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Is it pronounced Dean or Din-yay? I forget.

Godfrey has potential but Holgate is probably the best out of our three English centre halves.

Can't take credit for that one. Think I said he was the best of the England midfield (although Mount has put in a good case for himself this season).

Don't get the not grief. He looks a lot more bothered than most when we're shite and is always trying to win. He's not gonna pull up trees getting back but he does enough defensively, plus the team is set up to enable him to focus on the attack. He's been involved with nearly everything good this season.

Are the kits fan mock ups? The tower on its own looks a lot better than the club's attempt to change the badge last time.

City 0 - 2 Everton Mina

If he played and ended up injured everyone would lose their shit.

He should be knocking Ancelotti's door down given Richarlison's form this season.

Don't think it's about playing regularly. At Arsenal he was playing faster football, helped by their passing being more crisp and their players getting forward more. For me the two biggest problems are Richarlison who's runs are shite and doesn't pass the ball enough to link up play, and Sigurdsson who doesn't make forward runs and too often doesn't even make forward passes.

Pickford Coleman Holgate Godrey Digne James Doucoure Davies Iwobi King DCL Richarlison and Allan shouldn't be playing on current form. Put a couple kids on the bench and give them a few minutes.

Everton 3-2 Wolves DCL

Unsure how they work it out but looking at his highest rating there seems to be more weight towards attacking than defending. He got 2 assists in a game we also conceded 2 goals. https://www.whoscored.com/Players/89925/MatchStatistics/Lucas-Digne

The head to head statistics are all attacking ones. Bit weird to focus on them when looking at a defender.

Quite a few questions just on last night's game. Richarlison has been shit all season yet playing every week. Allan isn't justifying walking straight back in the team over Davies. Five at the back against a relegated team. Michael Keane in a five at the back.

I've not said I favour it. Just pointing out a reason why the system may the way it is. Personally think there's too much money in football (but at least the players get their fair share unlike most other employments).

Deary me. Gomes has to pass that one.

Teams who come up will have higher runnings costs than they're used to, especially with players coming in on higher wages and I'd imagine a nice boost for their players that brought them up too. Parachute is a nice safety net to stop the teams coming up and not spending to compete as they'll be scared of the financial burden if they go down. Without the parachute payments the prem teams would be able to raid the best players from the relegated teams more easily, which would further the gap even more.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/glasgow-residents-surround-and-block-immigration-van-from-leaving-street?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2bKHm3vfM3X24tokp1wnRlea7RMrj7foEcXw-CBcVKPVx9_AHbXt23QKs#Echobox=1620930400

Defensive mid, sitter. Centre mid, more box to box. Doucoure has been the Gana replacement albeit a year later.

Everything going forward breaks down at him. That attack started from Keane and Sigurdsson was especially poor all they villa defense done was play him in his left and he had no insisting on trying to cut in on his right. Lost count of how many times he's ruined an attack, should have buried a header too. Agree with you about Allan. Miles off the pace today.

The main thing I recall in the media was from his agent saying he'd be a good centre back. Positionally Gbamin was Schneiderlin's replacement.

Worst manager I've ever witnessed. Doesn't even take responsibility. Blame's his failure on Gana leaving and good replacement being injured. They don't even play the same position.

My betting friends, most media at the time and pretty sure it was discussed on here too, (not got time to search, need to set off in a minute). Spurs were playing better without him and Moura had just scored a hattrick to put them in the final.

Spurs score just as many when he doesn't play, and if anything look a better team. Kane's goals are more down to his teammates giving him more opportunities than most strikers get. I'm guessing most people don't watch him for a full 90, he broke down more attacks than any Leeds defender the other week. His flaws stand out when he doesn't get on the score sheet. I got similar dislike popular opinion accusations when I said basically the same about Sigurdsson, who just had the best output of any midfielder I can remember (13 goals, 6 assists) people thought I was mad to want rid as beyond getting a goal or assist he didn't contribute enough over the 90. Think most would now agree. Don't worry Avatar was bollocks (although 3d was pretty cool), popular opinion isn't always right. Just look at who's running the country the last decade. When they played Liverpool in the champions League final most people waited to see if Kane started before backing Liverpool to win. Look at his skillset. What does he do better than DCL? The players SteveO named all have something that put them a class above. What does Kane have? Why are his pisspoor performances for England overlooked?

How many did he get in the tournament? Oh wait he was shite, probably England's worst performer. You think Kane is as good as any of those names mentioned? He's 27 and still at Spurs... Meanwhile Juve, Barca, PSG, Chelsea, Inter, Arsenal, Man U, Atletico Madrid have all shelled out for strikers. I'm really hoping a club one day is stupid enough to buy him. They'll be worse for it.