The Fish

Anyone unpaywall this for us?

You joke, but we should have enough to get 9pts from them, especially as we're not playing 2 games a week any more.

So maybe back for the Arsenal game? To be honest, Luton Forest, Bournemouth aren't the worst games for him to miss.

What I took from Eales' interview is that to compete with the very best we have to give ourselves more room to manoeuvre. Which means we need to sell someone for big dollar bucks. Over a decade of negligence means we haven't the squad depth to sell our 3rd choice midfielder for £80m or whatever. Our most valuable assets have value and if that valuation is met, we'll sell. Just like every single club on the planet. Be they Runcorn or Real Madrid. It's a business after all, and sometimes you have to be ruthless. Villa used the Grealish sale to build a deeper squad, Spurs did it with the Bale money, Liverpool with the Coutinho money too. Man Utd did it with Beckham, Lukaku and Ronaldo. I don't think that means we're actively trying to offload our stars, just that everyone has a price. If someone came in with £120m for Bruno (say) we'd be mad not to take it. He's class and I love him and I don't want him to go, but with FFP the way it is, the only way to gain footing in the elite is by inflating the club's revenue. Ideally we'd sell Longstaff for big sums, as he represents pure FFP profit. Had we been more fortunate with injuries (just seen Joelinton is out for 6 weeks(!)) we could have probably demanded large fees for players operating more on the fringe. Longstaff, Willock, Targett, etc. But as it stands the only players we have that would be attracting significant interest are players we ideally wouldn't be selling. All that said, I'd sell Willock.

Mate, it's "immoral".

Inspired me to rewatch. It's an amazing piece of tv. Doesn't paint the Brits in the best light, but whaddyagonnado?

Gone too early. You, not Sven.

I'm just saying local jobs for local people.

I think marrying debt-linked transfer guidelines with rules about minimum % of players in the squad from within a certain geographical area would help too. Would mean teams wouldn't be able to stockpile scores of young players to send out on loan (Chelsea) or flood their team with players from abroad (Spurs).

Aye, between forefinger and thumb.

I'd honestly prefer Evan Ferguson from Brighton, but I doubt we could get them to sell him for a figure within our budget. I don't know a lot about Santiago Gimenez at Feyenoord, but he looks decent. Also Ricardo Pepi at PSV.

Genuinely thought I'd hit gold when I was given an apprentice to 'help with my workload' . Trouble is, she's thick as fuck and can't follow simple step by step instructions. Also, she doesn't understand fractions; 36/30 because "there's 36 of them and 30 were successful"... I swear to God. So I end up having to actually undo her work, and do it again with her watching which means I can't open the file I've made which does it for me automatically. She's also emailed a senior manager to say a report would be delayed, she sent " Hi [Name Redacted], soz about this, but the SDM will be late cos of people being off over Xmas. Cheers [Name redacted] 😝" And she's hoping for a job at the end of this?

Pancrate looked decent against Swansea and Watford I had to double check wiki to make sure I remembered it right and enjoyed the description of his Watford goal

You wouldn't believe how motivated I am to avoid doing my actual work. Which is dicking about with coding and excel, for what it's worth.

Really? I'm not sure. Willock is behind Bruno, Joelinton and arguably Longstaff and Tonali in midfield. He's certainly behind Gordon and arguably Barnes on the left. Whereas Almiron is the first choice right winger, even when everyone is fit.

Only thing going faster than his legs are three geriatrics going down the same hill in a bathtub.

Can we please put an end to this fucking circle jerk?

Sobbing into the teacakes as he pushes his Hovis pedal bike up the steepest hill in the world.

My best mate was so convinced we had the next Maldini, he got Pistone on the back of his shirt. There's tale of someone thinking the answers to our problems would be a young Irish winger called Shane Ferguson.

But Gordon's form means Joelinton and Willock won't join up on that left side like they did last season. We play with 3 in midfield. Bruno has to start, but to get the best out of him, he needs physicality and/or tenacity around him. So that means 2 from Joelinton, Longstaff, Miley and Willock. Of those 4 only Longstaff and Joelinton can be relied upon to give the bite we need in midfield. Willock is basically a more narrow left winger, imo. In that position we have Barnes and Gordon, plus Joelinton or Isak at a fucking push. As I've said, if we didn't have financial restraints, or if we had the full strength team, I wouldn't countenance selling Willock.

Sima, wasn't it?

Those troublesome bowling green pitches. I'm sure we all miss the days football was played on pitches like this

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