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Live scheduling may be subject to change. Full-term supply. Interesting enough, Sam, after that, like say, Liverpool are trying to get themselves back in the game. The manager takes Virt off and goes to Kee. He basically looks at his bench and goes, which of these can play centre-forward. Because in two weeks now, Liverpool have done the thing where they take the striker off, like a TK, and got worse, and they've gone for this, is it like a box? You'd say Vertz and Sir Bosla is like fake tens. Neither time has it really worked for me. For me, in my opinion, there's no outbore. It invites pressure. It feels like there's too much space. It's meant to stop space. and yet there is space. So before the, we talked about the full backup being problems,

but I think lippool again goes back to the lack of centre forward options maybe but both times we took he kate off and got considerably

worse it's it's a little bit concerned that so many of these teams who've had full pre-seasones

or have got new players are able to play the full game i I can't remember who I said, but I remember saying, how's that player managed to play the full game on debut or whatever in the Premier League, but then a team that dominates the ball, I could TK. Kahn's. Why is he only got 17 and why he's not got 80 in him yet? I'm a little bit concerned that I also understand that he's trying to obviously manage him for the rest of his transfer in him to make sure we don't lose him.

Verte, apparently, I saw Simon Brunner's tweet that he did some ridiculous amount of run and sprints and stuff like that, playing a midfield role in a pressing team. I understand maybe why he's going to take a little bit longer, but it is worrying when you're bringing, you know,

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