Shak

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.

Be class if Leicester didn't know who the bidding club was.

People getting annoyed with Richarlison for THAT

I know it's probably better to have them miss this game than one we have a more realistic chance of winning... But I can't help but be really pissed we're going into this game without Bruno or Wilson and most likely Trippier or ASM. Not saying we'd have gone there and humped them but there's such a good vibe around us that I'd really have fancied us to give them a really good game. Still expect we'll go out and give a good account of ourselves tomorrow but suspect we'll just not have the quality to give them any trouble in the final third unless Isak just comes in and is an immediate rinse machine.

I'd like to not take the cup games seriously but win them anyway. Doesn't seem like too much to ask.