James Feldman

Not many things going right for Liverpool at the moment, huh.

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...but it is very hard for me to understand why a person who had the option of playing healthy Simons, Bergvall, Sarr and Gray would choose to give starts to Pahlinha or Bentancur if they wanted to see the team succeed

I mean, I think that generally football clubs are poorly run when it comes to maximizing returns from their investments.

But at some point, I also have to wonder if things seem so obvious that idjits like me on SM see it, but the people whose literal livelihoods depend on the outcome disagree...

Maybe they should play more, huh?

Heading home and feel blessed to live in NYC. We have the BEST restaurants here. Anything you want to eat, you can find a good place to eat it.

Seemed like that's not what stopped them from signing Guehi as much as them dicking around about the price, but yeah, they really could have used him, less even to replace VVD than Konate

I don’t even think Archie Gray has been amazing, but the addition of a midfielder who is willing and able to move the ball forward even a little bit has completely transformed Tottenham

Mikey Moore making his case today, huh?

Well, in any case I don't want him to do well in a Liverpool shirt so here's hoping you're right and he just can't handle the league!

I don't really watch the Bundesliga at all, but I think I remember that you do? Does he look that different than at Leverkusen to you?

A decent-ish bit; I've watched less of everyone this season than last, but they do put Liverpool on when no other games are a decent bit. I've only seen the league matches; no real opportunities to watch UCL this year

Time will tell, but I think that Wirtz being absolutely elite in the EPL for shot-creating actions without garnering a goal or an assist yet is just one of those things that the universe puts out there sometimes

Mo Salah's EPL percentiles

Florian Wirtz's fbref percentiles

I dunno; Salah seems to be fine and mostly unlucky to me. Wirtz hasn't struggled any more than Simons and I think also has been fine and just mostly unlucky. These things are exaggerated because the defense has been shit

I'd bring back Moore in January personally. Unless the Roy's are actually willing to pay for Rodrygo or Savinho or Diomande and one of those is actually willing to join

I honestly think that the only real problem with Liverpool is that VVD and Konate have turned from world class to kinda crap and they don't have any other CBs and otherwise they're fine but I know that can be a minority view

He's been named to the Mali AFCON roster, and they have a good group where they're likely to advance, so I don't know how likely it is that Spurs can offload his salary, much less get a fee.

I know they’re just a company and companies are not allies, but Tottenham still being very willing to put the pride flag front and center on TV in this era of open anti-LGBT bigotry from the UK and US governments means a lot to me

It's really something how much better with the ball Simons still is in the 94th minute than nearly everyone else in white

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Warner Brothers and HBO are both having great years, but making and selling things will never be as lucrative as this

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

He does nothing Sir

Mr Godot told me to tell you that he will not come this evening, but surely tomorrow

There was never a lot of evidence that Locatelli, who is the captain, was interested in leaving Juventus or that Juve were all that interested in moving him. Al-Ahli made multiple offers for him that were rejected, and Locatelli's statements indicated he wanted to stay. But yes, better than Pahlinha

Lucien Agourme from Sevilla and Joao Gomes looking like ripe targets though

Clearly a midfield of the future

The feeling of panic and impending doom that comes from having my next job pull up my start date from 1/12 to Monday is in full swing 🤬

(I'm grateful to have work and excited to do it, but yeesh)

Always nice to meet another of my people

I mean, maybe. I'm not that curious about it so I haven't made any efforts to figure it out honestly