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1 minute ago, PeterSw said:

Would rather not have Alonso on account of his previous conviction for killing someone whilst driving drunk and speeding

He seems to be a massive pijo (if you know you know) and I just can't face us signing one. The pijos are the worst kind of Spanish person. 

20 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

He's the sort of player we should be going after.

Barca will hate it. Trying to push Torres and his monstrous wages onto us all summer.

Very assertively put for something you've completely made up! 

7 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said:

Emery suggested the injury might not be that bad and even suggested Coutinho might be out for 2-3 weeks...

Obviously early days but fingers crossed it's not a serious injury.

 

No his career is over and we can't sign any more players! 

3 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

Jeez, Bailey, Cash and Konsa were awful last game. I thought at least two of them would be out.

 

I hope Unai's faith is rewarded.

Konsa wasn't awful. He just made a mistake.

5 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

I love unai but **** hell how can you leave JPB out for a 2nd keeper. Thats pretty poor

Presumably he'd be injured.

2 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

I think the pronoun stuff is one where we could just create a new word. For example German language has always had male/female/neutral for their grammar. Der/Die/Das

We should just create a new neutral word for adoption for people who would like to use gender neutral pronouns. Seems the most pragmatic and logical way and would meet less resistance in adoption from the wider population.  

They/them already gender neutral when used in certain contexts. It seems in a way an obvious choice, but it is a bit awkward to get used to. Anyway, even as I type this I start realising that this is technically off topic. 

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nominative singular pronoun:

1. (used to refer to a generic or unspecified person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):

Whoever is of voting age, whether they are interested in politics or not, should vote.

A person may enlist only if they are over 18.

2. (used to refer to a specific or known person previously mentioned, about to be mentioned, or present in the immediate context):

The victim refused to testify at the trial because they feared for their life.

My best friend from high school is famous now—too bad we didn’t stay in touch after they moved to California.

45 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

Be interesting to see Emery's presser before Hibs to see if he might play in that game. Hopefully he gets at least 30 minutes on Wednesday night so we can see what a front three of Zaniolo-Watkins-Diaby looks like.

Someone mentioned the other day that he would have missed the registration window for that game too. I don't know if this is right or not.

54 minutes ago, zab6359 said:

@AvfcRigo82 why are you confused? It’s an opinion are we not allowed opinions anymore?

People can get confused by opinions. People are so sensitive these days!

(For what it's worth he was also linked to Newcastle and Spurs)

It's so weird how people speak other languages. I don't understand. (I am being sarcastic)

5 minutes ago, beachboys1 said:

getting ridiculus now

The reactions on here? The same as it ever was. 

27 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

Sometimes - not always, but sometimes - when I say “Ah man…” I’m not referring to the person I’m speaking to. It’s the same as when I say “Ah Jesus/Jeeeez”. I’m not calling the person “Jesus”.

It’s just an exclamation.

If I find myself in a similar position, I’ll be mindful but if I slip up that’s going to be my reasoning.

I say 'Ah man...' in conversation with my girlfriend. It's not aimed at her at all. I wouldn't say 'Ah woman...'

It's more like 'Ah F ck!' 

1 minute ago, Delphinho123 said:

Hmmm. Sounds like this one could well be off potentially. 

Feels as if this narrative starts with 95% of our signings. The other 5% are Danny Ings, Tom Cleverly, and Mustapha Salifu (who I think all happened under the radar).

The above radar ones though...

7 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Certain posters obsessing about his imagined wages over his decent to good performances aren’t doing it in good faith. It wouldn’t be this obsessed over had Deano or Unai signed him. It’s because he had the misfortune of being signed by the colossal failure of Gerrard. That a small contingent of committed posters persists with this, to me at least, is childish, hyperbolic and a little sad. You don’t have to like him, that’s fine. You can and should critique his performances, but once again, people are grasping at figures they don’t know to poo-poo a player who has been a good squad option, played for the shirt, and even after that 5-1 defeat last week, was one of the few people still trying. But yeah, let’s bring up the wages. Very productive. It’s not done in good faith. If we can upgrade the squad and we get a fair offer for him, I wish him nothing but the best. But I’d be happy if he stayed as quality competition behind Moreno. It’s much more of a squad game. 

I'm not one of those people you mention, but you're presuming a lot here. I don't know how you can be so confident declaring people's intentions. In 'their' defence, if Digne is on crazy high wages and he's our number 2 left back then it would make sense to rejig a little—and it appears as if both Emery and Monchi possibly think the same (sure maybe they think Acuña fits the system better). It's not a crazy bit of mathematics—money isn't endless. It doesn't have to be about Gerrard (but Gerrard putting Digne on a crazy contract is on Gerrard).

1 hour ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Agreed, so he can be both mostly excellent and sometimes criticised for a poor showing, or not? Is he exempt?

Of course you can criticise him, but if you say weird things like his form has dipped lately based on a sample size of one game you're going to have people question your logic to be fair.

31 minutes ago, est1874 said:

Disingenuous.

He had poor games and moments last season also.

He's a good player. Not world class.

Disingenuous. Moments last season doesn't equal a dip in form!

51 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

Yes, primarily the Newcastle game, though I seem to recall some of the 'bit too relaxed' thing in pre-season as well.

It's probably a feature of his excellence that when he's off his game, it's more noticeable, but that doesn't mean we can't notice or comment on it.

Maybe he wasn't so great against Newcastle (I don't remember him being standout bad at all), but that doesn't mean his form has dipped recently—that's what caught my eye. It was funny to see a comment like that after one game is all

(And he was fine in preseason, and of course preseason doesn't count anyway)

12 minutes ago, Lerner's Driver said:

You have, when he's lost the ball/got caught in possession. Fully agree that doesn't happen very often, but it does happen.

There wouldn't be this discussion happening right now, if his form hadn't dipped a bit just recently, but it has.

As I said, a very good player, but not without his faults, or weaknesses. They all have them and show them to some greater or lesser extent.

Hold up—do you mean in the one single game we've had all season?

I say that because there was nothing wrong with him at the end of last season. He's always had a game here or there where he's looked a bit off the pace, a bit too relaxed maybe. He has that in him, but happily it's just once in a while.

27 minutes ago, WHY said:

Moreno and Torres 

Ok, fair enough. I completely forgot about Moreno. So we need to buy one or two more. I'm not sure why it's relevant to Acuña though!

1 hour ago, Zero7 said:

A full Spanish back line is possible 

We just need to buy two more Spanish players. I suppose if we play three then we only need one more. 

EDIT: I forgot about Moreno.

1 hour ago, Kiwivillan said:

That guy is an absolute clown who has been wrong so many times

I think he knows stuff. He's been impossibly right too. I wouldn't write him off.

6 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

Was just thinking the same, must be Acuna 

Surely it's not one specific person if there's an and/or in it. EDIT: Maybe it's just weirdly worded and he's trying to be clever. I think it does mean Acuna, in fact.

10 minutes ago, paul514 said:

Resale is incredibly important for us, we don’t have endless money and we already have two 30 year old left backs

There can be variety to this though—there'll be some younger signings and some older ones too.

24 minutes ago, robby b said:

Poor Tyrone.  And then in 2nd place poor us too.  Let's just hope he can do a Shearer a 2nd time: somehow recover so well from an ACL that he can go on to play at a very high level still ! 

Players do this year in year out!

3 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

It may be a fair point though, exposed by Newcastle at the weekend exactly how to play against us. We were the highest over achievers in expected points last season under Emery, +12 points higher than our expected. And that’s why analysts are saying it may not be sustainable. We weren’t getting thrashed in games but take the Stamford bridge win for example, on another day that would have been 4-2 Chelsea and those results won’t always go our way. 

For most clubs that 'on another day' works for every single loss and every single victory.