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Aye, which is an absolutely mental approach against an opposition that thrives when given loads of the ball and has been falling to bits all season when pressed.

My prediction in the pre-match thread… We’ve been bollocks. Another game where we’re far too passive and we get arse rodded.

You imagine we’d have chucked in a couple of water testers to see where the line was.

I think people are jumping the gun. It doesn’t mean anything yet (unless we’ve had a sizeable sponsorship offer knocked back, in which case we could conceivably go after the PL for compensation). It bodes well that the same panel are looking at the updated but equally bodged APT rules from last year. There were only a couple of token changes made to address the obvious and immediate problems the old one had. You’d imagine you can drive a bus through the current version too. This is a war of attrition. The end game will come when the PL can’t be arsed to fight in court anymore. Give it another 12-18 months before we get some much softer rules.

Name change to Stephen Ireland

Juventus need to accept they’re a medium-sized European club now. They’re only ever going to be good enough for the scrapings from the PL table. They should be honoured Kelly has went there.

This is the sort of game we’ve got right up for this season and really played at our best. 3-0 City.

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The problem Longstaff has is that you don’t notice him when he’s playing well. He doesn’t have the same levels to his game that Bruno and Tonali have, he’s never going to be a highlight reel player. But when he’s on it he really helps hang the midfield together by being the person who does the unsexy stuff. The flip side of that is that when he has a shitter it’s really obvious. Not only is he crap, but we’re usually getting battered too. I’ve no idea why a local lad who has played a pivotal role in the progress of this club over the last few years gets so much hate. But then there’s a huge amount I don’t understand about some of the entitled fuckers that ‘support’ us.

Has he been ruled out for the next few months yet?

He’s got it all but he’s raw as fuck.

The poor cunt who I used to sit behind in the Strawberry Corner got more kisses from me than my wife.

Too late to get Kelly back?

He was class when he played over Xmas man.

“He’s finished.” Some people on this board man.

It could turn out to be a touch of genius but I’m incredibly uncomfortable with this change in approach, like. Feels like we’re just giving them the midfield.

You’d think it’d make it better by allowing fans who want to make a noise to concentrate in dedicated places. Better than right now when those fans have to work around the po-faced knackers who think anyone trying to generate an atmosphere is an impediment to their 90 minute sponsored silence.

Angles fan

If the arena site is a non starter then this is the best possible outcome.

I’ll not have this slander. The 98-99 away kit looked absolutely lush. Yes, it clicked like fuck the minute you put it on but it looked beautiful. Shame I associate it with such shit football. Less arsed about the 97-98 shirt, but I can see how a modern iteration could be a bit of a cult hit. Off-centre sponsor is really unique and colour scheme wasn’t dreadful.

7 windows without a first team signing is disgraceful.

Yes, it is. We haven’t brought in £30m. We’ve brought in £10m and we’ve loaned out a player who’ll move in the next PSR cycle. Furthermore, potential CL revenue wouldn’t be a factor in this PSR year. So even if we qualified we’d probably need to sell someone big to avoid a points deduction next season if we spent Also I’ve zero idea why - when we’ve found it so hard to move fringe players on - we assume there’s an easy, PSR-busting sale for players like Barnes that would save us in June. The people in charge of the club know what they’re doing. It’s a calculated gamble but then so is everything in football. There’s no easy solution but sticking with the squad that has us in fifth and not fucking us for future transfer window seems like the best bet.

But if we invested in any meaningful way we’d have to lose a purple anyway?

Kim Jong-un has had a glow up

Kelly deal is likely structured as a loan-to-buy for PSR reasons at Juve’s end, so we won’t be getting that fee until next PSR cycle. Which is to say we don’t have any more money to spend this window.