Optimistic Nut

Keep them happy and that's our back 4, back 5 if we start to get Ramsdale in, sorted for the next 5 years.

Crouch doesn't belong in the same category. Berbatov and Ibrahimovic maybe.

Has a rash tackle in him but fucking hell, so good.

Made the saves that Pope gets lauded for and he's just an all-round good keeper. Might be harsh but I'd be making the change.

Think we just have better players now. We'd be comfortable moving Thiaw to RB during a game and bringing in Schar, or if he wants to go with wing-backs we have Murphy.

Whenever they use the 'they hounded him out" line about Sir Bobby (when we were clearly slowly on the decline), these lot were calling for Le Bris's head despite having top 4 secure for about half a season, just because his approach was a bit pragmatic.

Are they calling the Premier League website a liar?

Olise?

What's the source? Thought I'd check after I sent that and this has him 1 assist short. And that's the Premier League.

Look at his ears.

Saha?

Malbranque?

Remy?

Though technically Pires was half Spanish, half Portuguese. Get him out my sight.

Henry Pires Wiltord

I've said all along, this should be the case with or without VAR. If you're playing Sunday league, how can a linesman confidently call an offside the way the law is written? Daylight, you've got a chance at least. The offside law was initially brought in to stop players standing way up the pitch and "goal hanging". Daylight again is the closest you'll get to a balance between stopping that sort of thing, and not being marginalised because your shoulder may be a smidge ahead of the defender.

He took 33 points in 22 games with a side that were going nowhere? Think he's earned the right to a bit of time.

Very knee jerk. You think Pereira should go, Silva should go. We're 1/4 of the way through the season and those two had those two did really well for those clubs last season.

Shearer's volley v Villa in 2001 to the letter of the law would probably be offside. That's just bullshit, man.

Go back and watch any match on Sky in the 90s & early 00s. The commentators and pundits would normally ask, "was their clear daylight there?" when saying if it was on and off. That seemed to be the interpretation and it made perfect sense.

I played and watch football and no it didn't. A law that you're literally guessing makes no sense. Daylight you're clearly pushing the laws of the game, plus you've more chance of seeing it.

If you were writing the laws of football from scratch, you wouldn't write one where this goes against it or should even be considered as being an offence, would you? Daylight makes so much more sense.

He might not be at 22/23 levels but fuck me, what this bloke is doing for us at the minute is cracking.

Hope there's a nod to our 26/27 title win planned for next season. The non-Saudi away kit being this or something.

Test to see where he is. Was poor at Leeds when he started but has been good from the bench. Chance to show he's more than just an impact sub.