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I'm not really a fan of music in stadiums most of the time but the fans had been singing it for about 10 minutes before FT

Was so noticeable straight away those zipped balls through to the midfield. Ups the whole team's tempo.

It's ridiculous IMO. If they're going to enforce injury time like this then they probably need to reduce the game to 40 minute halves. Players are playing way more in-play minutes than ever before.

It's probably not been stated enough how much this will have contributed to our injury problems this season. Every match is 20 minutes longer than it used to be. High intensity styles of play suffer more.

That was absolutely bizarre. One of the weirdest challenges I've ever seen.

Well agree with that. I expect they thought he'd contribute more than he has done.

It can clearly be somewhere in-between the two though. They don't think he's ready to play every week yet, but still see the potential. Therefore angling towards avoiding the obligation and getting a reduced fee would make sense considering the current fixed fee is pretty high. Especially since Chelsea will be banking on getting some kind of fee for him in their accounts and probably don't want him coming back next summer.

Again you've got to look at the Hall deal as a bonus. We only signed him because we could do it as a loan deal. He doesn't count towards the PL squad because of his age and he's versatile. I think if Hall doesn't come in we just sign 3 players this summer.

Btw it could just be a game to bargain the fee down if the obligation isn't going to be met.

Don't think there'd be much point in sending him back, as he doesn't count towards the squad at all now we're out of Europe. Might as well keep him about and see how it goes if we've paid a loan fee for the season.

It's a lot of money on the lad. You can see why they might be having second thoughts considering where else we need to invest.

Howe saying he might still need an operation as well.

Jesus fuckin Christ. Honestly man, fuck off. To think he was signed in part, like Tonali, for his exemplary fitness record as well.

You can pass it on to anybody. Just a case of sending the email and they click the link to add to wallet. It's not 'formally' passed on and will still have the buyer's name on it, but it's extremely easy to do.

It definitely blew my mind when I saw how easy it was to transfer tickets. Our current membership/digital ticketing system combined with demand exceeding supply is basically a touts wet dream.

Mourinho has been a phenomenal manager through his career but he's very much becoming (or already is) yesterday's man, just like Rafa of the same era.

I'd say keeper probably wasn't a priority but is now arguably the biggest one for me. Keeper, Phillips on loan to cover Tonali, and right wing would be what I would probably look at doing. Depends how we're looking at CB in terms of Botman and Burn though. If we're still struggling there then recall Minteh and spend money on the defence instead.

Would love to get into the Girona underdog bandwagon then remember they're a Man City feeder club.

Not really like. And they could have had 8.

Obviously the overall picture isn't, but in isolation this definitely has been as bad. We've looked staggeringly open and with almost no threat.

First big test of his time here I feel at the moment. This has been genuinely as bad as anything under Bruce.

Sorry, lack of match practice or not, but he looks absolutely atrocious.

The games over. Just get Trippier and Gordon off.

Ashley era shite this mind. Fucking hell.