SteV

The days of them being able to cherry-pick players from the likes of us and Villa are gone. Even clubs like Brighton, whose model is to sell, can command astronomical fees, so what’s a club that doesn’t want to sell going to ask for? Too much in the current PSR-landscape. The only way they can really get at our players is to start adopting Madrid-like long-term unsettling tactics, and that’s harder to do in the same country IMO.

Guehi

Psychologically damaging equaliser to concede that.

And 7 if Villa win the CL and don’t get top 5.

He did his hamstring in one of Moyes first matches.

I’d take a crushing 6-0 defeat for them, and the subsequent recriminations that would result.

He’s reportedly on 100k at Everton. If the theory of getting increased wages when you’re on a free, holds, then he may be getting up towards that. His age could dictate otherwise like.

As @Weezertron said, the theory of getting significantly more than your ‘worth’ because you’re on a free, is probably valid. That said I’d still doubt we (or anyone else) would put him on Isak/Bruno/Targett type money.

It is, but at the same time, barring an injury to Isak, you’d imagine him to be playing less minutes than he’s been at Everton, even with us having additional games.

Which until this current injury had been excellent for the last two seasons.

Panel included: Sir Alex Ferguson, Gary Neville, Steve Bruce, the ghost of Matt Busby and that weird YouTube bloke.

Under the same agency as Eddie and a few of the players isn’t he?

Long as the wages aren’t prohibitive, I can see it happening.

2015

Only costing Villa half a mill a week for their couple of loans.

I think it’s from Brentford (a) game in December onwards. Not really sure there’s a reason for them to arbitrarily pick that point, other than that’s the point Murphy is third from.

Tbf, it was 99.99% guaranteed already. It didn’t really need Arsenal to do that.

Not sure what it says that I’m spotting players in Blackhall Mill and you’re spotting them in San Sebastián…

Wouldn’t be against Arsenal making the CL final ahead of playing us.

Aye, didn’t go off, but it was a pretty heavy collision. Could have reported in with a headache the next day or something.

Probably. It’s supposed to be 10/11 days, but dependent on symptoms to an extent I think. Alison got concussed for Brazil on 21st/22nd March and still wasn’t playing for Liverpool on Sunday.

Tbf their game the week before, at home to Southampton, is massive for them, last one at Goodison etc. Hopefully they expend a lot of emotion in that one, then rock up to our place half-arsed a week later.

They have got some excellent players mind. Who starts for who, is always a bit silly, as no team is an exact replica of another, so it’s not always a fair comparison. For example, Cole Palmer’s brilliant, but what position would he play for us? What they haven’t got, which we do, is an elite manager.