Chez

by my maths 3x0=0 😉

Depends on the extent of the injury. Speaking from experience, tear a muscle and it can be months.

Yep, it's too late by the sounds of things and I think you have described his likely contract perfectly. Three years at £75k a week. He was first choice at the time he was given a new contract. He wasn't given a new contract to be second choice keeper. The wage will reflect that. So £75k would be a fair guess.

he is a quality footballer. Slightly surprised no one big has trued to sign him. Maybe they have and failed. Maybe its that lack of outstanding pace, which you perhaps want of a player who plays wide left midfield.

I take comments like that with a pinch of salt. A £70m debt that will grow to over £100m by the time the first contractual payment is required will have a bearing on transfer funds. We either start paying this debt down now or later. Whatever decision is made, the budget is smaller. By how much though.

I am certainly pro-McCarthy compared to you, but you will find that I have always posted that I don't rate either keeper highly and that I wanted to see us sign two new keepers. I doubt I'd bother to support McCarthy on here if it wasn't to counter some of the posters like you that seem to go way over the top with the vitriol and criticism.

Dan Sheldon reconfirmed (on the Norwich build up thread) that McCarthy had indeed signed a new contract last summer. Didn't say the length of contract, but said McCarthy had done the media work and couldn't explain why the club's announcement was then pulled.

What a great game that was. One of many in 89/90. Great team and season as a whole. Loved watching the games from the back of the Milton End. We took teams apart You forget just how lively Le Tiss was in his younger years. Obviously not super quick like Rodney, but quick enough and with fantastic dribbling skills.

With Forster likely to play until the end of the season, and looking very solid, it's going to look very strange when he walks on a free and the club announces that McCarthy stays. A discussion for another day...

Norwich had/created some fantastic chances in the first half against Liverpool and could easily have been in front. Pukka missed a glorious chance with lots of time to pick his spot. We need to be on the money again. It's far from an easy game. Unlike Everton, I don't think they will fade after 15 minutes.

It will probably require access to the company accounts to know the answer.

Wonder how much of the £70m loan we have spent during the COIVD period on operating costs (or is there any left in our bank account as available cash), and thus how much money we will need to find over the next X years in terms of income/profit and the effect that has on our decision making/available transfer funds?

I am not fussed one iota that he doesn't get his head up and pass square more often. I don't want a striker that passes the buck and looks to put it on plate for a team mate when the shot is on. Far too many chances are wasted by selfless players that don't get that square pass right. Half the occasions yesterday when he perhaps could have passed may have looked easy from the stand, but when you have only a split second to make the decision, have to keep your eye on the ball and their are bodies everywhere, it's much harder. I'd much prefer he just kept it simple, take responsibility and shoot. Hope this apparent `weakness' in terms of lack of vision puts Chelsea off....but it won't because he offers pace, power, skill, hold up play, work rate and goals. What a brilliant set of attributes.

That's my point. If you ain't great at teeing others up, just shoot. Be selfish.

Easy to say 'get you head up' from the stand, but harder to do when you are dribbling at full pelt in the final third and your focus is on making space for a shot. Also, when you pass in the box there is a chance it is cut out, poorly weighted or inaccurate. The number of times strikers make the right decision, and make that square pass, but the execution is poor... Is his passing any good? If not, he's better off being greedy.

Can we keep it up? Is this the new norm? It's taken us a very long time to be fluid and get a run of results and form going. Is it possible to continue the way we have been for an equally long period? We've got the right players in the right positions. Everyone fit and everyone confident. I guess we need that to continue.

Loris is shit. I'm trying to remember which former Spurs player said as much a couple of years ago, but they were spot on.

Very good point. We've not just won games, we have played extremely well too, creating so many chances and playing some greta football. We have also not relied on luck defensively. We have been organised and got a lot of bodies behind the ball. We also haven't left defenders exposed. Great balance between attack and defence. Long may this continue. Lets win the cup and see where we get to in the league.

56% possession and 19 shots to 9 reflects the dominance. i thought Everton were a real problem early on. They pressed hard and we had no time and struggled control the game. Boy did that change. Once again Romeu was an absolute rock in midfield, holding the ball just that little bit longer to enable players to get into space, but then never losing it when under pressure. I get a lot of Jimmy Case vibes, but without the long shooting ability. He's probably a far better player. He really is in top form. Same can be said about KWP. He could play at the very top level IMO.

great win. This is so much fun.

these teams that run themselves into the ground in the first 20 minutes and then fade in the second half...

you wish is Longs command, We have deserved it, Been completely dominant in the second half

great vibes now

Che should be using his left really. Tino isn't as good as KWP on the right, KWO isn't as good on the left as the right.

Pickford wouldn't last five minutes on here if he played for us.