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Daft cunt should be off

Cheers for that Donny An in form Villa now lead at St Mary’s

Southampton leading an in form Villa…. hope no one is thinking Tuesday will be the proverbial walk in the park

People are laughing at Pearson, not with him. Wrong

Andy Murray OUT to Bautista Agut

Would it be accurate to assume that Ings to West Ham means Villa are about to spunk a fortune on some untested foreign non entitiy that will leave them precisely where they are now?

Yeah as far as I can make out there’s no one properly coming through that looks dominant at the moment. If his body holds together he’s got as good a chance as anyone 🤷🏻‍♂️

Last years finalist Daniel Medvedev OUT to Patrick Corder… 11th seed Cam Norrie OUT to Lehecka…

Djokovic is carrying a hamstring injury. Is there anyone able to give a decent opinion on who’s still in (Nadal is fucked and already out) that would be favourite at any stage of the tournament v Andy Murray? My own strictly amateur view would be that he’s unlikely to win it but am pretty far from being able to comment with any certainty on who could beat him…

Emotional control from Ms Hissy Fit herself Its realism. Am still scarred by lying in bed 27 years ago almost to the week and thinking about literally being 12 points ahead of Man Utd at the top of the league, then having what can only be described as a rapturous, euphoric moment of realisation … “FUCKIN HELL MAN WE’RE GOING TO WIN THE FUCKIN LEAGUE!!!” That didn’t turn out too well for us tbh. So since then I’ve been a bit reticent to overplay our chances of achieving anything. I can see the monumentally great signs of improvement, I can agree with various good assessments & analysis from lots of posters on here on form, tactics, upcoming fixtures for rivals, transfer targets etc etc . It fills me with huge optimism. But after 1995/6 am done with counting chickens 👍

Yeah . Some have forgotten this is Newcastle United. I work with a spurs fan and after how they finished last season coupled with their recruitment he was super confident about what this season would bring. I couldn’t really disagree with him tbh. Look how that has panned out . I basically have difficulty trusting the over confident. They always seem to be trying to hide something….

David Crosby, 81 Bit of a cunt by all accounts but CSN&Y’s gigs looked a hoot

And the crowd go mild

Mahrez makes two goals in a minute

Loris

He did roughly the same on Monday v an Italian who was 13th seed. Not sure where this bubble/Aussie dude is in the rankings? There used to be some sort of online “Andy Murray Brit-Ometer” that would be at 100% when he was winning Wimbledons & US opens and obviously 0% if he was knocked out early but none of them seem to have been updated in about a decade Anyway, he’s one of the greatest tennis players Dunblane has ever produced* so it’s all good *waiting for Wykiki to post that he hates Murray because he’s a dour, miserable moody jock prick who hates England to his marrow because of a joke he made as a teenager over 20 years ago that the English sporting public have never forgiven him for

Fuckin hope so I can’t get anything bar a Liverpool ticket at the moment

Fuck…. I have no idea how this happened but I missed the ST sale for the home leg of the semi final…

Yeah I get it, >5/6 year deals will become normal for high fee transfers is what I’m saying

I think you could say that about every PL club bar Man City tbh. That’s the 25 man squad system for you 🤷🏻‍♂️

That’s up to nearly a decade now with the Mudryk deal though..

Am a bit surprised that there was 200 mill lying around from Ashley’s reign to spend tbh. All income streams were alleged to have nosedived. We’re allowed to spend 90% of all income on all transfer expenses this season, 80% next season and 70% the season after. The Chelsea transfer last week may not be the first structured like that but you’d imagine it’d likely to the norm going forward for high fee transfer deals

Ok, why is the wages/income equation now a problem then if the problem was there pre takeover? Or has spunking 200mill of presumably funds that the football club has largely earned itself completely skewed it/brought it to the fore?