MessiWillSignForVilla

See below translation from Reddit of the Health Authorities statement. Apparently it was that that they only had it (lying on their declaration forms) confirmed today/last night, and ordered the players to stay in the hotel as quarantine. Hence why they only acted during the game, as it was only after the players left for the stadium that they were made aware they were also breaking quarantine. That's their story anyway.

They clearly did, otherwise they wouldn't have lied about the players not being in the UK recently. The AFA are just clearly arrogant words removed who thought they'd get away with it.

A 50% win percentage would mean at least 57 points per season (plus however many for draws), which in the 20 team Premier League era we have achieved just 7 times, and the lowest we finished in those seasons was 7th, but typically was 6th. In fact, in that time, we have never even won 19 games in a season. If you add in the typical 6-10 points you'd expect from draws, that's a 63-67 point season, comfortably enough for 5th, very occasionally 4th at the top end. As much as I think that's where we should aim to be, it's insane to expect that of a manager who has spent most of his games as a newly promoted manager. Even at 45%, that's 17 wins, something we've only done 5 times in the 20 team Premier League, and we got 16 last season. Edit: Just looked up the last 50 years, we've only had 50% in the league 5 times in that time.

He wasn't even there when they signed Kante, he'd already left.

A tweet that perfectly encaptures why this thread is so annoying. There has been absolutely zero information from the club to suggest that is true, but people just assume it is, just like how many in here have been writing up fantasy transfer lists with no basis in reality then just assumed that's who the club are targeting. And then for some reason people are throwing their toys out the pram because their wild assumptions with no basis turned out to be wrong! "Done zero since arriving"? Like he would **** know!

It's Newcastle

Funnily enough I saw this in action earlier today on Reddit. A guy was talking about how he didn't want to play them in the cup because of what happened last time, referring to the LC in 2011, but he'd completely forgotten that we beat them in the same Cup in 2015 during one of our worst seasons ever. Somehow the earlier loss was more memorable, mainly because we never hear the end of it, yet surely managing to beat them in one of our worst seasons ever deserves some form gloating right?

Why would you want to be knocked out by a 90th minute Deeney goal?

Think more of the squad would be out if that was the case, Ramsey was on the bench on Tuesday whilst McGinn was completely absent.

Nah, he said you're not allowed to count Watkins, even though he's our starting striker and will be playing when fit.

Just come back from a long injury as well I think. Got a lot of time for Weimann, happy to see him do so well at Bristol.

Haha, holy shit!

I've thought for a couple of seasons that they remind me of the final years under Lerner, just that they are falling from a higher point. They've got more time to stop the rot, but I really hope not! And now there bottom

We absolutely have, I used to hate going in the last season of MON because of how quickly the atmosphere could turn toxic. I'm pretty sure there was someone (I think Carragher?) that even said in the media that they knew they just needed to not concede in the first 15 at VP and the crowd would turn on the team.

To be fair, he probably could've done with a few seasons down in the Championship learning his trade. Even Pep and Zidane managed their respective B teams before getting the main job.

I'm not sure goals should count against them at the minute until you get to 5

Good luck Wes, hope you can recapture some form and fitness!

I want Man City to lose every game they ever play, but this is gloriously funny

He's deleted it now,. here's a reddit thread about it with a screenshot.

Assuming the red list sticks around in to 2022, he also misses Leeds and Newcastle in February, and Wolves and Spurs in April. Though I imagine it will be lifted by then.

Argentina's last game is 10/09, so by the time he's back he'll miss Chelsea, Everton and Chelsea (LC) through Quarantine, he'd be available for Man Utd, but would likely only have about 1 day training after 10 sat in a hotel room, then back for Spurs, but then there's another international break so it's the same shit again, missing Wolves and Arsenal through quarantine and barely any training before West Ham and Southampton, another international break where he'd miss Brighton and Palace, potentially Man City. So at least 7 through quarantine, but possibly up to 12 plus any more League Cup games due to lack of match fitness and about 20-ish days missed training.

Just bored at work.

Dortmund is just over the border to be fair, about 2.5hrs away from Liege according to Google.

Presuming he still wants to actively be part of the Belgium team, €5m for Axel Witsel would be an absolute steal, but I just don't see how no-one else would be going in at that price, unless wages are a big stumbling block?