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Player Yves Bissouma

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So we're saying that Bissouma was unlucky to be carded and you've used every all sorts of mental gymnastics to try and justify it yet when other players do it it's not okay, makes sense.

At this point you're just speaking a whole load of shite - just stop, you're all over the place.

A fox, with bad spelling, no sense of humour and also struggles with understanding very simple things.

I get the "Shady" part now.
 
Think Devine should go on loan again, until Xmas (hopefully at the next level up - Championship challengers or lower Prem), then if he flourishes and Bergvall gets little minutes swap them over (Devine coming back and Bergvall going on a lower Prem/Upper Championship loan).
Bergvall was promised being part of the first team squad.
Add to that all the PR stuff for a 17 year old.

He's not going on loan next season.
 
If it’s thigh that’s the problem it’ll be the front of it and not the hamstring. Biggest issue with thigh injuries is kicking the ball. If he was fit to go on then he hasn’t got a tear because you can’t run or kick a ball with a thigh tear. He won’t come straight back into the team though. The Malaria thing is bigger worry. Is it something you get over quickly??

Google searches suggested to me that those brought up in malaria plagued areas such as Mali might get over malaria in say 2 weeks, although it will impact on fitness which as an athletic footballer its effects on Bissouma is a concern.

Malaria is also known to recur, again a concern

Only good news is that malaria is NOT transmitted by human contact, so no isolation necessary.

The 'tightness around thigh' is as big a concern to me as anything as its been 'tight' enough for well over a week that Mali didn't start him.

All in all I think its 50/50 whether we see Bissouma on the bench (as Mali did) or a complete rest to get over things as Spurs will look after long term of Bissouma whereas Mali might only be thinking of a couple of matches forward at AFCON.
 
Think Devine should go on loan again, until Xmas (hopefully at the next level up - Championship challengers or lower Prem), then if he flourishes and Bergvall gets little minutes swap them over (Devine coming back and Bergvall going on a lower Prem/Upper Championship loan).

I'd wait until end of his current loan before assessing Devine and making an assumption.

If its another loan we need to find a club where he'd be playing against higher level of players so that he'd learn something new. At Port Vale (L1) he was finding it too easy, and rated as one of Vale's best players consistently, Plymouth in Championship is a level above but in first couple of matches he seems to be coping very well so by rest of season he might have 'done' the Championship level, so only loan he'd learn much from might be a lower kevel PL club.

But if he does finish the Plymouth loan well he'd have a solid season at L1/Championship level which is similar experience to Wharton (£22m to Palace) had, albeit all in Championship. And to add to the Wharton comparison, Devine has been a constant in England youth whereas Wharton has been in and out of squads for example missing out on E u19 who won youth world cup last year. Whereas Devine despite being played out of his best positions as a RW was one of best performers for E u19's.

If Bergvall goes on loan its unlikely he ever becomes HG/Club trained for UEFA purposes. I'd hope we bought him as we think his experience in top Swedish league is similar to which he'd get at L1 in England or even Championship. There's a couple of Sweden internationals in March and June which might be a good judge as to where the national team coaches think he is, as well as Ange looking at him in pre-season.
 
Well, our defense got sorted with VDV and Romero returning, now the midfield is becoming a mess, isn't it?

Bentancur in his worst form he has ever been for this club.
Bissouma fighting with malaria AND shit run of form.
Sarr also just recently returning from AFCON.
GLC injured, as always.
PEH can have only very limited role, but way too limited on the ball for this system.
Skippy hardly setting world alight either with his performances.

Only positive aspect is that now at least everyone are within the club AND we mostly have one game per week (more recovery time).

But agreed, we REALLY need Bissouma to rediscover the level of performances he displayed in first 7 rounds of EPL!

Becoming a mess? The mess kicked in around the same time as the fall-out form the chav game and was compounded by cards, further injury and AFCON........ The MF has been in turmoil since game 8 or 9 of the season.

We're only just getting players back....

Bentancur been out for virtually a year and had 1 good game in 3
Maddison finding his feet again.
Sarr half a game.

Rather than the start of a mess we (hopefully) should be finally seeing the return to a settled MF line-up.
 
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You think that's possible?

Players can play at premier league intensity without making mistakes?

It doesn't work that way I'm afraid. Sport at this level is more about mentally manging mistakes more than it is avoiding mistakes because you can't. It's not possible and never has been.
That's something that a lot of fans could do with repeating over and over until they get it through their skulls...

Maybe a symptom of over-exposure of football with endless analysis to minute detail, but any goal against must see blame apportioned to someone, whilst at the other end every attack that doesn't end in a goal is due to a poor decision or someone f***ing up an opportunity.

If all of these purists who think everything should be perfect got their way then you'd just see a bunch of 0-0 scorelines.
 
That's something that a lot of fans could do with repeating over and over until they get it through their skulls...

Maybe a symptom of over-exposure of football with endless analysis to minute detail, but any goal against must see blame apportioned to someone, whilst at the other end every attack that doesn't end in a goal is due to a poor decision or someone f***ing up an opportunity.

If all of these purists who think everything should be perfect got their way then you'd just see a bunch of 0-0 scorelines.

Fucking arm chair experts deciding it's "stupid" or "completely unacceptable", and "he's a liability" because mistakes happen with people playing a sport at speed faster than most of them will lazershit the curry they ate whilst watching the game.
 
All part of the same mechanism..... That being the officiating.

...And if he didn't intend it; what he said is still an indictment of the on-field ref's.

Yeah maybe, anyway my overarching point is that the refs are always gonna be inconsistent and bias in some respect, what can we do to change the narrative? Not give them an excuse to be like that and we certainly don't need to act like diving on a booking is being hard done by.
 
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