Jimmy_D

Can't help but like Crouch Fair to say he's always been a better footballer than he's been given credit for! Seems to be the impression of him for a lot of people was as a big man used mainly for his height (which he could do), but he was actually better with the ball at his feet. I was there when he scored a hat-trick for England against Jamaica! (Scoring the third after he'd missed a penalty) That Peter Crouch Podcast is a good listen, I recommend a listen if you haven't already.

Thank you Markus.

Certainly hasn't been the best summer for Newcastle so far.

Can't say I'd be sorry to see West Ham lining up against us without Arnautovic!

Sounds like they might have needed the money before 1 July and that's bought the fee down a bit. Surprised there hasn't really been any rumours of anyone else seriously being in for him to be honest.

Decent money for a player in a position we're strong in, especially if Hasenhuttl thinks Vokins is ready to break through. Looks like we're already spending that money pretty well too.

Well, one of em will be for ten years! https://southamptonfc.com/news/2019-06-28/season-ticket-for-10-years-competition Can't imagine it'd sway anyone that wasn't already planning to buy one, but that's not the point of it. Hard to believe it's been all but ten years since Marcus saved the club. Until then I'd started to consider whether I'd support Eastleigh or Sholing as my local team if the club had actually gone under. Instead of that, that was the season I started to buy a season ticket every year, and I got to have the most fun I'd ever had supporting Saints I'll always be grateful to him for that.

Having to go up against a player that tricky and quick could be an absolute nightmare this season for opposition defenders, with VAR coming in

8M? Double that and we might think about picking up the phone these days.

Countless teams have been ‘bad for football’ over the years by dominating, often by outspending their rivals. Nothing lasts forever.

Guessing because the first one wasn’t originally given to Sterling.

Getting the first ever domestic treble is an amazing achievement, especially considering they beat a team with 97 points into 2nd place for the league leg of that treble.

Whether you think playoffs are fair or not, time and time again they produce utterly incredible matches.

Love the third kit, really like the away kit. Wasn't overly impressed when I first saw the home kit but I think it's starting to grow on me a bit. Reminds me of the Championship season kit. Our marketing team is genius

Well deserved!

Time to dig out Adkin's pen and put a line under this season. Looking forward to seeing what Hasenhuttl can do with us with a full preseason and a chance to do some squad building now.

Everything ran for Liverpool this season. The sheer amount of luck they got with last minute goals, countless teams throwing it away with stupid mistakes. Referees constantly falling for their cheating and diving, with VAR not coming in until next season. Arguably it all came together even better than Leicester had it in their title winning season. It all came together perfectly for them, and they ended up with a quite frankly incredible 97 points. The third best league performance in the history of English Football. They were incredibly lucky to get that. It is absolutely hilarious that it was all for nothing. That despite getting that third best league performance, they came up against the second best performance in the history of English Football. By eleven millimetres.

De Gea.

Your main point has changed with the wind as each one of your arguments has been utterly destroyed. Now you're just going in circles with this one. It's pretty weak in the first place, as you still seem to be saying VvD shouldn't be responsible for his own actions because he just wanted to join Liverpool so much. On top of that, there are plenty of players that haven't acted the way he did. You keep trying to say any of those examples aren't exactly the same, which I guess you'll just keep regurgitating again and again, but you still don't have a leg to stand on.

Considering how hard we tried to hold on to him, to the point of causing at least one season to be more or less written off, it's blatantly obvious we didn't want to sell him. We wanted to build a team around him, knowing that no amount of money was going to replace him. Six years would have at least given us a chance of doing that, had VvD not done what he did. I really don't see where the logic comes from that our recruitment would magically have been better, had we decided to sell him earlier for a lower price. By virtue of being a football club, just occasionally things actually get done for footballing reasons.

Oh. Yeah. Both of them are still really highly thought of at Liverpool. In any case, neither of them went on strike to leave while they still had five years left.

Utter Legend

How many other players have moved on with five years left on a contract?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/1338713.stm