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Eh? He'd walk straight back into our first 11 right now if he was fit. The Shelvey anchor role with Bruno and Joe either side is the best balanced our midfield has looked in this system. Long-term Bruno might take over that role but until we have someone who can play as an 8 who can assist and score like he does he's wasted there.

Right decision I think. Personally wouldn't have minded whatever you's had have gone with. People giving you grief on social media for this need to give their head a shake.

Forest are so poor. The more I see them the more I think they'll go down. Nowhere near ruthless enough in attack and absolute shambles at the back at times.

Villa are depressing to watch, like.

Sancho and Rashford were picked in multiple squads when club form was poor and they didn't deserve it to be fair too. Still think both have a good chance of going to the WC anyway. Doubt we'll take both Tammy and Toney so think Rashford will take that spot and it's probably a toss up between Bowen and Sancho.

Why are people surprised at Maguire getting a call up? He's going to be one of the first names on the team sheet.

It's a game that neither managers, players or the fans want really You can watch the best players like De Bruyne 60 times a season playing for City, where's the demand to see him strolling around in a kickabout with Henderson and McTominay?

Yank Imbecile has been here 5 minutes, doesn't even know anything about the club he's bought and is proposing ideas to change our league already? Anytime one of these daft owners come up with a bright idea that will 'help the football pyramid in the country' you can pretty much guarantee that's the exact opposite of what they are planning.

Think they claimed they were doing the charities a favour as they would be harming them by suddenly giving them a big portion of money Probably the same logic why they've given the bigger charities the majority of the money.

Win could see us going into the International break in the top 6.

Best part was it wasn't even offside either. VAR only looked at the action inside the box and forgot about Candreva at the bottom left playing everyone onside

Two of the games this week are on the Friday as well. We'd be the only Saturday 3pm game. Seems like it would be one of the easiest set of fixtures you could ever get to handle.

Would Policing be an issue at all? Can't imagine all 3 afternoon games on the Sunday being in London making it any easier.

At one point BT sport were claiming the Man United players might have been too emotional after hearing the news of the Queen only 90 minutes before kick off. Blamed that for the shite atmosphere too.

There's games next weekend. Speaking of which, anyone know why there's two Friday games at the same time then?

New VAR technology being used to disallow Leverkusen's goal for offside.

He's grafted loads when he's been on the wing role for Leicester. Their complaint seems to be he's doing too much defensive work under Rodgers.

Yup. When you are at a club that overachieves as much as Brighton are it's very easy to become a victim of your own success. Potter was raging last season because his side were 8th and drew a game and got boos and abuse from the home crowd. Rodgers finishing 5th twice for Leicester was somehow viewed as a failure by their fans. Ranieri didn't even last a season after winning them the league. Howe's stock dropped massively after one poor season and a lot of bad luck at Bournemouth. He'd be crazy to turn down the Chelsea job.

Wonder if Burn will come back in to deal with Antonio on the weekend?

Howe and Potter should both be above Arteta for me.

It looks like they've gambled a bit on being able to constantly finish in the European spots. They seem to be paying wages to the manager and players in line with a club that is an established top 6 side without really the resources to do so. Letting Tielemans run down his contract and leave on a free is awful business. They can't have a repeat of that with Maddison, someone is going to get him on a good deal if not in January then the summer. They've generally done realyy well in terms of recruitment and selling players on for massive fees at the right time. It's a hard model to sustain though and looks like they won't get top dollar for 2/3 of their high value assets left. Only really leaves Barnes as someone they can massively cash in on..

Leicester only have a £35m net spend over last 5 seasons. How come they are so fucked financially? Basically 1/10th of what teams like West Ham have spent who've finished similar positions.

Strange start the season for a lot of sides. Had considered Wolves, Villa, Brighton, Leicester and West Ham to be our main rivals for top 10 if you ignore the big 6. So far only Brighton have started really well. Performances have deserved more points than we've got and if Maxi and Bruno are back and can stay fit until the WC there's nothing to suggest we won't be right up there.

Disallowed.

Pretty much a 10 with no responsibility or instructions. Sure he said that himself. Bruce told him to just do what he wanted up there.