Delphinho123

If you know Messi, you know that he doesn't know anything about whether it gets called off or not.

I’m sure it’s been mentioned but to think Biden and Trump were the two best candidates for presidency in a country of 350m is mindblowing. I like Biden as an individual but he’s far too old to be president and Trump is a psychopath. My money is on DeSantis to be next President. Unless Trump persuaded him to run as vice or to step down all together.

What’s the general feeling around restrictions? Personally I don’t think they’re a good idea and I hope we avoid them for a number of reasons.

So it’s just a mild cold then?

Apparently, we're after Aribo from Rangers. (I know, I know).

LB, DM, AML. I imagine those three will be our priorities, probably in that order. I think Gerrard wants a quicker, stronger left back than Targett to improve our attacking threat from that side. A defensive midfielder would be nice but I think Luiz does ok there. Can see us looking in the Summer for that position. The forward player is an interesting one. I think we’ll need to move out a few before that gets done. Trezeguet, El Ghazi, JPB on loan perhaps.

Only McGinn has been better I’d argue. Watkins, lol. Agreed we need elite level fullbacks, but right back is not a position of concern for us at the moment because Cash has been excellent and I’d argue we have a very good back up and a good young player coming through.

Actually, it’s the 28th. It’s from The Times.

From the 27th apparently. No socialising indoors, pubs shut etc,

Another ‘lockdown’, great. I’d be seething if I worked in the hospitality sector. Most people I know won’t follow any rules about not socialising so it’s basically just a lockdown on pubs, restaurants etc. These half measures don’t achieve much. But of course, when cases start to fall, like they always do, it’ll be because of our wonderful government imposing these necessary curbs on our freedom. Fed up.

When is the next leak? They're everso exciting. I still think the best is yet to come

Watkins hasn't been anywhere near as good as Cash. Martinez has had a decent season, as has Konsa. Still probably not at the levels they were last year, mind. McGinn is the only one who you could argue has been as good as Cash this season. Cash has been superb.

Who's been better than him this season?

Our right back is our best player. Why would we spend money there for?

Baby steps.

The beautiful thing about what’s happening at the moment, and I’m convinced about this, is that there is an individual or a group of individuals out there that are leaking all of these photos and this evidence of Xmas parties and the Tory party have absolutely no idea what to do about it. It can’t be a coincidence that these stories of Xmas parties were leaked… before Xmas. It’s all designed to put Johnson in an impossible position, especially around Covid and any further lockdowns. He’s absolutely powerless and has lost all authority on the topic because he’ll be seen as a hypocrite with any action he takes. Every other day, something new is leaked. He’s hired this chap to Investigate the parties, oh, he was at the parties? Somebody has the Tory party by the balls at the moment. The North Shrops by election result is evidence of the damage that is being inflicted onto Johnson and co. at the moment. And I’m here for the ride. Enjoying every minute of it.

Genuine question. With this new variant and obviously plenty more to come, how many jabs are people going to actually need? Is there a point where we run out of arms to put needles into? I’ve heard stories of Pfizer saying we’ll need three more on top of the two we already have… I guess that’s the thing that worries me. That this never ends and we just keep injecting people every time a new variant comes along. I can’t really say this pandemic has affected my mental health and I’ve been lucky enough to have had employment throughout, but there are times when I think, are things ever going to be normal again? Are we ever going to go through a day where we don’t have statistics thrown at us without context? I can see why this has affected so many. One of the worst things about it all is that the topic of Covid has elevated itself onto a similar platform as politics and religion. Everyone has an opinion. It’s a poisonous topic to even discuss at work or down the pub because people are so militant about what the right and wrong thing to do is. It’s changed people. Nowadays, if it’s mentioned, I just stay quiet.

McGinn is good but he’s not Grealish good. He can have ambitions of playing in Europe but not sure he gets into a top team.

Lucas Digne, anyone?

I'd argue our results have been better than our performances...(If that makes sense?!). There has been a lot to like about what Gerrard and Beale have implemented, none more so than how harder we are to play through. Teams simply aren't waltzing through the middle of the park against us and peppering Martinez' goal. They identified that straight away. I also like the narrow 10's formation where the full backs are expected to offer a lot going forward. Cash has excelled. We do need to be better in possession though. This will come, but at the moment we need to start doing what we did to Norwich against better teams. We were also superb in the second half against Leicester. The future is bright. If we get the next couple of signings spot on then we can challenge for top 8 next season.

I'd argue Aribo was Rangers best player, not Kamara.

Spare me.

It was a loan that never really made sense for Utd or the player. For us, fine as a third choice central defender and makeshift 6 but why they allowed him to come here when Mings and Konsa are so set is beyond me. He was never displacing Konsa and Mings is our leader in the back 4.

That’s all well and good and as much as I think people should be vaccinated, I think it’s disgraceful that a company won’t pay an employee unless he gets an injection against his/her will. I’m firmly against Vaccine passports/Mandates.

If we create half as many chances as we did against them at Villa park last season and actually score from a few of them then we’ll win 14 nil.