Tiresias

If there is trouble saturday couldnt the club just send out joelinton to absolutely smash them all to pieces single handedly all while grinning

If we did we should replace Lord Grey with Bruno statue tbh

I for one look forward to watching us play in the ChatGPT arena

Yeah Rabiot is not a personality to throw into a unified close knot dressing room, albeit by all accounts half the problem is his mother whom is his agent who will kick up a fuss if he is ever substituted etc

Sandro has been busy...

They'll be fine they'll somehow be in crisis all season and finish near or in top 4 somehow it's what they do right now unfortunately

I mean we are all posting on an internet forum about football, I think sad cunt applies to us all tbh

Equally if Schar loses his starting place to Guehi he may decide to see if he can get a payday move so Saudi or something to prepare for retirement or even get a decent enough move, CBs seem to last a bit longer these days. I'd obviously prefer to keep him, indeed if it weren't for his age i wouldn't swap Schar for anyone really.

So apologies maybe revealing me not having been for a while but i'm going to this (racist fascist twats permitting) with mate and his kids, i have e-tickets all on my phone, this may be stupid question but having only used paper tickets in turnstyles previously we always just gave out the tickets, will the guy on turnstyles scan all my tickets and then let next 3 through on it?

Going with mate and his kids on Friday, any signs the twats are doing anything that day?

Unfortunately it's going to take time, unless the rules get amended sooner, we will get there eventually but we unfortunately just have to be smarter rather than competing on spending with them.

At some point we will have to sell Isak, Gordon or Bruno before contracts start coming to their end and the value drops. It's unfortunate but it's just the nature of the beast. I am not defending it, it's way too heavily geared towards protecting the top 6 rather than what was sold to us to prevent clubs putting themselves in debt to keep up, but it's going to hurt. I am glad the club has managed to get it so we can have another season with these players, but ultimately some will get sold, but it's alright the club has ambition we're not going to do the whole replacing Cabaye with Colback of the old regime, new exciting players will come in.

It's a bit hard to take the argument that we are super competent and know definitely what we can afford when literally a few weeks ago we panic sold two of our most exciting young players. We will have to make a big heartbreaking sale at some point, as all clubs do. We will replace and move on.

I mean buying Wharton for £100m would be madness, but also he's only just been signed by them essentially and would not blame them putting a fuck off price tag on him at all.

Part of me is always baffled by West Ham's transfer policy, bit of me is like, well not everyone is brighton can find cheap talent around and wants to put in the hard yards developing them, they'll just buy very mid talent for mid prices and mid sell on value and assemble fairly random sets of players and vascilate wildly between competing fot europa league places and fighting relegation which no clue in advance which it will be

I thought he did look good for Crystal Palace, and I don't want to judge players based on what the cartel clubs want

I don't really know what TCD has done so wrong on this, I disagree with him a bit, I think he is a good buy will improve us and unfortunately a lot of money is what a 24 year old england international centre back costs. I think he's perfectly valid to point out two areas where he is not quite as good as should be, I think if that is true there is still an overwhelming case for it, I'd love us to buy a complete Virgil Van Dyke or John Stones type but those are at this point very rare and even more expensive, our best bet is spend on a known quantity which will improve us now and then buy cheap younger prospects whom could either become that player or whose sales will fund buying that player.

Tonali isn't someone who quietly controls games, and I have long argued we need a defensive mid who can do that, even if it's just for plan b cos Howe's plan A isn't to have such a midfielder, it's all action high pressing players all the way through so I doubt we will go out and buy one unfortunately

Howe out!

Not sure we can play the whole burnley team in one position

Think a fantastic signing if it goes through. England international, already proven in league means 3 top quality cbs in side with burn and Kelley capable cover.

in a shit team managed by shit managers not going to prejudge him at all.

How awful, absolutely no age

Read that, invite press and keep ball and play through the press doesnt seem to be thaaaat revolutionary, as it mentions the wide players drop inside to act as number 10s and help possession, all good, but that also does leave a certain right back being the only wide player, see that being an issue. That will be plan a against good teams, how they play against all the teams that have no intention of pressing and content with a draw will be what makes them a champions contender or not, I do expect them to be up there but also wouldn't be shocked if the loss of klopp hurts for a while. He'll probably start well get hailed as the new messiah and then be very mid for rest of season, just a feeling but we'll see

convinced we're just cursed against liverpool no matter what