There's some issues with federation which means some posts remain stickied after unpinning them on lemmy.world; can you please reply with a screenshot showing which posts are still stickied? I'll fix it — just can't if I don't know which are on every server lol.

The worst part is with the World Cups on both the men's and women's sport, it's clear that there is better options out there. You're telling me the richest league in the world can't get at least one guy or gal who's better than the crud we have now?

And the refs get a weekend off!!! Jolly good for the old boys! /s

Taking them off duty achieves absolutely nothing, it's not real accountability, players and staff can't even argue anymore.

@Astrealix
The same reason we sold Turner and replaced him with Raya: we need players who can cope with and enhance this system, not drag it down to their level.

Tierney treats the ball like a handgrenade too often.

And he comes across as a not very intelligent player.

One would think his quality would allow us to come out with a profit or at least without losing money, and with a player that can gel with the system better. Seems in practice we're still struggling to find a good price for him but maybe Newcastle is about to change that.

That being said, it's crazy to me that there is no room for a traditional LB like Tierney in this squad. Football tactics have gone so far out there at this point that before long Sam Allardyce is gonna come back and revolutionize the game with 4-4-2 hoofball and everybody is going to act like it's never been seen before.

On paper at least, Brighton has gotten a lot worse, while Villa has gotten a lot better. Could absolutely see Emery getting back to Europa. I mean, it's fucking Unai Emery, of course it'll be Europa.