Rob182

If it’s his community deeds that lifted the city and not the football, then they may as well keep him around. Get him a gig at the Salvation Army.

Hats off to whoever made this

Randomised in a match generator type thing, based on stats/ form etc, I think I read on Twitter. You can watch the match generate too, like football manager. You can also run 5 friendlies to try to get an idea of who could play well etc.

If you don’t know what Live FPL is, it’s a really good site people use to track their points and stuff (it shows what your points/rank will be after minuses, and bonus points and substitute points hours before the official FPL site does). It’s all ran by one guy called Ragabolly. Anyway, Ragabolly has made a ‘virtual FPL’ for people to play during the international break, where he will simulate 4 prem gameweeks (there are no injuries or players out of favour like Aubemeyang), and the 4 gameweeks (all running over the space of the next week, I think) each have different rules.. so gameweek 1 is unlimited funds. One of the gameweeks is max 1 player from each prem squad. One gameweek is only players 6.5m and cheaper, things like that. Sign up (it’s all free) and have a look, it’s just a cool mini game to play while the real football is off.

If anyone’s doing the Virtual FPL ran by livefpl.net/play then I’ve set up a mini league if anyone wants to join: 9Y8NV

Randomly, I’ve writing and recording Fantasy Premier League based songs on Twitter weekly. No idea why I decided to do it, but the first one getting 80,000 views inspired me to carry on. They’re by no means perfect, and fairly one dimensional in line with my ska/punk band background, but give them a listen if you can ignore the completely nonsensical references to FPL stuff!

I’ve got one double (Kane) right now, but I’m keeping both free hits and gambling that they’ll come in handy later in the season when there will hopefully be the opportunity to bring in better players for better games. I’m going to take a minus 8 to bring me up to 4 doublers and cross my fingers that all the popular picks (Maddison, Moura & co!) blank.

I’m not really sure where to put this, as it’ll get lost in the chat in 3 days, but I’ll bung it here for now anyway - I’ve started doing FPL songs on Twitter (very niche, I know!), but if anyone wants to check them out or give me a follow, I’ll be doing a song weekly I think:

Why wouldn’t Man Utd sell Lingard to them? Money for a player not playing and out of contract in 6 months, not a team directly a threat to them (anytime soon). If you’re going down the ‘morality’ route, then I don’t think many clubs will refuse to deal with them on principle alone.

Did Gerrard play with an out-and-out defensive midfielder at Rangers? I know many of our fans have been hard for a DM for a few windows now, but it may be a moot point if Gerrard just uses box to box CMs etc.

Oh god I hadn’t even thought about that “He Slippy’s new man, he’s better than Zidane” has a ring to it

I’m almost certain the chant will be “Stevie G’s Claret & Blue Army” so it’ll soon catch on and spread like herpes.

Out of Ole, Gerrard and Lampard, Ole is the most experienced manager and we’re going for the one that has won things in Scotland with one of the two clubs that always wins things in Scotland. Meh. Very, very meh. I hope he proves me wrong! But this just smacks of flavour of the month.

Don’t listen to the guy you were quoting, he’s bonkers.

I agree. In my opinion, they have a squad fairly capable of finishing 13-15th with a competent manager. Based on squad ability, I’d put them just a handful of positions lower than where we should be (again, based on squad ability). I think Bruce has made many think they’re worse than they are. Where have I seen that before…

Crudely looking at flashscores, it’s roughly 310 minutes playing together. (Of 594 mins Sancho’s played for Man Utd in total).

There can be more than one problem.

I’m no expert, but I watched a Tifo podcast earlier this season that explained how Sancho’s minutes/touches were similar at Man Utd to what they were at Dortmund (at the time), and how less effective he is at Man Utd, largely down to how Ronaldo’s lack of pressing means that the space in front of Sancho is reduced, compared to when he was at Dortmund and would run down the channels and create/assist/score from it. They touched on how Sancho playing with Cavani up top would actually, likely work better, because Cavani is a harder worker than Ronaldo, and this chasing and pulling of defenders results in gaps on the wing for Sancho to exploit. (As I say, I’m no expert, and I’m probably explaining it wrong, but I’ve read and watched a few pieces explaining similar CR7 problems).

Bruno was literally scoring tonnes of goals without him. Now they’ve brought CR in, changed the way they play to shoehorn him, whilst reducing Bruno’s effectiveness and having to bench Sancho as well. They signed him out of romance, like Ole (and partly to stop Man City getting him), and it’s likely set them back a season.

I already have Son, which is nice. So might use a free transfer to get Regulion as well. This Chelsea roulette is so annoying. Azpi dropped in price again for me this morning. I’m holding off getting rid as I still think he’ll come back in.

I feel like I’m playing catch-up already, and taking risks I probably don’t need to. I’m at 2.8m OR, which is pretty poor. This week is swerved the Salah captain in favour of Raphina. I hope he outscores Salah’s 5 points today!

Yeah, I was just talking those 6 mentioned (and being conservative with my estimates!)

I wonder what their combined weekly wages were… £160k maybe. It adds up over time! Not that Inept Cabbage Head would admit it. Signing Hogan, then having absolutely no idea how to get the best out of him, was one of his worst moves at Villa. He’s so clueless. At least with Wilson at NUFC he knew how to use him. But Hogan just went from hot property to one of Bruce’s slum properties.

Draw and lose a load of games, with a squad capable of finishing top…. Then beats Rotherham “That’ll shut them up”

Ah, the old “we’ve had to beg, steal and borrow” line that he likes to throw about! Which is never true. Just 2 examples, but at Newcastle he came in 4 days before £40m was spent on Joelinton, a few weeks before ASM was signed, and was able to spend £50m+ on Wilson, Lewis and Willock. At Villa he probably took us up to the highest wage bill in the league, as he tended to spend money on wages and loan fees (£4m on Terry’s wages, was it?) instead of larger transfer sums. Again, he used to always say he had no money, but he did manage to sign a shit load of players and give them all lovely bumper contracts (and… different topic.. often had no clue how to use said players!)