Tiresias

I'm not accusing him of being unprofessional, I am assuming the club are treating him with more kid gloves than they would, if we absolutely needed a result tomorrow he would be playing, I suspect, it's more, he's not 100% no need to rush back and the world cup will be in everyones mind. We want players going to world cup, it shows players who might want to join that they can get into their national teams if they sign for us. More importantly it's us saying you give everything for us we will treat the players as they want to be treated. If Wilson was 100% I am sure he would play but suspect if no world cup it would be more likely he'd play anyway.

Me too but wood will start and ASM may be benched due to playing midweek

I still can't get over I had us dead and buried in January, and by end of February 'oooh we might actually do this'

I agree likely sub, but he's had this cold for like 3 weeks apparently now, I'm not upset really it's a fucking stupid time for a world cup

I don't remember blaming howe at the time much but I remember being fairly sure it was too little too late and I was suspicious on Howe's defensive record. Got that wrong.

I mean that's a fairly transparent he doesn't want to get injured before his possible one shot at being a world cup hero. Can't really blame him.

Dan Burn robbed

I was having a long weekend away with family and I go and get covid. Please win this to cheer me up.

He'll either ride it out or end up with a speech at the conservative party conference

Apology is fucking terrible like. Genuine apology and things can be fixed up but jesus closer to doubling down. I remember watching his interview with Louis Theroux and all he wanted to talk about with him was paedos. Just bringing every question round to "did you want to kick those paedos to death?" which rang some alarm bells.

He's tightened them up a lot at the back by defending deeper and moving to a more counter attacking team. I actually think Lampard deserves credit for this as this wasn't his brand of football going in but the alternative wasn't working. Iwobi also seems a different player than he was now playing through the middle not dissimilar to Joelinton style role. I find him as unlikeable as anyone but whereas Stevie G just stagnated and stagnated at least Lampard changed things up and was pragmatic about getting a working system in. If they avoid relegation concerns this season I doubt he will be in trouble but he will be expected to get more ambitious in how they play moving forward.

Man U will offer vastly higher wages than we still are. It's dead easy to be pious and criticize that being a pull because we'd all play for free but of course that's attractive. Again though almost certainly agent agitating for better terms on new contract 'look he has options elsewhere'

probably agent trying to get us to raise our new contract offer

It's a riddle! Riddler is a batman character Riddler is completely mad Mad - dison Ta dah solved!

I actually don't think Fred is that bad, he is a scapegoat for a whole team never coached to play passing football and because he is a bit of a jack of all trades master of none. He looks a very handy player to have around, but probably not a starter for a serious squad looking to win things but definitely on the bench. Still would have Joe of course but I'm not sure Fred is as bad as some Man U fans make out, there's just been a total lack of technical coaching for a long time and they have been allergic to buying good midfielders to help him until this season when they got Eriksen and Casimero, and even now they are wedded to a 4-2-3-1 formation cos they have to play Fernandez but he doesnt work in any position but number 10, and so you end up with a flat midfield 2 that is normally overwhelmed in games unless one player has a barnstormer. Few things I hate more than the midfield double pivot.

I am sure his confidence will dip at some point and scoring rate will drop, but it is important that this season he is starting from much further up the pitch, has Trippier and Bruno feeding him balls (second half of last season Tripps was out for a while and we were breaking from deeper in general). He is getting more opportunities, I am moderately confident Howe has raised the 'floor' even though goal a game is completely unsustainable.

They sold 11% of the business for £750m so jesus the valuation will be rather steep

With patience and time he could be but doubt he'll get that at Chelsea. The Tuchel sacking was brutal, but also feel a bit like if he wasn't their guy and they weren't going to be patient they should have just sacked him immediately rather than let him start the season. Problem is now, Potter might be the guy to do a root and branch clear out of the squad and rebuild, but unless he rebounds and has them top 4 end of season (entirely possible) does he really have the authority to do so or will the board be not sure they want this guy spending their money. Arsenal did that, stuck it out and are getting their reward now but I doubt Boehly will be the same. At a certain point Pochettino will look an attractive option and the cycle will continue.

Man City are probably very glad they lost that bidding war. He was very good last season and I am sure he will find form again but christ that Chelsea squad seems mad to me, packed full of talent and yet even on paper looks a mess. Absolute definition of less than the sum of it's parts

Why don't Spurs try in the first half, every game shit first half then good second, I get it happening some of the time but every game!

Conte's spurs are poor, they want to counter attack and don't push high much so you want a rock solid back line but instead it's easy to pressure them into mistakes. I can't help but feel the premier league has moved on from Conte's style somewhat, they have the talent to still win plenty but they can't beat teams with their width with their mediocre wing backs

Dier hahaha

Howay Liverpool as much as it pains me to say

WIlson would not be smiling if he was injured Another game, another 4 goals, fuming we conceded like though