten, game over. Spurs away, pissing it, stonewall penalty, ref feels sorry for the home side and pretends it's not. Game on. Man City anywhere, nothing really happens, penalty.

Depends upon who you take your cues from, I guess. He should never be starting for England, not yet, but he's very young with loads of time. He was certainly over/hyped in the press. He wasn't even supposed to be starting for us last year, but after injuries he took his chance and kept popping up with crucial goals. I wouldn't have him in our first XI, but I'm perfectly happy for him to play a lot of games. His all-round play will improve.

I was going to say . We only sent Rose up there to get a few games because he wasn't ready for us. Also Bould FFS .

I like the look of the Premier League table. Can we just stop it right now?

I feel like I'm far worse this year than last.

Exactly what I thought. Wish they'd made the change before Leicester last year though.

Bloody Friday night games. Completely forgot they exist.

Find I don't mind these games or these teams while we're not in that league. I really only hate one prem team atm. Liverpool? Obviously not, leff. That's my team. You know that. YNWA and all that. I see you there, sitting on that seat, bent double under the enormous steel pylon.

Much more complex. You have to divide the "normal" people into two groups - idiots and intelligents. You can do the same with the glory-hunters too, but since they're all cunts, why bother.

Find I don't mind these games or these teams while we're not in that league. I really only hate one prem team atm. Liverpool?

Any American guys having trouble with the NBC feed online? "Coverage Will Resume Shortly"?

Few more than 90 tbf.

"They can all sing where you come from!"

Absolutely, but it looks like the really big signings are out of our reach for the most part. We just don't have enough money to compete at the top table in terms of wages. We need to keep trying to develop the young players so they either make a big leap forward (Kane, Alli) or generate cash (Mason, Townsend). Even the really top youth players have wage demands that we just cannot meet. At the same time, we need to try to find players like Payet and Mahrez - let's say Eriksen and Modric - players who are just bubbling under the top echelon for whatever reason (youth, unfashionable leagues, off-the-field stuff) but who given the right training and situation might develop into top top class players. Based on the past 3/4 years, who are our competitors? Man U, Man C, Chelsea, Arsenal, Leicester, Liverpool, Everton. Five of those teams have wage bills that dwarf ours - that pay way more than we do per player. The other two teams (and Liverpool) have finished above us only once in recent years. The four big boys all bought "real quality", but they were players whose wages would have been out of our league. Leicester and Everton didn't manage any "real big signings", and although they kept their squad largely intact, they both lost one key player to the big boys. Liverpool probably had the most similar window to us - shedding some squad players, bolstering the first XI, and then overpaying you guys for a midfielder. Their "real big signing" was presumably Mane, and I'm perfectly happy to have Janssen and Wanyama instead.

Most lower league clubs rely on loan players, it'd ruin lower league football and just give even more power to the top. It'd also harm the development on young players, who are not good enough yet to play for the first team but are good enough to step down a league for a season for experience. There should be a cap on the number of players you can loan out, but that is it. I don't know how you can argue that removing the loan system would give more power to the top - the loan system quite obviously does exactly that. Chelsea aren't loaning out 38 players out of some sense of altruism. If you remove the loan system, or severely restrict it, then those players that are stockpiled at places like Chelsea would be forced to find other ways and places to build a career. It's simply a way for bigger clubs to soak up all the best talent - talent that otherwise would be spread across more clubs. There is certainly an argument to be made that it might harm the development of some young players by reducing their access to top level coaching. However, with a more restrictive or non-existent loan system, if you're not good enough yet to play for Chelsea but are good enough to play in League One...then just sign for a team in League One. I'd prefer to see that, than to see Chelsea hoover up everyone to generate more money for themselves.

Yup, sure sounds like $35M to me .