Kanj

100% agree with this. Eales was so very tight with Howe and supportive of him and yet he brings in a complete miss of a sporting director after Dougie Freedman didn't work out. Very very odd decision to think that would go over well with Eddie. Didn't consult him, didn't give him a heads up. Strange.

There's literally nothing in Eddie's CV or personality to ever think he'd want a yes-man. When you give him plaudits for coaching, he immediately mentions JT and his staff. Just go and look up his stage speech after we won the cup final. He thanks his support always, and singles out JT as basically being his collaborator.

Goes and gets pneumonia, we win 2 matches and lose 1, comes back and still secures CL and takes back control of recruitment. Fucking ace.

I still believe Mehrdad and Amanda were unnecessarily scapegoated for the PSR thing anyway, Eales was here during that time, as was our CFO, as was Jamie Rueben and the PIF overlords. It's always been a stupidly convenient thing our fans tend to do. We had an entire executive leadership team fully aware of the rules and math behind the calculations, but our fans love to find ways to point fingers at Amanda and Mehrdad. The issue has always been they club likely assumed more commercial revenue, less PL restrictions and a few decent sales or two - those never happened as the players who were deemed surplus absolutely fell off a cliff and the buyers never surfaced. Anyway, good riddance to Mitchell. Hopefully our fans' weird obsessions over a fucking sporting director, who hasn't been relevant in the last 3-5 years anyway, dies officially today.

I for one, feel for Manchester United's players and coaches, the ever so lovable Villa defeating nice guys that they are. The club itself can get fk'd mind you.

Yep, you and Dropout are spot-on IMHO. Many teams this season the desperation has forced us into very poor mistakes and led to us not getting results. It's something I think we are continuing to work on. It's why you need Trippier in these situations, who has his way of calming us the fuck down when it starts getting frantic for no good reason. I still would like to see us sign a creative midfielder who is older in his career, 1-2 year deal, for matches like Everton or crucial matches where that calmness + guile are needed. I believe more often than not, when you see us playing flat, mistaken prone football that it's like a 50-50 or 60-40 or 40-60 fatigue to mentality thing for us.

"design culture differences"

I reckon if the "Fairs Cup" was called something differently then it would be held in greater esteem now. The Youts don't know ball.

Yeah, I appreciate that he has pace, good passing and ball carrying ability - something we desperately need in our back line. I'd like to see a fully fit Botman get a little more aggressive in his long passing, but his short passing is immense and he's definitely got nearly all of it in his locker. We all probably just need to accept there is no CB like Fab Schar in football, a total unicorn in his aggressive ball playing.

Give it a rest. He’s leaving ffs. Onward.

I’m still not all that convinced by him but trust Eddie.

where is this article ? Can’t find it.

Dan looking up over his bed of daises

Puel had him playing the best football of his career no? At Nice.

I was at that match too ffs. But was a really quick trip and a blur at that. league or league cup? I was at the league match.

Hard for me to even pick out his absolutle best performances this season. I just remember a goal here and there otherwise it’s literally blanking me.

Ahhh makes more sense. Castore 4 kit with sela would look so much better.

the #4 was the first castore kit. Makes no sense.

Need a midfielder who is going to be proper rotation with Joelinton.

I like him a ton. Really good talent.

Nico Williams

Neto saved them, funny enough. His goal against Fulham changed their season.

The tone of some our posters reads so bitter. Bro is hurt man. Chill. We’re in the fucking CL.

Bring on the summer.

Aye can we bring Maxi home and just have him off the bench?