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Ticks the homegrown-at-club box, not many of ours do, and is happy to be a squad player who Howe & co seemingly like. No argument from me.

But he has, quite badly?

Thought he was the poorest player on the pitch for us alongside Wood.

Huge, huge upgrade. Lascelles isn't a footballer, been stealing a living for years now. Our left hand side is a complete shut-out now with Targett.

That's just another way of saying drop Fraser for Willock, and that's the wrong call right now in my opinion.

To be fair, that's 2 of their front 3. I can just see Shelvey and Willock chasing Shadows and without Trippier's guidance, they'll huff and puff for 15 minutes then it'll be backs-to-the-wall stuff again :/

We really need Bruno to play. West Ham's central midfield is one of the best in the league's in my opinion - I really rate Soucek. I can see Rice & Soucek running rings around anyone else we put there. Throwing Bruno in against West Ham is probably not a bad idea from the point of view in that we're really not expecting to get anything out of the game so the pressure will be lessened.

Mourinho would be nothing short of an absolute disaster. Enjoy the Howe ride while it lasts, and long may it continue.

Mbappe on a free and Haaland for ~€68m. Sounds good to me

It's blatantly not, though. Favourite, sure.

Raphinha on the other side to ASM would be a joy

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He's already talked about how it would be easier to play with Mbappe etc., which is why I suggested PSG. They tick the boxes - money, player interest, home country, Champions League. No way the club would willingly sell, but I don't buy it that he's 100% tied to this club. He's my favourite player, but he carries on playing like this, the top clubs aren't going to ignore him for too much longer. Crikey, imagine that front line of Messi and St Maxi with Neymar, would be like 8 passes (all key passes), and 50+ dribble attempts per game between them lol. I really hope he stays to see this out - but to do that we're going to have to bring in more like Bruno in the summer imo.

I really wish I couldn't remember this fking theme tune, someone please give me a different HOWE song lol

Perfect - thank you!

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I dread a bid from PSG

If we finish 17th and Burnley finish below us, it's £25m well spent, any other performance metric aside.

I haven't seen a player look so out of place in our team because he's that good since Jonathan Woodgate. He's that good, maybe even better. I have no idea why he's playing for us. And I fucking love him.

Jesus the ego on this lad/social team, I fkn love it. Next Shearer FFS

You obviously did not watch any of the matches if that's the conclusion you're drawing. Tell me the gameplan, and how he instructed our players to use the ball when in possession. The 5th position was a fluke that relied solely on the sheer individual brilliance of several players, notably Cissé who for 4 months could not miss, in spite of Pardew.

With the way we usually play, he'll have 2/3 of an empty pitch in front to aim for

Chris Wood, Chris Wood's GF, Chris Wood's mistress

The injury/need to play him reminds me a bit of Bellamy. It's hard to let a player like that go when we've got no-one better right now. When we get Haaland in the summer all will be good though

2-0, Willock & Wood. Joelinton MOTM