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The amount of turnover we're likely to see over the next few seasons is definitely gonna need us to sell players and get a bit back for them to help FFP. Absolutely fine tying him down for a few years now and probably selling for a few mil next year.

Saw an article yesterday before the match saying they were using this match to test out a makeshift back 4 ready for the final and to make sure Cheillini was fit enough to play it

Selling Wilson or not depends entirely on if he's willing to warm the bench. If he's fine to be a backup I'd keep him but I wouldn't want to stand in the way if he'd rather look for 1st team elsewhere.

It's mad that people still hold onto the "He doesn't fit with X club's tactics therefore he'd be shit literally everywhere else" mentality too.

It was the acceleration too. He'd just draw players in then leave them for dead.

Also, players and other clubs seemingly helping Barca as much as possible over the last year and a bit. They financially fucked themselves so hard they should absolutely be dying. They're not though. Any other club in the world in their situation asking players to take pay cuts would be told where to go very quickly but Barca get loaned players for nowt or sign free transfers on lower wages. And they're still talking about trying to sign fucking Haaland and that. It's mad. it's like the rest of Europe is seeing a major powerhouse of a club struggling and instead of trying to capitalise on this they're all trying to prop them up.

Really specific stats that mean absolutely nothing. "The youngest player to reach 76 goals from open play, in this specific league while not playing for some arbitrarily picked top teams since the last player to do this 5 years ago, who was even younger and therefore completely invalidates this as a record anyway."

Everyone wants to find a "Hot take" so they just parrot a load of shite that seems correct if you're not actually paying attention.

I always thought Beckham was overrated.

Zonal Marking had the right take. It's a type of foul I really fucking hate, no matter what side of the pitch it happens on. If you can't stop someone within the laws of the game then you've been beaten. That doesn't give you carte blanche to hack people down.

They probably feel fine giving him the ball in those places because they do the same thing in training and watch him put Hayden and Longstaff on their arses ten times a day.

It was a better attempt at a protest than the XR lot turning up at the Ministry this week. What you protesting against? Oil and Gas So you're protesting the people who produce and sell them, right? No, but we've noticed Barclays invest in those companies. So you're protesting Barclays, right? No, we've noticed the government use Barclays to send out benefits and tax payments. So you're protesting the government then? No not exactly. We're protesting a local branch office in a region historically ignored by the government. That'll show 'em

That turnover for the goal is always going to happen with the way he plays. He's all about drawing players in as close as possible so when he gets his foot in first he will leave them on their arse in the dust. It's such a fine margin that he's inevitably going to lose out once in a while. It's the sort of thing the rest need to be aware of and ready to cover.

Everything else aside he just needs to be hitting the target more. We need to make these little chances count and heading straight at the keeper or reet up in the air every time he gets a good chance is killing us.

Dunno about that like. It was a 10min delay to a game of football. Not exactly up there with XR hopping on top of the tube at rush hour or Insulate Britain blocking ambulances from getting to hospital.

I thought it was Spencer from Phoenix Nights

Hard to judge him in an offensive context last night as he was clearly being targeted for man marking. Still managed to escape the press a fair few times though so he deserves praise for that.

Aye but he's shite in both of those positions. We've got a RB and a CB in this window and he should already have been bottom of the pecking order for both spots.

I'd be binning off Krafth from the squad before Lewis or Hayden.

Covid outbreak in the NZ squad

Man U fans on twitter all laughing themselves into a coma repeating the same joke about this being payback for us asking for £50mil for Longstaff when they offered £20mil or something. Only they could be bitter about not getting ripped off

Oh aye, I'd still love all 3 and I assume the money would help them massively but they've been on one of those mad streaks of unearthing absolute diamonds and I just feel icky if this ends up being the end of that streak because they've had to scramble mid season to replace so many.

I'd hate it of we were the team to properly dismantle Atalanta. They've gotten away with a few leaving over the past few windows but I feel like pinching both fullbacks mid-season feels like a killer blow.

He's probably agreed to more money over a longer period. Tinfoil hat says he knows his legs are turbo-fucked and won't ever make it through another medical so he just wants to prolong the income for as long as possible.

Aye imagine getting the first choice names on his lists instead of the 10th choices.