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I've been saying this too. Mbeumo is a really good PL player but the fee would be +£50m and I don't see that as any kind of value and his ceiling is a bit limited IMO. Don't think he's the star player for a top 6-7 club which that fee should get you. Can't see it happening now especially after Mitchell's comments about us overspending on players previously.

Think he should be ahead of Murphy now based on the last two appearances, looked sharp.

We didn't have subs left. I believe he could've got some minutes today but the Trippier injury meant we had to hurry to get Tino and Longstaff on.

Did you watch the match or just the result?

Early reaction tells me it's a night off from N-O.

It’s not a poor performance though. Poor finishing and often final ball but we’ve dominated this and should’ve won.

Should let Schär take every penalty. That’s a garbage pen from Gordon, everyone laughs at stop start penalties but that Gordon pen reduces the likelihood of scoring to almost a coin flip. Absolutely no excuse to pick a bottom corner like that beforehand.

Draft picks and/or player swaps. Contract dumping is also a thing where you a send a player with a bad contract to another team but you'll be sending the player and draft picks without getting anything back to compensate for the bad contract. Receiving team is usually in a rebuild mode with lots of cap space.

Ah, it's spring already?

That Sesko finish off the bar, oof.

Finish! Hope it stands.

Injury situation isn't bad yet but we'll have to remember that either Gordon or Barnes can get injured too which would mean we couldn't really use Gordon as a third-choice striker anymore. I don't think anyone expects meaningful contributions from Osula to our 24/25 season but he's an option we now have who hopefully can develop to be more in the future. Having someone like him available during the darkest moments of last season would've been important. Thought his performance was a positive yesterday, not much to do with but he seems to have the tools to potentially be a good PL player in the future.

I've written this hundreds of times but having the ref go to screen automatically after every red and penalty would be such an easy fix for VAR. Let the on-pitch referee make the decision based on what he sees on the replays. Would take away the biggest problem right now which are the 'clear and obvious' and 'is this bad enough mistake to overturn' controversies and guessing by VAR. Wouldn't delay the match either when it always takes minutes for the match to continue after a red or a penalty call. Same with the potentially missed penalty calls, VAR tells ref to take another look and the on-pitch referee makes the call based on what he sees. Leads to more consistent calls too when every ref would hopefully keep their decisions consistent.

Class from Olise and Martinez both.

I think perfection is very much possible on offsides with this semi-automated system. Just wish they would use it properly for other stuff too. I don't think it ruins the moment either as that goal showed.

Not for me Clive. He was two metres offside, just another proof of how much it is needed.

No idea how the lino missed that on real time.

Offside maybe

He was so good that you just have to live with his personality. It's easy to say now that he wasn't an easy to player to have in your squad but with all that talent it shouldn't matter if Obertan or Ryan Taylor were more professional.

Those are a minuscule part of the +50k people sitting in the stadium tbf.

Willock has been bad, glad he gets these minutes though.

I don’t know, why is Ruddy?

Had ice on his thigh on Saturday. Of course Howe rates him ffs.

That’s a nice turn and shot from Osula.

Probably loads of families who normally can’t get tickets. I hope at least.