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Mahrez has scored 23 goals this season though, it would take Grealish about 4 seasons to get that many.

10 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

We're already safe. Even if we were to lose every remaining game, ALL of the following would need to happen:

• Leeds would need more than 4 points from their remaining 6 games (because of their goal difference);
• Everton would need 8 points from 7 games, AND;
• Burnley would need 9 points from 6 games

If any one of those did not happen, we would not be relegated. The chances of all three things happening are already extremely remote, and the chances of us losing every remaining game make it remoter still.

We're safe.

Burnley would need 3 points from 4 games as they play us twice. If we lost every remaining game (which obviously is highly unlikely) the chances of us getting relegated would be far from remote, Everton getting 8 points from their remaining games would be the only one I'd probably bet against.

That's the kind of out of the box thinking you get from big Sol.

With the players he's got at his disposal we're on course for a criminally low points total imo. If we don't hit 40 he's getting the boot, I would have thought that's fairly obvious, after that I don't know, 45 might be enough.

10 minutes ago, maxjackle said:

Its so broken that a team can pay £100 million for a player and he isnt an automatic first team choice

Only because he's largely flopped. We have a £40m benchwarmer and haven't even got to 40 points yet.

If we're thinking long-term we need to prioritise him over Coutinho tbh or we could end up losing both.

He did seem to find the joke genuinely amusing initially. I guess he saw his wife's face and the switch flicked. Mad reaction though, there's clearly a few issues behind the jolly persona.

I'm not surprised by the crazy demand for these, it's a watch that says Omega on the dial for ~£200.

Zero subs when you have Sterling, Jesus and Gundogan on the bench is bizarre.

Our bench won't stay strong if none of them are getting game time, they'll all be off in the summer.

Can't hold onto the ball.

As long as the acting is up to scratch, sadly if the recent fantasy epics on Amazon/Netflix with mostly young unknown casts are anything to go by (Wheel of Time/ Shadow and Bone etc.), I haven't got high hopes.

I'm not quite sure what it is about him that have Sky and BBC both clambering for his services, a complete non-entity of a player as well.

Feel for him, think he'd have had a field day today.

Annoying how our best performing player has now been benched to accommodate Watkins and Ings.

Again, both teams putting their best takers 5th, they could easily have ended up not taking one, makes no sense to me.

If that Watford 'performance' was the culmination of Gerrard and his coaches drilling their system into our players for 3 months then I'm worried. We even seem to have regressed since Coutinho and Digne came in which takes some doing.

Norwich and Burnley winning, we could get dragged back into this.

Feel for Sanson but other than that it's our strongest XI, Gerrard knows this, there was never going to be major changes.

VAR is a sham, you simply don't have the information from a 2D image at an angle to make an accurate determination of whether someone is on or off. If you have to spend minutes scrutinising said image you go with the on-field decision.

Just no options for us passing out of defence, end up hoofing it and it comes right back at us.

You were always going to get people a bit bemused by all the furore and saying things like "it's just a cat, its not like he killed anyone" etc. It's not really about the fact that its a cat, it's that he (and his brother) clearly derived pleasure from inflicting unnecessary pain on another living thing (in front of a child no less). That's psychopathic, and shows them both to be two seriously damaged human beings.

10 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Did they, what for? Was it Bielsa that gave the special praise?

Dublin, saying how well he did keeping out the way, thus creating space for our better players, I shit you not.