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Haven't seen that, maybe I should've checked it more thoroughly first before making the comment. Surprised to see Tottenham also having this amount of losses.

Waiting for the news articles stating that Villa has to sell their star players to comply with FFP. Or maybe that narrative is just for us..

Just realised that Lavia has played just 1 game for Chelsea due to the injuries he has had. It's quite incredible how much money they have spent on players who hasn't done anything. If another club failed this hard in the transfer market, they would already be relegated by the PL due to FFP breaches.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but the Arsenal fans were straight up intense. They were going on for about a year about our timewasting, commenting on every Newcastle loss that we deserve it for timewasting against them. I have never seen anything like it, not even on social media. We had Leeds do the same to us, we got over it after a week. It happens a lot in football, atleast before the rules for this season. The only reason they didn't go on for longer was because then the Gordon goal happened, and now they are still going on about that after every game we lose. Apparently everytime we lose it's because of karma from that Gordon goal. We have had fortune against other teams before, they may whine on social media for a week or so, but with Arsenal fans you never hear the end of it. After a mid season league game, it's not like it happened in a final either. I swear, no other fanbase would be this intense about those games. Not even Liverpool or Man United. It's just embarassing at this point.

If this was true, we would also be at a disadvantage qualifying for Europe.. We were the ones who proposed this whole thing, weren't we?

Just had a look, and in 15 away games he has 1 goal and 2 assists. 2 of those came against Sheffield Utd in the 8-0 trashing. At home he has 9 goals and 7 assists in 17 games, pretty much 1 g/a per game. Crazy difference, but ofcourse it's not just him. Far from it.

Unfortunately getting younger replacements is really expensive these days unless your scouting is top notch, so it's hard to move on older squad players when you are restricted financially. Us having such an old squad is just another hangover of the Ashley era, not just because of the players that are left from that era, but also due to the fact that we had to go for a quick fix in the first window without breaking the bank. It worked brilliantly for us, but it makes it a little trickier now.

(Also, if I say something over the top, like there's no way Trippier will be that impactful for us next season, I will trigger the entire "Trippier is the god almighty" gang to come after me. That's too scary for me!)

Well, I did actually say that I don't believe he will be anywhere near the same as he used to, so that's my actual opinion. But I would love for me to be wrong, and would be the first to admit it. In the end we all want the same thing, whatever works best for the team.

Honestly I don't understand what you mean by that. Never heard that saying before.

Man United? They have the biggest income out of them all, don't they?

Don't mind him being here next season, but I have a feeling that next season we are going to start questioning whether it was right to keep him for another season or not. I hope I can look back at this and say that I was wrong. However, if he doesn't play anywhere near the levels that he used to, or can't keep up with our playstyle in terms of injuries and/or fatigue, it won't be hindsight to point out that we could've sold him (I'm sure the hindisght argument would be used). At the same time, we would need another RB if we sold him, so it's definelty not clearcut.

Sure. Would just suck to bring in Ortega, only for him to be benched for the double. But I agree, it looks like Ederson is out for the season.

Do we know that Ederson will be out for the 37 double?

Not a fan of lets say Chelsea breaking/bending the rules to spend £1bn while we are restriced due to actually following them.. If Liverpool were breaking the FFP rules that we are following, would you still not mind? I would imagine that if Liverpool had 115 charges against them, pretty much everyone here would wish for the harshest punishment possible, and would definetly not make excuses that they are just spending the money of the owner. In this case it would be a very unpopular opinion to say that you don't see it as cheating.

I think Almiron would be the only one who might be back for this one, but I haven't checked any credible sources.

In the last 17 games they have 14 wins and 3 draws. Those draws were against Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal. Chelsea being a team that has done pretty well in games of that kind. The only real challenge for them will be Tottenham, who is in pretty bad form.

Arsenal fans at it again

The only reason I went for Ederson instead of Gvardiol is because Gvardiol sometimes gets subbed at halftime. Guess what, Ederson gets subbed at halftime.

I took points for Ederson, Fernandez, Højlund and Schar...

2-2 draw. Either we get back twice from a losing position, or we get back from 2-0 down.

I'm genuinely scared of this game myself, for several reasons. Some of which you mentioned.

Most medias will ignore this, because they need something to write about that will get them the clicks..

What also happens when you go to a better club is that you get less space in most games. It's just a very different way of playing.

Spent 4 points bringing in Ederson and put Pickford on the bench. I really thought Brentford would score, they have been doing that a lot lately, and has Mbeumo back. Got really punished..