TRon

Amen.

Kane was always a great footballer, but at Bayern what he's doing is immense considering how fast the football is played, and him being 32. Wissa's age wouldn't have been such an issue if he'd been able to perform at this level in what should still be his peak years.

Harry was pretty hard to knock off the ball like. Wolte might need to start eating his weetabix and become a bit more of a cunt if he wants to follow in Kane's footsteps.

Then why was he brought on with half an hour to go against Arsenal?

Getting the links laughed off by Bayern might have brought him down a peg or 3.

I think this season might have helped him come round to the realisation that taking a step back from player recruitment isn't the worst option.

Yep. For us it makes no sense to sell unless we get a fee which makes it worthwhile. But I'm not sure we will so some of these players with ideas above their station might be in for a rude awakening in the summer. I just hope they don't agitate for lower fees so they can go sit on the bench somewhere else.

I'm just saying those are the standards being set. It's football how it should be played IMO.

Pressing that high works for the first 45 mins but it inevitably ends up leaving everyone exhausted for the second half and we end up conceding goals later on. You can see it coming. Maybe if we had exceptional forwards and we could build 2-3 goal leads then it would work better.

I think only Hall is the really important one to keep. Everyone else has shown enough limitations to make me doubt the top teams would even want them badly enough unless they were paying a lower fee. These players are not worth as much as we would like to think they are. Is anyone really going to pay £75m for either Gordon or Tonali?

I'm still wondering which team is going to pay us a fee to make it worthwhile selling him.

This has been the big doubt for me. We have done brilliantly well with the high press during Howe's term, but this season whenever we have come up against the better teams in the UCL, they have passed all round our press and made us look average. Watching the game between PSG and Bayern yesterday was an education as well. You could argue defensively it was poor, but the level of passing and movement was something else. Our high press would be destroyed by either team. Obviously you need the best players to play that stuff, but it is what it takes to go next level.

I've long maintained this view. I think it was first mentioned wrt Isak, but you only had to look at his two finishes on his debut against Liverpool to see he didn't need much improving. He's certainly drilled a work ethos into his players, and he deserves credit for that though. But most managers will get their players to follow some sort of drill, other than Bruce.

Speak for yourself. Would much rather watch an Arsenal set piece or a Brentford long throw.

I fancy PSG to win there as well.

Nailed on to run like a 16 year old and bang one in against us if that happens.

I don't think he's walking anyway. The club would need to make the decision IMO. My gut feeling is that they will give him another go, but he will be working with players brought in without a PL pedigree.

If he walks, then what happens to all his staff like Tindall, his nephew etc? Do they walk as well or do they get paid off?

If that's true, would be good to know who is actually making the big calls for PIF. I still find it hard to believe they capitulated on letting Isak go if it's true. I always believed it was that sackless nepobaby Jamie Rueben who went cap in hand begging to Isak's house begging him to stay. Then getting chased out by Isak's pack of dobermanns.

Watched it 3 times now, always feel ready for another run about a year later

Tbf, Brentford didn't want to sell him, we just kept chucking money at them until they agreed. God knows what we might have ended up agreeing on in the end.

He can change his mind. But that still just makes him a clueless idiot who has changed his mind.

I mean he's going to play the cunt wherever he is. Real Madrid would just give him the sort of stage he lives for.

Not sure that's much of an edorsement mind. If anything it makes you want a bit of separation from him and the people employed at the club who he mugged off.

That's not too different to how a lot of clubs want to operate these days. Buy the most promising players, then hire a manager to coach them on the field but don't interfere too much in recruitment which can upset the model. Chelsea actually had a decent manager in Maresca but he needed some experience and leadership in his playing squad. Instead of giving him that, they binned him and tried to bring in an inexperienced manager instead who wouldn't push back.