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I've heard that Ashworth and Howe made bets on him signing for Newcastle

Exactly my thoughts too..

What if he changes his name and do surgeries to become unreocgnizeable and look much younger. We can shove him into the academy, falsify his documents so that he's now 17, and then pick him up to the first team after a couple of months. Any name suggestions?

How will anyone be able to prove that Milan knew about it?

When a rumor about the contract we literally just signed with Bruno is supposed to get Barca fans all excited, you know it doesn't make sense. We don't do charity for other clubs.

Why would we sign a contract that puts us in a much worse position than the old one? Did he say "if you don't put a cheap clause for Barca, then I want to leave in january"?

Yes for sure, I would assume that those who really do care will care regardless. At the same time there are definetly some fans who pretends to care because they are bitter about having another team being able spend nearly the amount that their team can spend, and having yet another team compete with them long term. That's where the "amazing what oil money can do" comments stem from, made by fans of teams who has spent far more than us since takeover.

Yeah fair. I just have the feeling that many of those Liverpool or United fans who were really vocal us are going to have quite the change of tone if the Qataris had bought them.

Funny how it goes from "might aswell sell him" to being rated as the 18th best footballer in the world in just 5 games.

Yeah, 4 points against Dortmund would pretty much guarantee that we finish above them becuase of the head-to-head tiebreaker. The exception is an unlikely scenario where Milan also end up at 8 points. In that case Dortmund can beat our goal difference in the games between the 3 teams, because points and goal difference from the Milan games against us and Dortmund will be factored into the tiebreaker aswell.

They probably didn't even watch the game, they're just supporting their team mate. All that drama just so they can use the clickbait headline.

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Toney couldn't even train with the team for 4 months. Banned from all football-related activity.

Just looked into our next fixtures. Palace (H) Wolves (A) Arsenal (H) Bournemouth (A) We took just 3 points from these 4 fixtures last season.

Just found this on twitter.. PGMOL apologized after the game for not giving Fabinho a red here. Isn't this basically a copy of the Kovacic tackle, except from the fact that Kovacic went in with more momentum? The apoplogy: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-fabinho-red-card-brighton-29090880

Why take it out of context? I was replying to a comment that seemed to think that he was miles above the rest of the team, because that would be the only reason we would need to "enjoy him while we have him" as if he's literally Mbappe or something. Even said "he's different from what we have". So yes, I actually had to point out that he's not. And no, I wasn't saying that to criticize Isak, don't worry.

A bit over the top. Yes he has scored 6 goals, but he hasn't been that much involved in every game, and in some games he never looked like a threat on the ball. Probably been carrying a bit of an injury, but I don't really think he's that much better than players like Botman, Bruno, Gordon and Trippier right now. Surely Botman would go into that PSG team?

Will be interesting to see if the Liverpool, Sunderland and Man United human rights activists will even care if this one goes through.

I watched highlights from Leicesters CL quarterfinal vs Atletico. Leicester were absolutely robben on several occasions, and VAR would've probably corrected them. I've seen highlights from other older games too, same story then. Nearly every game they got a key decision wrong. It's easy to forget how bad it was before VAR, we were just used to big mistakes back then. Whenever VAR makes a mistake, someone comes out to say that the solution to that is to scrap VAR.. As if that leads to less mistakes. Anyone who tries to say that the decisions are worse now because the refs have gotten too lazy to make the decision, and then it's not clear and obvious, needs to start watching older games and compare them to modern ones.

Would be funny to see what they would say if Qatar bought them.

That clause better be difficult to trigger!

Fortunately he only has 1 yet in the Champions League. Yeah, I think what bothered me the most about the PSG incident was that he did it in what was our first home game in the Champions League for 20 years at 2-0 up vs PSG, when it was one of the few ways that we could actually throw it away (judging by how PSG wasn't really hurting us that much). It could've ultimately cost us advancement from the group of death, especially considering the suspension on top of it. The occasion was massive, and the timing for something like that could not be much worse. All because Ugarte barely bumped into him. Maybe a red would be soft, we didn't get a great replay. But it's a massive risk to take for no particular reason.

My friend who is an Arsenal fan warned me about Bruno after that Southampton red card, and told me about how much Xhaka has cost them. I ridiculed him, and told him that it was Brunos first red in his career, and he didn't even do it on purpose. I found the comparison ridiculous. He gave up the discussion because I was really defensive about it. I still think it is a bad comparison, but I'm also starting to realise that he was probably just observing how emotional Bruno is, and not just that incident in particular. PSG game could've been a whole different story with a different ref, and people would've cared 10 times more about what he did if he was actually sent off vs PSG, and we lost a 2-0 lead because of it. Completely unnecessary. It's easy to downplay it when it hasn't really cost us yet.