Thank god for the Europa League (for our kids development).

To be honest in practice not many took up the chance to use it. Unless you're winning 4-0 regularly or you suffer injuries like Chelsea did in the final you're not going to use it because you're 5th bench player is likely to be a downgrade.

Christ, this list:

Jamie Vardy narrowly missed out on a nomination by the looks of it.

No Saka for YPOTY, Auba for POTY. What's the point of all these nominations?

Even fucking Nick Pope got nominated. Unreal

Anthony Martial is still a young player?
Trent will get over 80% of first place votes

Never, never forget when a 25 year old James Milner got this award ahead of Jack Wilshere.

Lampard was nominated for manager of the year with that leaky defense. Incredible.
I won’t pay the winners any mind. All I know is KDB is playing ball on another level. Everything else is irrelevant.

Who is Dean Henderson?

Danny Ings and Nick Pope we’re selected ahead of Aubameyang.
The disrespect will have him dancing all night.
I do feel for him. He’s given his all on a shit team and it will go unnoticed by outsiders. I remember arguing with friends earlier in the season that Aubameyang was better than all these strikers at City etc., he just had shit service and they thought I was mad. A few have since started praising him. It shows the importance of good squad building and coaching in evaluating player performance. That’s why I think someone like Tierney is every bit as good as the Pool fullbacks. He just needs the platform.

Liverpool players including stars already back in training camp while champions league is going on. Crazy

For once, the awards all make sense.
De Bruyne, Klopp and Alexander-Arnold.

Henderson robbed.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/12417552/premier-league-fixtures-leak-showdown/

Rumour the first game is Arsenal vs United at Old Toilet. We can’t afford a Wenger type summer. Need to sort out our critical transfer business and ramp up for that game. Might even want to try a few folks in the Liverpool game.

Better to play at the swamp whilst there are no fans

Banged up and stripped of the captaincy

I popped onto Redcafé to see what they're saying about this and that whole thread is amazing:

It's fine, the fight would have been over by the time he got over there the slow cnut.

I am actually surprised that Harry can be so aggressive.

If the head doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Hearing that the CCTV footage has been reviewed and we’ve been awarded a penalty

Klaus wrote:

I popped onto Redcafé to see what they're saying about this and that whole thread is amazing:

It's fine, the fight would have been over by the time he got over there the slow cnut.

I am actually surprised that Harry can be so aggressive.

If the head doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Hearing that the CCTV footage has been reviewed and we’ve been awarded a penalty

City has humbled this lot

Bit nauwty that

Greek police have set Maguires bail at 5000 Euros. United have offered 3000 plus Jesse Lingard

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2020/08/23/video-liverpools-joe-gomez-leaves-stuttgart-ace-with-broken-elbow-after-rough-challenge/

A bit of a robust challenge for a friendly match? Like one of the quoted tweets say imagine if a Liverpool player had got injured like that, you'd never hear the fucking end of it.

English lad just wanted it more

Nah, they need to stamp out those sorts of challenges. Same as the ones that injured Holding and someone else I can’t remember. No chances of winning the ball and just shoved him off the pitch into the hoardings.

If you're running at that speed even a little nudge can send you flying.

@lorddulaarsenal wrote:

Bit nauwty that

From pub player to pub brawler

Pogba and Ndombele have the coronavirus. I wonder if any of these players will suffer adverse physical effects. Hopefully not. But it could feature heavily in Physio Room as the season starts

Yeah hope both their proximates, family are going to be ok. Think Pogba has a under 12 month year old.
I think you're right Claudius. Don't expect any responsibility/precaution from the whole Mykinos/Greece getaway gang

I know players deserve a holiday blah blah blah, but I have to say I'd be mightily pissed off if my players had to go into pre-season late because they were not careful enough.

Particularly foolish because they get tested every week so there's no getting around it either and I suspect healthy, young athletes are probably the most likely to over estimate their health.

I remember that in the early days of this pandemic, it was pointed out the 21-35 was actually the super-carrier group for that exact reason.

So these guys go to Greece and muck about in pubs. I was looking at those Maguire stories and wondering WTF.

Wouldn’t the more sensible thing given that a new season is around the corner be to organize a yachting trip or private beach set up with a bunch of your mates? I’m like you guys are wealthy. Put your riches to use.