We’ve played the same number of games as got a bye in League Cup.
What a terrible lack of ambition. What’s the point in celebrating finishing 6th on the world’s strongest league if we’re then happy to crash out of Europe? We should be winning our group.
Yes, in the short term. But we’ve spent 70m on three players with an aggregate age of 62, so it’s not unreasonable to think that it could strengthen us further down the line.
He was, and we did well to get a good second half of the season out of him. I'd be surprised however if that contract wasn't signed with some sort of informal understanding that we'd let him go if offered enough, and that refusing those >100m bids would probably have resulted in him going on...
I get that we had Gross out injured and that Baleba and Dahoud aren't quite as good as Caicedo and MacAllister. I cannot however understand the thinking behind playing an 18-year-old with 20 mins of Premier League experience alongside Gilmour today when both were available.
As for the...