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Or by my calculations (Top 5): Isak 120m Bruno 100m Botman 60m Joelinton 60m Gordon 50m I can deal with selling players but IF we have to sell players, we are putting clubs over a barrel and not letting players go for beans.

Not anger, no.

If you think we should go from high pressing, fast action, get the fans off their seat, its about the team not the individual Howe to pragmatic, insta-success, its all about me Mourinho, you don't understand football. Clubs hire sporting directors specifically to prevent this madness. A medium term vision would see any Howe replacement (not that there needs to be one), as a similar type manager and not the polar opposite. In short, hiring Mourinho would be the equivalent of ripping up the blueprint and tearing down the foundations.

Part of me thinks we should fuck off this transfer window. I'd rather we go mental in the summer.

I think the journos know fuck all again. Phillips is just an easy link. Wouldn't shock me if a surprise loan from abroad happened.

Why? I hope you aren't suggesting Hayden should play for us.

Still don't feel like he's anywhere near his potential. Frightning stuff. First half against City was possibly the best we've seen of him though. Such a devastating player.

It was a British transfer record . It was 7m. Losing Cole was the problem, not the money we got the other way.

Just bare in mind that Craig Hope gets pelters on here for his negativity (some headlines are ridiculous mind), even he saw the positives.

Aye we conceded in the 70th minute or something. They were knackered. We had no subs. It's not hard to grasp. Why not send Eddie an email about what you would have done differently.

Dubravka made numerous game saving saves today. He also played out from the back better than Pope, but that will go unnoticed. Dubravka is our number 2. I'm pretty fucking pleased our number 2 is actually half decent.

Thank you to the voices of reason in here who seem to understand who we are, where we've come from and what we were up against today. Full behind Eddie and these lads. It might get worse before it gets better, but it will get better.

"Not having that tired reason". That will be the... the players are fucking exhausted chasing the ball for 100 minutes... reason. Ask any professional footballer.

It's worse than that because we scored twice and were 1 minute away from a creditable draw. The fact we fought like that is testament to the players, not to their detriment.

Here's another one.

It's frankly embarrassing. Can only put it down to people not controlling their emotions or just not understanding football whatsoever.

Aye, that's what we did. Not that we were pinned back in our own half by a superior team or owt. Fuck me some nonsense in here. The lads where dead on their feet.

Another game we would have got at least a point with subs.

Don't be too hard on them. Christ they've tried.

Yeah I said this a few pages back. I'm just pleased we've responded. Tough ask to keep the lead.

I'd rather miss him from the odd suspension than take away that nasty streak. Feel like he's better when he's aggressive.

Disagree there mind. Around the PSG game he was fantastic.

We could have easily have been 3 or 4-1 at half time. Let's hope the crowd is straight back up for the second half.