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They think it's all over.

Nope . Also, there really is no easy way to see what somebody else's team is. I can see who they drafted. Am I missing something? Think first set up of the millions of league takes their system ages every year. Yeah, but this is the first time they've done a draft league. It just doesn't look like they've thought it through. They haven't even got a filter for player searches to allow you to just view the players not on a roster (for waivers) although that shouldn't be too difficult to add. Viewing the opponents team for a given match would be more complex to do but still a necessity. You should be able to click on the team name in the fixture as a link. It either didn't occur to them or they think it would bring their system to a halt.

Nope . Also, there really is no easy way to see what somebody else's team is. I can see who they drafted. Am I missing something?

Still, nice start from Vardy. Not looking forward to fielding the entire Spurs defence against Chelsea next week. You're welcome, Deuce.

The website is absolute agony. I thought it was the shitty internet in my hotel. I did wonder if they'd bitten off more than they could chew.

I think your choice of words is useful. It's not that he is wrong, but that he's done wrong. The week before the season, he/his agent has/have gone to the Sun and vented. There's a lot of truth in what he says, but it looks shitty, particularly as some of what he says could be viewed as dissing a lot of his teammates. He signed a new contract a year ago that ties him until 2021. Any suggestion that he's underpaid should be viewed with that in mind. There's absolutely no way on Earth that he's on 30Kpw. There's some suggestion that because he's been injured for so long that he might have missed out on a lot of bonuses, which is possible. It all comes down to the same thing again. There are five English clubs with revenue that is at least 100M more than ours. We have a fair few players who are as good as or better than their counterparts at those clubs. If the market rate is set by Man U, Man C, Chelsea, Barca etc then sure, our players are underpaid. If you want the best footballers to be at the "best" clubs and paid "the going rate", then bully for you, just don't whinge about the CL or FFP etc etc. You just want different things from football than me. Just because you can't compete financially with the top clubs doesn't mean you can't spend money at all Not sure what your argument is. We already have the sixth highest wage bill, roughly in line with revenue. If you mean that we should be spending money on new players then sure, but we come up against the same problem - the players we would like to get to improve our team are players who the big guys want, and they blow us out of the water with the fees and wages they can afford. For example, we were supposedly on the verge of signing Juan Foyth, a young Argentinian centre-back. Then PSG got involved. Game over, and not for the first time. Hopefully the new stadium will help us bridge the gap...eventually...but we still need to pay for it as well which clouds the issue. Levy was quoted a while back saying something like building the stadium will not affect squad development, but that just sounds like bullshit.

I think your choice of words is useful. It's not that he is wrong, but that he's done wrong. The week before the season, he/his agent has/have gone to the Sun and vented. There's a lot of truth in what he says, but it looks shitty, particularly as some of what he says could be viewed as dissing a lot of his teammates. He signed a new contract a year ago that ties him until 2021. Any suggestion that he's underpaid should be viewed with that in mind. There's absolutely no way on Earth that he's on 30Kpw. There's some suggestion that because he's been injured for so long that he might have missed out on a lot of bonuses, which is possible. It all comes down to the same thing again. There are five English clubs with revenue that is at least 100M more than ours. We have a fair few players who are as good as or better than their counterparts at those clubs. If the market rate is set by Man U, Man C, Chelsea, Barca etc then sure, our players are underpaid. If you want the best footballers to be at the "best" clubs and paid "the going rate", then bully for you, just don't whinge about the CL or FFP etc etc. You just want different things from football than me.

Thanks for clearing that up. No problem I couldn't tell you before the draft cos everyone would do it. Of course, neither of them will play if we don't have a match that gameweek.

Uh huh. Good job we have these rules in place, eh? Just a reminder.

Yeah, Juventus barely turned up tbf.

I feel like this isn't the most user-friendly site ever . Bit of a culture shock after ESPN.

Just saw Deuce's team too. Again, if Costa goes he's fucked. I'm presuming that somebody got all the strikers, because bloody hell.

My team looks sort of all right. If Alexis Sanchez goes away then Shak is completely fucked. Anyone got a good team out there?

I'm in a toilet in a rest stop. Can anyone tell me what keepers I have? Too scared to look.

Me neither. I think it will be an even more extraordinary achievement than the last two finishes. I mean, it's not like the big sides hadn't spent shit-tons of money on wages and fees in the last couple of years, but they've had so much time and money to get things right by now, and I expect Liverpool to finish above us this year, finally.

Great idea, fair play to them for doing it like, going to be showing every single round after this too, hopefully give some exposure to different teams Is it churlish of me to be a bit disappointed that one of the teams in the first match is AFC Liverpool? Apparently the other team is a local rival which is why its being shown. Isn't the first qualifying round regional anyway? So most teams will be playing a "local" rival of sorts.

Great idea, fair play to them for doing it like, going to be showing every single round after this too, hopefully give some exposure to different teams Is it churlish of me to be a bit disappointed that one of the teams in the first match is AFC Liverpool?

The farce is still going strong everywhere.

The fact that La Liga are trying to make a stand for financial propriety is the most hilarious part.

Why do we watch this bloody sport again?

I'm not even sure that's not a made-up name.

Winner takes it all?

Gary Lineker. Gary Mabbutt too. Chris Hughton.

I have to confess, I'm not looking forward to this season. The money is just...I dunno. I feel like the only thing holding me back from the tipping point is that Spurs are (a) doing well and (b) doing well in an admirable way. I don't think I'll ever be able to walk away entirely, but that taste in my mouth is getting worse and worse. Its a bit like Trump. So much everywhere you turn that you want to just give up. The Neymar debate is a perfect example.

It was sold out at a reduced capacity of about 32k. The Family Enclosure and a block of the Main Stand were shut because they're putting new disabled facilities in. Just so happens that they're the most visible sections on the TV cameras, so it looked empty. We were awful last night until Sandro came on and injected a bit of pace and movement. I really don't see how adding another slow central player in Sigurdsson is going to help the team at all. Sorely lacking pace, width and a target man upfront. You have the pace and width in Bolasie and others, though, don't you? I think we all knew the lack of a target man was going to be a problem. I'm not sure when Bolasie will be back from injury or whether he'll still have that pace when he comes back. Aside from that, there's Mirallas who flatters to deceive, Lennon who isn't good enough and Lookman, who seems like a great prospect but isn't getting a fair chance from Koeman. Slim pickings. I didn't realize that Lookman wasn't getting opportunities. Are they not just easing him in?