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Osimhen to Saudi picking up steam? Can't decide if that would be more or less depressing than him going to Chelsea.

Aye, Joelinton's role should be to do the donkey work and allow the more creative players to excel. He's essentially our ball winning midfielder, just he plays it in an atypical way as he's more advanced than Bruno when in most systems the ball winning midfielder is the one in front of the defense. Issue is that with the likes of Murphy and Longstaff in the team we don't have enough creative players. Also a CB playing LB... He was very poor today for sure, but I do think he can start and be a key cog for a very good team.

Barring significant injury issues, there's no good reason for us to see him start many games again. Tonali back. Also, we looked massively better with Joelinton at RCM and Willock LCM after the changes. And that was an off-form Joelinton. He's an absolute albatross around the neck of our attempts to play decent football. It's not just his inability to pick a pass, he has no ability to do anything progressive with the ball when under pressure in possession. It's either play a ball back which puts the defender or keeper under pressure or else attempt to get his body between the opponent and the ball and then fall down. He's not the only problem but man I'm sick of watching him.

Trippier doing an awful job covering the near post for the goal btw.

Decent point given how shite we were for most of that.

Fucking yes. Go win it now, c'mon.

Longstaff is shite man, put fucking Willock on the pitch.

Neither Murphy or Almiron are good enough to be second choice RW for a club looking to challenge for a top four spot. Either of them starting is effectively carrying a passenger when in possession.

Murphy and Longstaff trying to play it a bit in tight spaces is hard to watch.

We don't have the technical ability to not play high intensity, pressing football. Watching us try to play the ball about is painful. Not sure what the plan is supposed to be, watching us. The lack of intensity is alarming.

Pathetic from Joelinton there.

I do feel like his best position in our setup might be LCM, long term. If he can be backup to Joelinton in that spot and also be an option to give us something more attacking at LB that's a pretty valuable member of the squad who'll play a lot of minutes. Just a pity that LCM is also Willock's best spot so there's a lot of competition there.

I think with Krafth and Burn at CB there's a fair logic for having Kelly, who's something of a LB/CB hybrid, at LB to give us more defensive solidarity. I do also think there's a good chance that this is the long term plan, Kelly being first choice LB. It's worth noting that if we do want to play with Hall and Livramento as attacking full backs then it will require some adjustment to the way our midfield plays. The three at the back when in possession setup allows Bruno more freedom to get forward than he'd have otherwise, for instance.

Newcastle Brighton Bristol London Liverpool Coventry That's how I'd rank the cities in England I've actually been to. Fairly sizeable gap between the rest of them and Coventry

I like the idea of his social media team deciding that a post about Wolverhampton being shit is a good way to build his brand.

Soon as he went off Brighton became dominant and scored the winner. MASSIVE bullet dodged ditching this lad, if we're being honest.

Ah, you do hate to see that.

That's an hilarious offside

Areet Mark Henry xx

Looks well on to me

Have there been any good games yet this season?

Almost wish that had counted for the sheer level of flukiness

Aye, think Pawson is just absolutely shite at his job.

It's an amad decision, honestly.

Ideal world we move on Longstaff and get a CM with a bit of versatility in. Longstaff is basically just gonna be Tonali's backup you'd imagine, someone who can play a couple of spots would be more useful. Even a DM, with Bruno occasionally being used further forward. Doubt it'll happen though.