Cf

Why are you responding to a point I was making with a completely different one? Nothing to do with compensation. He could have just wanted to stay and have a long term project with us/Brighton. That clearly wasn't his priority and he'd rather climb up to what he sees as the bigger clubs.

I meant the fact he quickly upped sticks for what he thought was a better job. He's done the same with us.

Hopefully we got what we wanted out of him. I'd happily just see him rot until the end of his contract. Some compensation would be nice but it's probably small fry in terms of overall picture of FFP. My dream scenario is Man Utd decide fuck it and get someone else in instead and he's just left out to dry. I don't begrudge people career advancement but come the fuck on you were only here for a year. Given we prised him from Brighton in similar circumstances we shouldn't be surprised I guess.

Ref's been fine tonight. Don't even think he got the penalty shout wrong.

He plays 5 a side every week too (or did, might be a bit busy these days). Unlike most politicians he's actually a football fan.

Starmer is an Arsenal fan. Doubt he'll be building a stadium for Man Utd.

Going to be laughs where every club needs to sell for FFP reasons but there's no one to sell to because we are all in the same boat.

Playing devil's advocate slightly isn't this potentially good for the lower league teams in the sense that rather than earning a replay that they'll probably lose they instead get to go to penalties and this have a better chance of getting to the next round? Though I'm still against this change obviously.

It makes sense Arguably in some ways xA is a more useful metric than xG. A top quality striker can outperform xG by being good. WIth assists though you're at the mercy of who you are assisting. You'll have a much higher assist number if it's Isak you're creating the chance for vs Gayle for instance. it's just a way to measure the amount and quality of chances created. As with any other stat it's not the be all and end all.

They had multiple seasons of being able to buy the league without any real competition.

Lots of players would have flung themselves to the ground there trying to buy a free kick.

I reckon he'd get the Chelsea treatment from the fans and be seen as someone who is beneath them and would end up under pressure quite quickly. Still though. Do a job for a few months and enjoy the payoff afterwards. Take a leaf out of his boss's book.

Us.

I didn't even know this was a thing. Slightly baffled if I'm honest but a particular shout out to "game is far from over".

In some ways it feels important to end the season with these guys all playing and Isak on a high so that he thinks we'll go places next season. There'll clearly be interest in him. Had we continued our December form for the rest of the season we'd have struggled to keep him I think.

They even missed us out when going through Man Utd's remaining fixtures. As if they're getting anywhere near 4th or 5th

Why hasn't the ref been told to go and look at it?

Fuck right off. Jammy cunts.

Because it was given to Man Utd.

Maguire

Wtf is that defending.

Isak, Gordon, and Barnes are gonna batter this lot.

Had a sneaky look at the Spurs fixtures but I reckon we don't worry about that unless it's somehow on with a couple of games to go. 6th still the target.

What a guy.

Yeah do think we should take Bruno off to lock in his escape.