Thing is I’m not sure you can quantify it as corruption when these things seem to be falling for/against teams seemingly at random.

Like we’ve had situations where we got lucky, we’ve also had situations like the Mac Allister red card that went against us.

Arsenal have had stuff for and against, as have city.

If there’s corruption, I’m not sure who it’s in favour of? It just seems like rampant incompetence.

Well VVD got an extra game for a similar interaction so let’s see some consistency there I guess.

Also Haaland’s tweet won’t win him any favours either.

Ah just in time for some new manager bounce against us. What a time to be alive.

My only thought is he assumed Grealish was off so blew the whistle as the advantage was gone?

Still in this technology era I don’t see the harm in letting something that close roll to its conclusion and then sorting the potential offside after?

Not really sure they do. He wasn’t better than Modric or Kroos when they sold him and he isn’t better than Valverde or Bellingham now.

Madrid have sold of loads of very high quality players in the past, players that would be stars at other clubs are regularly deemed surplus to requirements there. The bar they have for who makes it there is probably higher than any other club in the world.

Wouldn’t surprise me if instead of

“Wow if the Ev got 10 points deducted for their breach of ffp that sets quite a precedent for when city get all theirs”

It’ll be

“Oh so a 10 point deduction across one season is just the new default punishment”

Every club does this. Pretty sure most of the minor 1-2 week injuries that occur the week of an international break are bogus or something a player would have played through at club level.

Then again who can blame clubs when international setups don’t give a fuck about long term player health and the league does nothing to try and help teams with players out on international games.

Just businessmen doing business. Nothing odd to see here at all.

To be fair we had to because the defence was still a total shambles at that point. No VVD until January and no Alisson either.

Exact same happened to us, we played more attacking and generally better football the year we won the UCL compared to a more controlled style when we won the league the following year.

Thing is he seems excellent at the level he’s at but then when you want him to take the step to leading a champions league team pushing for titles he doesn’t quite have the skillset for it.

He’s seemingly quite happy moulding Villa into Sevilla 2.0 and I would imagine given the financial strength of teams above them most Villa fans will be more than happy with that.

If in 5 years they’re looking back and they’ve won the conference/Europa and had some high table finishes I think that would be pretty good for them.

I’ve always assumed that Nkunku wasn’t necessarily a natural striker, I thought he’d be playing in behind the main striker like he had at Leipzig with Werner or Andre Silva.

When they bought Palmer, I thought he was cover for Nkunku rather than Jackson being the cover for him.

I know he has played as a main striker in the past but I’ve always viewed him more as a Firmino type who benefits from play off of him more than being the out and out leading man.

He’s getting a lot of play time at the moment but I wonder what happens when Nkunku is back fit and firing.

I know Sterling has been up and down as well but he at least brings a decent bit of pace to an otherwise slower side. I guess both his and Palmer’s jobs could be up for grabs if Nkunku starts hot.

I’d bet that if Kane did stay they’d probably not have one of Maddison or VDV. So there’s a chance they wouldn’t have gotten as radically better as they have.

Competent management for sure.

No team in the world, let alone spurs, lose a player of Kane’s quality and improve as a result.