Toadbald

Toadbald

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Breakfasts come and go, Rene. Straight Outta Cobham Pod contributor.

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The owners are complete mugs being taken for a ride. They've sold the family silver to buy fool's gold, and they keep digging deeper.

Still trying to get my head around what we've seen so far from Xabi, I'm really struggling. He's been here for the whole of pre season and we're 10 games in to the real stuff. I can't see anything we're trying to achieve other than lump it to Rodgers and play from there or counter attack.

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But Palestra was our best player in pre season and now it's hard to see where he will play other than competing with both Pep and Hato at LWB. I'm at the stage of wondering what we're actually doing in training. It's clearly not possession holding patterns, it's clearly not defending set pieces.

Attacking set pieces aren't much better. A few cute attempts that haven't come off and many many dreadful deliveries into the box. We're just not got at anything other than nicking goals on the break. 🤔

Still trying to get my head around what we've seen so far from Xabi, I'm really struggling. He's been here for the whole of pre season and we're 10 games in to the real stuff. I can't see anything we're trying to achieve other than lump it to Rodgers and play from there or counter attack.

Our deep build up is non- existent. Which is crazy seeing that Xabi was a ball playing deep lying midfielder. I really expected to see more by now. We still seem to trying to figure out what shape we want to defend in, latest variation being 442. It's great that this has tailor made role for Josh

Xabi, WTF was that? I saw nothing out there tonight, no system no ideas, no threat. Worst of all, no fight or desire, in a match against spurs. Piss poor all round.

Two terrible goals to concede, but we've been played off the park today. No idea what our plan was, but we haven't got anywhere near them.

Not sure what we're trying here. First half it was just pinging it in to Robertson, haven't seen anything really second half

Very pleasantly surprised to come back and see we won! We're now 3rd and other than City, we've played all of the current top 8 (Leeds in the cup).

Trump's desperate play ahead of the midterms is siding with Putin, buying diesel, interfering with starlink, and loosening sanctions. Is this genuinely popular with MAGA, or is this one last offering to his pay masters before he loses the house and senate?

Reece James is an exceptional football player, one of the best in the league. But he cannot stay fit for a prolonged period of time. Sad as it is, the rational thing to do is build a team without him, then fit him in when he's fit and enjoy it while he's available.

What is happening in the PL this year? No one is able to control games and comfortably win 1 or 2 nil. Has the attacking got so much better, or the defending worse? Is it just a highly competitive league these says?

I said before that some of the teams we've played (and beaten) are better than we've been given credit for. The way Brighton and now Leeds have both taken it to Arsenal proves that. Now we need to back it up with a run of seemingly softer fixtures.

The most despisable man in football is certainly at the right club.

Fabrizio Romano (MIRROR)@fabrizioromano.yopro20.com

🚨 Enzo Maresca: “I’d like to speak when we WIN the appeal! But I’m telling you… I would've joined Man City if the Premier League verdict had already been published”. “I know the organisation from years ago! And I know how serious they are, I know they do the right things”.

City's commercial revenue in 17/18, the last year of this investigation, was £232m. It's now £350m, with essentially the same 'sponsors'. If anything they've got worse since this investigation. This story has a long way to run.

Everton were docked 10 points (reduced to 6 on appeal) for missing PSR by £20m over three years. City overstated their income by £900m over 8 years. LOL 270 point deduction coming.