Tiresias

Genuinely i have joked about doing that podcast. I recommend Screen Rot podcast on the High Performance Pod for ripping into it.

I appreciated Humphreys sometimes he did that, but also there was a time on bt sport champions league coverage where he got confused about (AC) Milan and Inter and I was wondering how you do that on that stage...also I can't stand the concept of the high performance podcast....I get it, sometimes, but some of us don't want to wake up at 5am, some of us are quite content with mediocre peformance to be honest

Yes. There really should be some rules as to how many players clubs can sign. There is so much stockpiling going on, it's driving prices up and up and making it impossible for clubs to compete.

I don't disagree, he's just still in the benefit of the doubt area for me. Henderson tho...

I mean what do people expect from fixtures after long grueling league season? I dunno anyone would have sparked a stirring performance On the other hand this does all feel like classic FA overreaction signing. Southgate was hired and kept on on vibes (and also results, it's just when we get to a final we were always by far the worse team). But FA are like hmmmmm can't go all the way with a common garden vibesman. Need to sign a super intelligent systems manager who wants to instill modern posession football. Only that's really tough thing to do with a rotating cast of players who barely spend any time together. Also don't get me wrong, Tuchel could well be that perfect balancing manager in the middle whom can instill good vibes in the camp, get the players delivering their best on the pitch, and also tactically competent to know that TAA is not a fucking defensive mid. I do think though he has a long way to go in only a year before the world cup tho

RIP, what a player he was

Oh I know you are right, and perfectly capable of being effective and attractive, just the phrase double pivot gives me flashbacks, and I hated how we lined up for so long with 2 defensive(ish) mids totally detached from the attacking players almost just as a default formation.

Genuinely hate the double pivot, i hate the name, i hate the boring 4-2-3-1s it produces that are actually 4-5-1s cos there are no old fashioned number 10s anymore anyway and I dont even think it makes sense anyway.

If 60m is too much for single players we either better be all moneyball shit and be recruiting from outside the league or we need to be forgetting about competing at the top. Maybe mbueno isn't worth it, i can believe if he's had over performed fair enough but if we have ambition and want proven players it will cost

20 goal a season winger for 60m? Easy decision imo bid bid bid

Can't believe they haven't even discussed changing psr to end the encouraging of sales of home grown players. Regardless of the rest of it being a mess it's disgraceful to the fans to see all of 'their own' being shipped off for this reason. The league should be encouraging clubs to play more homegrown players...

Yes. I think it is healthy for a champions league club with resources to have 4 top quality midfielders (i.e. Tonali, Bruno, Joelinton, New Signing)+ young ones hoping to break in (i.e. Miley), there's just no way that all 3 are able to play so many games and we can't have one being out causing too much disruption.

Yes will be plenty of chances get that, but we know who is going to be picked for the big games fitness allowing and that will matter...I do think we should have two high quality strikers though, I just think Mateta if he is wanting to leave (and I'm not sure he will, Palace seem to be on the up, have Europe now thanks to fa cup, although they are cursed to finishing 12th all the time), I imagine a club pitching him to be their main number 9 is going to attract. Who are we kidding Chelsea will sign him along with Delap and 3 more just for the lols.

Remember change of ownership with Everton, new owners may actually have some ambition

Is Mateta achievable? It's not much of a punt he has grown to be an excellent centre forward for Palace so I imagine he would cost an absolute bomb but don't know if time left on contract etc. I also wonder if he'd want to come to play second fiddle. I think we're more likely to sign someone up and coming again with a bit more risk attached. Mateta would be great but doubt it