Tomaszk

Just finished Saul, absolutely loved it. Can't really remember Breaking Bad now to be honest, but I think I prefer this. I'll probably watch BB again when Saul wraps up.

Yeah pretty sure he came in on a fairly standard Championship contract. 400-800k bracket.

We should keep Smith if we go down, replace him if we stay up. Suso must go regardless, Smith could potentially stay if we like a football team again for the last 8 games. There's no doubt in my mind if we'd have carried on through we were finishing bottom.

I'd happily stick Barry out there. Tony Morley as well! EDIT - both on the list I see I think Young could go on the list. Four years with us and for two he was probably the best winger in league after Ronaldo.

Poch the best they could do, be a great appointment.

Moves like this just don't happen TRO. You can't sign a first team player off a direct rival in the Prem for less than £25m, probably more. Plus get that muck into the transfer thread, keep John's tidy for inevitable praise.

Three years left. We keep him if the offers coming in are only £25m or something. Jack, you're going to have to get us up again I'm afraid. Our results under Smith in that league averaged out to 83 points, which puts us comfortably in the top three or four. That's with no pre-season and having to pick up from Bruce with no CBs in the squad for about two months. The likes of Taylor, Hutton, Jedinak, Bolasie, Hourihane, Whelan, Kodjia, Adomah all getting plenty of minutes. We'll be much better next time round if we were to keep Grealish, and I think we'd easily get the extra 7 points or so to mean we'd be heading straight back up. Tammy missing the an issue but Samatta looks brilliant to me. That league is not a hard league to score in. Pukki and Wood both hit 30.

Dyche would take two years to get any sort of success here. There's a limited number of players who can do what he wants across an entire season. Burnley have almost all the best ones right now.

I'd really like to find a place for Grealish, not sure it can be justified. No player has brought me more true joy watching us, maybe Yorkie, but he was generally in much better teams. Cowans, Grealish, Barry in my team. in some form.

I agree. It's going to be a tricky transition without some quality new players. Everyone except McGinn has been incredibly reliant on letting Grealish being the man to move us on his own from defence to attack for about 4 years.

Remember Spurs, can't remember Utd game. City and Norwich thumped them at home. Everton thumped them away. They got 5 points from those three games Teams get shock results all the time, it's football. Points they don't deserve, or they pinch. Can't remember a premier league team this bad getting so many undeserved results in a single season. It's incredibly likely it's going to change them forever as well!

Decent chance the discontent may have increased if they hadn't fluked as many points as they have.

If he keeps them up it's job done. They are the worst team in the league and have had unbelievable luck.

Goose Island IPA. Woof.

Hope people are still OK waiting outside the supermarket.

That fight island Dana insists is still happening is very funny. I've seen around that it's essentially the plot of the 1990s Mortal Kombat film.

Vardy is similar stylistically yes, but miles better. Gabby could never dribble or finish like Vardy.

I was going to bring up Traore! Exactly like Nuno has harnessed him really well, MON did with Gabby. I'm unsure anyone could get much more out of Gab. They'd have wanted him to do more. If Wenger tried to get him to get involved and not play on the shoulder things would have unraveled IMO. Just being a keen chaser suited him.

Probably a debate that's been had many times... Do you think Gabby would have had a career as a Premier League player if he didn't happen to come through at Villa with O'Neil as manager? I'm very unsure he'd have had any sort of top-flight career. MON's counter attack football suited Gabby who could just sprint after hoofs and get on the end of everything. It took him about 5 or 6 years to develop much of a hold up game, which he did eventually. For technically limited players, once the slide starts, it doesn't stop. MON's motivational skills were essential early on to get him running channels and contributing without really being about to control a pass 90% of the time. Had he come through under a different manager, at any club, he'd have been fortunate to find anyone that suited him as much as O'Neil did. If an 18 year old Gabby appeared now I don't think he'd get much of a look in. I think the league is much, much stronger, and far more tactical.

Yep. They'll be terrified Newcastle are about to come crashing in ahead of Chelsea and Man Utd.

Players from Championship and Belgium are fine if they're good enough.

Because he comes across as a normal person and is a poster boy for prison reform.

**** ridiculous. I don't mind thickos shooting themselves in the foot but they're hurting everyone here. Wonder who could be behind this sort of thing?

Loving Saul. Mike is such a watchable character.