Tiresias

Worrying

Still so sad. What a player he was.

at this point choudhury really ought to file a restraining order

Randomly saw he does a podcast with michail antonio listened to latest one, nothing on there of particular interest and if honest none of them particularly insightful on anything (just a bit of a 'bantz' pod by sounds of it, but was nice how he insisted on his votes for end of season awards to bruno, big joe and eddie howe despite being ribbed for only nominating from his own team

Well i mean we should and will be pursuing a few at a time so keep offer on table in case milan fall through and keep chasing up alternates

Nothing wrong with him choosing us, but anyone think it strange if he prefered Milan is weird. They are historic, current champions with champions league football on offer. Any player should be excited to be linked to that. If a player doesn't want to join us, or at least prefers elsewhere we need to move on to next target. Absolutely try and tempt him with better wages or whatever within reason but ultimately want players excited to join and we can't win them all

Worrying.

I dunno think in a rubbish norwich side probably wrong environment for him harsh to write him off

Not surprised, and for all blaming man u, i was reading how Ralf relied upon his mate at lockamotiv moscow giving him video analysis as a favour (not paid) and ignoring the existing staff at Man U, whom I am sure weren't as good but do have the advantage of being there and being able to devote a lot of time to it. He only belatedly realied Mike Phelan was ok and started taking advice from him later. It seems he tried for first few matches to implement his gegenpressing then realised there wasn't enough time and the players werent going to do it and instead changed plan to play whatever it was they were supposed to be playing, but if you're not getting your team to play your style of football you are known for, is the alternative style ever going to be good? It is a clownshow, and a manager who hadn't directly managed a team for ages who doesn't even enjoy it very much was never a good fit and was a weird call. Absolutely get him in as a director of football or even just to manage your academy, but manager was bad, and of course basically new manager coming in will not be impressed by the guy beforehand who failed and probably won't want his opinion added.

He's 33 used to playing in serie a i dunno classy player but feel maybe will struggle? Probably prove me wrong now

I thought most likely liverpool would bulldoze real madrid, but instead they played tentative which sometimes is smart but never seriously threatened. Real deserve this.

Hmmm. He is absolutely brilliant at some things, he can send balls in with consistent quality only probably equalled by de bruyne. He is not so good at defending, but saying 'he's not that good' is a bit wrong imo, he is that good but he is also quite flawed (TAA that is see a lot of replies)

i feel all the liverpool players are desperate to score a champions league final screamer and thus keep shooting at defenders from outside the box and wasting promising positions

Longer it's goaless more i fancy real, reckoned liverpool might need to have run them over by half time before benzema scores a silly undeserved hat trick after 80 mins

Oh snap

we're not fucking signing neymar guys

Perfectly happy with them as a pairing, an experienced upgrade on Burn would be fine I guess but almost prefer a punt on a very promising youngster if we are to reinforce

Excited to see what he can do with some proper coaching again. Thought he was really good against Arsenal, trying that long range lob and all, looked absolutely desperate to score loads. We need to sign a striker cos he can't be relied upon to stay fit unfortunately but hope he gets a chance

He joint owns the team with mercedes and Wolf (the team principle), not just sponsorship so yes very likely just off to the gp

I can't stand how condescending a lot of clubs and their fans are towards conference league, it gives a lot of modest clubs from across europe a chance to play european football, and I worry some big club from one of the big leagues that has been underperforming will win it every year while acting a bit sniffy about it. I hope when we are champions league regulars and we have a spotty season and end up in it we remember that once upon a time same as when we got to the europa league proper we would have jumped at the chance to play in it. I appreciate the difficulty for clubs playing thursday sunday week in week out, and seen people say how much it has hurt clubs but i don't think it engenders a good mentality to prefer to not play games.

For the record I would happily trade in all our wealth for a league that was run properly under a FFP set that worked where no club has significant financial advantage over the others, noone is paying ridiculous wages and no club is burying itself in debt to sustain success. There is no question the FFP rules are completely hamstrung by the fact they need to be agreed between clubs who won't vote against their self interest, so we have one that is an obstacle for new clubs to spend a lot of money which isn't an obstacle to currently established clubs who have already massively boosted their own revenue. We are likely going to need to work on and improve our revenue to enable us to spend more, this was always the case. I don't think the legal action is a helpful route. It will only rebound on us when the other clubs vote more measures targeted at us if we piss everyone off. We need to get the club making more money, there is a lot of low hanging fruit to do so. We don't need to take any shortcuts to the top, we should do it sustainably and carefully anyway. In the long term there is always the possibility of say regime change in Saudi Arabia leading to them changing their investment priorities and suddenly we are for sale again. I would much rather us be in the position of a well run club making a lot of money rather than reliant purely on money being handed down from on high.

Klopp wins for coming second? Why for gods sake. Could understand if it wasnt meant to be premier league only...ridiculous. Would understand Pep for winning it, would understand Thomas Frank, he's done great work and Klopp has done great work but arguably 2nd place is the minumum expected! grrrr

Big six is a load of bollocks, you have two very rich and more importantly very well run clubs who are absolutely miles ahead of the other 4. Chelsea only ones close and they've been miles off for a while now too. The others have very little to show for their investment but get enough to pull up drawbridge somewhat on clubs below. The main thing it serves is a marketing tool for the league to pretend it's not a two horse race and has been for years.

I remember being frustrated with Sissoko phoning it in too, he clearly had plenty of talent and I am sure it is more complicated than him not being motivated but I remember being delighted spurs decided to spend so much on him. He had some good games, his peaks were high but he wasn't consistent when we needed him. I do remember him absolutely rinsing Ashley Cole at Chelsea when we'd just bought him iirc and was glorious.