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He played more games as a striker than a winger last season.

He's been excellent for Lille the last couple of seasons. Thought he was supposed to go to AC Milan together with Botman though?

Guess it's reasonable to expect him to improve this season, but I wouldn't count on Gordon providing season saving numbers considering he only managed 4 goals in 40 games last season.

Using Brunos alleged need for instant success (which he himself has disputed) as an argument for paying more than the club is prepared to do for players is one of the most boring arguments I read on here.

I've heard people saying that, and granted I only saw about 5 matches they played last season but every game I saw he looked like a do nothing central midfielder in the Jack Colback/Jeff Hendrick/Tom Davies mould.

Wait...the Leicester regen is actually rated by their own fans? He's looked like Jack Colback 2.0 every time I've seen him play. Turns 24 in a month, yet too early to give him responsibility? Must be their Shola.

Petty forum grievances (getting compared to RTG ffs ) and ancient politics aside, really looking forward to seeing them back in the PL. Always had a soft spot for them, probably out of nostalgia having started following English football in early/mid 90's. Will be hoping they win every match bar the two against us.

Was really only adressing those that has said they prefer Maddison over Paqueta and cited PL experience as one of the main reasons. Whether we can/could/can't get him wasn't really the point of my post at all. Fully appreciate the club can see Maddison as a viable option as he's clearly a very good player.

Don't understand people who'd prefer Maddison ahead of Paqueta due to PL experience at all. Paqueta is bigger, stronger and has a higher work rate, all traits that are particularly important in this league so I see him as less of risk than Maddison. Paqueta is younger and also seems like a nice person which is always a positive compared to the turbo cunt Maddison appears to be, so he'd better score some absolute screamers for us, quickly, to win me over if we get him.

There's always a risk that youth talents don't develop into good players, but I'd rather find out now than later if he has what it takes. If he does, we've got a home grown talent that can continue to grow with the club. If he doesn't then it should be fairly easy to move him on next summer. Assuming he will be played in the midfield 3 like he has this pre-season, we do have other players to that are ahead of him in Joelinton, Bruno, Shelvey, Willock & Longstaff. He'd be an excellent option to have on the bench and start in cup games or cover for squad rotations/injuries. Bonus that he is able to play as a winger as well, although I'm not sure he has the pace to be really effective in that postion in the PL, similarly to Maddison.

Not watched much L1, but that can't be true?

How have Man City and Liverpool introduced their youngsters to the first team? The only current players I can think of is TAA, Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliot & Phil Foden. TAA had already played 12 first team appearances and been an unused sub on Liverpools bench 16 times at the point where Anderson is now. The following season (the equivalent season Anderson is about to start now) he played in 33 matches and was unused sub in 18. Never been loaned out. The equivalent season Elliot is about to start now, Jones had already played in 10 first team matches, and went on to feature in 34 first team games. Has never been loaned out. Harvey Elliot is 1 year younger than Anderson, and was loaned out to Blackburn two seasons ago, made 11 first team appearances for Liverpool last season and looks like he will be more involved this season. Foden at the point where Anderson is now had already featured in 10 and 26 matches respectively in the two previous seasons. The following season (the equivalent season Anderson is about to start now) he played in 38 games. I don't see the problem in giving Anderson a chance to feature fairly regularly in the first team based on his loan spell last season and pre-season performances now. I don't see, especially with the support team around him, how that is putting too much pressure on him.

Got to keep in mind they were just taken over a year earlier too with lots of highly rated talents coming in two windows prior to ADUG coming in, and it took 4 seasons for them to break into the top 4.

Well fuck. Thought for some reason this game started same time as yesterday, and I may actually have been browsing this forum around kick-off and still missed it. Looked promising on the highlights though!

Good player that would obviously improve us, but he's a little rat cunt and I don't want him here. Would rather we focus on developing Elliot Anderson who is a very similar player to him imo.

Can't speak for anyone singing/chanting to him in public, but in the online sphere I don't get the feeling that it's love or admiration of him as much as it is a counter reaction to the irrational hate he gets from people, who can very easily choose not to watch his content, just because he's doing something he enjoys doing.

Anderson definitely good enough to keep and give ample game time this season. Hasn't looked out of place against Mainz, Benfica or Atalanta.

Fuck the sound as long as it is watchable.

Should just shut it off and get Howey to live stream via youtube or twitch from his phone. Would be 10x better than this.

Trippier with a seizure.

Impressive that it's possible to fuck a stream up so badly in 2022.

On the flip side you want as many players as possible to be able to come into the team and know their place in case of suspensions, injury, rotations.

We got our best attacking player of the pre-season starting today.

Ofc it's not going to be a all purples playing tonight considering there's a game on tomorrow as well. Wtf was people expecting?