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Just watched his goal against Norway. Fuck that was annoying. A slight deflection sure, but he turned the Norway defender into a pretzel with some lovely dribbling after carrying the ball across half the pitch like he's never done for Liverpool. It's petty, but I hope someone snaps one of his twig legs during the WC. Can't be having that version of Isak playing for those cunts.

Pretty sure it was Miley.

Nick Popes missing ingredient. Not good enough overall though. Wish him all the best, seems like a good guy.

I feel footballs entertainment value is very cyclical. I know there's more to it than goals, but you just have to go back to the 23/24 season for the most goals scored during a 38 games top league season in England. If 23/24 didn't have that record, it would have been 24/25, then 22/23. Right now we're in a boring meta, but very soon someone will find a solution to counter it and it will become better, maybe combined with rule changes wrt time allowed for set pieces, hopefully significant improvements in VAR usage etc. There's been multiple spells the last 20 years where it's been boring. I guess the main difference is that there's fewer truly unique players at the top level right now than earlier. Not beyond the realms of possibility that the counter to rigid systems ends up being unpredictability and flair and we could end up seeing quite exciting football and footballers sooner rather than later.

Oh yeah, I'm probably mixing them up

He shouldn't have benched one for the other then. I think I remember ( long time ago) a major reason for so many being happy with the sale was that N'Zogbia would get more playing time on the left wing.

Rogers has played nearly every minute of every game this season, and is the only one creating for them. Hyperbolic statement I'll admit, but Villa will seriously struggle without him.

Emery sacked by October if Villa loses Rogers. He'll have no clue what to do when "pass it to Rogers" isn't an option for his attacking plan.

Remember at the time I wasn't too fussed about him leaving. He was incredibly frustrating to watch at times with his inability to get past his man and hitting the first man on crosses/corners, however in hindsight that was only because we used him exclusively on the wing. He could play on the wing, but he was never a winger.

Not even close. Targett was out for 125 days with his hamstring, then just two weeks later he got an achilles injury which set him out another 148 days. Came back only to be hampered a month later by his eczema for 50 days. Then a minor illness (5 days) and another lesser hamstring issue (35 days) before he went to Middlesbrough. Wissa had one injury which set him out for 114 days, and has now been injury free (bar a bruised knee that saw him out of action 12 days) nearly 6 months. If Wissas knee injury was so bad that he would never be the same player again then fair enough, but I haven't read anywhere that the injury was so serious so correct me if I'm wrong.

I think you put too much into his performances this season, which I don't think is fair considering he probably hasn't been ever properly match fit this season bar the first 5-6 games. He's never been very good in the final third I'll grant you, but he is excellent at getting past his man and carrying the ball up to that point. We just need a good fit for him at RW to do the stuff he isn't good at. Neither Murphy or Elanga is the answer. Defensively i think he is among the very best in the league.

Harsh to call it a failure when it's due to injuries. His transfer didn't work out, but it wasn't a failure by him, Howe or the ones that approved the transfer.

Keeping him fit next season will be important. Hopefully we can find a high potential player that can play cup games and be subbed on in league games to manage Tinos time and fitness, with the aim to split even more of the pitch time between them once we're back in Europe the following season. With all his injuries this season I think we've forgotten a bit how incredibly good a fully fit Tino is.

I'd argue none of them were misses.

Didn't necessarily mean poor players playing for both england and barca at the same time, just poor players in general.