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I can't remember a time where the PL has been as stacked in terms of top quality and promising managers as there is today. Out of the current managers, if Howe was to spontaneously combust this evening, I wouldn't mind any of the current ones to replace him bar Gerrard, Lampart and Lage.

He seems to have the ability to play across all midfield positions really, maybe with the exception of DM although he seems quite strong in tackles/duels. On the wing his pace will always be a limiting factor on how well he can do imo, so I'd like him to replace Willock for a while and see how he does with a good run in the team. Willock did some of his best work for us under Bruce coming off the bench, so is a good option to have against tired legs as well.

Agreed. Although not as blatant and dangerous, it was similar to the Gravesen assault on Bernard. It's good VAR can pick up on those things. The problem imo is the inconsistency and incompetency of the referees.

We've reviewed ourselves and found nothing wrong.

Was mentioned in beginning of the match he had the worst save % in the league of 43 or 44%.

Will he get any interest? Looks a complete passenger in this game and was at fault for Brightons two first goals.

Was certain you were being sarcastic one post earlier. Not sure anymore.

If there ever was a decision to push doubters of conspiracy over the hump, the decision to overturn our goal was it. Has VAR team come out and explained why it was disallowed?

Fuck the fuck off

You said you were trying to explain how protecting the full backs works in a diamond formation - presumably to allow us to play 2 up front which means changing the system. Was just wondering if that is what you want Howe to do, or if it's just theoretical speculation of how it could work.

Do you want Howe to change the system to fit Wilson and Isak into the same team?

Henry didn't come to Arsenal under the same premise though. Wenger had coached Henry at Clairefontaine and thought he was a striker even back then. Henry was then brought in on the back of a disappointing spell at Juve where he had not performed well as LWB/LCM/LW. Isak is coming in as our record signing, on the back of doing well as a striker his entire career. If he ends up not performing well as a striker it would make more sense to try him elsewhere at a later stage, but why try to give him a new unfamiliar role now? It's easy to say position doesn't matter it's how he's utilized in that position, but by putting him out wide and not asking him to do the defensive work Almiron does, we will have to give up defensive cover elsewhere, in addition to having less guarantees that his new role will work well while we know what he can do as a striker. If we ask him to do Alimiron work, he'll have way less energy to do the offsensive stuff we bought him to do in the first place. I just don't see why Howe would revamp our whole play style that has worked so well just to accommodate one player. Imagine how great it would be to have the option of putting Wilson on for Isak or vice versa during a game? We've been crying out for a bench with options. Now that we have a chance to have that, people want to shoehorn our perceived best players into the starting line-up while maintaining an uninspiring bench?

I hope it is worded a bit wrong. Of course no PL club wants to do us a favor. Why should they?

When Howe says a player is "close" and "we'll have to see" i get the feeling now that it always means the player will not play and he only says it to keep opposition managers guessing. Do we have an example of a player ending up playing that I can't remember?

Maddison, Barnes & Regen all pretty slow so are never able to get past their man, and heavily rely on having someone to play through. Vardy not fast enough anymore. They are so toothless with this squad.

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Sounds like the moment I typed in the match thread that our players should be instructed to run to the point they least want the ball to land to have the best chance of getting to the second ball from Wood.

More overtime = more playing time so that stat doesn't really give a good indication of how much/little time we wasted. I hate watching Everton waste time every time they take the lead these days, so as long as the referees are consistent with adding to the overtime due to time wasting I don't have much to complain about.

It's certainly possible that you and others see something I don't see or don't understand Will be interesting to see what Howe ends up doing when/if everyone is fit at the same time no matter what.

Seems a waste to spend all his energy on doing Almiron-work operating as security for Trippier.

Not many teams in this league can field a 4th choice CB of his quality.

Did well with the assist and worked hard, but got stressed too easily when he had time on the ball after we took the lead, resulting in handing the ball over to Liverpool and inviting more pressure onto us.

Agreed. They feel threatned. As they should be.