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i think we can compete for the title while isak is with but it does depend on finishing in the the CL places. We won't be a million miles away from the teams around us if we have a good summer transfer window, boosted by CL money, keep our star players and sign 3-4 new ones who improve the first team.

Based on this evidence, I've amended my opinion to completely agree with Craig. Not that I agreed with Gemmers, but it was close which can't be a good thing.

It'll be a significant impact to how much we've got to spend over the coming windows if we don't make CL. Being in the EL will also impact our ability to return to Europe next season, never mind the CL. I'm not that chilled about not being top 5.

As with everything else, the truth will be the opposite of what you hypothesize.

I think that's definitely the truth.

Barnes, Gordon, Isak, Tonali (and Schär) can all hit a shot from distance which seems to be a recurring weakness of his. I'd be giving them all a license to shoot at will.

And me actually.

I guess the only one who knew what he was trying to say was him.

I don’t want him to leave either but we aren’t going to win the league in Isaks time year so let’s get a boat load of money, flesh the squad out and win the europa league. The world keeps turning.

Hush hush

it would be disappointing to fall at the final hurdle but i'd get over it pretty quickly. this season has been a ride. it's had everything, really: soaring highs - doing the double over Man U and beating Arsenal three times, mixed with some crushing lows, dropping points to teams we really should have beaten, and finally winning a bastard trophy. i'd have snapped your hand off for top 6 and a trophy at the start of the campaign. anyway, i still think we'll do it. chelsea is the big one. if we win on sunday i wouldn't be surprised if we go and win at arsenal again too. if we drop points to chelsea, it really is squeaky bum time for the run in.

Fuck the both of ya. How's that?

I don't care but here's my 5000 word dissertation on the matter.

The issue is he's too good not to play in the CL and whilst he clearly loves it here, you wouldn't blame him for agitating the move that would provide him with that - it's more likely we'd have a line up of clubs come for him if we don't get over the line so for me, it's imperative we do so. And while we would command a massive fee for him, there's no guarantee it would get reinvested as effectively. So for me I have absolutely no desire of a Europa League adventure. It'd be a massively disappointing end to the season.

These fucking Aussies are some verbose motherfuckers. Putting the Fish to shame.

I think he was trying to say he is sorry for scoring but he is here (as in Brighton) now.

I think there was two completely opposite things. Firstly he apologised for scoring. I think the away end didn't appreciate it, and then he started pointing at the badge and pointing as if this is his team and kissing the badge. The players were just waving him away cos he was making a cunt of himself.

Are you saying that your interpretation is the same as that Spurs supporters? Not that I really care at all at his point three days after the fact, but I don't think that's what Minteh was saying at all. I can't watch that video because it's geo-blocked but from memory he does three things. 1. He makes a prayer gesture, which I interpreted as "giving thanks" or being "grateful" in an ironic sense to Newcastle for selling him. 2. He then does the ridiculously overused "my house" pointing at the ground gesture, which I interpreted to mean "I'm here now" and I'm a complete wombat. 3. He then kisses his badge adding further credence to the idea that he's completely lost the plot, but which I also interpreted to mean "And I'm happy about being at Brighton and having been sold". I think the whole escapade was incited by the away support getting on his case a couple of times prior to that, the most immediate example being when he caused Tino to roll his ankle. I think his teammates may have been annoyed or more likely concerned that (a) he was inciting the opposition supporters in an incredibly inflammatory way which is never a good idea and (b) he's got caught up in the crowd booing him for his involvement in a few incidents and is clearly not concentrating fully on the game. His teammates may be saying in essence, "Forget about them, play the game". Difference of opinion, of course, and impossible to verify either way. But I really think it's pretty unlikely that he's saying he didn't want to come to Brighton with that celebration. He may have been refusing to celebrate again like previously but I don't think so, I think he's perhaps even lulling the supporters into a sense that he's refusing to celebrate then gone off on them. Or, possibly another alternative, he was refusing to celebrate then the away support gave him more lip and he's turned on them then and there. Like I said, I haven't rewatched it since two days ago but that Spurs supporters idea doesn't jive with my memory of it. He seemed to be very very angry with the Newcastle supporters and not indicating in any way that he didn't want to be at Brighton. Anyway without being able to re-watch it from memory my interpretation at least seems to track with how the three separate gestures might be connected. I don't see how those three gestures can be connected to your interpretation (if that tweet is representative of your interpretation) as a coherent slight against Brighton (not that the celebration made much sense in general). In any case, it doesn't really matter at this point. I don't care what happens in the guys career. He's gone. Who cares. He never played for us and his refusal to celebrate the first time he scored against was strange and unneeded. This celebration was just more of the same in the opposite direction (as far as I could tell). He never built a connection with the support because he never played for us. Seems a little self-important to think otherwise from his perspective. Weird of him to expect that the away support would treat him like one of their own. But, hey, whatever. Each to their own.

Meh, would be good to get it but I'm not gonna spit the dummy out if we don't. Let's just wait and see.

I refuse to have nightmares about that short armed cunt. He's not superhuman.

If we get 6 points by beating Chelsea, we're fully sorted. If we get 6 points, but lose to Chelsea and: - Chelsea beat Forest, we're sorted - Forest beat Chelsea, we'd be on 69 points along with Chelsea and it would come down to GD....which, if they've beaten us, probably doesn't go in our favour.

My old man is an Everton supporter and he claims that Pickford is much better now for this - don't think we can rely on that. He would also love to deny us CL football btw, I doubt there's going to be anyone anywhere as motivated against us reaching the CL as Pickford.

agreed but we’re not selling Isak unless he agitates for a move and in that eventuality we get £150m to rebuild this summer with the sort of free spending we haven’t seen since the early days of the takeover. I don’t want to lose Isak either and I expect us to get over the line for CL but either way, the future looks bright

we need six points, I think, to confirm CL with one of the wins coming against Chelsea