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Looks like Southampton are looking at Danny Rohl.

Knowing our luck, he'll do his other ACL.

He wasn't during the 22/23 season like, he was solid as a rock, and while he wasn't great there last year, the fact he came back a month early from a broken back because the team was decimated adds a lot of brownie points for me.

"Derby"

Its not clubs coming up being shitter, its the clubs in the Premier League raking in loads of money, they standard has gone up substantially, so clubs coming up basically need a whole new 11 to compete.

Fucking hell

Subbing someone after 14 minutes

I've not watched Southampton since the opening game, they are so so bad, it looks like they're just going through the motions, offering nothing.

I know they have two squads etc, but Chelsea did play a game in -13°C temperatures in Kazakhstan, only 150 miles off the border with China, I think it's fair enough really

That Spurs back 5, woof.

Southampton have the chance to do the funniest thing.

Man City are just mentally shanked, they haven't refreshed the squad particularly well, so the hunger to go again from the same set of players after a grueling campaign last season, and the 3 seasons previous just isn't there. I also think they're a prime example of an issue that a lot of clubs are having, none of their players have had a break since COVID, they're all being run into the ground, there was a Euros and Copa America in the summer, before that there was a mid-season World Cup which elongated and condensed the calendar, the year before that it was year late Euros, all the while, more and more games are being added to the calendar, like potentially 4 extra games in the Champions League, a new revamped club world cup, its just unsustainable from a physical point of view. As an example, Phil Foden is 24, and he's already played 329 games for club, and 43 games for England. Its ridiculous.

Now would be a good time to turn over to BT Sport if you don't want to completely undeserved Man United Wankathon

If Man United play like that against Bournemouth next week, they'll get fuck all from it. If Man City play like that against Aston Villa next week, they'll get fuck all from it.

Man United have been so trash, fucking hell

Otherwise known as a ghosty poo.

I know there is still 20 minutes left, but Man United have been utter atrocious here. They're playing the most frail Man City side of the past decade, who have really struggled to deal with any sort of transition, and Ederson hasn't had a save to make. And as I type Fernandes misses a sitter

Bruno Fernandes has been awful here.

Thank fuck there is another couple of games after this to cleanse the pallet

People saying Man City have been poor, while they have been by their standards, they're the ones that have done the majority of the running, even if it is side to side. Man United have been worse, they've offered nothing.