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It would be such a bonus if Ipswich can get something at Chelsea. Won't happen though.

Spurs clearly gone all in on the Europa League. Hopefully, Man Utd are the same.

He can come if he's willing to play for 20k per week and take a 100k signing on fee.

Give it Mad Dog til the end of the season. And then Eddie can come back new and refreshed to oversee our assault on the quadruple next season.

I think we and Villa will get top 5 alongside City, Arsenal and Liverpool. Forest will falter, and aren't that great to begin with. It's a case of everything going near perfectly for them this season. That surely can't last. Chelsea are a basket-case. Cole Palmer is out of form and isn't bailing them out like he did before.

Really worried about Palace on Wednesday.

Mad that 68 points was enough to get us 2nd in 1997. Man Utd won the league that year with only 75 points. Won't ever see that again.

Lyon would be relegation fodder if they were in the Premier League.

What utter shite from Olympique de Lyonnais.

Bodo/Glimt could be our best hope here!

One of Spurs or Man Utd are so winning this competition. Would probably prefer it to be Spurs, if I had to choose.

I know what you mean. Villa haven't paid their dues yet, so it would be as if they hadn't really earned the victory in the normal way.

50m isn't so bad. My fear is it will be at least double that.

Is it a 1 year extension? My biggest fear regarding Salah was he'd sign a 2 or 3 year contract, stay at Liverpool for 1 more year, and then go to Saudi for a massive transfer fee. Salah would get his big Saudi deal and Liverpool would get their transfer fee to allow them to rebuild. That would be the worst case scenario TBH.

Real Madrid is one hell of a job. They expect you to win every single year. You could win everything for 5 years straight, but if you win nothing in the 6th year you're gone.

As was Robben, Hazard and Figo.

Very overrated. Shows you just how far Brazilian football has fallen when he is their star man. Wouldn't have got into a lot of the Brazil sides of the past.

Good. Fuck Vincent Kompany, who should never have got that job in the first place. The very definition of a system manager.

He's going to City as a replacement for Ederson.

You think others have not tried to copy him?

He's the one that's instigated this dull, possession based football that we see today. He got lucky that his great Barcelona side had the genius of Messi, the brilliance and invention of Xavi and Iniesta, so they were still great to watch. But take them away and what do you have left? You have the Man City that we saw today.

You are talking about results and title races. I'm talking about the actual football being played on the pitch. I'm sick of this insipid, possession for possessions sake style of football so many teams are adopting now. Its all very regimented with little room for flair or individuality. Nobody has their own identity now. That said, I'm probably just being an old man shouting at the clouds.

Football has become boring. More and more people are saying this now, I'm glad this school of thought is starting to gain traction in the media as well. More than anyone, I blame Pep for this.

Plus the 5 year, 350k per week contract, despite being the wrong side of 30 years old. Real Madrid played an absolute blinder getting that sort of fee for him. Just got to hope now the Saudis don't bail them out on that one, though Casemiro did say he intends to stay and see his contract out.

Used to live in East Ham. West Ham's ground was within walking distance from us.