Nicho

I actually thought ACL at the time. I’ve seen people do it by impacts, twists and turns, that would have been diagnosed by now and we do announce them quickly. However I do think he’ll be out for 2/3 months whatever it is, just a feeling and our luck.

I’m fine with him being here but £20 mil will be spent better elsewhere

Expected a loss no matter the performance. We were the better team and desrerved the win, loss all the same. Missed our chances defended poorly when it mattered.

I dont think he did he just looked the full Pep version, zippy passes, turn back, keep the ball. Hes an absolute shadow of what he was at Villa.

Whether the injury has done him he’s not the player we need him to be based on the performances this season not just the game.

Probably his poorest performance for us

My only hope is that it spurs us on to hammer United. We let Chelsea win is the best I can say, they are clearly rubbish.

Luckily for him he will get the best care possible unlike many others

Yeah I I have a bad feeling

Other than the deadwood I think it will be Luiz. He can command the highest price, I’d rather sell 1 than 2 and I don’t think Kamara is rated as he should be yet.

I think he’s trying to play Diaby into form, unfortunately that’s at the detriment of an on fire Bailey

If anything the BBC has given unfair exposure to the Tories and Brexit. It’s absolutely crazy to me that they’ve managed to con some of the public that factual reporting of their actions is biased against them.

Disagree, in order for their process to work they do need some experienced pros around, that’s why Lallana, Welbeck and Milner were brought in. Dunk, Webster and Gross are all older pros always in the team aswell. Estupinan is 27.

I expect them to win everything now

Yep I think £20 mil plus is the going rate for the top youngsters in the championship. Too many have proven to be capable of playing in the top half of the prem so it’s become justified.

Rodger’s is exactly the type of signing I wanted at the start of the window. The actual ones were Rowe and Wharton, I now hope we sign all 3. Would be about £40 mil though.

Cash does have a little bit of an island starting to show

How much can we realistically get for him? We’d want £30 mil based on potential I assume, don’t think anyone is paying that

I have a feeling this will be done by Thursday

He seemed to have all the attributes to do well, he’s also the kind of signing we’re asking for now when looking from afar. Unfortunately hasn’t worked out, could be the system, managers, attitude, doesn’t suit the league or we just got it wrong.

I thought he had a good game, the work rate was still there and he was good in his involvements. Not his fault we created very little for him. He did well to get that save from Pickford, if he’s taking that first time instead and putting it bottom corner he probably wouldn’t be playing for us.

They looked knackered after about 65, Howe is in trouble

Nothing to suggest they wont be competing financially. They have financial might through history and now the stadium and Levy is a very good chairman. I argue with a spurs mate that with a much smaller budget they were massively punching above their weight and they’ve turned that into money. Had to tighten while they built the stadium. They are spending big recently on young good players which is what made Spurs successful in the first place. Van De Ven, Ragusin, Udogie, Johnson, Kulsevski, Porro. Adding in some “older” good players Bentancur, Maddison, Vicario. Let’s just hope for some more trash like Richarlison. Spurs for me are the blueprint for how to grow in this league.

Spurs have bought and sold incredibly well since levy came in, they’ve also finished in Europe for something like 80% of his time there and the champions league like 60% of the time. Striking at the golden time of commercial growth for the premier league. Being decent in the 90s compared to the 2000s 2010s is completely different financially.

I mentioned this in the on topic villa thread, it’s does protect the top teams but not by design just a happy bi product for them, it stops teams running themselves into the ground chasing teams who are financially better than them. That’s a good thing to stop owners running teams out of existence. Like it or not football teams are businesses and they can’t over exert themselves financially or they go bankrupt. Being a business however you could argue the owners should run it how they like and if the business fails then so be it, that’s where football clubs being institutions and a sport muddy the water and FFP is to stop that full failure happening. With rich owners we view FFP stopping them putting millions into transfers and stopping us competing but that would then get loaned anyway as our debt and if they leave or we get relegated we would be ****. It’s actually about stopping Leeds, us and Portsmouth spending so much that they can’t pay their bills and go into administration if the owners can’t afford to bail them out. City State ownership shouldn’t matter as you can’t spend more than you earn, it’s your commercial income that matters which is why City have 115 potential breaches to skew their income/spending, why Newcastle currently can’t spend and ultimately why United have been able to spend millions on absolute crap ever year. Edit: and to add Chelsea in, they skewed the process by spreading the eroding value and cost of the player over long term contracts, this will eventually diminish the amount they can spend each season as they will have 20 players every season adding an 8th of their value to the negative column. By about 2028 it will be like signing 2 and half players every summer without having done so. edit: Levy has set Tottenham up with the new stadium it’s skewed their revenue in the positive massively, that’s the way to do it and to compare to Villa we need to capitalise now to get our revenue up via the champions league but not improving our stadium is short sighted but they know that, we need to get our finances up immediately and that comes through league position and other commercial stuff. Long sorry.