Storts

You've signed your starting goalkeeper permanently after an excellent loan spell, a previously highly touted CB with experience in Germany and Spain, who will likely slot straight into your first 11. You've got your left midfielder back for another year after a really good loan spell. You've signed a starting Premier League Central Midfielder that at the minimum offers you good depth in the position, and a new striker who admittedly I know very little about. You've also only really lost Merino and Mbemba of any note, and neither of them had much impact in their time at the club. Sorry if I don't get the violins out and join the whole pity party. By all means be critical, but don't dress things up as if you're completely hard done by and haven't signed anyone. We know you don't like the owners but from the outside he's nowhere near as bad as is made out up there. This is classic Rafa too, and the fans are lapping it up.

Well...’it’s nothing to do with the new stadium because the transfer fund is seperate’ - that’s the official line which you may or not want to believe ha! On that point however, we’ve actually already paid a good chunk of the stadium over the last few years, so on that front we aren’t too badly off. The real problem is squad players we can’t get rid of, and the HG quota. Basically to bring in any non HG player we need to get rid of 4 foreign players - a hard Brexit dream - and unfortunately they’ve proven really hard to shift We are told the market has been really tricky for everyone this year (apart from you guys who have overpaid on agent fees etc to get things done because you have a lot more cash than most - this is how it’s being spun anyway). Our focus has been on HG players but even that has been a struggle. My guess is we get 1 maybe 2 before next week but it’s just not going to be enough considering how much you’ve strengthened and our desperate need for a new CM. The other problem we have this week is possible departures of Toby, Dembele and Rose which would be suicidal this late on - particularly Toby to United if we don’t get Martial back

All this moaning is starting to grate a bit. They’ve signed 5 players this summer, 21 in the last two years apparently. Ashley clearly not giving them a blank cheque but they’ve been able to bring players in We haven’t signed a single player this summer, neither have Burnley - that is unacceptable.

Too right - they have the quickest car this year, bit shameful that Seb is behind in the championship

LEWIS WINS AGAIN! Great drive from the greatest driver. What a weekend for Lewis. Didn’t have the quickest car but his qualifying performance was exceptional, and he managed the race expertly

Bottas

GET IN THEREEEEEE What a drive from Lewis, perfect strategy from Mercedes WE WON ON HIS HOME GROUND

Still drama in this yet

Gutted for Seb - hate seeing retirements and the race was building to a great finish anyway

This is incredible

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAGAGAHAHHAHAHA

This race needs rain or a crash or two or it’s going to be really boring

I'm really worried about a Lewis retirement today - not sure why just have a bad feeling about it.

Hamilton signs a new two year deal with Mercedes

Behave yourself Teso!

Can’t believe Paulinho had a season at Barca, and didn’t look completely out place. It’s like he was a competition winner and got to spend a year with Messi and co I think the lack of intensity and need for 100% commitment in La Liga helped him. His biggest problem was a complete lack of bottle and I don’t think that’s shown up as badly in league where even the worse teams try to play football.

Agree with all of that. Hate seeing retirements due to team error although can understand how bloody difficult the job they do is. Particularly annoying when Leclerc was having another stunning drive though. Sometimes Bottas makes it hard to feel sorry for him - he just doesn’t have that killer instinct that Seb, Lewis or even Max/Kimi/Ricc have

Super drive from Lewis, damage limitations

Absolutely, not sure Hamilton’s retirement occurs if he has the chance to cruise at the front - can’t say for sure of course but think all the problems can be linked to their failure with the VSC

For the benefit of those who clearly didn’t sense the sarcasm, I have no problem with it whatsoever, roles reversed I’d love it

You are so thick

Celebrating retirements is pretty low.

That Mercedes garage has a lot to answer for today, Hamilton should have cruised to a win today yet the strategist has let him down. Gutted for Bottas too, very unfortunate

They swap every week...it was Max’s turn to get that advantage this week, don’t see what the problem is. Good for him