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Opens up BBC Sport goal updates, sees Minteh and Anderson have scored. Closes BBC Sport goal updates.

Good that he misses our game though.

Small headache incoming in that Joey is now 2 bookings in 10 games away from a 2 game suspension.

Why would we? Still in two cups, still in the Champions League chase. Plenty to play for and a decent wake up call to ensure they stay focus and Execs see the need for strength in depth with our limited reserves.

That’s my read of it. Gone so hard for so long with minimal rotation and it was always going to catch up with us. We don’t have the depth of a City or Liverpool who can do that (cheers cunty Sinister Six…) Beyond 14 players, we’ve got a pool of Almiron, Longstaff and others who are miles off the pace and can’t be relied on any more. These blips will happen until we bolster the squad and bench with genuine game changers.

HMS Piss the League is being hauled up from the depths again. Prime Real Marradrid.

Can only imagine the racism he’s going to be subjected to.

Mickey Gray comparing him to Isak on TalkSport the other day; nearly crashed the car laughing.

x2

Wonder if Angel Gomes is being phased out by Lille. Only on the bench, hasn’t even got on, with flopasaurus Rex Remi Cabella playing ahead of him.

Who does he play for?

Decided that 1066: Lucy Worsley Investigates is going to be a more productive hour worth of telly than these also-rans.

Tah seemingly on his way to join Flick at Barca. Agree with the logic - there’s a load of people going off the wage bill but we’ll need bodies to compete on four fronts and losing Kelly, Targett, Tripps who have all played more than a handful of games leaves us really light.

Work computer - don’t use N-O on it, never know when Big Brother is watching! 😉

Looking at Bournemouth’s injury list it’ll be a massive missed opportunity if we can’t turn them over - reads like our one in December 2023 when they did us 2-0 at the Vitality. They’re realistically without: Senesi Sinesterra Unal Alex Scott Smith Araujo Tavernier Evanilson

Hopefully Pirouette Parker can motivate his squad against the Real Madrid of the Champo.

🚨 *Nerd Alert* 🚨 After building out the Miggy amortisation profile, I thought I might as well do the whole shebang on the train journey home from work. Best efforts based on contract extension timings and publicly available fees, so may be a couple of million out, particularly where loan to buy and performance based fees are involved. For those interested, really shows how extending contracts late in the original contract period absolutely hammers the go forward amortisation figure (Murphy etc):

Shearer’s goal record goes if he stays for 6 years.

Newcastle 1-1 Bournemouth Brentford 1-1 Liverpool Leicester 0-2 Fulham West Ham 1-1 Palace Arsenal 1-1 Villa Everton 2-2 Spurs Man Utd 1-2 Brighton Forest 3-0 Southampton Ipswich 0-3 Man City Chelsea 2-1 Wolves

Hoping Southampton are this generous in defence next Saturday.

Villa massacred our Under 18s in the Youth Cup. 0-4 at Whitley Park. Shows how far we still have to go to get an academy that is up there with the better ones.

Howling.

So far we’ve managed to navigate, either through luck or judgement: - A 3 game suspension for Schar by using Krafu - Botman playing 1 game for the first 5 months by using the Burn, Kelly combo - Wilson being perennially unavailable (again…) and Big Willy being raw as fuck - Regular niggles for Willock Losing Miggy leaves us with Murph and will need similar patching should he be injured, particularly if Barnes suffers a setback. If Schar, Botman, Burn and Krafth are all available I’d be willing to let Kelly go for the right price. Midfield I’m more sceptical over letting Longstaff go with only Miley and a half-for Willock to cover.