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Don't think 2 or 3 CB's will make much difference against Man City, but rather how high up the pitch we push them. None of our CB's has a chance in hell to catch up with Haaland if he is played through.

If "current form" means 1 match then you're probably right. Otherwise I don't think they would tbh. Varane & Lindelöf would be ahead of them too. Too early to tell with their new Argentinian mini-Cannavaro.

Too early to tell with Botman, but I don't think either Schar or Burn gets into their team. Bruno & Joelinton walks into their midfield though. Trippier at RB probably starts ahead of Dalot & Bissaka.

Don't think he's been assaulted, but people were fairly handsy with him in his latest post match video. People coming over to him, slapping his chest and neck, rubbing his hair, kissing his cheek etc. Once again I'm on team Adam P. If you don't have anything nice to say or contribute with, just let the guy get on with his thing?

Scored in his debut for his last 4 clubs.

Gan on then.

With 5 subs, VAR and more time wasting every season that passes, is it time to introduce clock stop when ball is out of play?

He can't have been that shit in Spain considering Rafa wanted him here?

Absolutely. Seems like something the coaching team has worked thoroughly on with him since he is so quick but not particularly good at dribbling past his defender.

Joelinton doesn't need to be a sex god, he just brute forces an entry, but in a nice likeable way.

Most teams would struggle to create chances the way forest is playing. We'll wear them down eventually.

I think he'll take part responsibility for not doing better to lift the club if we finish that low, and stay on to fight to make us better. He's just that kind of guy. Nothing about him suggests he's ego is fragile or that he is a quitter.

Joachim Andersen best defensive and attacking player for Palace.

Nothing on the duration of the contract?

I've had Almiron in my FPL team for about a week now. Does this mean I should transfer or keep?

Going to stop it here. "Bollocks", "rubbish", suggesting I mean we should give random people off the street a shot and giving fucking Darlow a chance up top Good night.

Was played out of position (he got 47 minutes over 3 games in his natural position), 2 years younger than Anderson is now.

Maybe, maybe not. We'll never know.

Considering he managed to carve his way back to the PL from League 1, maybe the coaches/manager were wrong and should have given him a chance?

Chopra got a decent amount of chances at least. Was deemed not good enough and was moved on. Armstrong never got a decent chance so who knows how good he could have been.

If Darlow was 19 years old, had played 3 minutes for us in a competitive PL game previously, but had done well against high tier opponents in pre-season and gotten glowing compliments from the manager, following a solid spell on loan the previous season then the only way to find out if he would make a decent goalkeeper at this level would be to test him out in competitive games.

Only one way to find out, which is playing him.

I'll admit my reasons are biased in that I really really want this club to be one that has the balls to take risks by giving our own youth players a good amount of time on the pitch, even if it (at least in the short term) means we may not field the absolute strongest team available. Would much more prefer it like that over the current top teams in the league who prefers to buy older established players while having a bunch of forever-loanees never being able to settle anywhere.

There's quite a gap between the fourth tier in England and Mainz, Benfica and Atalanta too, and he handled those games as good as anyone else.

Just play him together with Joelinton and Bruno ahead of Shelvey, Longstaff and Willock. He'll do great.