McCreadie

Apologies, my mistake, I quoted the wrong post of yours, so it wasn’t particularly clear. That wasn’t what I was arguing. i was simply pointing out that, during the passage of play that led to the City goal (which you do seem to blame squarely on Mudryk), at one point after, we had 10 men behind the ball, organised (well ok, as much as we are ever organised) and all within 25m of our goal. We were in a position to defend. From that point, I’d suggest the goal is on the collective, not the player that got turned over. Every goal conceded starts with someone losing the ball. For clarity, I’m not suggesting Mudryk doesn’t lose the ball a lot. It would be much better if he didn’t. I just accept it as part of his job, to a degree.

If we recover to the point where we have 10 men behind the ball BEFORE they score, it's disingenuous at best to suggest it's on Mudryk. That's a bit like VAR going back two minutes to rule one of our goals out... We got unlucky with 2 deflections, **** happens.

TT dumping them out of the CL feels as good as a win to me.

Pochettino, amongst other things, appears to have said “Palmer is the official penalty taker. It’s up to him if he gives it to someone else” That is gross stupidity on his part. Take some bloody control! If Palmer is the penalty taker, Palmer is the penalty taker. It should not be a possibility for him to pass it on.

That is incredibly poor from Pochettino. This has now happened three times in recent weeks. This should have been stamped on ruthlessly, the first time it happened.

None of them have actually won anything ever either.

Well that would only take winning our game in hand and turning one single defeat against Forest into a win. It’s not a massive stretch to be honest, especially if we have a fit Nkunku, James, Lavia, Fofana etc. Good thing about next year is that there will be plenty of opportunities to improve our game on game points total 😆

Also, I guess if they were to sit on it for 5 years, it would only appreciate.

I would have assumed that the actual favoured and most cost effective plan would be to sell SW6 and buy a bit further out, CPO notwithstanding. The current site must be some of the most expensive real estate in London and, although still expensive, further out is cheaper...

If we were going to move site, why would they buy the Stoll Buildings? Do we think this effectively commits us to a rebuild?

We will get some wins and draws and a lot more than 3 points. At risk of repeating myself, we've only actually lost one of the last 11 games. We can't do game management to save our lives, but we can score goals at least.

They will have invested a minimum of £4.25b. They will want a (significantly higher) return based on that figure, not based on the sale price.

It very much is.

Tend to agree. I'd rather we got Sesko. He's not the finished article by any means and I would agree that a young inexperienced striker seems like the very last thing we need, but I just think he's going to be a real player. And he's relatively cheap. We seem committed to another year or two in the wilderness anyway, so why not.

Don’t think so. You don’t turn a £4.25b club into a £10b club by selling a few appreciating players and strategically minimising your chances of success even further than you already have.