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Our game became all about hanging on once RJ left the pitch

Kepa looks like a salmon and leaps like one today

The ref is a disgrace their player forgets the ball and runs into k2 gets a foul

Luckily January is around the corner when our need for a top class lb backup is as obvious as ever. Maybe we should indeed look at Dumfries or Maehle again

😭 it is a difference of night and day with and without watch returning to shit next game

That ref is an absolute knob again

He’s been perfectly equal to it tho. I will be worried if they start taking aim to his left hand or near post or pumping in crosses.

Good. I hate him stabbing everyone with his dangling pointy bones

Great play great goal gimme more of that

Such a big change in expectations management from getting a penalty for a bit of wind at the wc to not getting a pen for being clubbed with a sledgehammer

The problem Leicester overpaid for him by a shitload already. As they are a feeder club they naturally overhyped him, faked his stats and spewed misinformation about him all over the internet to make a bigger club fall into the trap of buying him once they themselves had realized their mistake. Todd being new to the business managed to mob up every player whose reputation was built on carefully spun myths or long gone capabilities rather than actual recently proven quality in Sterling, K2, cucu, fofana.

wasn't he taken off injured right after scoring vs Iran?

I have mentally booked his transfer fee&wages as sunk cost so not even mad anymore but usually if you get this many similar injuries in this short a timespan this early in your career you will either never come back 100% or be a recurring patient like Pulisic or Robben. btw it is kinda curious how players with the same last names pop up in clusters. It used to be Traore, Dembele now it's Mendy, Fofana, Martinez. I hope we have more luck with the new Fofana chap from Molde.

Yeah but a squad player who wants to earn 300k pw. If someones gives crazy money we should at least consider it. but overall selling him without making an effort to keep him sends the wrong signal. For all his shortcomings, Mase bleeds blue and leaves everything on the pitch for the club he loves. If the club does not reward him but pay huge sums in fees & wages for useless rinsed dregs like Auba, Sterling, Fofana who are just here for the paycheck we are on our way into a downward spiral.

As I said numerous times before and after we signed him. Dude is done and dusted at the top level with his dodgy knees.

No Ajax opponents, no Ajax form. Any half decent player looks a world beater in Eredivisie.

Heard Milan pulled out bc his performances raised his value too much IMO he was nothing special at the WC. Morocco scored like 5 goals all tournament. Any smart scout will look right through him and anticipate he will return to his usual shit self when not playing for his country. Luckily there is usually a bunch of dumb directors willing to overrule their scouts. Hopefully they will be dumb enough to buy this dreg.

Short for proletarian. Something along the lines of cad, redneck or peasant

I was lobbying for him so hard when Arsenal were offloading him. He is an absolute prole apparently but had huge impact today. He and their midfield were tremendous in Argentina's cup run. Just their defenders were utter shite. Maradona is hailed as one of the greats cos he carrried an average Argentina team to the WC title. Messi is the goat cos he carried an average Argentina team whose dipshit defenders actively sabotaged the effort.

This is so stupid. Just like Rom he is still the exact same player we sold for significantly less. We really don't learn do we.

No we shouldn't scout them. Morocco run was down to luck, poor oppositions, home advantage of sorts and great team spirit but surely not individual quality. If we have not been scouting those two players so far, it makes absolutely zero sense to start doing so now as surely some other braindead club board is gonna dump 5x their valuation before our scouts even enter a plane anyway. It is not as if those two just popped up on stage. They have been in Europe for ages, no one ever gave a shit about them and rightly so. They are bang average at best. They might have rosen to the occasion and played out of their skins for their country, well done. But you can bet your house on them returning to their usual mediocre selves after a few weeks of playing for their clubs. If Tottenham are really stupid enough to dump 57m on Amrabat, I will pop a bottle cos our chances of finishing top 4 might very well have drastically increased. And no Morocco also were not unlucky to lose vs France, they were lucky not to get thrashed by a France team that played below average and was missing key players and even luckier to even get this far only scoring 5 goals all tournament with very subserviant assistance of opponents and refs. But yeah lets just go after some random flavour of the month from the latest tournaments surprise team bc we don't have enough dregs in our team already. Damn, we missed such great deals when we failed to scout Angelos Basinas and Georgios Seitaridis after Greece won the 2004 euros.

Does it? IMO gvardiol looks super ponderous and slow there Esp on the final turn where he erreneously puts his weight on his right foot. Maybe tired from back to back 120mins shifts but no way Prime Thiago gets shafted there. This is 35yo Messi and Gvardiol is 20 and supposedly one of the fastest defenders in Bundesliga. Messi beats him with his acceleration twice. Gvardiol should get his body between Messi and the goal way more assertively forget Fofana, he is wrecked for good. Another 80m sunk cost. But yeah it is all academic, gvardiol won’t come here but I don’t mind there are plenty of quality defenders out there but the club will surely snipe the cucurellas and fofana Alf this world.

Nah Messi completely sent him to fetch toast. No shame in that but was an obvious mistake by Gvardiol to be sold this easy to the inside route and IMO shows that he is not as good as his hype yet. Whether he is worth 100m on potential is another question.

Never heard of him before but he looks ok in the vids. Moreover, what I like about him is that he already contributed to his teams championship and cup wins, even if it is just the Norwegian league it shows he can perform under pressure.

we won't cos he is a petulant little brat who only runs when it suits him.