dave u

Branthwaite over Colwill all day, for multiple reasons, including what you mentioned above. Branthwaite has been much better this season, plus Colwill turned us down once so I wouldn't go back for him. I also like the idea of taking Everton's best player because they aren't in a position to say no.

Some of the freeloading cunts at the bottom would defo go for that as what do they care how much the top few clubs are spending? It's free money to them. Newcastle would be all over it too and we'd end up with Abu Dhabi and the Saudis in a dick measuring contest, with the likes of us, Arsenal, Spurs, even Utd and Chelsea not being able to keep up and losing players to them. If this came in, there'd be absolutely nothing stopping Newcastle offering, say Trent, Macca, Odegaard and Saka £2m a week wages.

Big respect for how you always demonstrate your workings out with physical evidence to back up your findings.

You should have been in the pub with us before the game mate, you'd have been proper emotional watching me go off on him.

Just saw a stream on twitter, watched it for about 30 seconds and saw the ref is Darren England. If City need a decision in the 2nd half they'll get it. He's one of the Abu Dhabi side gig crew and we've got first hand experience of it. Absolute fucking cunt should never have been allowed to work in football again.

Yeah I agree with this. Luton will probably make a decent fist of it and then blow it late on as usual. Villa will be 2-0 down in 15 minutes and City will just play out the rest of the game in 2nd gear.

Luton are missing ten first team players. Arsenal always seem to play teams who are under-strength, it's irritating as fuck.

You may have a pair of aces, but you're still a joker.

Klopp praises David Moyes all the time too, should we hire him? Klopp has never said anything critical of another coach, he's always complimentary even with the ones he's got beef with.

Yeah agree with all of that. Virgil wasn't doing it all the time but there were a few occasions when he was pressing higher up than Endo. It did seem to work well, although I think that joke booking he got was a result of it (might be wrong, but I think he was chasing back after pressing someone).

Doesn't have to be like that, but at the same time when you've built a squad to play a certain way and signed/brought through players to play specific positions, it's a bit stupid bringing someone in who will immediately want players of a different profile for specific positions. You do that, and the guy you bring in is shit, it's a slippery slope. A big part of why Everton and United are so shite is they have squads filled with players signed by different managers for different styles who were quickly sacked for being shit. As a hypothetical, I'm not down with this fella (or whoever) coming in and saying "I don't want Robertson and Kostas, sign me Ait Nouri (just as an example), and there's no room in my midfield for Trent or Szoboslai as they don't fit the profile of player I like for my system". We let him do what he wants, he turns out to be a bum and next summer we're replacing him with someone else and the cycle then continues. Fuck that. We're onto a great thing here, I want someone to come in and keep that going and build on Klopp's legacy, not destroy it.

Would rather we didn't bring in someone who is basically going to rip up what we have in terms of system, formation, style, personnel so he can do things his way. I want someone as close to Klopp's set up as possible to just carry on what we're doing and make the transition smooth. Don't want some cunt coming in and saying he doesn't fancy Robbo or Trent or Szoboslai because he can't shoehorn them into his fucking rigid three at the back set up. So if it's this fella, I hope he's flexible and open minded.

Darwin wasn't booked. I always thought Taylor was a red manc and tweeted something a couple of years ago when he was appointed for our game with them. Goldbridge replied to it and said United fans were more upset than we are because they're convinced he's a City fan and he gives them nothing.

True to a degree, as without winning the connection wouldn't have happened. Houllier was a walking soundbite though, he came out with loads of inspirational stuff and he definitely "got us" in a way that most others wouldn't have.

That one I thought he held onto the ball too long and then went down easily because he knew he'd lost it. He was fuming though, so maybe he was pulled down.

The linesman defo should have spotted that, because they're really good and don't get much wrong. When I watched the highlights I called offside on the first view, as it was obvious and isn't one of those tricky ones in open play when one player is running towards goal and the last man is either stood still or moving the opposite way. This was a bread and butter decision for any decent lino and he should have flagged as soon as Kelleher made the save. As for our two penalty appeals, there's no way we were ever getting them. They were fairly soft, but softer ones were given this weekend. Coote was never going to give either of them though and with Tierney on VAR there was even less chance of them being given. I don't really have much of a grievance with either. The Mo one in normal speed did not look like a penalty at all from where I was sat, but after seeing the replay I think it's 50-50. Mo doesn't get those though.

No-one will be happier than me if Richard Hughes is writing a book in a couple of years time entitled "how to win the Premier League without Jurgen Klopp"

"Other players regularly complained too about Nagelsmann's training style and the way he would constantly shout instructions from the sideline during games. The sentiment among a considerable portion of the team was that their coach came off as a know-it-all. Coupled with off-the-field actions, such as leaving his wife and entering a relationship with a local reporter from tabloid newspaper Bild, and subsequent rumours about information being leaked by Nagelsmann, he was left in a tough spot." Basically a German Brendan Rodgers then!

Yeah, but any other member of that 'team' could be replaced and we'd still carry on being successful, as we have.

I dunno, it wasn't me that Klopp confided in. I've just heard that it's well known in the club that Klopp doesn't like him. I don't want him as manager either, partly because Klopp doesn't like him, but mostly because you do.

I blame Rodgers for that. He was the first one I remember going on about "low block".

I read somewhere that he's still working for them but they've said they've got no problem with him also doing what he need to do for us in terms of finding the new manager etc. You don't get that very often, but it would speak a lot to how much trust they have in his integrity.

They annoy the fuck out of me. However, I would say that - despite the long rivalry we've had with them over many decades - Arsenal fans generally aren't proper nasty, spiteful cunts like Chelsea, City and United. They don't tend to go down the tragedy / poverty chanting route much, if at all. So I don't hate Arsenal fans, even the 'Gooners'. They're not cunts, they're just absolute cringey bastards. The most embarrassing fans on social media by a mile, smelling themselves like no-one else, always trying to compare their players with ours (or City's) and generally just being really fucking weird, like spotty teenagers who base their football knowledge on FIFA ratings and describe footy players as 'ballers'. Arsenal are the worst fans in the world for that kind of shit and they do my head in, but they tend to not act with any spite or malice in them and in the grand scheme of things, annoying as they are, they're generally harmless.

Wouldn't surprise me either, especially if Trent moves full time into midfield.