They are going to come flying out at us the start of this game as they have all season so far. Comes down to how we handle that. If we can build from the back like we did in Eindhoven we have a good shot. If not it's going to be a long afternoon.
A rumour doing the rounds that Leon King is starting
Guess we will find out today if the Lawrence rumours are true then. If he's injured then Arfield is the obvious replacement. He's started the season well.
If Tuchel sanctioned selling Gilmour for £9m-£10m on deadline day with no buyback clause then he's mental.
Gilmour will get game time under Potter. Good move for him.
I think our biggest problem is the boatload of injuries we have. Some to relatively high earners such as Davies, Roofe and Hagi. I don't get why we haven't looked at even a short term loan or something to fill the squad out while players come back.
Really hope this Lawrence news isn't true. If it was 3 weeks or so he'd miss about half of our CL games as well. If he's out I can see us going:
Kamara - Lundstram
Arfield/Wright Tillman Kent
Colak
I was incorrect. The £60 limit is only for away fans and yeah looks like a fair few of the Spurs seats will be dearer than that for the CL as they are category B.
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/media/tfthxqcr/thfc_season_2022_2023_matchday_b_.pdf
But I'm pretty sure that makes us the 2nd most expensive tickets in the CL groups still. Chelsea's 3 match package is £135
I've not seen those incidents but I'm pretty sure it's only serious foul play or violent conduct that you can get a retrospective red for. Which means excessive force or brutality in a challenge so the Sands incident wouldn't come under that. Happy to be corrected but that's my understanding of the compliance officer's purview.
It doesn't include LC or SC home games. That 30,500 or so figure will be the actual exact number of sales. Looked like more than 60% full to me but perhaps I'm just a poor judge of that.
Lovely bit of skill from Yilmaz for Arfield's first and then he looks up to pick him out.
Charlie McCann was great in his cameo. We really should give him more of a shot in certain games. Great through ball for Devine and then superb awareness with that back heel pass to Arfield.