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That’s fine, that’s actually the narrative for the last summer: the club only wants to sign someone good enough for starting eleven and lift the team to the next level, hence “only EPL established” expensive purchases. Not the bullshit from the nufcblog “eh the club in fact wanted to complete the deal for the Brazilian CB but sorry due to PSR the club is blocked from doing so, and therefore the club wants to do it in Jan instead but unfortunately being hijacked by Man City, so sorry about that” fucking bullshit

And after failed/played by CP multiple times, we tried desperate enquiries re Tapsoba and Elanga. No fucking way we can’t structure a deal for that Brazilian CB if we wanted to. It’s not like the club only allows to negotiate and submit bid after 1 Jan. Mitchell can do it at Sep Oct Nov and Dec if he wanted to.

that alone deserves sacking. Guehi in exchange of Isak/Gordon/Bruno? What kinda suicidal plan is that?

Sorry, I don’t believe it. We have the Guehi budget, or we can structure a deferred deal like the Hall one if we want to. We aren’t THAT close to the ceiling, even unable to offer 30m for a position we badly need reinforcement. These stories don’t feel right to me. I hope it’s just bollocks from lazy journalism. If that’s genuinely sourced from the club then it does smell like bullshit expectation managmenet

Vini Jr didn’t excel in those basics but he is an extremely determined type of learner. He finally made it after 2 seasons. Endrick doesn’t seems to be that determined. I doubt Real Madrid would let him go for cheap anyway

Arsenal, since the Wenger era, always played a style that requires their striker to be able to create plays and score goals. Henry was not the first one, Bergkamp was. This “tradition” in fact brought more bad than good to them. They didn’t really value Giroud due to this. They always want to find another Henry. I do agree Isak would be fucking great for them. He would be fucking great for any team in the world anyway.

Shearer is my hero, I watched all his games. Shearer is definitely a better finisher - if given space, and he has better strength and determination re scoring goals. If you want a classical striker, then probably Shearer would be a more prolific choice. But Isak is more than that. I don’t want to bring it up again (fuck the gunners) but Isak is exactly the type of modern striker like Henry. He can destroy opponent on his own, even if the other players couldn’t create chances for him. He can do that himself. He can beat opponents one on one and score with both foot, or he can pick up Gordon/Murphy in critical area. He has too much arsenals in his pocket, it’s close to ridiculous. Higuain at his prime has ridiculous goal scoring rate. Yet we all know Benzema is the better striker (and why CR7 scored so much). Isak still needs time and stats to proof, let’s hope he would be free from injuries and able to extend his prime years till early 30s.

No disrespect to wor Alan but Isak is genuinely better.

Yea I don’t fucking understand. If we even can’t sign Khusanov, what would happen if we did sign Guehi? For the reported 70m bid? Things aren’t adding up.

It genuinely doesn’t make sense. Where’s the Guehi budget gone? We even can’t sign Khusaniv? Not that I rate him that high but no way

I find it more unbelievable that other clubs not challenging why these 75m was allowed

We didn’t solidify because we were already over the limit…

Wait till it’s officially announced Sorry, all talks no action

It’s fine to give Amorim a free pass this season but Froggy I really know a lot of fans started to lose faith on him and think might be Man Utd should hire someone else this summer

Or start the next game and rest for the Fulham. I genuinely hope we have a fully fit Joe for the crucial Arsenal game.

Same. That would do it to me as well. That cup win would outweighs everything else.

I talked about that last summer already that we would regret not cashing in earlier, and given up Anderson / Minteh. Anyway we should also take note of his age, and remember he is a Brazilian. Most of the Brazilian players would regress at late 20s.

That couldn’t explain why he is that inconsistent among matches. It is not just technique. He simply looks like off the pace. Thats not just technical issues. Being able to boss 90mins in one game doesn’t mean his body is naturally excellent at recovering his stamina in time and boss another 90 mins.

Joe is a beast but he doesn’t have the stamina and natural fitness to perform at his best consistently.

Most of the people would take a fatigue loss after 9 straight wins. It’s totally fine. We should start to worry if we have another few losses like this. now it’s still too early for that. That said, the club should bring in 1-2 players before the end of this window to support Eddie.

I am fine with Howe today, I just worry that the fatigue problem strikes again.

We are lucky. Joe could have been sent off

Shouldn’t pass to Bruno in the first place

You and others probably got my message wrong. There are a lot of similarities re this run and the performance in 22-23 season, which shows how GOOD Howe is, when we are able to give him a solid starting eleven and injury free squad. I don’t think it’s something related to changes Howe made to his own approach (not his tactics, he did change that). As I have said, we probably can’t get anyone better than him outside. However, next season, we will be back to Europe, or even ECL. The extremely demanding schedule will hit again. The “solid starting eleven and injury free squad” will likely be gone, and we don’t have capacity under PSR to massively improve our squad depth. It waits to be seen how Howe would and could take this challenge, and I don’t think he can perform magic to change the outcome (lower league position, fatigue squad, cup run without results), which is what I mean, his ceiling. It doesn’t necessary be Howe’s fault. It is just what he can do at his best under the environment we are in. 1 year later, if we really crashed out again in the early stage of ECL, and staying in the middle of the league table, instead of calling Howe out, may be the club, the fans, and Howe himself, should evaluate thoroughly what the squad is really capable of and make decisions to give up some competitions and focus on just 1 or 2. That’s what I mean, “accept the truth”. Instead of going all-out in all competition and crashed out due to fatigue, I would rather just focusing on league and give up all others, including ECL. With our starting eleven, and just focusing on those 38 matches, we have legit chance to challenge for title. Got it? Is it pessimistic to say we can get the league title under Howe?

I expect him to break the consecutive win record as well. That doesn’t mean all his problems last season were gone. We will know next season.