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

Everton bottled it basically. Sat back from the moment Walker was went off

Messi will sign a new contract

Messi said he would, but hasn't yet. I read an interview with Iniesta today, can't remember where, in which he said: "I always thought I'd end my career at Barcelona. This year is the first year I find myself questioning that." Bartomeu is under heavy fire.

Sitting back sounds like Koeman alright. Should've gone out guns blazing second half.

City team still looks...incomplete. Of course Pep does like to overcomplicate things

B. Silva looked great when he came on

annoyed city scored because otherwise the headline "ROO BEAUTY" would've definitely been used in one of the tabloids tomorrow

Who among us would not enjoy a TWP golden boot?

― imago, Monday, August 21, 2017 2:11 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

id more an enjoy it

than god damn

CoROOna

It was a vintage Rooney performance tbf. Few decent passes, hideous first touch, spawny goal and a ridiculous shanked attempt from the halfway line

Happy if he scores a few against our rivals

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxz0cBVYAYa-cB.jpg

the one guy in the hoodie who is loving it for whatever reason.

Pep's pretending to not understand the interviewers questions thing is insufferable, he's so fucking charmless.

i find his total lack of patience endearing

wtf was he doing after the match sprinting away/performing for the cameras last night. he's honestly such a fool.

Pep running off to spend another £250m on defenders & goalkeepers. pic.twitter.com/T1YQpc8x9V

— Roy Keane (@RoyKeane__) August 22, 2017

When you have to go you have to go

Bernardo Silva looked amazing, Danilo also looked dangerous yesterday. City now just have too many excellent players in advanced positions, but there's no obvious partner for Fernandinho in central midfield following Gundogan's untimely death. And I'm not sure Jonny Evans is the answer to the problem at CB.

Barcelona are suing former player Neymar for 8.5m euros (£7.8m) over his world record move to Paris St-Germain.

The Brazil international made the 222m euro (£200m) move to the French club in August after buying out his contract.

Barcelona now want him to return a renewal bonus he was paid when he signed a new five-year deal just nine months before forcing through the move.

"The club demands the player return the already paid sum as he has not completed his contract," it said.

As well as the 8.5m euro bonus, the club wants "an additional 10% because of delayed payment".

The statement continued: "The club also requests Paris St-Germain take on responsibility for the payment of these fees if the player cannot do so himself."

The lawsuit was submitted on 11 August to the Labour Tribunal in Barcelona.

Following the transfer, Barcelona announced the club was withholding a further 26m euro (£23m) loyalty bonus from the player.

Neymar criticised the directors of the club on Sunday after scoring twice on his home debut for PSG in a 6-2 win over Toulouse.

"I spent four beautiful years there and parted happy," said the 25-year-old. "But with [the board], no.

"For me, they are not the people who should be there, for the direction of Barca. Barca deserve much better."

anything to distract from their farcical summer and the fact they're broke.

doesn't this kind of do the opposite?

yeah, it does - that ultimatum issued to liverpool at the weekend was so embarrassing that it was like something liverpool would do. bartomeu's days must be numbered.

also it's so obvious they are chancing their arm trying to get two players with the neymar fee, in a market where that won't happen, because there's no one replacement they can sign and perhaps signing both coutinho and dembele, or y'know, anyone really, might sate the fans for five minutes. i see dortmund have told them to do one as well.

They're the laughing stock of the summer. Not sure about his days being numbered, as I'm not sure who would have to send him out. Messi and Iniesta piling on the pressure too, and rightfully so.

LG do you still think VvD could go your way? Soton signed Dutch defender Wesley Hoedt from Lazio today for about 15m. Same position really.

hard to say - it's similar to coutinho except dunno where it stands as regards us actually making a bid after the whole tapping up unpleasantness. i'd feel a lot better about this season if we signed a defender. if we don't then it's heinous for us to leave sahko out in the cold.

Maybe Liverpool have indeed condeded and feel 'humbled' wrt VvD and will wait another year? Humbleness being a v rare treat in football though.

I do agree for you that you *really* need a defender, or three. Not even Barcelona w/ Vermaelen and Matthieu were so out of whack, with a brilliant attack and shamble defense.

Be kind to my typos.

@david_conn 10m10 minutes ago

Manchester City (Group) have bought Spanish La Liga club Girona, in a partnership with Pere Guardiola, manager Pep's brother & agent. #mcfc

Class

If it weren't for this supremely dodgy acquisition I would never have found out that FC Girona's second-choice goalkeeper is called Bono.

surely the money would've been better spent buying a couple of Prem teams

FC Feeder Club/Academy Training Slope, I'm guessing.

Barcelona muestra interés por el mediocampista Galés, jugador del Stoke City, Joe Allen; preparan primera oferta de £30M.

according to some reports the 'Welsh Coutinho' had a blinder against Rochdale last night.

Imagine spending nearly half the Neymar cash on Paulinho and Joe Allen.

surely that's a pisstake about joe allen - that video of brendan rodgers calling him the welsh is a deeply enshrined meme.

i do think joe is good tho and liverpool should have kept him.

Mbappe to PSG seems to go ahead. French papers reporting 150m euros and a PSG player going the other way.

Swansea are probably signing our best defender, right/wing back Santiago Arias. Meh.

Apparently some former wonderkid, who has gone off the boil slightly, called Emre Mor is either Everton or Hudds bound. We might even have the edge because they can't realistically guarantee him much football. That would be quite a biggie for us, apparently around the 12m Euros mark.

Lol, googling Emre Mor just now brings up Dutch and Turkish news articles from the last 24 hours saying his agent got him addicted to snus!

he sounds like a cocky gobshite, I come up with some quote about him wanting a move to Real or Barca. It doesn't look like that is happening soon!

Converting Allen into a #10 was a pretty smart move from Hughes, not the sort of thinking you usually associate with him. He's a fairly limited footballer but does a couple of things well enough - hard to see how he'd be much more than a bench option for Liverpool right now though.

Weve signed Swiss RB from FC Ingolstadt, Florent Hadergjonaj on a season long loan with option to buy. He doesn't look a day over 14 years old.

Looking forward to those chants of "There's only one Florent Hadergjonaj", amirite?

lol! Our lot used to get confused enough over Clark/Clarke, so there is nope of any of them ever spelling this one correctly.

http://indeksonline.net/public/uploads/image/2016/11/1_1480410732-9684682.JPG

Formerly of... BSC Young Boys :)

https://www.htafc.com/siteassets/image/players/florent-hadergjonaj/16x9-florent-hadergjonaj-002.png/Large
he seems even younger on the latest official site pic!

Dorian Hadergjonaj

It is safe to say that back in the days when the police would request people to take part in line-ups, they wouldn't have ever asked him. Not unless it was minor crimes division (scrumping, stealing gobstoppers, garden hopping).

"Sometimes it's Haaaadergjonaj"

Even more ridiculously there are reports that Sissoko to Juventus should be finalised in the next 24hrs.

http://www.htfc-world.com/reports/Newcastle3/newcastle200817_r41_c1.jpg
i'll probably get fp'ed for overdoing the Hudds stuff today, but this from HTFC World's latest cartoon match report made me lol.