Hightown Phil

We were trying to blam it in loads yesterday yes, it was called panic.

Probably within the context of being 1-0 down as opposed to it being 1-1 yeah.

Shooting from distance and creating patterns of play designed to shoot from distance isn’t the same thing though.

It’s also what a team who leave no space behind want you to do. Cos the most likely outcome is you get to take 90 seconds to take a goal kick. Not sure how much you think we’re going to get for either of them but it certainly wouldn’t be what you’d need to fund a “big fee”.

Shooting from outside the box is something we don’t do by design though. It’s an Analytics thing. It isn’t that we haven’t got the player and should get him, it’s that we don’t want the player to do that.

He hasn’t. He’s just s***.

We haven’t sold a genuine first team player for profit for nearly four years.

Great Anthony Taylor moment in the first half. Gives us a free kick, outs the ball down, sprays the line and marches out and sprays a line for the wall. He took seven paces. Seven. What hope have we got if these bellends can’t measure ten yards or use a watch?

The idea that Michael Gordon sits there and says things like ‘yeah we should go with 3 centre backs’ is quite clearly a ridiculous theory to have. You can’t seriously think they sit there and decide what players we need or don’t need.

Kante went off as well and he had 15 minutes to talk the players through it i as opposed to shouting from the sideline.

Hope they didn’t pay someone for these. The Silva one looks more like Dalglish.

No. Not like if we have an unprecedented injury crisis that no one can do much about. Wouldn’t bother even giving last season a moments thought. We recouped about £40m and spent about £110m, while not bringing in any ticket money for a year. Not really sure it’s some huge travesty in the current climate.

In the last 12 months when we’ve not been arsed about spending money we’ve still signed three £30m + footballers. Stop panicking about three years down the line, cos it’ll be fine.

If it won’t work under many other managers we pay our players way too much. And no, not by selling the family silver. We’ll just use the money we make to buy them with, like we did in 2017 and 2018 but haven’t needed to do since.

Reckon we do one next summer and one the summer after and then in 23/24 we’ve got Salah and Jota + 2. Which is fine really.