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White kit, on BT sports at Goodison on a weeknight.

Ill take a draw 

8 hours ago, Kid Icarus said:

Not sure I can bear that pipsqueak being linked to time and again like.

He should stick to wrestling 

7 hours ago, Kanji said:

People complain about our development of players -- we really can't just shove Willock, Longstaff and Joelinton aside for the headline names - those 3 have been pivotal to our tactics and our league position. 

You bring those players in and they compete. If the players we have keep performing at a high level they stay in. If they drop off we have other options.

Competition is a good thing 

9 hours ago, KaKa said:

Just remembered Ansu Fati is on around £220k a week. So yeah ... no chance! 

Like with Dembele, it’s the agent using our name to get interest 

5 hours ago, 80 said:

It's worth remembering we went to Bayer Leverkusen last time out and beat them with Shola Ameobi and Lua Lua up front.

It’s also worth remembering the other 9 playing weren’t a kick in the arse off our best first team and Shearer/Bellamy were suspended.

We did well that year and created memories from playing as strong teams as we could do it’s the opposite of your point.

Big players come to play champions league, do you think the likes of Bruno, Sven, Isak and the Joes would be happy to sit on the bench vs Real/Bayern/PSG to wait for Burnley away?

Thats a quick way to put players off coming to you. 

The problem is if you keep Lascelles he is on decent wages and will take up a squad place which could be used to bring in a younger CB who can be brought in slowly to be Svens long term partner.

You keep Lascelles for sentimental reasons and you are putting pressure on an ageing Schar to keep up his level of performance and stay fit. 

11 hours ago, TRon said:

Still feel somewhat guilty for offloading Wood and Shelvey onto Forest, to think that would be worth more than £20m to us as well if you include wages. Feels almost criminal.

Id feel sympathy if not for Henri Lansbury and also they are scabs ?‍♂️

On 23/04/2023 at 21:58, 1964 said:

Is he crocked?

If you’ve watched him over the years, he went down after playing a bad pass so make of that what you will 

9 hours ago, buzza said:

I would rather buy Phillips at the reported 40 mil he will be going for this summer.

two years ago he was miles better than rice, some injuries that persisted and a certain Rodri have stalled his development.

The only place Phillips has ever been better than Rice is when some kid is playing with him on FIFA 

15 hours ago, St1pe said:

I always hate pieces like this because it seems like pointless fuel for the opposition. See Ten Haag’s quotes about us time wasting etc. I don’t get why you’d choose to rile up the opposition - especially in Spurs’s case where they could be on the verge of imploding. Poor piece from Hope. 

For apparently being a fan he really wants to jinx fuck out of us. 

3 hours ago, The Bonk said:

I’m hoping there’s about 5 teams in the mix on the final day. Love the drama of the drop! It’s too bad Southampton didn’t beat Arsenal, that would have been extra spicy. Still, they aren’t out of it if they play like that the remainder of the season.

I would like that but I’d also love Sky to have a last day with no drama to hype. 

4 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Going up a level or two or something behind the scenes? Seems odd.

There are rumours doing the rounds that he is off to Solihull in the conference and an ITK told me it’s actually higher up the league and he’s off to Burton.

There are definitely changes behind the scenes as though well as it seems the funding tap will dry up for a little while as the club tries and becomes more sustainable.

Im not privy to the internal workings of the club just rumours and hearsay I’ve heard that there are a lot of players on good money (6 figure’s yearly) who they could do with moving on and getting cheaper options. 
 

From my point of view we have a set up that is supposed to have professional players and staff and if the rumours are true they train like they are part time. As much as he/the club may say otherwise Sewper Kev never seemed that invested and wasn’t an improvement on Fenton. 

I don’t agree that Strolla is fully to blame for this particular loan.

I do think that looking at our other loans added to the fact he was an Ashley era mouthpiece means he shouldn’t be near the club anymore 

6 hours ago, Paullow said:

I've mentioned before that I have put little bets totalling just under £15 and stand to return just over £1,500 if they do go up.

 

£2 of that is on a 250/1 bet, so returns £502, and the current cash out is only £12.38

 

So if they go up we know who to blame, got it 

1 hour ago, timeEd32 said:

Realistically they were never in it except for the most pessimistic. But today made it nearly impossible for them to catch us barring a massive collapse. 4 wins and a draw and they mathematically can’t, so unless you think we’re going to finish the season on our worst run of form in over a year then they will not be in the CL at our expense. 
 

Not to mention they play Man United, Spurs, Liverpool, and Brighton in their remaining six games. If they go unbeaten it will help us tremendously.

you obviously haven’t seen this movie before 

5 hours ago, timeEd32 said:

At least one team was eliminated today and it’s a very helpful one as Villa could really help us the rest of the way.

They aren’t eliminated. They dropped points and are 5 behind us. They need to pretty much perfect but from years of following the toon nothing is sure until it’s mathematically so. 

2 hours ago, cubaricho said:

Todd Bohley run Dodgers?  

Yeah it’s a bit ominonous that there are parallels between the dodgers and Chelsea. Trying to spend huge to succeed initially. Hopefully they don’t find their Friedman to run the team well (and even if they do hopefully they have a Dave Roberts to limit them) 

24 minutes ago, mosstef said:

Man fuck Brighton for being such a well ran club. 

Don’t know if you follow baseball but I feel like Brighton are the Tampa Bay rays in terms of doing it on a budget and finding quality players.

I hope we can do what the dodgers did ie that style of well thought out improvement but with big money backing 

4 hours ago, nbthree3 said:

 

Who’s that creepy kid? He seems to be everywhere 

On 20/04/2023 at 17:32, The Butcher said:

Adam Wharton from Blackburn. Looks a gem.

Watched him vs Coventry the other day and looked composed beyond his years. 

15 hours ago, Paullow said:

We possibly would have had more chance of finishing 3rd, but I just can't see MU finishing lower than 4th after that win over Forest, and the difference between finishing 3rd and 4th is very minimal. Their next 3 league games are Spurs, Villa and Brighton and I'd prefer them to win or draw all of those, so it's actually possibly better for us that they are out of Europe and after this weekend, win or lose, they can fully focus on those league matches.

Hadn’t thought of it that way. Surprised they are thought of as such a sure thing with those games coming up. 
 

Bad Result for us Man I going out as if they’d got through they’d have to play 11 in the time we play 8 and would have 2 games a week till the end of the season. 

7 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

Why man? He is quality.

 

Another we were very strongly linked with after the takeover, when Howe came in.

 

Think he will end up at Villa though, as Emery was the one that signed him for Arsenal and apparently wants him again.

I disagree, he was a player who was typical of the old Arsenal in that despite being technically good he has the heart of a pea and will disappear when it matters.

Having followed him at Marseille I don’t see any improvement in that issue and think he’s a really bad fit for what we are going for.

it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say there are 50 better options out there 

Edit: Also he’d be useless as a 6 against quality opponents. There’s a reason he plays as one of the front 3 in tougher games where he can run around more. 

6 hours ago, rgk_lfc said:

 

Difficult to root against a Carlo Ancellotti team

I like Carlo but Howay Real? It would be like supporting the yankees if they’d got their success on the backs of a fascist dictator and government bailout’s. 

6 hours ago, toon25 said:

 

They're a plastic shitty little club with an authentic, passionate, fan base that could barely fill a phone box.

 

Like a tramp that won the lottery. As much as I hate to say it, they're not a patch on Manure or Liverpool when it comes to history and/or fanbase.

A fanbase that got over 25000 in the 3rd tier couldn’t fill a phone box? 
 

Also prior to the takeover they had won 9 major honours (for comparison we have won 11)

For ‘History’ Always remember Man Reds and Liverpool got their success off the backs of large investments a lot earlier in their history as well. 
 

For ‘fanbase’ are you kidding the 2 clubs renowned for tourist fans. Fly out of Manchester/John Lennon airport the day after the game and it’s full of them.

Stop believing the online bullshit about clubs.