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If it's earned through the club's success, surely that should not be a problem? Unless you want a rule that says clubs can only play squads that exactly match their opposition on terms of spending? How do you plan to enforce that?

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Wonder if mikel thinks he lacks the physicality to go on the outside of defenders? In fairness he looks mint on the right!

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Maybe they can say here is a MONSTER fine and points deduction, but if you cop to actual accounts for 2019-26 we'll make it more reasonable? Feel like the scale of cheating is so vast, PL need to put the ball back in city court to stop persecution complex kicking in.

No point ref stopping the game further if he's not gonna hand out a booking.

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Thoughts FC @thoughtsfc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Agree. The football side and fans are not where contrition should be expected. And the hierarchy has made it clear they won't back down. Can PL do a sliding scale on punishment that can be brought down by city owners admission?

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Asking the real question here: will they take away my fpl points gained by captaining Haaland?

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Thoughts FC @thoughtsfc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That's no longer the case since arsenal have started scoring from open play now.

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No idea, but it made new squawk like a crow!

Still better football than united spurs

Agree, in that situation both players need to go. Shaw pushed him when he was off balance, and after a tackle that was clean.

To clarify, I was (badly) making 2 separate points: 1. There needs to be accountability 2. If there is none these fools have so much hubris they think it's good PR to say their AI can end humanity We feeding their fantasies cus their investors don't want returns spoled by pesky lawsuits.

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Good on Carrick to make sure his team plays so bad that Neville's commentary becomes believable

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There needs to be accountability so openai and anthropic can't use this stuff as marketing anymore. Gemini doesn't seem to do any of this, likely because google know how to manage their AI?

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Leeds are a really good team, have been top 5 sides this calendar year iirc. Despite the maulings we have given them in the past, we shouldn't take beating Leeds for granted!

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Good point. Not sure why O'Reily plays lb when he hasn't played there for city all year. He should move infield and - all should be starting

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Was he still thinking about the city verdict?

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But Robinho complaining about lack of consent! I hear they don't ask him about the lunch menu in jail either.

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This would be exactly the kind of pettiness that moves the game forward. We need more football fans in academia

Are palace fans just bitter than we won the league at their place? Very strange behavior.

I think I've changed my mind about city punishment. Don't take away the titles. Make the players pay back their salaries. Then we'll see if rodri is satisfied with all the effort he put in to "win things" with city.

Beating Arsenal is the new winning premier league for these guys. It's like of sometime had beaten pep at tikitaka, or Marcelo at Bielsaball, or Ajax at total football. That's what The Might Arsenal mean to these lot.

You are absolutely correct. And Garnacho was never offside either!

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I never want to hear anyone complain about the bVAR technology anymore when clearly even an independent panel thinks correcting a wrong call isn't the job of VAR.

Proves that the problem with VAR was never the technology

Thoughts FC @thoughtsfc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Definitely not. Brighton had the kind of start where we probably felt best to weather the storm and hit them when tired. The goals came at the almost prefect time for Brighton, so in they sense the match was near perfect for them. Anyway, now to read the actual article 😅

Thoughts FC @thoughtsfc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He's got it in him for sure. Even in the recent matches where everyone is complaining about his finishing, he's still getting in the areas pretty much every game. He deserves to be accepted as a league leading winger, putting in the numbers will definitely help.

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Thoughts FC @thoughtsfc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Haha small sample size but I get what Lewis is saying. We would all love it if saka could get an open play goal every 2 games, but to be fair, I'll take 0.5 incl pens as well - that'd be a formidable season!

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Thank you for this, Lisandro

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World class instincts too. Looked like he wanted to blame the keeper before realising it wasn't Onana anymore

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We needed that this weekend!

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The projection is strong with this one indeed!

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Biggest thing was Raya and Gabriel having an off day, which seemed to unbalance everyone. But nothing I saw yesterday was, at least to me, anything this team cannot fix.

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The one thing mikel's football's always been is sensible. Brighton were good enough to cut through that. Wonder if players also suffered due to lack of automatisms, so many new (Bruno, Konsa, Tzolis) or not played too much over past yr (Timber, Kai). That will get better as well.

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Over a season xG over performance means less than sheer volume of xG. But over 90 mins like yesterday, or Indeed over 4-5 games,"form" can also just be suppressed due to xG underperformance. Might be a hot take, but I think Mikel and team have earnt 1 off day with their performances over past yrs.

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At this stage of his career, why minutes are good. Esp in a game with few expectations from him.

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Raya is very fast. I'm still not over his death stare as he raced past James ward prowse a few seasons ago!

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Yeah, in get using xG over/under performance as explanation of "form", but would expect it to normalize over a season. Also wonder how much of over performance last season might be better set piece execution as well. Suspect when ppl talk about over performing xG they tend to mean open play xG.

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ok so you think that cropping videos makes nazi salutes ok. Cool!

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Pardon my ignorance, but what is the time period for xG calculation, last season or 3-5 yrs? Would better footballers be expected to outperform xG over a season just because they are more likely to be better ball strikers?

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But that's the premier league. Refs have obviously been told to be generous on open play and clamp down hard on set pieces. What the team usually does brilliantly is take the refs out of the equation completely. Like they did at Sunderland. It was an off day by the sky high standards they've set.

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Lol, I should still watching the video and look at your pathetic screenshot instead. What next, is the sky green?

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It isn't the margin of defeat that is worrisome. You win some, you lose some. That's football. But we were outplayed. Which never happens. We were soft. Which is not who thsr players are. This match is likely a one-off. But these players need to play better, like we know they can.

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Scarily similar to how I would expect Elon to answer that.... Hmmm...

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Right. Because it's ok to do a nazi salute of you've won? Ridiculous logic.

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