Rayvin

We probably have everything worked out already with Brentford too tbh. I genuinely think if this goes through from here it'll all have been wrapped up in the past couple of days and then stage managed from there.

Well, that's the club effectively reaching out to Liverpool then. How annoying.

It makes me wonder if, in years to come, we'll find out it was all a bit like WWE. Not completely, but enough to take the edges off the idea of balanced competition. Or maybe we're all just paranoid, who knows.

If they lose Guehi they might be a bit less prominent, he's been very good today both in defending and carrying the ball forward.

Dear fucking god Villa..

Still wish we'd got him tbh but clearly he's out of our range now that "big clubs" want him.

Running more wasn't enough.

They look slightly better this half. Or rather, Emery has yelled at them and now they're running more.

At some point you have to wonder if the media are completely out of sync with clubs on this. I daresay there's way less pressure to sell people than we are constantly being told.

It feels like Palace are the home team, same as the dynamic against us. Just weird to see really.

What has actually gone wrong for Villa exactly? I know they have PSR issues but that should only have stopped them adding, it shouldn't have led to a total collapse... they look like a completely different team to last year.

Fuck Liverpool, now and forever. Amen.

Tell you what, this thread is aptly named. I am 100% hatewatching Liverpool here.

We absolutely could justify a 40m loan fee, yes.

It is suspiciously quiet right now. Tomorrow is either going to be a huge anticlimax for the media or it's it's going to have to be a 10 on the Harry Redknapp scale.

I am at least pleased that with Wolt now in place we aren't advocating for the spending of "whatever it takes" for Wissa anymore

Mentions in the comments that his view is that Watkins would be the ideal player to support him, but that Wissa is the next best and most realistic.

What leverage do they now have though? They've got nothing as far as I can see, other than Isak being petulant. Is Isak's petulance worth a 30m discount?

He's a number 10 by the sounds of it. That's what I picked up from it anyway.

He might have scored that first chance we had that Osula took a touch on though.

I'm on rum. I was going to skip it today but binned that idea at half time.

There is absolutely no chance we're 'easing Wolt in' to the play style on this evidence.

This. If he'd not been a complete twat we'd be on 9 points right now, I firmly believe that.

It'll be the last one he ever gets. Given for purely sentimental reasons because everyone else was absolute shit.

Having to check my connection to make sure that it's not just that I've lost access to the site here The game is that compelling that no one has said anything in 10 minutes...