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That's not really an answer but personally I'd have said a solid 12-15 points, so 6-8 over half a season. Knock that off and Puel is on 38-40 points.

Hypothetically, how many points is a CB pairing of Fonte and VVD worth to any given team, relative to Salisu and Bednarek, over the course of a season? No, the biggest European NAME we've ever beaten (If you ignore all the British ones).

We’ve closed the gap to Man United and Newcastle, a great weekend for us all things considered.

Everton were never going to go down, they’re too good.

I'd have taken Raphinha off instead, before they end up with 9 men.

That has got to be a red on VAR, surely.

Yes. After the disastrous spending of Les and Ross four-five years ago and with an owner unwilling to put his hand is his pocket at all, I expected nothing other than relegation fights over the last four seasons. Ralph has exceeded my expectations, I honestly thought we'd go down at some point and we haven't. If there's a manager, willing to come here, who can get this squad into the top half without spending any money, then great, get him in. However I doubt such a person exists.

So which half decent* player would he be working with here? *For half decent read 'world class'.

If I gave you £500 and said you've got three and a half years to go and buy a second hand car, what would you buy?

And especially not having spent half a billion quid on their squad (plus Ronaldo on a free).

Most of our opponents win by around twenty past three.

Glory glory Man…. 🤣

You’re right, that could well happen. So why would you want to swap that manager for one who has avoided relegation for four consecutive years?

He has a world class creative player and a reliable enough, double figures goal getter. We have nothing remotely close to either, so yes, I am saying that. Unless you believe our top class defenders and ‘keeper should supersede those players, relative to Brentford?

Liverpool are going to score 9! (Yes, it's a mathematics joke)

Forget cricket scores, this could be the prize money in Squid Game.

So Bednarek, Armstrong, Moi, Walcott, Long and Djenepo are better players because they've been in this league longer and we pay them more?

9, which is exactly 9 games more than he's played for us and enough for Brentford to score 19 points.

The man who was level on points with us this morning, with a squad containing Eriksen and Toney?

Spare a thought for Northampton town fans who will get promoted as long as Bristol rovers don’t win 7-0 or more… oh. 🤣🤣

I still think, over the course of a season, he’s got as much as I’d reasonably expect out of our sorry collection of bargain basement players. As dreadful as the last three months have been, when you’re going to Burnley wishing you had NINE of their starting XI, that’s not good.

You can say that about half of our squad TBF.

Whenever they say that it reminds me of an early 2000s game of FIFA, where they have a couple of dozen default catchphrases which they repeat in every game.

Yep. The same as any of our strikers really, what have any of them done in the last three months to deserve being picked?