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  • e1_duder@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Who wants to shill out big fees for a back up keeper, on a starters wage, or an attacking midfielder with fitness issues who doesn’t play?

    Edu can really only play the hand he’s dealt, but he plays a role in that. If we wanted big fees, we should have sold ESR two years ago and Ramsdale over the summer. They just sit around and don’t play now.

  • themerinator12@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Why exactly not? He was playing through injuries before he went down and before that he scored 10 goals just in the back half of the season. Then by the time he got properly fit we added lots of players. He needs game time to get fitness back, but Arteta has been pretty stubborn about substitutions and also doesn’t even take starters off till very late in the game. If Arteta was making subs at 60’ or 65’ then these backups would get those 20-30 minute appearances to help prepare them for starts. And vice versa, take Smith off after 60’ until he doesn’t look gassed.

  • kipsta23@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    We should play a midfield of Rice-Jorginho-Havertz against Chelsea solely for the ex-Chelsea revenge tour vibes. Eddie up top too.

    only slightly joking

  • Ugoboy23@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Smart clubs won’t look at Ramsdale solely as a backup keeper on start wages because that’s just his situation. In reality, he’s a title challenging, could be no1 England international keeper, who’s atleast CL quality.

    Why did we spend 50m on a back up ST with 1 year left. Because he’s quality.

  • TerraBlah@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was making the point that the refs influence the game in multiple ways, not that we should file a complaint for White’s offside.

  • ghostrider467@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    even more unlikely than that lol, they have to beat both scotland and spain to really make any chance

  • NegativeHeli@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Fact: United, throughout this season, has only one away win, and it was against a team that’s nailed on for relegation

  • Boopdelahoop@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It’s different when it is their job to remain impartial. If a professor of Human Rights got paid his twice annual salary for a six-week stint at King Saud University and a year later authored a paper called “Saudi Arabia: Extremely Chill For Women And Gays, Actually”, you’d rightly look at it with suspicion.

  • zrk23@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    look at the deals Newcastle made this summer. don’t think they’d have a issue with it