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Also wonder what a lobotomy costs these days? Think that will be required to convince Mitoma to spend his finest career days in.. Aston Villa.

33 has never been older for a top footballer than it is today. Lewis Dunk turns 34 in November. This season, only six players older than Dunk has made 20+ starts. Among those, two players play for relegation teams. Its a cruel, cruel league to hit your mid-30s in. Look at Kevin de Bruyne. The...

Nah, it is indeed very unlikely. Then again I was 99% sure Biss would leave after his uber strong 20/21 but we kept him around for another year.

I'm 100% in agreement with this, but if you want to make many people understand easily, you kind of have to compare it to a dictatorship people have knowledge of.. because of the reason you mention. Which pretty much leaves us with Hitler and Stalin if you want to get the point across to most...

Not sure that got all that much to do with it. He looked like a robot last week as well. Heavy, stiff legs desperately trying to keep track of some pacy winger. Imo, he has played too much football this season.

Feck do I know if these are as professional as Milner? None of them are going to play in the PL when they're his age so clearly the lad has done something right. Regardless, you need that group of experienced players to be indeed a group, and to be the most dominant group in the squad...

Not sure he was going on a run (he rarely makes those) rather than bring it down and move it on. But yeah control was horrible. Fab clearly wants one of the two CBs to act as a stopper-CB when they have their pivot in between (or behind) them. Dunk and also Igor (when fit) has struggled with...

Love those kind of marauding defender runs. Ok, its generally a pretty bad idea when playing with only two CBs, but I'm willing to overlook it.

Hope he gets to play a game or two before the season is over when/if it gets confirmed we have nothing really to play for. But if we bench him now we put ourselves in a complicated situation of potentially trying to sell a goalkeeper who we benched due to bad performances. If there are big clubs...

Yes, the injury is actually probably the main reason it hasn't worked out so far. A signing that isn't available for 9/10 games in a season is a signing that has not worked out (yet).

You can underestimate the value of having ultra professional players in a squad where plenty of people need to learn to be top level professionals... but it seems Tony doesn't, so we're probably going to continue signing these type of players now and then.

Buy a player for £35m and he participates in 8 games = the signing has not worked out. It might in the future, but so far its not the case. Just like with several other players we've recently bought who spend half the seasons injured. If the manager doesn't like them, their mums are angry with...

Unfortunately one of the main issues is that he was poor under the last 5-6 months under RDZ and has continued putting in usually "meh" performances. If it was just this season, its one thing, but some 18 months of generally not being good... Time is definitely running out if he wants to...

Your season tickets is piss in the ocean compared to TV money so there's no direct correlation between tickets and player wages.

My bad, should have said "shots on target". 8 in 70 is still good by our standards though.

There's something very fun about a lad living in Dubai mocking the alleged greed of a lad running a football club in some rural Brightonian suburb connected to the world through two rusty draisines, as if there was no easier or more effective way for Tony to make money.

Indeed. Famously, this club has gone nowhere in the last few decades.

Its not due to being some kind of "superfan", its just basic logics that for us some seasons will be more development oriented than others, which will be more result oriented. Its called "building a team" and even though we lose key players, over time we still get stronger. Five years ago some...

Its the reality though. Look at last season. How many players played better last season when we finished 11th, than in 22/23 when we finished 6th? Very very few. MANY of our players have been a lot better than last year. Pervis, Veltman, Webster, Baleba, Lamptey, Mitoma, Welbeck. Arguably...

Possible. But as long as we get substantially more points with him on the pitch than with Gomez/O'Riley/Wieffer, I think he'll play a fair bit of football.