TheBrownBottle

Arsenal and Spurs wouldn’t even have been competitive if they stayed where they were. Spurs’ failure has nothing to do with the stadium and everything to do with mismanagement. Their stadium brings in more money than any other ground in the country, and a wayward Solanke effort could practically land in WHL. Brighton and Brentford had almost zero years in the top flight in their history - their new stadiums have supported keeping them there. Goodison was a grand old ground, proper Archibald Leitch stadium with frankly far more history than SJP attached to it, with stand which had actually seen that history - but it was falling to pieces and a move was obviously necessary. West Ham’s move was obviously insane, it’s not a football ground.

Meanwhile, Brentford are having a better season than any one before after selling the best Frank-era players. Good recruitment knocks coaching into a cocked hat.

Feels good that for once a club waited until after they played us before pulling the trigger

100% agree

Yep - I also think fitness requirements in the modern game have changed.

Tonali’s agent was literally touting him about a week ago. It’s hardly being plucked from thin air.

It looks like it’s based on mins played, but either way that would suggest that the peak years are 24-29. 24 is definitely not young for a PL striker.

Funny thing is that most pundits normally bang on about forwards reaching their peak between 27-31, but a lot of the goalscorers over the last few decades have tended to have their best seasons before they reach 25 to 27. Their goalscoring tails off after that. I can’t name a forward who suddenly learned how to have a forward’s instinct after turning 24 - most good strikers have shown it by that point.

In the Bundesliga? Probably. No-one in English football would be kicking our door in for him. We’ve paid far too much to be loaning him out, too.

How about we just remove it and remind any daft cunt who wants it going forwards about how stupid the whole thing is? It has disrupted the pyramid structure of football and all because pundits and managers can’t stop fucking whining.

Is John McCririck's old job still open?

Got a like just for JFK’s comms with the press 😁 - never liked the man, but he got their collective number spot on

Played pretty well again - his head is up, which is good. Could do with showing a bit more strength when challenged.

Ask his agent what’s off. ‘Tonali’ would be the answer.

I know you’re joking, but selling him for £41m would be ‘cost neutral’ and would be very difficult for UEFA & the PL to argue against given we paid £55m …

Gordon did the ‘busy cunt’ role well - but his performance was a reminder of just how poor the summer business was re centre forwards. It’s not just an Isak issue - Wilson (until the injuries absolutely fucked him) was also a very mobile centre forward. Wood, by contrast, wasn’t - even though he’s proven since that he can score goals. Woltemade just does not fit this side.

Win there next season and we’ve won as many league matches at Spurs as they’ve won against us down there since the PL breakaway. I’m hoping they’re not there next season, regardless

Pleased for him after that win - looked like he enjoyed it.

Gan on Eddie lad

That’ll dee nicely. They are absolutely fucking dreadful - not sure what the odds are of Spurs going down but I’d be off to the bookies if I was a gambler.

At our most vulnerable after scoring and making subs 🙂

We’re the only side in the country which looks much worse every time after making subs

How are this rabble still in this?

Fucks sake. Do we really need to play Bruno for 90 mins every time? Especially when he’s just come back from an injury?

Even he had the professionalism not to do it for an entire season. On this showing Howe would be crackers to start him at any time.