Ghandis Flip-Flop

especially if they’re the club that finally confirm the 14 American majority owned clubs, to further diminish English football

Fucked if I know, my fates even worse, I’ve been married to a nightclub one night stand for over 16 years now 😂

It feels like the club is the fat loner, left alone as the lights go up at a nightclub, having chased all the 2am Princesses and gotten nowhere; now skulking off home to have a crying pity wank all alone 😂

Aye but Chelsea is the Epstein Island of football clubs and their fans are like ageing Di Caprio's, in that Palmer is a bit too old for them now at 23 and they want the new shiny young thing. (Or maybe they’re just entitled thick, racist, knuckle dragging cunts)

Yes I get that, it’s why Wissa is cheaper. The point I’m making is Brentford don’t want to sell and their ridiculous price is 40% of what we’re asking for Isak. So is it ridiculous in a market where players with one season of first team football in inferior leagues go for £80m+?

Well this is the issue though it’s effectively two years and if you think £60m for him is crazy, we must be utterly mad for asking for £150 for Isak. After all Wissa’s propose fee is only 40% of Isak’s and they both scored a similar number of goals last year

Ordinarily I’d agree but the ref is definitely a homer today. How Saka didn’t get a foul for either of those forearm smashes from Shaw is bewildering to me

Surely they’d look a bit shit having unsettled Isak to such an extent, then pivoting to Wissa. I mean it would make us and Isak look bigger mugs, but they'd look like they were settling after being sure they were getting Isak all summer

Pressure of the situation maybe? Think the inverted wingers probably didn’t help him either tbh

Well it is a bollocks rule though, whatever happened to having attackers standing in the wall? It’s almost as if they’re going out of their way to have less scoring these days

That is an absolutely abysmal decision there, what the fuck are they thinking to rule that out?

I think with a better coach and an actual effective game plan, they could be challengers. But Maresca is not at that level IMO

Long sleeves with Ginola or Gillespie on the back may be a potential purchase

Helps when the opposition are equally as toothless mind

I'd argue the whole back line line did, including Pope who whisper it, actually kicked reasonably well yesterday 😳

And I’ll post my point again, how the fuck have the PFA not challenged the current rules on age discrimination grounds, given that it’s materially damaging the earning potential of players in the prime of their careers? in the fairly recent past, the top clubs would specifically be targeting players in their prime like Watkins, not hoarding those in their early 20’s who might come good. It’s getting to a stage where every player over the age of 26 will be having to pull a Trent and running down their contract if they actually want a move to a top club.

Fees in the region of £80m for both Ekitike and Sesko are utterly wild and mean we have to get £150m for Isak. Just imagine what a similar calibre of player will cost next summer. The ESL clubs continuing to drive fee inflation is another way they assert their dominance and make it increasingly difficult for anyone to compete. Let’s hope this academy seeding starts to bear fruit in the next few years 🤞

If he gets back to the level he was at prior to his ACL injury, he’ll be a decent squad player for the early cup games if nothing else

Aye I’ve seen it said elsewhere, but he hasn’t half turned out class considering he was a cheap, stop-gap signing that first window. I think he's shown himself to be a better purchase than the player we were initially chasing Diego Carlos (remember him?)

Mean's less suspensions for accumulation of yellow cards too 🤣

I think it is really going to be opposition dependent, good team with a strong midfield big Joe will be in if fit, team likely to sit in and try and frustrate us, it’ll be Ramsey in to try and exert more control

FFS let them enjoy their first game back in the PL, if they can’t enjoy days like yesterday, what’s even the point of being a fan? We all know they will face much tougher challenges in the weeks and months ahead and as a result we'll find out how much of yesterday was down to adrenaline and the euphoria of them being back in the top flight soon enough. Anyone making bold statements and firm conclusions about any team's chances after the first weekend, must be daft with short memories

Yeah this is another option given the Ipswich rumours over the past few days, might make sense for him to get consistent game time somewhere. But it feels like he's a better fit to our team than Willock already

My thoughts too, after all it is two years now of Willock either being injured or struggling to contribute to the team when fit. The reality is when he was consistently in the first team in 22/23 he was in the left forward position (Dovetailing with big Joe I know) and his output wasn't sufficient to hold down that position. I think he needs a move to somewhere he's a better fit and will play consistently, given it seems to take him a good run of games to find his rhythm, something he's not going to get here being 5th or 6th choice

Have people not watched any one else in the Premier Legue for the last few years, McGinn has his limitations but one of his strengths is his physicality and effective shielding of the ball, he has embarrassed much more experienced full backs than Livramento in that regard, especially during Villa's CL campaign last year. I think anyone critiquing Livramento defensively yesterday is being overly harsh in my option.