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Will do. I always worry about Stephen King book endings. There's been some absolute stinkers down the years.

It's not remotely a ridiculous notion to believe that Howe was squeezing the extra 5% out of Isak to make him a genuinely great striker btw. We all know the difference Howe made to the players that were here when he arrived, so it's just logical that he's done the same to the players he's brought in. To quote Slot himself in that piece above, "the margins at the top are small". If those margins fall away, it doesn't take much to drop back to the player that couldn't push his way past Callum Wilson into the first team, which is what he was when he arrived here.

I've just started book 4, Wizard and Glass. Great so far.

Whilst I'm delighted that they're putting this injury down to his disgraceful behaviour in the summer, we all know from experience that he has a chronic groin problem and this is going to be a constant problem for their £125m man. As for his total lack of form, I keep thinking of Gordon at the start of the season, when he was saying that he needed to learn all of the patterns to play up front for us. All of the patterns Eddie Howe had drilled into Alexander Isak to make him look as good as he did for us, and which Arne Slot and Liverpool thought just came naturally to the prick. I'm currently reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and to quote The Gunslinger, "he has forgotten the face of his father". Without Daddy Eddie he is cursed to be shit for the rest of his career.

And now they're winning. Frankfurt still look dangerous on the break, but we'll see. All eyes on Brentford.

Ekitike has equalised.

1-0 Frankfurt.

The Rat AND Ekitike start. Salah dropped.

Fucking hell this is the first I've heard of that. How the fuck is Potter able to keep doing this?

I think he might be fucking crap. Fortunately for them, the other Swedish lad at Liverpool is even worse these days.

Waugh was saying that he was talking to a Portuguese journalist pre match who had come over to cover Benfica. Anyway, after the game he comes up to Waugh, hugs him, and says that he's covered football all over the world for 25 years, and this is the best experience he's had of a football club. The town, the build up, the match, the atmosphere, all of it. Which is canny. Just nobody tell the mackems please.

Apparently Mourinho went up to Gordon on the pitch post match and told him he was "too much" for his lot. Gordon isn't short of confidence, but having Mourinho come up and single you out isn't gonna hurt. Hopefully he takes last night into the weekend.

That just makes it worse.

Gross.

Listen, we're not all misogynistic boomers, OK?!

Women's team sacked the manager yesterday after a very average start to the season.

He's good mates with Janet as well, pet.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-15215897/Sandro-Tonalis-secret-Newcastle-contract-signed.html There's the full story.

Bosh.

The ONE GREAT JOKE GANG adds its 4th member in 12 hours. So no, they didn't hear it here first, cos they've already had 3 other tedious pricks make the same joke.

I think she's called Katie Lam. She looks like she was made in a lab from the parts of lesser young conservatives.

As Liverpool are currently discovering, if Isak isn't scoring he brings fuck all to the table.

Aye I've officially called it: we replaced Isak with a better player. He might not score as many but if you add what he provides as a creative spark, I suspect his overall goal contributions will be higher. I'm just pleased we went for Sesko before we went for Woltemade, or Man United would likely have hot footed it over to Stuttgart to try and poach him out from under us instead of Sesko.

Aye it's the horror that they've got their eye on as the next rising star in the party that's behind it all. Rising star for them roughly translates as people prepared to say the worst shit.

Re Joelinton, I'm desperate for him to get back to being an absolute unstoppable force btw. Nowt against the bloke, he's been an absolute monster for us when we're at our best. But he's not doing it at the minute and maybe a rest could help.