Djemba_Villan

Our decline since those 3 signings of Bailey, Buendia and Ings is startling. as useless as Gerrard has been (and he has) - we are also an utterly unbalanced squad full of players who are clearly not happy going through the motions. Not a shred of passion today.

To be fair…they did. The goalie barely moved and the player tracking stopped. It also hit stones’ face on the way through. No guarantee it would have been a goal but the principle that they didn’t play on still stands. Crap linesman call and Very strange decision against them yet again.

I wonder if we were even vaguely in the mix for Gueye. I’d have taken him back in a heartbeat. Fantastic player.

They’ll be back to unbeatable form just in time for us though.

It’s been a cracking game to be fair. I only wanted to watch for 5 mins and have ended up watching the lot. Agree that Everton deserved a goal.

Is it the city fans chanting it to wind us up? Even if so. Tragic given they’ve just won the league. when city win anything jt always feels like a non event to me. Shrug.

It’s a real blessing and a curse having both Ings and Watkins. We need a player that blends both! Watkins intelligence goes massively under the radar e.g. his run to create the 3rd goal last night. Ings is more instinctive but slower and worse stamina, they don’t work together which is a shame. Feels like we have two 7.5/10 strikers.

No chance sadly. If they get Ashworth too they might actually not just spaff untold billions on nothing too.

Saint-Maximin Has looked a right handful to be fair to him.

For me he’s been one of our best players since he joined. I think we’re too quick to forget what it’s like to have reliable and effective full backs. Obviously the reported £40m is worthy of consideration but let’s not delude ourselves that Kesler is ready to slot straight in based on a good spell in L2. For me, the step forward for us is actually selling non-critical players at or shortly after their peak for prime value - to enable re-investment in the squad. Something all the well ran succesful clubs do and an something that’s necessary to compete long term. So if we had a replacement lined up, who we can add value to, who will perform quickly. I would be open to selling however Cash deserves respect for how he has done IMO.

This signing would IMO be the best of the whole lot over the last few years. I massively rate him. if we pulled this off and upgraded our LB next season would demand a massive raising of the bar. It would have to be Europe.

Notice how Sky have already demoted the story well down their page. Comical

My guess is it’s BS to cover themselves in case he doesn’t join us. We wanted to avoid a bidding war so acted quickly IMO. Sky wanted a public bidding war.

Wouldn’t surprise me at all if rumours of a bust up are true. Against Chelsea he ruined two clear scoring opportunities with his tunnel vision - missing obvious lay offs. I was fuming at one in particular. Gerrard seems the sort to put him in his place. You don’t tactically construct two #10s only for a striker to ignore them all game. Fair enough he probably feels he needs goals to stay around England but not at the cost of the test please. It’s regularly costing us.

Typical f**** sky. we spend a minute knocking the ball around beautifully. Martinez hits that rapid ball to Targett under pressure (something he does often) and of course it’s ‘not intended’.

I distrusted the bloke from day one like many. The BBC documentary following him around in his role in foreign office was scary. But it’s clear to me that someone somewhere has decided his turn is up as PM.

Credit where it’s due. This interviewer on BT is much sharper than they usually are with some more interesting questions than usual.

We’ve lost some of the midfield since the Ings change. I reckon Chuck on for Watkins.

they have been particularly dreadful haven’t they. We MUST not let this be like Burnley. They were equally dreadful first half then came back to win.

It’s really irritating me now. We get it…you’re a striker…now please pass 4 ft to the left.

Cashy MOTM so far. He’s been a fantastic signing.

I think my point is that the people questioning it are fans already, who regularly get annoyed by these sorts of incidents. But they have potentially gained a far broader viewership. It was pure drama to a layman newcomer. The ‘damage’ will be forgotten soon by many - like most things. (Even in football no real measurable material damage has actually been caused by the breakout league, examples of corruption, poor isolated decisions etc.) Not agreeing with it morally but it’s probably how the new owners and also the teams envisage growth of the sport.

Part of me wonders…when all the current hoo har is dealt with, when both teams are back to parting on their mega yachts and laughing about it all in a few weeks….is this all just cognisant drama (including the teams)….They’ve captured the imagination of everyone yesterday, I even heard my missus talking about it to her non-sporty colleagues….will Lewis/Mercedes just recognise that they will enjoy a bigger pie now and it was worth it. They surely aren’t stupid and recognise one driver and one team winning everything is dull as dishwater and damaging to the sport. I can honestly see Mercedes not pursuing this. They just need to discredit it just enough.

An irony I joked about during the race that weirdly happened is that it was Mick Schumacher that caused the crash leading to Lewis not breaking his Dad’s number of title record. I was joking that this would be Horner’s Plan B/C at the time. Just imagine…

Agree. Also surely the red flag option results in Max having 5 laps to overtake Lewis anyway…with his tire advantage.