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Hard to drop our outstanding pair of midfielders to be fair. Would be hard to drop them after we smashed Leeds so comfortably.

What if we lose?

My bad

Did we have a right back on the bench out of interest?

Howe does seem to love players having a weeks to settle in for some reason. Leaving our (quite obviously) best player on the bench is weird.

Close

He has a notice period. Rather than working that entire notice period he's being put on gardening leave. It's completely normal.

Nobody saw this coming. Right?

I for one am happy that our barometer is “better than Burnley”

Dream team? So not realistic? Sign Bellingham, base the team around him and Bruno. I'd also take a risk on getting Sancho in. Replace Wilson and Wood with Isak and Nunez (keeping Wilson for the squad). Not that fussed about "dream" defenders, I'll leave that to the club

I mean I know a lot of people hate him now, but this is just bullshit. He doesn't work in a struggling team in the current system, that's all.

He hits a very clean strike but they always go wide. Anything on target trickles. Bizarre.

Isn't the fact that Johnson played for Sunderland at the time the reason they got stick? I'm pretty certain if he played for Coventry it would be their fans getting the same stick? Realise this is absolutely nothing to do with the conversation, but thought it was a strange enough example to call out. I think the majority of us expect the public backlash re Saudi, but if he'd come out and said "Greenwood should play for Norwich, I hear their fans all love beating their wives" I'm pretty certain we'd all still think he's a dickhead and call him out on it.

No, the worst thing will be having to watch Gayle

Chelsea's likely to be the earliest we see him return.

Well if he doesn't we're getting relegated, so let's hope he does

The Bruce impact is irreversible on a lot of them

Scunny have just signed a striker with 6 goals in 86 games, 1 in his last 36. Context I guess

Murphy’s better than Fraser too

If it falls through will people think we’re in the shit?

emergency buy for this season, exactly.

I’ve just seen us bidding for two top class centre backs in the January window. If Wood is one of our three strikers next season I’ll be worried.

so you think we’ll bring in one striker in summer and get rid of Gayle?

Because we’re going to want much better strikers than him to actually challenge for higher than 16th?