Tiresias

Relax i didn't watch the spurs game, nor the Everton game and now I'm chilling in The Town Wall with my Everton mate. It seems if we stomp Southampton i can never watch us again

Eddie doesn't go radgie on touchline but literally employs tindall to do that lol

Fair enough apologies

Yeah describing the arsenal of viera and henry as not a force is a somewhat odd take

He's better than his performance though i do think it is likely just rust

He doesn't give a shit either way one suspects

If you told me at start of season we'd be 20 points clear of Chelsea at this stage I would have assumed we'd walked the league somehow

Rafa staying in touch with our players what a class act he is. Meanwhile Howe talking to Longstaff more in first month than bruce did in 2 years. What a fucking dope.

Fair enough really, but I do think some of the season has to be about having a fun adventure. I do agree it is a difficult balance to be made, and yes would be great to solidify place in league, but this is all about Howe learning to (and I definitely think this is an area he needs to address for next season) rotate efficiently. I think player morale will suffer more for fielding weaker teams for europe more than anything. I think if we signed 7+ players we would be disappointed either way as I don't think so many will all fit in well immediately either. It's going to be tough I just don't think we can afford to field 'weakened' teams in champions league, we will get torn apart, half the players will think well I didn't sign to not even try and we will lose momentum etc. I can totally see us missing out on 4th next season as Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs and Man U are all likely to be substantially better. Maybe it will be that we get knocked out with a slightly weakened team, but I just can't get behind saying brentford away is a bigger game than a champs league tie. We want to be competing at the top we need to learn to balance it all, not throw one for the sake of one other competition. If we finish 6th next season, so what, we aren't in financial trouble, the club will keep refreshing the squad, we will get there to winning the league one day. Maybe it's because I think that's still a waaaay off anyway.

We are not going to end up like West ham or squad is already significantly better, but yes i do anticipate there will be a negative impact on League performance. I guess unless we are actually going for the title i don't see the point of finishing in to 4 if we're going to write off or European games. Now i could understand under those circumstances doing what you suggest in domestic cups. But the best players who join us will join us to play in Europe. I don't imagine we will easily get out of the group stage anyway first attempt but just putting all our eggs into accumulating more points is a soulless objective imo.

Really? Happy to throw champions League for finishing closer to the title? We wait nearly 20 years to get back to the champions League and you want to throw the bteam in? I know League team will suffer but what is the fucking point of finishing top 4 anyway if not to play the best and try out best? No chance we'll get far first time out but playing the b team to beat Brentford? What?

If he does should be allowed to. Not impossible he has personal life all set up here, is well liked in dressing room, and as said could get coaching badges, however it is kinda sad for a CB to be 29 and not playing week in week out.

If lascelles is happy to that's fine, get him doing coaching badges he seems the type considering how much he seems to be valued on the training ground. He should be under no illusion though. In summer we will likely sign a new left back, Burn will likely be ahead of him as a backup CB if he's not at left back. Equally we will likely sign competition for Schar who will likewise be ahead. Unless one of them is odd his playing time will be minimal, but equally we will have a lot more games next season.

Funny mention that FourFourTwo literally just dropped video on exactly that lol

Offer Schar and Burn 2 year extensions, Wilson 1 year (sorry but he is running out of time, gets on with eddie so may want to join coaching staff?), move on Kraft and Manquillo, whom both have been decent servants ultimately but won't be needed.

Hmm fair enough, but I just don't think he's had that spectacular a season from what I've seen so feels odd to get big wage increase off that. He could certainly play for a top 6 squad, it's up to him he does seem to enjoy being the main man at Palace too rather than a cog.

Would be slightly concerned about how easily he gets yellow cards at international level. In prem he's got away with rag dolling a few opposition players with warnings that are probably worse often in international games

Oh yeah i can understand that somewhat. It's just bolsonaro is fairly...um extreme but can let go with most players not being too engaged. It's mainly really neymar being very close to him, claiming a pious social conservatism while fucking everything that moves in wild parties etc etc

I had that opinion of Chelsea but from all the potter fallout one thing that emerged was that the players while obviously very concerned it wasn't working didn't hate potter or try and force him out apparently they liked him and appreciated his approachability and honesty with then. Yes there were some jokes but he wasn't a disciplinarian and they weren't apparently coming from a place of disliking him. All to say as much as i thought it may be like the psg dressing room out Chelsea of old it is a kinda unique situation with way to many players. Poch will need to be more disciplinarian than potter i expect and they just need to sell sell sell half the squad and start again.

Somehow klopp will win it still and we all know it

Young hungry promising and quick right side centre backs to deputise and eventually replace schar is 100% high priority imo along with defensive mid and left back

Apologies for some reason thought you bought him for £50m or something my memory is completely off there

All fair

Aye one of the reasons he was very popular at everton was he's apparently a real good egg. Lets not forget he was one of very few in the brazil squad who was publicly anti Bolsonaro. (Don't want to know what Bruno and big Joe think about it all lol for fear of disappointment)

I said botman was better but may be overcorrecting from seeing schar doing more sort of last ditchy stuff and so my mnd thinks botman probably sorting things out before gets there, but its just difficult they've both been brilliant.