Kid Icarus

It would have, but I do think us being a very likely injury away from starting Chris Wood should be the main focus for us. Just my opinion as well obviously, but I think an out and out RW is a more suitable fit than Maddison, as good as he is.

Hopefully we move on to getting a striker

I know mate, that's why we're having this conversation

You don't get a 100% record just by doing that like. He gets plenty of stuff about ongoing talks etc and even just on us he was the only one saying adamantly from the start that Lucas Digne wasn't coming.

I'm pretty sure 'here we go' has a 100% record. Tap in merchant or not, he's good because he's accurate.

I'm not going but someone should definitely ask whether they still have reliable sources at the club, or whether it's changed since Ashworth came in. They can always just lie like, but it might give us an idea based on how they answer it.

Man City almost certainly aren't

I'd hazard a guess that we're the other club. Doesn't look like we're in with a shout, but if Chelsea get him I guess it could make Broja a possibility again.

Crystal Palace 1 Arsenal 2 Fulham 0 Liverpool 4 Bournemouth 1 Aston Villa 2 (Edit: had the 2-1 the wrong way around) Leeds 1 Wolves 1 Newcastle 1 Notts Forest 1 Spurs 4 Southampton 0 Everton 1 Chelsea 2 Leicester 2 Brentford 0 Man United 2 Brighton 1 West Ham 1 Man City 3 Spurs for double points

I've considered having both, but never instead of Salah who's that player it's just far too risky to not include because of how many people have him.

Aye mate, it must that you know more about the inner workings of Leicester than the average Leicester fan We had exactly the same hubris when we were after Diego Carlos and know-nowts like you thought they knew better than the Sevilla fan on here who, shock horror, was absolutely right.

Take 17

Yeah, avoid any Man City players who are a rotation risk imo.

It shouldn't be that big a deal but there's something about people asking for threads to be locked that I find incredibly annoying and pathetic like.

fivethirtyeight and Nate Silver are perhaps the world's biggest stat nonces and regardless of what they might tell you about the algorithm, are essentially only giving you probability based on the existing conditions.

We bottled it by letting them co-opt it and dilute it into a meaningless spectacle and cynical PR. They never had anything to bottle because they don't stand for anything other than profit.

Feel like I've seen every variation on that headline

Listened to the Hope segment and it made sense tbh, he even said the Wilson thing was obviously tongue in cheek.

FWIW, it has similarities with the Duff signing in 2005, which IIRC had exactly the same 'he's not what we need vs aye he is coz he's class!' argument on here.

I sort of agree with the sentiment, just not the ridiculous levels he's gone to.

Even in that context Maddison sticks out like a sore thumb in terms of how they all play like.

Presumably a lot of Rashford's will be for trying to give hand outs to the enemy within, hungry kids.

I do trust the manager, I can still question the thinking behind his decision making, that's generally how you end up understanding things.

Maybe so, but he's not a RW in the mould of Diaby or anyone else we've mooted for that position so I'd be surprised if Howe wanted Maddison with that position in mind.