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MrGrumpy

Huge Member
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Fly Fifer
The BBC are wrong. It was the time-wasting, kick-the-ball-away, cheating, con-the-ref play-acting that was clearly a Newcastle tactic that disrupted play and repeatedly stopped Liverpool from building momentum. I know I have a bias here but so does BBC man, Geordie Robson who came out with that! As I understand it, joelinton was the winner on the night of the Fallon D'floor award.

Time wasting so be it but Liverpool were again quite poor compared to their recent standards. Passes going awol etc. I thought Newcastle were unlucky to be fair .
 
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PaulSB

Squire
I don't take much notice of the PL transfer dealings as it's all too ridiculous for words but I've been having an idle browse this morning.

£1.9bn spent this summer by PL clubs. This is daft, monopoly money and really demonstrates a lack of commitment or interest from PL clubs in developing the game. Why bother when it's easier to chuck money at a problem.

Forest have purchased an entire squad. 21 players. I don't know if any of last season's squad have been retained or are playing but if I'd been part of the promotion winning side I'd be very angry at not getting a chance to prove myself in the PL. There'd be some justice if Forest go down with huge debts.
 

vickster

Legendary Member
I don't take much notice of the PL transfer dealings as it's all too ridiculous for words but I've been having an idle browse this morning.

£1.9bn spent this summer by PL clubs. This is daft, monopoly money and really demonstrates a lack of commitment or interest from PL clubs in developing the game. Why bother when it's easier to chuck money at a problem.

Forest have purchased an entire squad. 21 players. I don't know if any of last season's squad have been retained or are playing but if I'd been part of the promotion winning side I'd be very angry at not getting a chance to prove myself in the PL. There'd be some justice if Forest go down with huge debts.

Seemingly a lot of that squad have left the club

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62761807
They’ve probably spent less in total than some of the big clubs have on one player though!
 

vickster

Legendary Member
Most of Forest's players were on loan apparently, I haven't done an in depth analysis of it so can't be sure, but that's what the word is.

The link says similar, or they were out of contract or sold (someone went to Spurs for example I think)
 

jowwy

Can't spell, Can't Punctuate....Sue Me
Interested in what you mean by that - perhaps you could expand if you have a moment to spare.

Yeh i find his comment a strange one, on commitment to developing the game….i mean liverpool had two 20yr olds in the middle of the park today and gomez in defence, all young homegrown talent, along with robbo and trent

chelsea the same with reece james, ben chilwell, gallagher, mason mount…..

other teams also have homegrown young talent coming through. So its an odd comment to be fair.
 
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