evidently, the gift shop is closed in december and january.

an erratic squad planner seems to be our type.

‘to work alongside johan lange…’

i can only hope their standards are that low.

it’s as if everyone connected to the league is trying to make it worse.

‘a match as if thomas frank managed against thomas frank’

a good preview of the championship tonight.

genuinely lol’ed.

zero quality. none whatsoever.

our league is becoming unwatchable.

thomas frank and johan lange turning us into a worse team than these two awful clubs is unfathomable.

what is this football?

well, chelsea is far from relegation.

spurs are suffering from being run in the opposite fashion.

if it’s any comfort, frank would have played both mgw and eze to their weaknesses, out of position and most ineffectually.

like he did with every player.

the value of franchises go up. that’s the parachute that’s always been available.

it worked for him with the los angeles dodgers.

it doesn’t work for a club who will finish outside of ucl and doesn’t own a huge revenue producing stadium.

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unless the sell newcastle.

it’s tough for me to understand how boehly has put him and others into that scenario, but they are in real trouble.

of course.

akin to trump ‘solving’ wars he started.

have you read up on their finances?

chelsea are in a world of trouble (…again), with debts, presently paid at 13% interest, soon coming due.

the only way out is going to be the saudis taking over.

it’s still absurd to think we wasted a chance to see the wingers tel, kudus and a healthy odobert in full flight under ange, especially knowing that if he didn’t get more out of them, we could have still hired rdz after moving on from him in the fall.

we simply deserve to be where we are.

we played angeball. we’re all celebrating the type of football we regularly played the previous two seasons.

‘be humble’

and he’s a wimp, evidently, too.

cheers

halaand mean mugging after playing as if in a coma all match is our world 2026.

but i’ll take it.

counting on two clubs who dropped 4 points each to our garbage team isn’t the greatest plan.

that turn back is/was lack of confidence.

he was terrific today in that regard.

injuries and thomas frank more culpable.

*capable of

we forget how good he once was. and he showed much of it today at a position he’s had to learn while injured the past two years.

he used to be bissouma’s equal at high pressing, with all the abilities of a 10 and 8.