Exactly what I was thinking, not a crafted goodbye, but written solely by him and not edited - no PR-person would allow the 'good luck except when I play against you!' line - which is one of my favourite parts really.
Au revoir dear Alexis
My guess is the release clause is more a minimum fee clause, i.e. we'll let you go for bids over 45m, but we'll accept the largest one. It may well be however that Mac is so determined to go to Liverpool and nowhere else it doesn't matter if Chelsea bid higher, so the minimum fee becomes in...
Kaoru Mitoma. He's just been a difference maker all season long, the x- factor teams need to break down defences, scare full backs silly and score critical goals. And some amazing ones as well.
Those odds of 5/1 are to finish in top four. Next season England will have at least 5, and up to 7, Champions League places for 24/25, so I'd wager the odds will be even better!
What Liverpool had at the end was that consistency to ground out win after win - we didn't really have that at any point this season, a win or two would be followed by a disappointing result but we kept bouncing back.
My highly unpopular opinion is that we'd have got more points this season if Potter had stayed. Things were really starting to click under him, we still had Mitoma and Ferguson to introduce to the starting XI, we wouldn't have had that transition period. Moreover I think that his more...
Well, it wouldn't be fun to watch, and it would be quite a shocker, but as we still qualify for the Europa League in that scenario I guess i take it :shrug:
Well, it's the first time in a long time, but Spurs weren't actually on the list as a perusal of the 1906-07 Southern Football League Division One table would have revealed :lol:
Really! I watched it live, thought bugger they've scored, watched the replay, thought close, but onside, so was very pleasantly surprised to see it overturned.
I was in Freiburg in February, stunning little medieval city, would be great to go back there. Although they'll be tough to beat. And I'm in Toulouse next week, so maybe there will be some serendipity there too.