Kid Dynamite

There's a few emergency options at CM. Murphy, Ritchie, Dummet, Tino etc

I know mortgage rates are daft, but £800pcm to £2000pcm can't be right, surely?

Apart from that though

He seemed to be outwith the usual footballer mould when he was holding the government to account over free school meals. Seems to be slipping into daft decisions recently though

I mean I'd have him. But with: Miley Longstaff Willock Tonali Bruno Joelinton Anderson in the squad, I would suggest we need a RW, CB or CF before we need an 8th CM

I assume it would take a crazy offer to get Villa, who are likely to finish top 4 this season, to sell us their best young player. Unless they need the FFP wiggle room in the Summer. He's a home grown player so any transfer would be pure profit for them

Like I say, maybe it's a private vs public sector thing. I'm not sure I'd be breaking my back to get paid the same whilst making someone at the top richer. No-one joins the NHS to make their fortune though. The people that benefit from hard graft are patients and your colleagues more often than not

Serious question. Do the people on here that speak about loafing and doing fuck all at work actually mean it? Im a "work to rule" type of bloke. I work hard all day, every day for 37.5hrs a week. I vary from some of my colleagues though, who beast themselves everyday and are still sending emails at 9pm etc. Fuck that. I work to live, not the other way round. I also have colleagues whose mantra is "get paid as much as possible for doing as little as possible" which I struggle to stomach tbh. They just make everyone else's job harder which just impacts on patients ultimately. The same cunts have a week off sick every other month. I dunno, maybe it's a public vs private sector thing? I just feel like if no-one ever actually puts any effort in at work then the country will end up even more on its arse than it is now.

He inherited a squad with Coutinho, Henderson, Milner, Firminho, Sturridge, Can, Lallana, Toure, Skrtel etc and then spent another £800mil Not saying he hasn't done well, but minor comps aside he's won 1 FA cup, 1 league cup, 1 PL and 1 CL in 8 seasons. Pep won 75% of those last season. Klopp is well behind Fergie, Pep, Mourinho and Wenger in the list for me

I assume the forum is coded to embed tweets from twitter.com rather than x.com Surely a quick fix?

I'd have gladly sold Lascelles for the last 4 seasons. He's been half decent for us this year though and has earned a new contract as our 3rd choice CB imo. I wouldn't blame him for leaving though.

That's as close to a "yes" as you will get from Eddie.

Almiron would have cut back and passed it to the half way line

As much as Hall has turned out to be the worst signing of the lot, I can see the thinking behind it. He looked good at Chelsea and we need a long term successor at LB. CB and CF might have been better positions to cover though

Hindsight is wonderful, but I do question the wisdom in spending £100mil of our FFP wiggle room on Barnes and Tonali. We already had Gordon on the LW (with Isak/Anderson too) and CM was one of our better covered areas.

Bench consists of 4 full backs, 1 keeper, 3 kids and Matt Ritchie. I know we have injuries but we really have no squad depth at CB or CF.

No Lascelles either.

Pritchard was the only player against us who looked half competent

What's the point in spending £400mil and smashing PSG in the champions league if our expectations can't be lifted?

I hope we win, because going out of the cup and potentially signing no one to plug the Tonali/Joelinton gap is going to make for a hell of an anti-climax to the season

Bookmarked for the inevitable disaster

Jim Radcliffe waved his cheque book at him maybe?

Henderson and Mane gone, VVD and Salah getting on. Maybe he knows the clubs got a massive rebuild coming up and he doesn't want to sully his legacy there. Either that or the tabs have caught up with him