Tomo

Not as funny as the desperate illogical reasoning's Spurs fans will create to try and convince themselves prime Bale is still there somewhere.

Alexis Sanchez 2.0

This is the thing with these relaxed type managers, when things are going good they're very good but when things aren't quite happening and you need tactical inspiration they get found wanting.

I actually enjoyed German in school but I dropped it because when I took a trip to Germany around age 13 I wanted to improve my German in the field but the natives just default on you and speak clear English So for that reason I decided to try French (as that can come in handy in not just France but a fair chunk of Africa) but I couldn't get to grips with it atall.

Palace only have themselves to blame if they blow this, they could and should have got 4.

And the retake. And the end of last season when Romeu practically assaulted Greenwood got away with it and Saints got a point.

Are we still going to keep up these conspiracy's that VAR is a United tool?

Yeah as someone who is trying to learn Spanish it's so much easier out in the field so to speak than it is in the classroom.

Doesn't really work like that, you can have the knowledge to coach but not the natural talent to play at the same level as your brain. Jose was non existent as a player but became a world class manager, our new Scouse coach is apparently the real deal but in his playing career Yeovil in League One was as good as it ever got for him.

But on the flip side wasn't he saying similar about Pulisic this time last year? and look at him now. I think it's a lot different to the KDB situation. Firstly KDB was not getting game time at all, Odoi is, it may be pretty much exclusively off the bench at the minute but he's still appearing in pretty much every game, secondly a further two attacking midfielders were signed on top of Mazacar trio when we should have been giving KDB further exposure, on this occasion we've let two wingers go and only brought in one (although that maybe down to the fact we had more pressing needs in terms of strengthening).

I imagine Klopp thinks/hopes he can develop him the same way he did Mane.

He makes Bosingwa look like an unstoppable wall defensively. I'd have been a lot more worried had they nabbed Grimaldo (who was my LB preference).

But my main point is, he has more in common with Pedro if we're going to force this comparison. It could also explain why Lampard picked Willian as the experienced head up top when his two predecessor's preferred Pedro.

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Wrong!

No wonder we can't fix our reputation as a fanbase when some are abusing teenage academy players.

I'm a bit skeptical with Chilwell myself but the bedwetting that's going to occur every time he has a quiet game and it coincides with Reguillon completes a 3 yard pass is going to be excruciatingly unbearable.

Bale is finished as a top player, he'll be Torres/Alexis back at Spurs. Hugely upgraded on fullbacks but midfield and CB's are still crap.

Like Pedro Mount has more of an instinct to shoot compared to Willian but isn't on the same level as a ball carrier. Plus (again like Pedro) he's more intelligent with his pressing, Willian puts the effort in but he more ran around chasing the defender as opposed to pressing strategically like Pedro/Mount do.

A better comparison is Pedro. He won't be a shining star when the team is shit (a role Willian was really good at) but put him in a fully functioning team and he will be an unsung hero (like Pedro was for Barca, in 16/17 and to an extent under Sarri).

Yeah, they've been on it for a while. I assume he will have to quarentine given Silva did and Kai would have had too had he gone and played in Switzerland before officially signing for us.

I think he would have tbh (Cech made his debut Vs United) but he will have to quarentine when he comes in from France. That said Liverpool at Stamford Bridge was the one fixture Kepa ripped up his form book in last season so hopefully that happens again.

Play him in the middle and try to get the James-CHO chemistry going down the right.

I wonder if he's one of the 4 positive Covid test's this and the injury is smokescreen?

Christensen had a great game.