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Weird feeling Thats probably the best 45 mins we have been playing this season, considering it’s Man City We probably deserves a draw, yet I know we can’t

Yes but at also depends on how much PIF is genuinely willing to invest

We might get a surprise result here 2-1

Considering the amount of games Villa has to play this season, and they have lost players like Diaby and Luiz, I agree that Villa is our benchmark. We should finish above them.

End of season may be, but right now there is none in the market that is better than Howe. And to be fair - I know many won’t agree - the last game it’s the players that let Howe down. As a manager he probably could do more, say giving Tonali more minutes, but to me, I am impressed by what he did during half time - switching to 442 and giving Hall freedom to organise the attack. We have criticised his tactical flexibility last season and to my surprise I think he did show his willingness to change. Some good, some bad. The question probably should be why we always started the game in such a bad way, that we need to ride our luck with only 45 mins left. Pre match preparation? Our plan A (433) got found out? Bruno not up to his standard? We don’t need to repeat how the window let Howe down. I just want to point out that our players should share more blame than Howe. Schar has been fucking ridiculous this season, except for that strike, what did he do? Lots of mistakes, red card, missed the sitter. And Bruno/ Joe? Again just one good game so far? Trippier and Kelly telling us why they should be substitutes? Livra and Barnes probably are the only players that kept their required standard. Hall and Burn got a pass from me. Even Isak has been fucking disappointing. You can’t just blame the tactics or the players quality for the poor display on the pitch.

It’s fine that we have different opinion, but genuinely speaking, at work place, if your boss publicly started the war against you, like what Mitchell did to Howe, you should consider all your options, because you know your boss will never be your allies

To be fair we all know that one of them will go at the end of this season. Better change the question to who will be fired by PIF. No fans will support Mitchell at this moment but at the end of this season, our owner will decide whom he will support

I just want to add a point, whilst a DOF is not a scout, he is still the one that should have the final say on transfer, and that he is also the one that should be credited for, and accountable for, the transfer as a whole. If he decided that the team needs talents for the future, he will assign scouts to give him potential targets, thus formulate his long term transfer plans. If he decided that the team needs established stars, he will decide which one to go for and contact the agents, after considering the scouts reports I genuinely think we made sensible transfers under Ashworth era, before January of coz.

The latter might be due to squad hierarchy?

Surely Tonali has to be on by now?

WTF Schar

Looks like it’s our 433 being found out

Looks like we changed to 442

Wow

Hall is there

I start to wonder, did we have any change in the coaches last season? Could that be the reason why we deteriorate that much?

You do wonder why we couldn’t play like that season again despite having better players

Good lineup

If Longstaff starts and you have any negative feelings please direct it to the manager, not the player

Tricky one. We could get the three points easier than expected, or we could just suffer heavy loss. Fulham has a relatively new setup which makes them a bit inconsistent atm. Hope we capitalise it

Whilst I understand what you want to illustrate but the brutal reality is 1. It’s Longstaff who carried through injuries in order to carry us last season, not the other way round 2. We even have no PSR capacity or excellent youth prospect to replace Longstaff, a player you deemed not good enough 3. We have to consider players eligibility for Europe competition, which you simply cannot buy one from the market to replace Longstaff I am sorry, it should be us who should be grateful that we have Longstaff now

40m is a fair price. I just ain’t sure CP would accept our bid - they might even prefer to sell for less money to Liverpool due to ego

I don’t even fucking know why would I be accused of that, when I was saying all those insulting / over criticising Longstaff should fuck off in the first place. I can only assume some are having a great smoke at daytime

You even don’t know how to read. Just go to bed or fuck off my arse. Chasing Longstaff out of Newcastle? I am doing the opposite! Are you having single digit IQ?

What in the actual fuck are you taking about? Chase local lad out of a club? Are you smoking? Jesus