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He is aswell lol Great use of C On 177 now because he has Adrian on his bench .

Quite nice to finally not really give a fuck.

Congrats on the win, and probably the title. Yup, won twelve in a row now. Hopefully they get their act together next year, as this still has real potential. Was due to lose, finally, to absentee Shak, who had Perez and Shelvey due to come on as subs for Alexis and Valencia with 11pts and beat me by 1pt. Now Alexis Sanchez and Valencia are playing, and need to get 11pts themselves. I presume the suspense is killing you all.

He is aswell lol Great use of C . He’s not one of those guys who starts a new team every week, is he?

Man U still to come, but how much have you scored so far? Just 57 from all that lot. Ouch. I still have De Gea, Smalling and Lingard (woop-de-doo), but at least I've managed 61 so far without bench boost or triple captain. My Man City guys (Laporte, Sterling, Jesus) only managed 9 points in total .

Man U still to come, but how much have you scored so far?

I had a wildcarded front seven of Kane ©, Jesus, J. Ayew, Sterling, Eriksen, Tadic, Lingard. 17 points.

Of course I took Otamendi out for Laporte. This week has been total pissballs.

The referee in our game today is an absolute fucking joke. Edit: Mike Jones. Checks out.

Harsh.

Hoping they win to save Barnet.

This is just like every Spurs-West Brom game in the last decade.

Fantastic save by Foster from Kane. Edit: With his head .

Aye, they’ve totally got our number for some reason. They were decent against us. Thoughtful manager, some good players, no real stars - solid mid-table tbh.

Just watching the Spurs match and hadn't realized West Brom had brought back "The Liquidator": https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/west-brom-to-bring-back-6885818 Love that track.

I think they'll do similar to us. They're sound financially and they'll get big money for the likes of Butland & Shaqiri. Maybe even for Allen. Someone like Dwight Gayle up front next season, some solid signings like we made and they'll be fine. They made a loss of £10M last year, relegation will hurt them. While they will bring in some money from transfers out they will only do what we do if the Chairman puts in some money to keep the wage bill high enough. It might be a really tough league next season. West Brom will not be mugs, whoever gets that coveted third relegation place will be relatively strong, and there are some proper teams who will either miss out on promotion this year or improve from mid-table. I think the Championship will be fascinating. Unless Huddersfield slip, there's a lot of Premier League experience dropping. WBA have been here 8 years, Stoke 10, Southampton 5/6 seasons, Swansea about 7 years. ...I really hope you just put the mockers on West Ham

I think Klopp has a case. What Pep has done in the league has been amazing, but he could essentially buy whoever he wanted over the last couple of years, and when it really mattered he lost the head-to-head with Klopp. The Coutinho transfer distorts the finances somewhat, but Klopp has still managed to build his team without spending ludicrous money. I do think it's between those four, and in the direct comparisons I have Dyche slightly ahead of Rafa in the "working with what you've got" stakes and Klopp slightly ahead of Pep in the "FM 2018" stakes.

I think they'll do similar to us. They're sound financially and they'll get big money for the likes of Butland & Shaqiri. Maybe even for Allen. Someone like Dwight Gayle up front next season, some solid signings like we made and they'll be fine. They made a loss of £10M last year, relegation will hurt them. While they will bring in some money from transfers out they will only do what we do if the Chairman puts in some money to keep the wage bill high enough. It might be a really tough league next season. West Brom will not be mugs, whoever gets that coveted third relegation place will be relatively strong, and there are some proper teams who will either miss out on promotion this year or improve from mid-table. I think the Championship will be fascinating.

I think you're under-selling it. West Ham going down in that stadium with those owners would be amazing.

You'll probably get a game from Davies, but Vertonghen was always the best bet.

Oh well. West Ham relegation still on though. Come on Swansea and Southampton.

Glad he mixed up our team today going 3-4-3. Probably a few out there who have Davies and Son playing though.

De Gea, Smalling, and Lingard for me. Not the most auspicious start.

Wenger had the final say for years, but the rumours were that he had less control over the last couple.

The problem is that the comparison is then with Dyche, whose team just stayed up in 16th place last season and then promptly lost two of their best players. Now they may be in Europe. They spent less on transfers in (35M versus your 36M), had a net transfer spend of -9M versus your +10M, and spend less on wages. I think Dyche just shades it over Rafa. I'd be tempted to vote for Klopp, but I agree that it's hard to vote for managers who have so many financial advantages. I still think that Klopp would deserve it if they win the CL (although their draw has a great deal to do with it too).