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0.54 goals a game. 0.57 goals a game. Would you like to go away and have a rethink?

Irrelevant because they won't But mostly I just don't give a shit

tbf @davieG probably saw him live.

Manchester United tweeter is dillusional muppet shocker. Any United fan with the audacity to go on to social media and moan about unfair treatment from refs should be permanently banned from posting on the internet.

I mention Piroe a bit because I think he's a good example of a player people recognise as a known quality who is good at this level, who people wanted us to sign, who is at a rival club doing well in the league and who is an important part of one of the best attacks in the division. I think he's having an alright season and he makes a good measuring stick to compare some of our more under rated players to.

No offence but I take this with a bit of a pinch of salt. Transfer rumours for players outside the absolute elite nearly always have a player going to a bigger club for more money than they generally end up. Hence there was a time Barnes was going to United, Tielemans to Arsenal then Barca or Bayern and Madders to Man City. About 20 + add ons to a bottom half Premier League club (or a freak outlier like us in our current situation) wouldn't be a massive shock. Newcastle stumping up 25-30 would probably be more surprising.

Even if you don't want to do anything as crazily, madly technical as looking at stats per 90 minutes, Vardy and Iheanacho have scored 11 goals combined having shared less game time BETWEEN them than Adam Armstrong has. It really shouldn't take a genius to work out that's pretty respectable.

Two nil Leicester. Strongest possible side. Won't get out of third gear.

You've heard of seeding yeah? And despite that, Inter vs Atleti and Napoli vs Barca? Let's be honest, what you actually mean is Man City got a favourable draw. Some people just see a conspiracy everywhere. Looks like a pretty normal draw to me.

If you believe all the combined rumours we're spending like 100m on January first.

With all due respect to Wilf, O'Riley, KDH and Winks would be a terrific midfield in this system. Only issue I can see is him and KDH are both left footed no? Probably got more of a right foot than KDH mind. Although that's perhaps not saying much, love KDH but Long John Silver is probably more two footed.

I've made no secret of the fact I like Patson Daka and I'm glad he's getting a chance and has made a promising start. But can we please absolutely F U C K O F F with this shit. Can we please, please, PLEASE stop defending or advocating for one player by straight up attacking another. You can call for Daka or Cannon without being a **** about Iheanacho and the GOAT. Especially when your "opinion" is completely senseless rubbish. Vardy and Iheanacho's combined G/90 is really pretty strong. Vards has scored more goals per 90 minutes (0.61) than Adam Armstrong (0.57) who is the league's second top scorer behind Szmodics (0.65.) Iheanacho is weighing in with a respectable 0.54 (for context, someone like Piroe has 0.45.) For a bit more context, of players to have played the same number of 90 minutes or more than Jamie Vardy, only two in the league (Rowe and Szmodics) are scoring at a better rate. For Iheanacho's benefit you should probably chuck in assists as his creative output is generally where he makes up ground, Iheanacho has a combined goals and assists of 0.61 per 90 minutes. Rutter is hyped as one of the best all round forwards in the league by neutrals and he's picking up 0.68. Not for the first time I find myself pointing out both Iheanacho and Vardy are doing perfectly fine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67743738 This is such bullshit. They don't condemn it in the slightest, they love and encourage it, I assume they think it rattles the away team. It's happened so often that if they really "condemned" it they'd do something about it. They're a multi billionaire owned sports club, one of the biggest in the world, they spend tens of millions on each player. They could afford to hire more security, make infrastructure changes or otherwise police the crowd around arrival to stop it happening. They never do.

0-0 bore draw then eh

This might actually be an even better example than the ones I gave but yeah either way. Whilst fresh legs vs tired defenders makes sense superficially, it just doesn't marry up with reality and ignores an absolute mountain of other contexts. And like I said, pretty sure this exact thing was brought up regards Daka's minutes per goals last year and I went and checked and the vast majority of his goals were scored when he started games, not as a sub. It's just not true really at all.

Glad he's sat up and alert but for your own sakes, Tom, just fvcking retire now. I know it's sad. But most people that collapse on a football pitch aren't lucky enough to live to do it twice.

Pretty sure I had this debate with someone, might even have been you, last year and completely debunked this. It just isn't particularly statistically true. Rodgers, for example, would often bring on a substitute striker in a game in which the forward had no service and change nothing tactically and the replacement would get no chances. And frequently teams bring on strikers late in games when they're losing and desperate and already by far the worse team and, surprise surprise, don't score. Both anecdotally and statistically this argument just doesn't really hold water.

If you focus on goals per binary appearance, as I suspect a lot of people who aren't particularly in to statistics do, you can make basically any striker look shit if they get a few brief sub appearances here and there.

It depends on the specific terms of the agreement we have with them. It's possible that no party actually has a say. It might be that it's already done and dusted or becomes complete automatically if we get promoted or he plays a certain number of games, hence the term "obligation." In which case, we've quite possibly also agreed terms with the player in advance too (because it would absolutely suck as a selling club to agree an "obligation" only to have the player turn around and refuse.) If its an "option" that's a little different. It's basically just agreeing a fee up front but there's largely no strings attached. Particularly for the player. He can turn down any bid if he wants, the option would then likely have an expiry date after which he'd be free to just do business with any other club. That's the biggest issue isn't it. If he does so well here that a bigger club want to sign him. I personally doubt that, mind. He'd have to break all kinds of Championship records.

Narh I can't be arsed with the circus. I doubt either Jamie or Wayne even give that many fvcks, you'd have to imagine both would much, much, much rather be judged and remembered for footballing merits. Don't think he's gonna be fit anyway. Would go with pretty much first choice for this and Ipswich and rotate for Rovrum. Hermansen, Faes, Vestergaard, JJ Ricardo, Winks Fatawu, Ndidi, KDH, Mavididi Daka

Daka has scored in back to back games, has been rested all season so far and has a good 4 day rest til Monday. Assume it'll be Daka again. Can actually see that front three starting to become settled unless there's big congestion tbh.

This is all very nice and flowery but it's probably giving too much credit to Elek. Running any online content platform is about engagement and one of the best ways to get engagement is ragebait, which works especially well with a fanbase like ours that's big enough to trigger reactions from but not big enough to miss if we turn off (hence why Sky and BT only ever pander to Liverpool and United fans.) Saying controversial things about Leicester just drives their revenue. Same reason TalkSport were absolutely full of it last year. Do think there's also just a part of them that resents when clubs like Leicester come down and make the league look easy because it defies the narrative that the Championship is this amazingly difficult, competitive, perfect league that's somehow magical and the peak of entertainment and peddling that idea is a big part of their shtick. They desperately want to make out we're struggling or finding it harder than we are because they want to keep up the notion that the Championship is turbulent and dramatic. Where as actually we're waltzing through it in 3rd gear at the moment winning a fair few of our games in autopilot and still absolutely trouncing Burnley's (who did struggle a bit at first) track record.

The real Finners would never make that mistake.