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No wonder they like trimming the squad!

Agree, there's a video of him doing a post match speech and it's terrific. Manager speeches are almost always pretty cringe-making but he comes across as a v decent and emotionally smart guy

If you were Edwards union rep, you'd be getting him to challenge that division of labour

Swap deals are a beloved part of transfer rumours but pretty rare in real life. The fact that we'd need to offload at least one winger/striker as part of this makes it that much less likely. The club obviously had a purpose in leaking this but struggling to think what it is. Another high profile failure to land a big target hardly seems helpful to the reputation of Hughes or FSG

Jones on form is exceptional. I think the problem for his reputation isn't so much that he has bad games (all players do) but more that he has them in an annoying way where he looks far too casual (even if he surely is still trying his best) We've definitely missed Dom's energy, looking forward to having him back

Send Napoli the clip of that nutmeg against Southampton

Ornstein and Joyce is all well and good but I was holding out for Grizz. Thankfully he's come through with some beautifully specific confirmation https://x.com/GrizzKhan/status/1877464319090213278

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I think at one stage in the summer he was linked with a move to a Turkish side and I doubt many of us would have minded too much if we recouped the fee we spent on him (assuming it would be reinvested, obviously) And yet now - it doesn't seem a crazy exaggeration to say that he's playing as well as any midfielder in the league Has any midfielder's reputation changed so much in such a short period of time? It's like a reverse-Fabinho, who went from world class to past it in seemingly a couple of months

It is brilliant to think that if any of us do sign for Liverpool one day, and also get called up for an international match, we'll be in this thread. Doesn't matter if it's just a brief substitute appearance in a meaningless u21 friendly. We'll be covered. In my case, it's only my advanced age and total lack of talent that's holding me back, but hope others go for it Awesome work oojason, this is a great service

Would love Menswear guy on Twitter to take a break from Republican politicians to do an analysis of this

A good thing about the United situation is not only did they keep ETH on, they actually fully backed him on the signings, focusing on players he had worked with previously. They must be sailing close to the wind on FFP so whoever succeeds him will have a lot of players chosen by ETH and with a lot less room/budget to reshape the squad

I guess we'll see how it feels once it gets going but I'm not a fan on first glance. All those matches just to eliminate 8 teams? Even the seemingly more interesting matches will lose something because of the lack of jeopardy. If we lose say against Madrid and Leverkusen, you'd imagine we'd scrape together enough to avoid being in the bottom 8 and therefore the only difference between being top 8 and 9-16th is one extra round of matches. I guess that's the point though - big clubs can afford to lose matches and not get knocked out...

So we don't want to sell him but also have a price for him?

worth a try at that price? From the limited amount I've seen of him, seems like a slightly more refined version of Kuyt, hard working winger and a good finisher Mind you, that last I convinced myself that an underpriced Italian was worth the gamble, it didn't work out so well...