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Piece of piss, then. Surprised someone else hasn't thought of it.

Yep, 5 points is OK from those 5. 6 is good. 7 points or more would be excellent and probably represent an overachievement.

Why would a business with no capital, a huge debt and disinterested shareholders want to buy a shitty scrap of land?

No, he's been largely ineffective. We lined up at the weekend with no creative players in our team, apart from maybe the full backs. He is no use at PL level. I'd sooner have Lee Holmes or Guly. No joke.

Absolute mess from Ralph, this. Walcott - waste of space. Armstrong left wing- waste of time. Lyanco on when Perraud should have been on - silly. Taking the best player on the pitch, Romeu, off - silly.

He works hard and is very neat but he simply isn't up to hurting teams in the PL. He can't beat anyone, he can't make space like, say, a Tadic and he can't get shots away quick enough. Having him and Diallo on the wings leaves us a bit toothless. Need to get Tella or Broja on instead.

Animal porn?! FFS, man.

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I doubt we would buy anyone anyway in Jan, and next summer we'll sell one of Salisu, JWP or Tino for 50m+ and get Forster off the books. Does Long's contract expire then as well? Seems OK, although it's not helpful having piss poor income relative to other PL teams, obviously.

I still don’t understand the opening post.

I feel like a lot of the American owners don't really "get it" plus their business culture is much more in the mindset of leveraging and extracting maximum value than certain other cultures. Whilst any other owner obviously wants some financial return or other benefit from owning the club as well, I tend to favour a European over an American. Chinese is generally a bad idea due to their political exposure. Obviously that's a big generalisation and there are plenty of undesirable European characters too. Maybe we should go African - proper sub-Saharan. Give Dangote a ring? Surely there's a big market for an African owned PL club?

Salisu's long throws are a massive bag of pony.

Rule 1.

This.

Could be AIDS?

Pony!

We play at a much better tempo without the Danish Beckenbauer taking an age to calibrate his sights. Obviously Salisu is a much better defender but also we get the ball through the midfield and into our “between the lines” players much better this season. Romeu and JWP benefit from receiving and moving the ball quicker without the opposition having an age to get into shape. If we had “number 10s” that scored goals we’d be a very good team.

I thought he played very well today. He didn’t miss a “sitter”. He missed a decent but not straightforward chance but also fashioned a number of good efforts which were narrow misses and on another day could have scored 3. He also put one on a plate for Adams, who did miss a sitter! He looked after the ball well and got into good positions. He’s a decent player and one thing we have now is genuine competition up front, which is great. Hopefully, moany, clueless twats don’t get on his back.

Moody Todd Forecast

JWP would be an insane signing.

Fair enough. His comments were light-hearted but they did imply a lack of professional integrity on the part of the ref. However, what really irritates me is how managers are allowed to spend 90 minutes berating the 4th official and acting like hysterical tarts on the side line without any recourse in most cases. Klopp is one of the worst for this. His touchline behaviour is disgraceful but, obviously, it's Liverpool so never mind.

I didn't have to upload any vaccine proof to do the form online, I just had to make a declaration. I don't live in the UK, so maybe it's a different form if you are UK resident going on a trip. Like I say, in any event, no authority at Heathrow checked it, either airport or border control, so it seems pointless, unless a failure to take a day 2 test is the trigger for action and follow up, by which point we are 4 or 5 days into someone bringing a new variant in.

I flew into Heathrow yesterday. Before I departed the airline checked if I'd filled in a passenger locator form, but there was no check on vaccine status. When I arrived at Heathrow I was waved through the electronic passport gates and that was that. No check on travel history or vaccine status. I presume the Day 2 test result is logged centrally, hence the need to put the booking reference on the locator form, but it feels like a strange system that lets anyone in with essentially zero verification of covid or vaccination status until test results which will be available 3 days after entry. It feels like it would be extremely easy to circumvent red list quarantine.

I flew out to Italy... the next day on a holiday booked before the fixtures were out. Ball sacks! I did go to Prague and to Israel though. Both performances were diabolical. But still a good laugh.

I thought Djenepo actually did really well yesterday. Him and Perraud created a lot of good positions in the first half and got the ball into the box from dangerous areas. Perraud has to start, IMO. As others have said, it seems harsh to drop someone after our first win, but the opposition was rubbish and despite dominating the game we did only score one goal. It is a bit of a selection dilemma now given our attacking options are all much of a muchness.