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Gigi Buffon would say you have a garbage bin for a heart Seriously, there are realistically two competitions we can win each year - The League Cup is one of them. I want to win a damn trophy for once and if it means finishing 8th instead of 7th, so friggin be it. The PL is so rigged in favor of the top teams these days, that every team that doesn't anticipate a relegation scrap should be going all out for both cups.

This is how we know that we are paying at least part of his wages while he goes on loan Wouldn't have risked him if it meant ensuring a year of his wages off the books

In the team against Rotherham... huh?

Cardiff and Huddy look pretty dire already.

Mike, any chance you could explain the Europa League qualification rules one more time just for your health's sake?

Surely if he ever wears our shirt, we have to have a work permit/immigration related chant for him? He lives where he wants, oh Henry Onyekuru, he lives wear he wants?

Are you sure?

Correct until I'm proven incorrect by someone more aware of the news than me.

Domestic specific and foreign specific that is, I believe. Just to further clarify the ever-confusing world of football rules

If you're injured by that flick of the head, then you're not tough enough for football. Probably not tough enough for anything. Also, that should be stamped out of the game but Smith's provocation and subsequent play acting shouldn't be stamped out? Stupid from Richarlison, absolute shithousery from Smith. Seeing him walk was my favorite moment of the damn match.

Just rewatched - probably a red, though my point still stands that Arter and Kenedy's fouls were worse and more stonewall reds.

Not quite enough force for me. Sorry to offend.

Isaac Hayden walked for what was an "orange" card in my opinon, Arter and Kenedy stay on the pitch for stonewall reds. I'll note that the referee was Craig Pawson - dickhead.

Except he joins on a permanent! Even better!

How about Steve and I start a business thread?

I disagree - I think a lot of the bottom have are splashing a cash in a way that not all of them were able to 10 years ago - but this is going to be a chicken and egg argument pretty quickly

I think that the Premier League stumbling into all the tv riches has done this. Since 70-80%+ of all the bottom half clubs revenue is going to come from tv, it doesn't really matter if you're a tiny club with a 15k seat stadium or a slightly bigger club. It's basically ensured there aren't any Derby County's but also made it much harder to finish 10th on 50 points, well above the drop and better than the relegation fodder but way worse than the top 6.

We're 39 points from safety and I enjoyed our first match.

This. I'm curious as to the source of Usmanov's money - I assume he got all of it during the privatizations of the 90's post USSR like most of the other billionaires. He claims that he didn't participate in any of the share auctions of these privatizations, of which many were rigged/bribed and thus billionaires made and politicians paid off. Not sure if I believe him, or even if that's true, that the methods used weren't another form of corruption/theft. It's an inevitable problem in a country privatizing all of its state owned assets with a poor citizenry - the only people with access to resources to acquire are the government, those who are in bed with said government officials, or foreigners with pooled capital. What a mess Russia and that part of the world is. Makes me thankful to live in a much more fair society.

Thought Keane did really well until Raul Jimenez's goal - need to go watch that one again to see if Keane completely lost his man or if it was just a very great run. Richarlison was out of this world today. Cenk and Theo were energetic but a bit wasteful/not clinical.

GBP is like ~1.3 to 1 and has been about that since Brexit I believe. Euro is more where you speak of.

Said dollars from what I heard, which he's hardly the first big signing to get referred to by his pricetag by commentators. I can confirm this since I watch other football matches.

Good transfer window but we'll probably get battered over the first month or two of the season. New players need to get healthy and gel. We'll see if patience remains.

I hope he goes tbh or gets loaned to the Championship. No room for him.

Is the deadline past for Football League clubs or is the August 9 deadline only restricted to PL clubs?