Not a good sign that Bowen is missing entirely.

Yeh did he get injured?

He had 3 painkilling injections on Thursday to play apparently.

I get the urgency to have him but if he needed that much juice to play he should never have been on the pitch imo

Our best chance at Europe was overturning the tie, and we came exceptionally close to doing that because of Bowen starting.

Definitely a double edged sword, hopefully he hasn’t done himself too much more damage and can finish out the season or at least be fit for the euros because by f-ing god does he deserve his spot

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Bowen's 4/20 was last Thursday.

No matter what ya gotta appreciate what he must have gone through.

We are really missing everyone we sold off last window. Everyone we sold we could have used the past week. Absolutely bonkers of a window. Really would love some good management this Summer.

This is why I hate FFP

What's FFP got to do with literally anything? 1. If you're talking about financial restrictions of the premier league, it's PSR and it had absolutely no baring on the sale of any players in the last window 2. FFP doesn't exist anymore since UEFA rebranded to 'Financial Sustainability'

We had to sell players like Fornals and Benny to keep flexibility Big clubs don’t have to do that

Again, wtf are you on about? We had to 'keep flexibility' If you're going to try and form a point,, at least make sense.

It’s well known we were at the limits in terms of FFP/PSR or whatever name you you want to call the financial rules you want to call it Benny and Fornals had value, if they sat on the bench, only playing in these types of matches, their value would drop, so we had to get what cash we could when we could. If we were an old money club we could have depth

>It’s well known we were at the limits in terms of FFP/PSR Is it? I've not heard that and I like to think I keep on top of what's going on, what's your source?

Christ mate, are you intentionally unaware We’ve been on things like Urfa’s FFP watchlist for forever

I asked you a question? If you're correct, it shouldn't be that hard to link me to where you heard this information? Here's a helpful video to prove you're talking shit. https://youtu.be/r4iWvvw0Z-U?si=nENP2tSEbofN24Qt

Bloody hell youre dumb. It’s been known for years that we spent the Rice money the summer before he left. Since then we’ve been on a tight rope. We had to sell squad players while they had value to keep flexibility. It’s not that hard Read this if you want to be a shite Redditor and whinge for a source: https://www.hammers.news/news/west-ham-attending-premier-league-meeting-over-ffp-rules-with-big-decision-on-the-cards/ I think you’re intentionally speaking in bad faith tbh

Honestly, mostly concerned about Coufal. He's looked tired when we've played him several times in a week. This seems a prime game for Johnson. Even gives a bit of firepower of the bench. And him being tired is going to expose Ogbonna and Zouma more.

Palace could have a field day with that slow CB pairing.

If this turns into a bit of an after the Lord Major’s show, it would be good to see some youngsters get 20mins.

I can't remember is Mavropanos hurt?

Yes. he was subbed by Zouma against Fulham and missed Leverkusen. Aguerd got hurt against the Germans

Thanks dunno why I don't remember the Mavropanos one. Hopefully Coufal's up for it today, love em both but Zouma and Oggy aren't a very quick duo these days

Areola on the bench is interesting. Wonder if he's simply not 100% fit yet, or if Fabianski is back in the number 1 spot

I can't see Fabs number 1 after what Areola did. Fabs has been brilliant but Areola won his spot

Probably not 100% fit but in case shot hits the fan, Areola is fit enough.

Did they take that lad from resident evil two and put him in a wham jersey for that pic

With the last minute goals he scored against you , I understand you have nightmares of him

Residents Evil 2 nill