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Think he should have started today tbh, I agree with @Wallsendmag Away from home against one of the weaker teams. I would have thought this would be as good a game as any to get him in. Maybe he's not fully fit yet after being out with injury.

That's the one I don't really understand. Would have thought Gordon is far better suited physically to adapt to playing right side than Barnes.

I had a late lunch and just tuned in now. Didn't miss a fucking thing by the looks of it.

Other teams are also fucking up though, including most of our rivals for the CL spots. That means if we win the easier games like this one, we stand a fighting chance of qualifying again. I wouldn't say I'm dead optimistic based on what I've seen so far this season, but we could still click.

Every player has his price. If he wants to go, we just need to make sure we get a good one.

Winning away from home is never an easy task, even winning at home isn't these days. So the only factor to look at is, the quality of the opposition. Wolves are a relegation candidate so yes, given we have much harder fixtures down the line, we really need to find a way to win.

More like decades gone by. There was probably no concept of it when John Hall was a lad tbf.

We will have harder fixtures to come so I just see this as a win to keep us in contention for the top spots. The important thing is to stay in the pack chasing the CL places. If we aren't firing on all cylinders due to a heavy fixture schedule then we need to find a way to win without going 100mph.

Really? That sounds unlikely, we chased him over a year, it's not the sort of thing we would overlook.

We'd done all the hard work and all but won it. That's what made it a piss boiler.

Howe just needs to put him in the starting line up and tell him to get on with it.

Spurs losing

Get in, Liverpool held at home by Burnley.

Well if Liverpool and Spurs don't grab injury time winners, today's results won't be a disaster.

Think they are all good grafters but not really top class. They looked fairly shit against us, but we were shit on the day as well. They are an effective spoiler team so maybe their defensive players might get some attention from bigger clubs.

Just seems like good organisation and hard work tbh. None of their players are the type to get you out of your seat.

I do think they will have a come down next season but fucking hell it's tedious seeing them grind out results week in week out.

That's what squads are for, and it's the reason we spent big money on the likes of Elanga and Ramsey. We need to rotate and be confident we can still bring 3 points back from Molineaux.

Bollocks man. He thought we were desperate and he could milk us for an extra £20m, then if that failed he could sell for £50m a year down the line. He'd have sold him in the summer if Glasner hadn't threatened to walk. Now he's losing both anyway. Karma is a bitch as they say.

They've got some pretty good players like. Amorin did a good job in making them look that shit.

They did for the first leg, we were just too wasteful to make it count. Contrast Mbuemo's finish with Wissa's efforts in the first half. I'm not having a go at Wissa, every striker has an off day, but at this level you have to finish when you get the chance if you want to win the game.

Elanga looks like he thrives off confidence and the last thing he needs is moans going up around the ground when he misfires. Howe wants him to feel free to express himself, and you can't do that if you are worried about making a mistake which will have the ground up in arms. Unfortunately it's hard to get a crowd like St James to show patience once they have made their mind up. He has to find some way of saying "fuck it, I'm playing my game regardless of what they think."

Absolute lunacy. I think we definitely undersold him, but that was due to spending money we didn't have in the previous seasons and then getting caught short with PSR. But he wasn't pulling up any trees when he was here. That might have been down to the way we play rather than any fault of his, but let's wait and see what sort of money other clubs are willing to stump up before we put our hand in.

It's all very well to pick his faults - and he has a few - but try finding a replacement for that money. I said the same thing earlier in this thread. The best we can do is maybe sell him at the end of the season and put that money towards a really top class striker for say £80m. But tbh, even at that price you aren't getting the finished article.