Recent content by loki

I remember back years ago some pundit spoke about how City got so good, they need a top player in a position, they spend bigger than other clubs can afford, and if it fails they just repeat that until the player doesn't fail. That scope of budget let them take risks on players and not care about...

I'd love to see what Will Hughes has to say. No skin off his nose to tell the truth and us having Casemeiro for games against Leeds and Leicester who are direct rivals for positions in the league doesn't help Palace at all. If he says openly that there was no force exerted against his neck, was...

Choosing not to blow also sets a precedent. Keeper could have the exact same scenario and the attacking team will score. Ref does the same and doesn't blow. So imagine he did his cruciate, and under the rules now it has to be a goal. Is that fair? There would be uproar over that, from us and...

1) Coaching.They might not sack all the coaches, but a few need to go, and someone who is an established and well rated pure coach brought in to lead and develop players. Over time clear out those who aren't good enough. We should have space at the club at any one time for at most one single...

I disagree with all those quoting the paper over the cracks comments from Scholesy. They made about 3 good chances in the game and another two times pushed around the box but always someone in the way to stop it being threatening but scored twice. First goal was a well worked one from them. A...

Both suited more to their current clubs style of play. KdB is coming off a relatively poor season for him, he was still a very good player. The question at 30 is that poor season (relative to the years of top 2/3 in league every season) just a blip or is he slowing down. Bruno seems to be good...

He's a nice bonus player of high quality to have. Pre-Bruno we looked creatively lost without him on the pitch, but that's not the case any more, with greater creative options up front with and without Bruno. And with our lacking DM options he never looks quite the player he could be. If we...

But that was based on spending so much more than you could handle to the point ye were in financial trouble inflating the results for that period, which ironically made you a good buy for Roman cause he didn't need to fight to buy, and I'm speaking over the longer term, same could apply to every...

From my point of view FFP has lots of different consequences - Clubs can't speculate with leverage/loans way past their means, lowering risk of going bust - Huge money investors have to spread out their investment over a longer time period, stopping them from being able to compete as fast -...

When he started we had a bloated squad, not completely cleared yet but getting there. No huge failure signing at all. 'Worst' signings are Maguire but that's only about price, and he's played pretty much every game, so that's getting debatable and James who I'm certain we could sell for more...

Seems to have become a Fred vs McTominay thread right now Both have strengths and weaknesses Fred: Works very hard, excellent in high pressure on opponents, stealing possession. Carries forward pretty well into space, but passing can be poor. Finishing terrible. Very little forward end...

Not mental at all. Some mad overreaction from you there First why would you assume its only to fit him. We need a DM badly, who would work well with any of our other midfielders to get more out of them. This could be without McTominay factored in at all. Secondly its more about getting the most...

To me he'll never become a talent of the very very top level, but that's ok cause you can't have every position covered that way, he can still be an excellent player who contributes well to the team. He should be more box to box free to move around with a properly solid DM behind him, tackling...

Don't think its right allowing goals off the arm at the point they call it. Shoulder is fair anything lower no. But by current rules, stupid but justified offside. But that goes both ways for attack too. Maybe they should have all teams have to have a color band on their arm for the full team...

Not sure about that. His foot that's about to land gets taken away. It actually resembles what happens on a particular foot sweep in Judo (kouchi gari) with very little force applied if the timing is just right you go flying and it looks like you throw yourself legs splay out, you've just set up...