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

Juventus also want him apparently.

The Makalele Paradox

sorry, but I can't give Eriksen much credit for that performance. He had a tougher time of it against Ireland's midfield

Ashley Young was not good last night either. He's been "good" this season, but he's a shite full-back at the end of the day. Shaw has been performing well in that role for the last 4-5 games, but Mourinho will never trust him when the chips are down

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Everton had enquiries for 5 players and there’s me thinking donkey sanctuary was full

not as woke as a lot of Big Nev's recent material

sorry, but I can't give Eriksen much credit for that performance. He had a tougher time of it against Ireland's midfield

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He was on the ball in tight spaces for the entire game linking up with everyone, and the quality of his passes is so high. Hard, quick, in the right place. Build up for the second goal for example, all about him.

Thought Sanchez (the defender) was absolutely brilliant also. He's been an excellent buy.

He's obviously a good player (certainly on Coutinho's level or better) but Spurs scored two fairly jammy goals against an utter shambles of a team. Let's not go overboard

We battered second. In a game that mattered when frankly we would've expected to be josed

Trippier >>>>>> aurier btw

I don't think anyone's getting josed any more. Jose is josed out.

That's what he wants you to think ahead of the big arsenal move

Touché :)

You only realise how good Eriksen actually is when we're forced to play without him.

Enjoying this story about Leicester pointedly refusing to sell a player to West Ham because of a pissy article that Karren Brady wrote about them a year ago. And West Ham making a disproportionate amount of noise about signing a 21-year old from Solihull Moors with a conspicuously African-sounding name.

i love west ham at the moment, need more moyes headlines tho

Lovable bunch

Wd be great if come the summer West Ham are deluged by clubs and agents looking to palm off mediocre/injury prone/actually really bad attitude African players for way over the odds, and they're forced to sign a whole bunch of them to try and launder the stink of this affair.

Moyes just can't be doing with lads enjoying themselves, there's no place for that in football.

xp That's not to get into interrogating the whole concept of 'bad attitude' in football, what purposes it serves, etc.

I did not know there was still a football thread on ILE.

Riyad Mahrez will not play for Leicester - he is 'feeling so low that he is not in the right frame of mind'.

I can see Foxes sticking to their guns, Mahrez not playing for a month or so, fined, until he leaves in the summer, to never fully find his form again. Just like Van Dijk.

Looking through every team's transfer window outcome, the most striking thing overall is that most clubs seem to have got rid of far more players than they have acquired. A lot of squad slimming and wage trimming.

THFC have signed one player and loaned out five.

Isn't it same as it ever was there though, most youth players dissipate at the end of one transfer window or another

Riyad Mahrez will not play for Leicester - he is 'feeling so low that he is not in the right frame of mind'.

I feel very low in meself

That two months filling in for Leroy Sane is, alas, the impossible dream.

Aching Proustian nostalgia for the spring of 2016 and men with mockney accents in pubs shouting GUWAARN REEYAD! at the big screen as he skinned yet another full back

xp Yeah I don't suppose loaning Ryan Loft to Exeter will have had much impact on Tottenham's 17/18 efforts. I fear it may not have much effect on Exeter's either (this is not a comment on Loft's quality, just that AIUI he's the kind of player we've roughly enough of for the time being).

Martin Amis has agreed to loan Ryan Loft to Will Self for the rest of the 2017-18 season.

Parting Anus lol

Mark fissure

Five days ago Batshuayi scored twice for Chelsea, tonight he scored twice and delivered an assist for Dortmund.

Pogba benched in favour of McTominay.

might as well subject myself to more of this shite!

Lingard will need better than that to beat Lossl.

lol what can you do with diving twats like Sanchez + Van La Parra?

this is our best performance in ages, low bar as that is.

idiotic needless yellow for Sanchez there, what a fuckwit.

really scummy stuff from Huddersfield today!

I don't mind them kicking Man U players.

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— Neville Southall (@NevilleSouthall) February 3, 2018

The donkey sanctuary is struggling

What a nice chip from Auba. Everton being butchered

Mkhi seems to enjoy himself as well.

Everton are an absolute shambles of a team. It’s astonishing they managed to spend £190m this season and still end up so abject.

getting Mangala in was kind of asking for it

arsenal do this a couple of times a season, it's almost like their karmic reward for being arsenal or something

Real talk SV. I've no idea why they bothered showing up. It's got a stench of self-sabotage to it.

And still... Everton could've made three or four goals more this second half.

Some great goals today