Tiresias

I wasnt able to watch the first half. I feel i can not watch us ever again...

Where has our intensity gone.

I really hate that PSR stuff is sometimes justified as about fair competition. It's not. And I am a sometime defender of it (largely in principle). It's all about preventing an owner spending ludicrously for short term success and loading a club with unsustainable losses and then bailing and leaving the club bankrupt and the fans screwed over. I get that and think it's good to stop that happening. The fact it is preventing clubs with no concerns over liquidity spending money, and that it is rewarding clubs massively for selling their own home grown talent, is ludicrous and counter productive. We need a set of rules to stop charlatan owners ruining clubs, but we don't have that. If they wanted to make the competition fairer, and I am actually for this, let us be successful on merit not on spending, they need to talk about wage caps and the like, which they won't because the premier league isn't concerned about competition internally, but is concerned about competition from other leagues.

Yeah critique of the location is probably a bit cart before horse. In the next decade presumably a lot will pop up next to it, even if it's a bit crap now will be well worth it for them.

Largely agree though I'd say 9th would be a bit low for where we are, but we aren't consistent enough across the season. It's very difficult to finish top 4 and we dont deserve it for playing at a high level over the Christmas period, we need to do it for longer. A lot of the other teams in similar spots also have reasons they may drop points so not going to give up now.

I do feel for him, think this move has come too soon. What makes it worse was Amorim initially said as much when they recruited him, he asked to finish season in Lisbon and join in summer so he had time to prep. When they insisted immediate he should have turned them down.

More like Ashley every day

It is a fair point hah. Yes he had end product on Saturday didnt mean to imply otherwise, but just needs consistency. As Wilson cannot be relied upon our main backup to Isak is either Gordon as striker (which negates some of his strengths imo but he can do it a bit) or this guy and it's hard to know if he consistently will score goals. It's merely one good game of creating chaos doesnt feel enough yet.

If it's so wild they can go and sign another comparable striker elsewhere surely! Oh... wait...

If we have to sell to buy more we need more saleable assets not just 'purples'. We do need to flesh out the squad with promising young players whom either grow into regular first teamers or get sold for solid profit after a couple of seasons. At present almost all the players with value are ones we still can't afford to lose. We are also in the position that if one gets sold the money will go on replacement, whom will tend to take 6 months to adapt to howeball. We need to start bringing in replacements before the sale and that means cheaper bargains not expensive already established players. Such is psr.

Did look well suited for the howe high press. Question remains on real end product but was positive

GET IN YOU CUNTS

wildly offside

of course

nailed on 0-0 to be honest