'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

I believe he's been poor but 'stopped scoring' is rather obvious when you've got four, at times five players in front of you scoring all the goals no?

i still think selling joe allen was silly.

same

Yea he was improving all the time. A handy player to have on the squad

Henderson needs to go too. He offers nothing atm

seeing as you're all here, thoughts on Solanke thus far? has he had many minutes? feel like i've only seen him coming off the bench late in games

Brucie was semi-recently spouting off to the press about how stupid it was for Solanke to waste himself sitting on the bench for a big team (again) and he ought to demand a loan mov (lol did you have anywhere particular in mind Steve?). managed to upset all our fans by talking about how "the larger clubs should set up positive relationships with the smaller ones" when it comes to loaning out players.

Hard to have an opinion on Solanke yet tbh. I haven't seen him play enough yet

fair enough, knew he wasn't starting but hadn't kept track of whether he was getting 3 mins or 30 when he was coming off the bench

Wijnaldum is one of those players where I like the idea of him more than the reality I think. Runs a lot, keeps the ball, still not sure what he does very well tho.

Solanke is impossible to judge right now. The positive, I guess, is that he's getting more minutes overall than I expected

some talk that Liverpool are trying to hijack Bayern's move for Goretzka

seems something of a fool's errand if there's any truth in it

Goretzka moving on a free as well right? imagine the wages youd need to offer to talk him out of going to Bayern

and as or something noted upthread, midfielders are all well and good but spend some of this ludicrous loot on buying a fucking goalkeeper you plums

not sure about solanke, he's played loads and prob been unlucky not to score but i thought origi showed promise last season.

yeah I imagine Bayern have been tapping him up for some time

I'd sell Liverpool Romero for 50m or so

is there any credibility to the rumors of buying alisson from roma?

Re: Liverpool' goalkeeping woes - I think Klopp desperately wants Karius to happen but the lad is so bloody slow in every department

something about a slow Lloris

Yesssss

He's dropped more than an L that's for sure.

Liverpool most interesting 2018 team gunning for a 2021 title tbf. It can happen if they do everything right (and get a good goalie and three defenders and a CM and keep Klopp).

I hope Derby come up, if only because I'm going to burst if I don't get to use 'have the Rams stopped screaming yet Lloris?' line at least once in my life,

Brilliant

:D

Thread dellivers

i hate Derby and now i want them to get promoted too

I didn't think I'd ever become a Candy Crush Fc 4 promotion fan, but Brum exiting the opposite way is pretty sweet as well.

if Brum, Albion and Stoke all go down this season i'm likely to tear some intercostal muscles

I'm still haunted by that penultimate game where our brilliant, but pragmatic manager rested players for the playoffs and fielded holograms against a useless (down to 10 early doors) Brum side they could have relegated.

Manchester City have reached a full agreement with Alexis Sanchez. He will earn £13m net per season and if he signs in July a £30m signing-on bonus. If he signs in January, he will receive a £15m signing-on bonus and Arsenal will receive £20m. [@DiMarzio]

— City Watch (@City_Watch) January 8, 2018

Aurier really nowhere near trippiers level at crossing, either in execution or in just crossing the fucking thing when there's a chance on

I was always impressed with his crossing when I saw him for PSG and Ivory Coast but he hasn’t been good recently.

Tosun is a good signing imo.

Can see Kane demanding a transfer just cos of the frustration tbh

Also dembele is bad now he's bad

Offside or not let's not defend like shit hmmmm lads

I object to aurier getting an assist for that awful shot!

just when u might get annoyed at these guys they actually queue up and give Rooney a kicking 😍

That turn!

the roulette was nice, but that was a shot too

Yeah

Borderline offside.

Tbh feel the ref and linesman have given us everything today

Three shocking goals poch out

Son is turning into a decent player

Jesus, Rooney is just state sponsored thuggery at this stage

Excellent

Son might be the most underrated player in the prem

how could anyone else by yr fav spurs player?

all those ppl saying not to dismiss denmark in the WC bc they have "a world class player" while writing off south korea

Who underrates son tho? He's ridiculously all round great and has improved decisions and effectiveness hugely but that's a good year and more ago now

no one talks about him as one of the league's best players

Good god, Arsenal.

The Arsenal, such a reliable source of LOLs.

where the heck is van dijk

Ox!

sounded like a very tidy goal on the wireless!