Stottie

Contract extensions under current administration >>>>>> contract extensions during Ashley era. Its been hampered/hamstrung by PSR, but I think the process is working and we should trust it.

Paxo knocked the stuffing out of him!

Cursed ground strikes again but that was still woeful capitulation. Team selection was wrong. Trippier might have been the correct call when we needed his experience to overcome nerves when 2-0 up against Arsenal, but he's well past his best, was a poor choice today, and got crucified. The rest of them weren't much better, esp. in central midfield. Fulham was a weird game but City today and Bournemouth outplayed us start to finish. We played with no authority at all and couldn't even manage a decent ten-minute spell.

First was a gift, second looked borderline offside (show me some lines!), but was still poor defending from Trippier again. Third looked like we'd given up. The guy was in acres.

Makes up for that effing seeding in the Carabao. Give the little clubs a chance! Fantastic from Plymouth. Big ferk up by Slot, so lets see if they can go five minutes without rimming him. Put Mo Salah and Trent on for the last twenty and its probably a different game.

Definitely. Players like Caicedo and Enzo aren't even match winners. Isak has 48 in 74 in the PL, albeit in just 62 games of minutes. Without wanting to jinx it, he looks likely to hit 50 as seventh fastest in PL history, faster than Henry and Aguero. Given that we don't need to sell, any starting bid should be for a league-proven Henry or Aguero. That's just for us to pick up the phone.

As ever, lethal from one yard. Which someone else wasn't.

Osula wide? Or doing some Josh King thing Wilson and Eddie did at Bournemouth? As someone in my late fifties, I wouldn't mind a blast-from-the-past big man little man.

The hate is unlikely to be about Scousers, many of whom are Evertonians. The hate is about the press fawning over them (lots of non Scouser bandwagon jumper fans) and the vast cohort of ex Liverpool pundits constantly rimming them. Lots of diving against us (Salah, Fabinho, Jota just off the top of my head) and Klopp being as ungracious as any manager out there do not help. Them winning the final with a dive is not unlikely. It would be spun as our fault.

CL clubs were seeded this year. It was pretty much all Premier League by the quarter finals. So long as seeding continues, lower leagues won't get anything like as much of a look in.

New song for him (for the over 50s)

No Trippier last minute error vs. Chelsea last season and it would likely have been three finals in three years for Eddie. We lost that one in the quarters but Chelsea only had to get past Boro in the semis.

My guess is that they thought the "related party deals" thing would be defeated. Which it kind of was by City but has seemingly still been resurrected with pundits suggesting its necessary "because Newcastle". There are also still loopholes in PSR, like sell yourself a hotel or a women's team, or use the multiclub model. Maybe thats what is driving the Santos thing. Whatever all the specifics are, I would readily forgive our owners for buying the club without realizing how much resistance there would be to them putting money in.

Good luck to him. Might have been good to see more of him, but not to be. Judging on his last performance for us, he's not a left winger (!) Credit to our transfer team for buying low and selling high.

I don't disagree with the above, but Liverpool got 50M for an obviously finished Fabinho and Henderson. They were not moved on at planned-in-advance timing for optimal cost-benefit. They just happened to be surplus to requirements at a time when a brand new fully cashed-up league popped up out of nowhere. City and Chelsea have similarly benefitted for generally failing players like Cancelo and Mendy the goalie. Duran and Diaby weren't failures, far from it, but Villa got very good money for them. My point here is that other Premier clubs have benefitted from a source of good fortune that does not appear available to us. The money they get benefits those clubs, and also makes them look like they are better run than they actually are.