Adam2003
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I came on here to post this the other way around - if we don’t lose to Spurs (as a draw in that game suits us fine) then taking tonight a little easy feels fine. If we lose to Spurs it’ll feel disappointing. But it tends to be how Emery goes first leg so it wasn’t surprising either way.
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This is a guess but my assumption is he was only ever supposed to play 45 mins tonight. Guess we will find out shortly
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They’ve had one shot on target! (Come off his line nicely I guess)
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Seems a weird thing to say given we are fourth in the PL despite having loads of injuries all season!
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This is how Emery’s teams have approached every first leg in 16 years. He has a decent record overall.
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I’d keep Emi even if we sold every other player. We’d still get a few 0-0s
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Whether it’s “FFP” or not, every business in the world has to balance the books to SOME degree. That was as true 100 years ago in football as it is today.
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I am assuming here there is a theory doing the rounds that if they get relegated we will buy him back and sell him again?
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I said McGinn but purely because of age. I don’t think we will sell any of these.
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To be fair there should be a system that suits 92 clubs not just a % of the top tier - but that’s OT! For Villa, if we have to sell to buy that’s just a case of balancing the books and that’s fair enough in any business. As for Dougie - I see both sides. I get that at £100m you can find other great midfielders - but even the best can take time to settle. Also as someone who always sang his praises and said to be patient when others were saying he was rubbish and to get rid, I just want to enjoy him for another season or two
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Although to be fair part of the reason the odds favour England is that we are favourites to win the Conference League…!
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Exactly how much will we get for a CL/PL double next season?
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Just on the second part of this, it’s worth noting that while Luton are not winning enough games, off the top of my head I can remember them scoring 4 past Newcastle, 4 past Brighton, 2 past Man City, 3 past Arsenal just in the last few weeks. Conceding a couple of goals against them was not unexpected - whether or not Lenglet played.
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Captain vs Spurs just to see their faces…?
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I’m not one to whine about refs but I just cannot look at that second half without blaming Oliver for our dropoff - every time we competed for a ball they got a free kick, every time they fouled us we got nothing. Never seen anything quite like it.
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The response to the FFP response is a bit OTT to me. It’s what I would expect them to say - FFP (or PSR, etc) is just about running your club with a somewhat balanced budget and having to report on that. So of course there are no “FFP decisions” because EVERYTHING is an FFP decision. I’d respectfully suggest it’s a question asked by someone who doesn’t understand how a business functions because every business in the world (within reason) has to balance the books, whatever reporting framework they have to follow, and that isn’t usually going to be just one person’s call on every decision with financial implications. What perhaps is the real question is: who is making the final call if the business side of the club and the footballing side of the club disagree - and in that they seem pretty clear it’s via direct control of the ownership. Tone of minutes I agree are appallingly written up - you can make minutes sound concise and boring without sounding dismissive, especially if it was actually a positive meeting. But that’s probably some junior employee tasked with writing them up quickly (which itself could be seen as a bad judgment call). None of this to say I don’t have some questions about decisions off the pitch at the moment!
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Oh sure, but I think the point “the next £100m footballer” is more that less than 10 players have ever gone for that.
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On the Football Ramble podcast they said if he moves it would be as the next £100m footballer - don’t want him to move but glad people are talking in respectful numbers about him
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What’s the paperwork that’s supposed to have been done wrong? Totally missed this
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“I’m going to bring you on in a few minutes and as you can see, these lads are garbage so get a few assists please”
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I assumed they (or at least Digne) were speaking French and Digne was saying “ouais?” - ie “yeah?” - which would be the same mouth shape as the “when?” you thought you saw. But that’s based on the exact same video you saw and either way it just seemed like a tactical chat.
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Lenglet will play 25+ games for us this season despite Pau, Konsa, Diego Carlos etc. There will definitely be plenty of games for Mings if he comes back strong.
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Love Bailey but I do think you’re being harsh on Young in your second paragraph. He had loads to his game - hence the career you reference in your third. But it’s a good comparison as two players who at their peak get the ball anywhere and you think “hmm maybe they’ll skin a few people now and we will score…”
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Haven’t been involved in the debate but I guess for me (without wanting to get sucked in) it’s the hyperbole we get. “He’s not playing well, I don’t think he’s going to cut it here” is a totally reasonable position on a player not performing. What we tend to get these days is “Complete and utter dud! Stealing a living! Bad attitude! Absolute waste of money!” We see it time and again and then the player adapts/settles/starts performing but people don’t seem to learn. So for me it’s less about an opinion being “wrong” and more like “maybe it’s worth giving Tielemans a bit more time…” when people were writing him off in November, or “maybe it’s worth giving Diaby/Zaniolo a bit more time” now… of course, people are perfectly entitled to think those players won’t make it.
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I don’t think anyone would disagree with that but what’s your suggestion instead? Or if you’re just saying we have to just hope for the best - I agree!
