Shak

Fair point/question and truthfully I have no good answer. A decade of ignoring football means I've no idea who plays for half the teams in the league I do however think it was plain as day entering the window that we had a real lack of quality attacking players and to only come away with one attacker is a bit of a disappointment and we're gonna be short because of it. Of course, that's certainly mitigated by that one player being a huge prospect like Isak. The fact that Almiron doesn't look completely hopeless this year is a real bonus, too. I do think quality over quantity is the way to go and the good news is that if we can add a couple of Botman/Isak level talents every window (like we also did with Trips and Bruno the previous window) while picking up solid players for good deals like we did Targett and Pope we'll have a pretty formidable team and squad by this time next year.

Feel the same as this. ASM, Wilson and Isak is an exciting front three but the drop off in quality to Almiron/Fraser is massive and the drop after them to Wood/Murphy is just as big again. Suspect we'll see a few games this season where we drop points just because we won't have the option to really change it up from the bench and that'll be frustrating. Still, quality over quantity is excellent to see.

Think he means we signed Isak. Not sure his timeline is quite right, mind.

Feel bad for being pissed about being included given all the actual Americans that were left out

Suck my peacock.

No nowt about him but seems like a good understudy for Tripps.

I mean, I'm intrigued From what I've seen Ando has some minor ITK that he doesn't overuse. So he's either hearing some things or is happy enough to go out with a bit of trolling.

Kid Idiot more like. Am I right, folks? Am I right?

Feel like he needs to fill out a bit and become a bit more physically imposing if he wants to become a good PL midfielder. At the moment, I'd say he's a decent one. Don't think he's technically gifted enough to ever be someone you play through in attack but with his finishing ability I could see him turning into a good all-action midfielder who chips in with half a dozen goals a year from CM. He'll probably get a fair bit of stick in the coming months as he's going to be playing a lot of football and will be a weak link in the team, simply because we've added some really good players and the gulf in quality between our top players and the next tier is quite wide. Ideally, Willock would be like the 5th choice CM but we're not there with the squad yet.

Yeah but the disallowed goal comes from him being a CF working the channels off the shoulder of the last man rather than being out wide, doesn't it? I guess it depends on how tomorrow goes. I suspect Isak wide and Wilson up top would be better than Isak up top and Almiron out wide so we could see it and I'm sure they'd be fun to watch. I don't doubt that he could be effective playing off Wilson, but he just looked every bit to me like an absolute top class CF in the making and I'd prioritize nurturing that that over getting Wilson into the team I guess.

If he looks this good leading the line the next few weeks I'd be very hesitant to shift him out wide to bring Wilson in. Really, really hope we sign a top class RW tomorrow.

We simply have to get some better options in tomorrow, the drop off in quality when this lad comes on is just shocking. Fraser is so far ahead of him.

Yeah it hurts now, course it does. In retrospect, I wish he had gone for the corner. Still, next time we're in that spot I'd want to go for the winner again. Process made sense to me, even though the result sucked. Risk a point to try to gain two, think it's the right call.

We tried to win the game and it was there for us, Anderson could have done it with a bit more composure. Will always want us to do that.

Be kinda funny if Howe had devised some incredible strategy they'd been working on for months and and Liverpool scored after 30 seconds.

Maybe there's some sort of tactical reason he's done it? Possible they've had Burn and Lascelles working on it together for a while and didn't want to ask Botman and Schar to change it up for a game while they're still gelling? Can't even begin to guess what exactly it might be mind, seems bizarre

Resting your CB pairing is wild

His name is Isak It is He plays in attack Come on He'll rinse your fullback Oh my God Alexander Isak

I just wanted to use the word 'trouser' as a verb.

If the rumours about Leicester wanting to scale back are true, deadline day would be the right time to do it like. Sell a player or two for big money when you don't have time to replace them. Trouser the cash.

Tielemans and Maddison for 75m, double deal.

Obviously would love to see Isak up top instead of Wood but think we'll see him off the bench and Wood starting. Fraser in for ASM on the left. Same front six as Sunday, otherwise. It's not exciting by any means but I don't hate the idea of keeping ourselves in the game for 60 minutes and then introducing Isak and Anderson from the bench, might be able to cause them a few problems.

Say what you will about Edwards but the man gets results.