Emotic

Branco van den Boomen from Toulouse on a free, anyone? Weirdest player ever. Ajax academy, joined Toulouse when they were relegated, posted massive scoring and assist stats in Ligue 2. Now in Ligue 1 and posting impressive numbers for shot-creating actions, progressive passes and key passes. Basically a stats monster. Plays as a number 8, so could be a useful backup to Bruno. Good in dead ball situations and not afraid of a "Schar long pass" as well. Only drawback is that he's a little old at 27.

I'd suppose the flip side of the argument is that he may then not be arsed to perform to his best in the games in which he didn't bet on himself. Anyone directly involved in matches imbalances the game to some degree when they bet on an outcome.

Is that Tindall as General Grievous or what?

Fuck it, Vinicius Jr. He wants out, we love wingers. Swop him for Gordon.

Vitor Roque would be ideal if he wants to come here. Super high ceiling yet won't be demanding a starting spot cos he's a newb. Has Joe and Bruno as mentors.

Yeah, bar the likely damp squib of the final day's matches, the rest of the season has been brilliant. Made triply more enjoyable by ourselves being mint and the scruffs down the road getting to the playoff then losing to Luton. Makes me wonder too how we'd have done if the World Cup hadn't curtailed our momentum when it did. Edit: Ah you meant Chelsea. Yeah it was terrible for them lol. Fuck 'em.

Clinging on may well be worse for them when they eventually go down. See the Mackems hanging on year after year just because of the six points we gifted them. And when they went down, they stayed down.

I just realised they're playing Southampton their final match too. Fuck

Cheers. It also means we can basically play without all that pressure. Last home game of the season, nice evening out. Great end to the season!

Am I right that at most, Liverpool can only match our 69 points? So as long as they don't make up the +7 goal difference in our favour, we don't even need the points anymore?

Yep. If Liverpool lose, the most they can get is 68. We are on 69.

Levy getting the "there there, it's not so bad" pat from that lady.

Also, love Trippier doing the finger pointing to the temple "focus lads, focus!" gesture whilst being mobbed after that first goal . Such a goddamn champion.

The two Brazilians are so fucking radge, man. Really great chemistry, and really superb, positive energy just radiating from them. It's clear they absolutely love the local adulation from a football-mad public over here.

The same knacker that equated Isak's dribble against Everton to "sportswashing", ladies and gentlemen. Now literally falling over himself sportswashing another repressive Gulf regime. A lazy, no-mark, unabashed hypocrite.

His corner flag sand bunker golf chip that resulted in the Miggy chance was incredible, tbf.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/18/almiron-enciso-paraguay-newcastle-brighton Some context in here. Almiron has made Newcastle massive in their neck of the woods. Enciso idolised him so much he was afraid to ask for his shirt after a national game lol.

Cheers for the clarification.

Can Brentford just loan him overseas for eight months then? In which case they can arrange for a cheeky striker loan swop for, say, Tammy Abraham.

Sunlun look like a team of midgets against this Luton side. Luton players are yuuuge.

So toothless. Absolutely zero threat.

Nope. The seven points are to beat Liverpool, assuming they win their remaining (very winnable) games. Brighton is less of a problem given that they have to play us, Arsenal and Man City still. But if they win everything, they can get 73 points.

Moral of the story is that Sean Longstaff is more of a talisman than we all ever thought!

Let's just get PIF to buy Real Sociedad as our feeder club if we're going to hoover up their best young imports year-on-year

Our knock-on revenue from Korean market visibility will also help FFP accounting. I'm all in!