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Going to lay my reputation on the line and say he’s going to be an even bigger club legend than Curtis Good

What are the rules, if part of the attacking player’s body is behind the defender’s body then they’re onside? I’m interested, we’ll see a lot more goals but a lot more VARs

All the Americans, once they own 70% of PL clubs you can be sure there’ll be some horrific reforms made to how the league operates

I think the problem with Longstaff is that he doesn’t have a perfect position for the premier league. If he played in a slower league where he gets more time on the ball he’d be a decent centre midfielder. He’s shown that he can pick a pass and deliver nice short dinked balls but ultimately he isn’t strong enough, athletic enough or skilful enough to play CM in the premier league for a side that wants to be top half

I remember Everton would sometimes go on some really poor runs of form but they still always managed to finish around the same couple of positions, was an amazing achievement. He had a great core to the team for years though, Phil Neville, Jagielka, Distin, Coleman, Baines, Osman, Cahill and Howard. The only way a team without huge resources can finish that consistently well is if they manage to hold onto their best players every season. It was like everyone in that side was a 7/10 player at worst

Think we'll win this if Mitro is out, if he's in then it'll be a completely different game. Expecting a very good performance from us, think Eddie will have them completely up for this

It'll definitely happen at some point like, but I think we're at least a decade away due to many reasons. There'd need to be a build up of female coaches in the men's game in lower leagues, they'd need to be successful at each of the different stages but I think it'll happen at some stage.

Great work Ashworth et al, loving this policy

Messi just casually taking the piss after coming on as a sub and scoring two great goals, what a lad

Mitrovic strikes me a loyal lad but realistically there could be a lot of teams in for him, he’d be a good fit at a team like Atleti. I imagine Fulham will find it hard to hold onto him

Either way, it’s essential Saka starts as he’s our most direct option, will just run at people nonstop

Saka and Bellingham were class, the rest were a bit up and down. As great a goalscorer as Sterling has been for us, I think I’d like to see Saka starting alongside one of our other wingers instead of Sterling. Maybe Foden left, Saka right. Rice was good as well, Reece James is good at taking the ball down from lofted passes. Defensively Maguire has to go and Dier + Shaw are weak points too

Oh well, at least no one’s going to try poach Pope off us

Bellingham is immense, has everything you’d want in a midfielder, his lofted balls are so good

Such a great pen, I think the fact that he seems a bit dead behind the eyes must help Kane with things like that

That’s an outstanding goal, amazing work from Saka and brilliant finish from Mount

So disheartening watching us move the ball so poorly, I love Foden and technically he’s probably our best player but we’re not seeing it from him right now. I don’t think it’s his fault, I think we’re just not playing in a fluid way when we attack with the ball, our movement is static, we’re looking at long balls rather than quick ten yard passes where we stretch them. Feels like we’re watching the England team that I’ve grown up watching through the late 90s, 00s and early 10s

Shaw has had a couple of really awful passes infield in our defensive third, should be our boy Matty lining up there

Carthorse with two mistakes inside ten seconds, gives the ball away under the slightest pressure, then clatter into his leg. Absolutely embarrassing defending

It’s more his touch that’s an issue, it absolutely flies off his boot when he tries to kill the pace on it

Much better there though

Our use of the ball has been atrocious, just long hopeful balls to nobody while Germany pass it around quickly in triangles, we look like we haven’t been coached to play as a team

Big announcement? Sponsor for next season?

Yeah, they realised that shows like Have I got News for You and Pointless have paved the way for rotating managers. They're moving towards a system where they'll have a different manager in place for each game of the season. Hats off to them for this bold approach

To be honest, they’re looking very poor considering Pedro and Sarr are in the top five best players in the league, but it’s Watford and they’re a joke