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Tonali is a cybog

Come onnnn they're shit, more pls

Would have him above both John and Alan for sure now

Barnes would absolutely be a striker if he played in the 90s/early 2000s like.

Hate to say it but feels like it's going to be one of those games. Not at it and crowd seems flat.

Thank you 'Ipswitch' as my dodgy box calls them

Excellent that

Let's be fair, it would be a ridiculous bonus for them to have dropped points today

Unbelievable free kick for Peterborough

Frustrating that, goal from nothing really when the game could have been over.

Do we have to play this Palace wunderteam?

It doesn't need to be part of the Football League. It's fine as the top tier of non-league and as a buffer league between regionalisation/semi-professionalism. Some of the clubs who come up into it continue to operate part time, while the ground requirements etc are a lot less stringent than the football league (lots of non league clubs rely on having a plastic pitch for example). A lot of teams who play in the National League are a long way off being football league clubs and that's fine. There are big clubs and ambitious clubs at the top end that get stuck there though and there should definitely be an extra promotion place. That is long overdue.

You can still see he's physically declined big style. It's inevitable at 34/35 in that position. It was just exacerbated by the fact his head was also all over the place IMO. Glad he's having a bit of an Indian summer right now but still think he's on borrowed time and we should probably move him on in the summer to ensure he goes out on a high.

On him being a dickhead I changed my mind when I saw this

Could do aye. Surprised it hasn't been rumoured already, probably because we've got a million keepers. Would mean we could name one more outfield player which would be useful. At the moment we're going to have a squad of 22 in Europe (21 non club then players + Longstaff). If Longstaff goes, we'd only be able to name 21 as we'd have no club grown players. Worth noting Miley doesn't need to be named in the squad as he's under 21.

We're not short of English club grown players though. You only need 4 in a European squad - and we've got loads. It's the 4 club grown players we are short of.

Frankfurt are shite

Not massively impressed by Frankfurt despite the early goal, look a bit chaotic

Sell Isak and buy him

Given our limited Club HG options there's a likelihood he wouldn't be in a European squad is the only issue with that. We will probably be limited to 22 senior players (21 if Longstaff goes) so then he'd almost certain likely be left out like Ritchie was last year. These kind of cheerleader type players don't really help us in Europe - but you're unlikely to want to play them in the league.

I don't think it worked, they've not really come close to winning the CL outside of the COVID year tournament. The whole thing has been a bit of a debacle IMO given the resources available. They've got it right now but a French club with unlimited moneh spending 50 million a pop on Doue, Dembele and Barcola just seems the obvious thing to do really.

I mean, they have an unlimited budget and the best domestic/local talent pool of young players available to recruit from. It is a bit incredulous that is has taken them them over a decade stumble across building an actual football team.

What is a high profile signing? Liverpool don't really do that whatever it is meant to mean - they sign the right players that fit their system and often target those already in the PL. Mbeumo seems an absolutely obvious Liverpool signing to me in terms of positional fit and mentality. As for him being underwhelming for us that is crazy talk.

I actually foresaw a situation where he was released but hung around to continue his recuperation and potentially signed a short term deal, so this isn't all that different if we've triggered a 1 year extension on the sly. Not sure about it really - but wouldn't question the logic if Howe thinks it's worthwhile. Can kind of see it if we end up in the Europa or Conference. CB is such a critical position for us in terms of squad building. We desperately need a new RCB in this summer - but will be in a position where Burn and Schar could also need replacing entirely by next summer when they are 33 and 34. Throw in Botman's injury situation and it's definitely a position we need to start being proactive for long term and prevent needing an overhaul. The links to the likes of Jumah Bah (who City ended up signing) shoes we're obviously looking at addressing it beyond an immediate first team signing

Would also be impossible since they'll play each other in the semis.