Recent content by Tilling

Anyone got a picture of the Livramento handball?

Went hunting to try and figure out why he was being sold given he was their record signing less than 6 months ago - supposedly Flamengo have a cash flow problem and that the coach wanted him to adapt to a new role/style of play. So it made sense to send out on loan with the possibility of...

Definitely wouldn't write off the next 4 - ok yes, them lot are rampant and that would be a tough game - but credit to Moyes, we're still really tight at the back. Even if we were blunter going forward having to put N'Diaye up top, I can still see us being tough to beat. EDIT: Forgot to say...

Now as in "February 2025" is hard to say; the most up to date financials we have are as at March 2023. At that point, it had actually gone up to 92%. Only Leicester and Forest were worse - no surprise that those were the three clubs that had problems with the finance regulations. But since then...

I really disagree - I agree its not the full picture, but describing it as a con isn't right. Yes the board didn't anticipate COVID, war in Ukraine etc, and we were uniquely affected by these things - but our spending prior to these two huge events also left us uniquely vulnerable. As did...

We know that isn't true though - the wages we spent relative to our turnover was horrendous. In 19/20, 20/21, 21/22 it was 89%, 95%, 90% - that's an insanely high amount for a club that was also building a new stadium at the same time almost purely out of owner funding! 2nd highest in the Prem I...

Not sure this is quite right. We've definitely been screwed more than most clubs by events - you can point to COVID depressing the market for selling players off, the failures of the board to secure proper stadium financing, the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine and so on. I agree that the...

just thought i'd chip in on this one. the premier league only has rules on domestic loans (called "temporary transfers") - it does not have any rules on foreign loans. the domestic rules are fairly straightforward; you can only have 2 at any given time. and at most, 4 different domestic loans...

Had surgery on his knee in early November, been out since then - seems a bit of a weird one

Big problem with Keane is that he can't defend big spaces at all - if we're going to go with this quasi-back 3 thing we've got going on with O'Brien, its really hard to see how he can contribute to the rest of our season. It might be worth potentially letting him go somewhere in January and...

Yeah you might be onto something there. Onana still played 2000 odd minutes for us though last season; more than Gueye for example, roughly the same as Harrison - he clearly was a big part of the squad

It properly does my nut in that people don't realise this - we replaced a £50m defensive midfielder with a kid from the Championship who can't tackle, we signed a 3rd choice CB with minimal down payment, we started this season with our £60m defender injured, the only two attackers of note that...

Great point in the circumstances. Lindstrom and N'Diaye both playing the 90 in midweek had a huge impact. Don't think Dyche would want to take off our only pace in the team in Lindstrom, nor N'Diaye, but needs must. Hope that's the last we see of Ireogbunam in the team for a little while too -...

Gueye + Ireogbunam double midfield was a huge part of the problem, we can't play both as they aren't good enough at knowing when to sit deep and when to go - I think he'll play Keane at right back as well, there's no way he throws the kid in up against Heung Min Son

Only misses the Spurs game I think. Bit of a shame because Goodison will go thermonuclear when he's back in the lineup for Bournemouth.