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Sitting watching Leeds Palace game. Patrick Bamford impresses every time I see him. Not a top 4 or 6 player but his general skill set suits Leeds down to the ground. Deceptively quick as well. 

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On 07/02/2021 at 13:08, Vesper said:

loving this

FUCK manurepool

Its funny how a lot of journalists are seething at the fact that they couldn't get a straightforward United-Liverpool title race.

I just saw an article on the Mail describing how they think its possible for City to slip up in the upcoming fixtures

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2 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Its funny how a lot of journalists are seething at the fact that they couldn't get a straightforward United-Liverpool title race.

I just saw an article on the Mail describing how they think its possible for City to slip up in the upcoming fixtures

If Citeh sweep Spuds, Everton, Arsenal, West Ham, Manure, and Fulham (to get them to 28 games played), the title race is 99.9% done.

Assuming they win their game in hand, so all teams involved are on 23 games, their leads over the next 4 teams are NOW (after their winning the game in hand) 8 (Manure), 10 (Leicester), 13 (Bindippers), and 14 points (us). If they sweep those 6 games listed,  the gap between them and number two will be 11 points MINIMUM (likely 14 or more) with only 10 games to go. Zero chance they collapse and blow that. Hell give us a 14 point lead with 10 games to go and we would 95% likely win the tile, probably 98-99% chance we win, especially if we were given Citeh's schedule for the ten last games (and sub in say Villa or Arse for the Chels v Citeh game).

After those 6, the only games they have with top 7 teams are us, Leicester and maybe Villa, maybe Everton (if ANY of those are still in the top 7, which we should be).  That's it.

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

If Citeh sweep Spuds, Everton, Arsenal, West Ham, Manure, and Fulham (to get them to 28 games played), the title race is 99.9% done.

Assuming they win their game in hand, so all teams involved are on 23 games, their leads over the next 4 teams are NOW (after their winning the game in hand) 8 (Manure), 10 (Leicester), 13 (Bindippers), and 14 points (us). If they sweep those 6 games listed,  the gap between them and number two will be 11 points MINIMUM (likely 14 or more) with only 10 games to go. Zero chance they collapse and blow that. Hell give us a 14 point lead with 10 games to go and we would 95% likely win the tile, probably 98-99% chance we win, especially if we were given Citeh's schedule for the ten last games (and sub in say Villa or Arse for the Chels v Citeh game).

After those 6, the only games they have with top 7 teams are us, Leicester and maybe Villa, maybe Everton (if ANY of those are still in the top 7, which we should be).  That's it.

I agree. I think the only real curveball that can come their way, when facing those teams, are the midweek fixtures, notably Champions league. Thankfully for them, their first opponents are Borussia Monchengladbach.  Don't think their squad will be too badly stretched. Plus they'll have KDB (and possibly Aguero) returning within a couple of weeks.

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6 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Its funny how a lot of journalists are seething at the fact that they couldn't get a straightforward United-Liverpool title race.

I remember they hyped up their recent game at Anfield and look what happened after that. 🤣

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41 minutes ago, Jason said:

I remember they hyped up their recent game at Anfield and look what happened after that. 🤣

I love seeing most all of my predictions come true about Liverpool's massive systemic weaknesses (lack of depth and the upcoming issues about breaking up that front 3, 2 of them, Mane and Firmino, already having a decline year over year, especially Frmino)

All 3 turn 30yo during next season (Firmino and Mane) or right after (Salah).

FSG will never spend the huge money to replace at similar level unless they dump them in summer 2021 (as their value plummets once they hit 30, so will get so much less in summer 2022)

I have no idea who they even can go after anyway

here are the 10 most valuable wingers on T-markt (Mbappe is listed at CF)

Sancho would be the only actually available option, and I do not see them dumping £100-120m or so on him

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I think they MIGHT try for Grealish

and/or 
Mikel Oyarzabal  

other options (many problematic)


Richarlison   (would he move to Everton's arch enemy?)
Ousmane Dembélé (massive gamble)
Wilfried Zaha  (only 5 months youger than Salah)
Lucas Ocampos (I could see this)
Leon Bailey (I can see this as well, he is having a massive season, tracking to 22 goals, 18 assists over a 4000 minute season)

Pedro Neto (left footer like Bailey, would Pool roll with 2 Portuguese ex Wolves (Diogo Jota the other)?

 

CF is even slimmer pickings

Håland of course, cannot see this

and then a huge drop off

Lautaro Martínez

Dybala (more of an SS or winger)

then another huge drop off

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (same issue as Richarlison)

that's it, unless you toss in 

Victor Osimhen (Napoli just bought him though)

Matheus Cunha (could see this, he is having a breakthrough year and is similar to Firmino)

probably missed a few but not that many

 

 

 

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