Billy Talbot

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He’d have had a different Liverpool career if it had gone in and not hit the crossbar.

Bournemouth appoint Iraola from Valladolid. They must have had him lined up to sack O’Neil. risky business,

TBH, I never really noticed what a miserable **** he is when we score. I do notice how excited he gets when we concede though. He always sounds overjoyed.

Yeah, I agree, but if either have a really good tournament, they will attract further interest on the back of it. Or at least the selling clubs will have reason to suggest there's been further interest in them. Little incentive for a selling club to sell before they have the chance to chuck that chip in.

Don't really think that matters. If a club is interested in a player before a tournament, they won't go completely cold on them due them having a bad tournament. If they have a good tournament though...

Clubs with players at the u21s won’t want to agree fees before it. players’ performances at it very unlikely to negatively effect their value but may well bring other interest to push their prices up.

An anus horiblis

He’s owed a further £30m or so in wages so yeah, even if someone was to pay him 100kpw for the next 3 or 4 years, and pay Man Utd £10m for the privilege, they’d still be down £10m after paying Maguire the difference. only way utd get out of the hole is if maguire goes somewhere where don’t have to break their wage structure.

Yeah. Savage. What a t***.

Fished that for you

Ma juicer. Kinky.

There were a couple of decisions I thought were wonky. Taylor booked a Roma player for diving, but then didn’t book the Sevilla lad who dived for the pen that was overturned. He then didn’t book lamella for a clearly bookable tackle at the end of ET, despite him already being booked and having got away with a couple more. I’ve seen him referee worse. Much worse.

Harry Novocaine Trent Alexander-Tramadol

I remember watching this and being really p!ssed off.

Absolutely. I got on board somewhat (a lot of us did) with scrimping and saving last summer and winter thinking the plan was to sign Bellingham with the wads of cash required. Now we're not doing that and we've lost wads of cash by not qualifying for the Champions League at the expense of Newcastle and a team that we beat 7-0. If I supported another team I'd be pointing at laughing at us for some time to come.

Yeah. I enjoy watching the footy on the tv though. And it’s one of the things I talk about at length with my dad. not to mention that it’s taken years to properly ringfence the football from any other social activity with my other half. It’ll be neices birthday parties and lunch with my mother in law during premier league games next.. this way madness lies.

Tbh, I’m a bit devoed too. I do other stuff on Thursday nights. This really f***s around with my life.

Yeah, I made that point earlier. Handball is nearly always deemed deliberate if the hand/arm moves towards the ball, even if the movement can be seen to be involuntary. Yet with offside the defender not only has to make a deliberate action to touch the ball, but now there's an additional requirement for someone else positively judge that the defender had time to premeditate it. It's complicated enough nowadays but imagine the same framework for handball. Given how much of football is about positioning and reflex actions, especially in the box it's utterly bizarre. So yeah, I can understand why it's given offside but the law is an ass.

Yeah, I feel a bit like that, but... imagine being at Chelsea right now. There's no consistency or continuity. You could sign a new deal in the morning and two new players are signed for your position the afternoon, so you'd want a proper bumper contract to even consider it. Mount might fancy actually playing for a proper football club with a solid manager and decent lads in the squad.

Yeah, he was, but the laws say in order in the defender to play it deliberately, he has to be in control of the ball before he attempts to clear it. It's b******s though. Imagine those sort of conditions being around what's deliberate or not in relation to handball. It's clear the VAR got it wrong. It's also pretty clear from the law why he got it wrong.

Yeah, I think it should be assumed that a player is trying to deliberately effect the ball if he touches it, unless it's clearly obvious that he isn't, ie his back is turned and he doesn't know where the ball is. As it is though, a for a player to deliberately play the ball, he has to be first in control of it. As the law stands at the moment, he wasn't in control. https://www.theifab.com/news/law-11-offside-deliberate-play-guidelines-clarified/

Yeah, either way. One, one side, one on the other. And yeah, given the choice between them, I'd take Mac Allister, but I'd like us to sign both.

Someone to play that 8/10 hybrid is vital in this new system of ours. Gakpo could do it if Jones isn't in the XI, but then we lose Gakpo from the false 9 position and we don't have anyone else to do that. It's Elliot and Carvalho after that. We need another elite player who can play there. Mount would be ideal.