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Was shagging an Arsenal fan the other night and she literally cried "CALL IZ SUPER KEV" as I was about to fire one over her tits.

That's quite a bit different than some random 3rd party crypto then isn't it? Like crypto as a way forward is interesting but it's a different conversation than some recent millionaire hipster trying to buy a football club with a Shiba fork or some shit.

Who would be behind the digital pound though?

Well yeah but do you think we're at a spot now where it should be within football?

Not a massive crypto nerd but atm it seems to basically be a vehicle to buy tack off the darkweb or to win/lose money on betting if a coin will rise. The latter is probably much more effective than sports betting tbf. As actual currencies they are a long, long way off being even remotely useable like.

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They're restricted by FFP (Financial Fair Play). People were suggesting we would have about 190 mil to spend but the more we spend of that the less we can spend in future windows. Basically we sort of have to balance buying players we need to take us to the next level and players we really just need to keep us up until the summer. Loans and players coming to the end of their contract fit in the latter bracket.

I think a 4 1/2 year deal would be fair enough tbh, he'll have at least another 2 1/2 years at the top you'd imagine and then another couple years as an experienced squad member. He looks in good nick.

That's obviously bullshit like, I cannot see us having any issues paying him 120 a week It's probably on the lower end of what you would expect us to be offering a player like Trippier.

It would be regardless of how it's done tbf, clubs should have access to video from the VAR room or something. It does explain the baffling decisions though. It's a silly implementation but I assume it was to try and reduce the use of VAR and give more weight to the referee's calls.

Eh? It's clear how it works it's just a very bad system. It's judged a clear and obvious error if the referee cannot describe the incident, whether or not his decision was wrong isn't factored into it. Ie when Lascelles threw Chamberlain to the deck the ref would have needed to say something like "there was a collision between Lascelles and Chamberlain, the latter went to ground too easily" to prove that he saw the incident. The fact we can watch it back and see that it was a clear foul isn't factored in. He's proven he saw the incident so VAR won't check it

Regardless of what Clark was doing Dubravka needs to claim that ball like. They both looked gormless as fuck.

Where do we stand on the FA Cup winners being given a Champions League spot, then?

What's the crack with Alli like? Last I remember of him he was class but seems to have pulled a Stephen Ireland?

It's so weird like. What team was it when the created a mock up dual badge?

So what would we reasonably have to spend do people think? If we're to think of like 7-8 realistic transfers/loans we probably need? Trippier is listed at £15m Rodon loan Etc

Aye there are probably a lot of issue I haven't thought of tbf

You're probably right like. Even so I've always liked Dummett. Even before Benitez I thought he got a tough ride despite never really putting a foot wrong, THAT BANNER was cringey as fuck too. We obviously need a new left back but until we have adequate cover too I wouldn't be getting shot of him.

A British/Irish cup would actually be canny like. The League Cup has always felt a bit pointless.

Even so if he's injured (which he is known for) we're left with Darlow. Dubs isn't really a great all-round keeper though, is he? He's a great shot stopper on his day but we could definitely do a lot better.

If we could only sign 5 players I'd probably go: CAM CDM RW RB LB As calamitous as our defence is we have nobody on the pitch who can either score or create anything other than Wilson and ASM.

Well aye because the rest of our squad is absolutely awful. We really are desperate for a new keeper though.

We need a new CB and keeper really like but money also needs to be spent elsewhere so someone like Rodon would be a good shout imo.

Even with something like that our back-up is very poor. We cannot bring in shit either, we need proven quality players in all of those positions.

I haven't looked at it properly but I think it's somewhere around 35 points will usually see you stay up. So like 7 wins and 4 draws from 20 games. Realistically we want to be aiming for like 38-42 (somewhere around the mark where you're pretty much guaranteed survival). If we pick nothing up from Man Utd or Everton, which is entirely possible, that means we're going into January looking to build a squad capable of picking up at least 25 points from 18 games. Whichever way you look at it that's the kind of form that sees you comfortably mid-table and potentially challenging for a Europa place over the course of a season. We have 3 games in Jan too so we need to be quick with our signings.