Pata

Shelvey on the pitch saying goodbye with his daughters, nice moment.

People need to calm down about Wilson.

We are so fucking good

Schär

Howay man, he wasn't in the team to get goals and assists

I think it's mostly about just being nice and that culture of respecting everyone's wishes. Shelvey knows he's not playing without injuries and Forest offered him a longer deal and apparently a pay rise. We didn't want to stand in his way to have him on the bench.

It's not nonsense though and it's mind boggling that it took everyone so long to figure it out. It takes away one option from the freekick taker entirely and allows the players in the wall to jump as high as they can.

Chelsea are 21 points behind Arsenal who also have a game in hand, they are not fighting for same spots in the table. Jorginho is also a player they don't mind giving to their rival due to his age. One could argue that they aren't realistically even competing against us this season but Chelsea have to keep some standards up.

No team can sell enough players to stay inside the limits with this spending

Feels like Arsenal letting Brighton know they aren't desperate and have other options too.

Top players make a lot of money as the franchises are loaded and the leagues are money making machines. For example Mahomes in NFL signed that half a billion contract but that means the Chiefs can't spend that money on other players in their team. Brighton would be ace in American sports.

This is the opposite of what American sports are like, much harder to buy success compared to football. Even baseball tries to limit spending and other major leagues have wage caps.

Gordon doesn't have anywhere near the flair of ASM and that's not a dig at Gordon. I think we are too solid right now defensively on the left hand side and Howe obviously realises that but we are still not losing games (and creating chances) so he's in no hurry to change the starting eleven. Burn and Joelinton covering for ASM is more than enough and I'm pretty sure ASM or Gordon are on the left soon probably on Willock's expense. Almiron has started almost every game this season, Gordon should help with giving him some rest too. We are in a position where we can spend almost £50m on a squad player.

LW

You don't know that.

Every week someone is fantasising about selling ASM, proper weird behaviour when you look at our squad.

This is such a weird narrative. Pretty sure we were in control of the first half at Old Trafford too. Forced to mostly defend the last 30 minutes iirc.

Lamptey has stagnated badly imo, looked potentially world class with Brighton before the bad hamstring injury in 20/21.

Think Caleta-Car had every right to make that tackle on Almiron and it was not malicious at all. Almiron just got there first and was able to chip the ball past Caleta-Car.

Silky smooth player, I'm certain he can play either wide forward role too.

ASM just doesn’t care.

Handball!!

Yup.

Gtfi, finally.

Low on energy and ideas right now.