Alex

I was thinking before that Maddison and Tielemans would massively improve our depth / options. If the former’s a possibility then the latter (with only 6 months left on his contract) would be even more so. When you look at Leicester they might’ve missed a trick in August. Letting them go for about £80m would’ve been a blow for the fans but it might’ve allowed the squad rebuilding they appear to need.

Aye, it’s funny in retrospect but it’s possible it was the right call at the time. For all parties

Aye. Mercer’s a cunt. Perhaps relatively less so than most of the rest of the party but that really isn’t saying anything at all

Agreed

We’ve seen Howe get a tune out of lots of different players but, even so, it feels like Man Utd did us a massive favour by trying to screw us over with Lingard

What a shame

He needs the practice

That nails it like. Even if it is from the CN. I think refs automatically think they probably need to change their decision if they’re asked to review it. Then he didn’t see an edit which showed the full incident. So he’s basically being influenced to change a correct decision by the VAR officials. Mental when you think about it like that

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62766917 Definitely not the BBC doing a bit of the government’s bidding and reinforcing the lie that energy prices are solely down to the war in Ukraine

My eldest got a calendar from the club shop for free about Easter time when he bought some training gear. So keeping in mind these will be made well before Xmas, as that’s when most are sold it reflects what the first XI was like at the start of last season. The point of this shit story is that when you look at what he had roughly 12 months ago - honestly we were absolutely fucking tragic. Even the injury-depleted side we put out today is streets ahead

He’ll start changing his tune about his time here and do a history rewrite if we start winning things 👍🏻

I think we’re stuck with VAR now but I think I agree it would be better if it was just the goal line technology. I thought the teething problems would be sorted out but, if anything, it’s getting worse. The marginal offsides bug the fuck out of me. If it’s a howler by the assistant referee that’s one thing. But when they need to keep looking and looking at it then the principle should be you stick with the on-field decision. It’s often almost impossible to say if the pass has been played or is just about to be played at the moment the player is just on or offside. I also hate the way you can barely celebrate a goal now knowing there’s a good chance you’ll have to wait about 2 minutes to have it confirmed

On a positive note, Richarlison got a booking for removing his top celebrating a goal which the VAR check subsequently judged to be offside.

That definitely should’ve been a red like.

At least his parents had a sense of humour

Imagine posting that, man

Harsh on Tom. He’s only trying to expand his repertoire

I reckon he blocks people who follow people he’s blocked. Remember when he did that completely non-ironic ‘prize’ draw where he was going to unblock people who ‘won’? I’m blocked too btw. I think I might have replied to one of his tweets and that’s it. For (inoffensively) saying it was bad crack trying to get a member of the Norwich coaching staffed sacked /disciplined for coming into the crowd to get a ball back during the warm up. I bet he’s one of those who thinks you can say what you want from the crowd but if a player so much as flicks the Vs they should be banned sine die.

That decision probably meant he’s narrowly escaped being abducted. By aliens.

But who was number 1?

I forgot about all the goalies in that clip

That’s the other thing, as ewerk points out, the money seems to have dried up.

They’ve won one fa cup in their history and he was the manager. He’s absolutely in love with himself but he’s definitely a decent manager. Not many managers (virtually none) have sustained success at a club. That’s just football. There’s no guarantee Howe is still making progress here even a couple of years down the line.

Did we get Mbappe or Neymar in the end?

He did the square root of fuck all in his time there