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I bet we miss out on a European place by two points.

He's been an absolute model pro. Even if he leaves in the summer, he deserves our respect for that. (I know he's likely to leave in the summer, but I keep hoping that the prospect of forming a midfield partnership with Facundo Buonanotte that could endure for club and country could be enough to...

I know quite a few Arsenal fans (north London was my first home before my family moved to Brighton when I was a nipper), and they've been nothing like the numpties I've seen replying to Andy Naylor's Twitter threads. It could just be the difference between people's online behaviour and their...

I’ve only watched two games with my Liverpool-supporting boss, and they were the 3-0 and this game. Gotta watch more Brighton games with him, he’s our lucky charm.

Does anyone else remember this article from the NYT from when were signing Caicedo? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/sports/soccer/transfer-market-moises-caicedo.html I mention it because it talks about how difficult he was to sign due to his rights and representation being a total mess...

Just noticed that he's at number 47 in the Guardian's list of the top 100 footballers. That's gotta add a few quid to his price, even if he should be higher.

Kinda weird that we're simultaneously becoming the place for South American wonderkids to launch their European careers AND the place for older UK pros to see out their careers. But you only have to look at how good Lallana and Welbeck have been for us to see that it's no bad thing - these...

The transfer seems like a decent outcome for everyone, like others have said. But I'm really struck by the post-World-Cup contrast between Trossard and Mac Allister. Trossard's acting as if he, not Mac Allister, was a key figure in the side that won the World Cup, when in reality he was an...

You don't get the full speed benefits of an SSD going through the PS4's USB ports anyway - you do get a small improvement, but probably not enough to justify the extra cost. So if he's only going to use it on the PS4, a hard disk should be fine, you'll get a lot more capacity for your money. If...

It is. But as someone with a South American sister-in-law, I can assure you that spuriously denying visas has been the Home Office's MO for a *very* long time now. They literally use it as a revenue-raising exercise. What's changed here is that more people are getting caught up in this bs...

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Watched this with my Liverpool-supporting boss. Hope I still have a job on Monday! (j/k, he's a good bloke)

I'd previously seen in reported that we paid £2.5m apiece for Mitoma and Gross, rather than £3m. In either case, here's a fun little exercise: Add up what we paid for all four of our goalscorers against Everton, and compare that to the fee they paid us for Maupay.

We hit 17 degrees in Prague on NYE, it's very strange. I'm a bald man, I shouldn't be able to go out hatless in Prague on 31 December. On the plus side, I'm not suffering with the "January blues" I usually struggle with this time of year. Aside from the uneasy sense that "this ain't right", I'm...

[Edit - never mind, I'm slow this morning, didn't notice this had already been discussed] Off to Our Liam's Hull City, if you think the word of "Football League World" means anything. Not a site I'm familiar with, but here's the story...

I read the thread title and thought you were inviting us to say mean things about De Zerbi.

I agree that it's a good article overall, but I raised my eyebrows at this line: I understand what she's getting at, but I think a subeditor needed to work on that line. It's just not true that making a struggling side better is "simple".

Weren't Juventus reportedly sniffing around him when he joined us? Though that might have been a story put out by RDZ's people as a negotiation tactic. Anyway, I felt very positive about his appointment initially, started worrying a bit after Brentford and Forest, and am back to maximum...

Ah, that's reminded me of something else. In my mum's case, I had this problem that she wouldn't or couldn't articulate what she needed, and would instead get crabby and hostile. I'd have to ask her "Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Do you need the toilet?" etcetera in succession until she said...

I lost both my parents to dementia in 2017 and 2018, it was devastating. Two pieces of advice from bitter experience: Don't kid yourself that you can somehow pull them back to reality; there's no point correcting them when they remember things incorrectly, it'll only cause arguments and...