Dynamite

12 minutes ago, Colly said:

Do Spurs drop into the Europa now? I've lost track since not having BT Sport.

Win or draw vs. CSKA and it's the Europa. 

The only bit of that interview I was surprised by was him talking about the sack so openly and why they shouldn't get rid of him. Everything else was standard 'blame literally everybody else except myself' Mourinho rubbish. 

Lovren's defending for the second West Ham goal was embarrassing.

Yep, Arsenal as well. They're on TV again this weekend too. 

Does FFP not exist any more? Hard to see how City are spending around £150mil this summer and it not being an issue for them.

A lot of journo's are saying a bid was made a week ago, but the fact they're reporting it so late means they had no idea this happened until we briefed them all on it today. The timing of it suggests we are just trying to distract from the Pedro story and show we have other targets too.

Wilson looked quite bright I thought, had the beating of Lovren a few times. But they are missing that bit of nastiness in their side. A physical presence would help out a lot, and give them a bit of steel in the middle. You can't help but feel they're going to be that team that plays well but comes up short every week. 

Bournemouth fans have been good today, though I haven't heard a Liverpool chant all game.

The officials will get all the attention at half time. Benteke's goal shouldn't have stood, the disallowed one was soft, and then a few little things like booking O'Kane for being faster than Coutinho.

Can't wait to hear Jose's excuses after this one.

Coq should have been off. Very similar to the Janmaat one yesterday, a clear foul in his own half to stop the opposition breaking. Lee Mason bottled that.

Mitrovic seems so entertaining, one of those players that will always be involved, whether for good or bad reasons. 

Montero was brilliant today. Terrorised Janmaat, and always managed to beat his man or commit a few defenders towards him. A winger who likes to stay out wide, has pace and trickery, and can also produce something at the end of it. Newcastle were very poor though. Stuck with the game because it was the one my usual stream was showing, but it was never really a contest, even less so when McClaren went 4-5-0 after about 55 minutes for damage limitation. 

I wonder how many of the Liverpool fans crying for Lacazette on Twitter have actually seen him play a full 90 minute match? Lyon weren't in Europe last season, and I really doubt many are avid Ligue 1 watchers. I guarantee most fans had only heard of him because he was brilliant on FIFA Ultimate Team.

Sterling is better off at Man City than Liverpool. One, he'll be played in his best position rather than stuck up front or as right wingback. He'll have quality players like Aguero and Silva around him that will take the pressure off him and allow him to learn a bit more as a player (like Suarez and Sturridge did). And he'll be able to be rotated a lot more than he was at Liverpool. I find it curious that people in the media think Liverpool are the best club for him - they've managed him poorly this season because they constructed their squad poorly and had to rely on a 20 year old kid to plug the gaps and be the main man for a large period of the season.

Nothing says we are a big club like having your shirt made by Macron and being sponsored by QuickBooks.

Arsenal have signed the Romania Under-16 captain Vlad Dragomir from ACS Poli Timisoara for €100,000 (£71,000) and he will begin his career at the north London club as a first-year scholar. The midfielder, who was wanted by Internazionale, has been pictured holding an Arsenal shirt alongside Dick Law, the club’s transfer negotiator, and his agent, Catalin Sarmasan. “I am very glad and I hope not to disappoint anyone,” Dragomir, who signed a three-year contract, said. “The Arsenal offer seemed the best to me, I felt that this is my place.” Arsenal will announce the full list of their first-year scholars next week, with the majority of them having progressed from the club’s Hale End academy. Sarmasan said: “I offered Vlad to Arsenal a year and a half ago and they have monitored him closely. In my opinion, he is one of the most talented young players in Europe at the moment.”

What a name.

"Sterling in NEW hippy crack shame...50m? You're having a laughing gas!"

In the paper today. Was he fined for his actions the last time, or was his apology deemed enough?

I don't remember hearing anything about how the club dealt with it.

The last time that kind of story was in the papers it was months after it happened. You could tell by the fact it was before he cut his hair.

I wonder if its the same stuff his agent is on?

I believe Rodgers "had a talk with the boy".

A certain Premier League manager who has lost eight games on the bounce said this today:

"I still feel I am the best coach in the Premier League,"

The only bit of hope for Newcastle is that Sunderland have a very tough run of fixtures, and will probably need 2 wins from their last 5.

Southampton
Everton (A)
Leicester
Arsenal (A)
Chelsea (A)

That's a tough run of games for any team, let alone Sunderland who have only won one game in the league since January.

Yes, Pennant is correct. Surprised he never got a cap. Just being an English winger normally got you a minimum of 5 caps back then.

Who is the only English player to have played in a Champions League (post 1992 version) final but has never received a full international cap?

It's Mike Newell for Blackburn, isn't it? Scored the fastest hat-trick in the tournament at the time. Not sure if it's been bettered since.

City would need a big change of personnel in their squad to fit Klopp's style of football, namely they need more energy in there to play his style of pressing. The youngest player they had that started at the weekend was Aguero and he's 26. I don't think Klopp is a good fit for City, unless they really want a manager in to build a legacy rather than the sort of ultra-quick success they have been going for.

I don't see why they couldn't just stick Arsenal-Reading as the early match on Saturday. There's no Premier League game on before 3pm, both teams are local and it doesn't clash with Chelsea vs. Man Utd.

Is the £9.1 million loss in line with the Championship's FFP requirements or will they get a sanction for that?