Conjo

He's allegedly on £130k a week while Bruno is on £160k (going by consensus of all the websites that report it when you google them). Don't think money plus Nunes is such a bad idea in theory.

I think Gordon is a smart player who understands when to press, when/where to make runs and timing them well. For me it's his dribbling and consistency of good quality passing that lets him down. When him and the team has managed to create a 1v1 against a defender for him the next move is usually a backwards pass or losing possession.

The whole reason we've brought in someone like Mitchell is so that we have consistency and follow a certain philosophy in recruitment so we don't need to do a squad re-build whenever a new manager joins, so if there's a deal to be made in January for a player that would strengthen our starting 11 in a position we should strengthen, we shouldn't hold off in case we decide to change manager further down the line. That being said I have no desire for us to change manager. Not even a bottom half finish would change that for me.

How I missed all the HILARIOUS and original gardening jokes

We're absolutely not, in any way, "desperate" for a new first choice keeper.

No pressure

Signing up to a forum only to trash the best manager we've had in decades and contribute nothing else. On the ignore list you go.

CALLED IT (almost)

The fuck are our players afraid of? Why are we always 1-2m away from the Brentford players, and why do we refuse to tackle them?

Murphy MOM so far.

Get stuck in ffs.

Well done Miggy Isak

So 18 years old Tom Watson is a genuine top prospect then?

Tino gives Longstaff and Murphy the same challenges as they do to him.

Hope it's just the flu or some passing illness related thing rather than an injury.

Was about to write something about the "trifecta on the right" as well. They are all functional players, but neither of them are very good ball players so when they all play together it's usually a bit embarrasing.

At least he wouldn't be able to score or assist against us.

Good visualitsation of how he grew into the game. First 30 minutes he was absolutely woeful.

He can drop deeper and be more involved in general play while also getting into goalscoring positions. The two are not exclusive....

Agreed. I think getting Isak more involved in general play has been just as much an individual issue on Isaks behalf as it has been for how Howe sets us up. I just refuse to think Howe has been instructing him to only play on the shoulder of the defenders.

5 minutes

Probably yeah. Key thing for me was that he managed to get himself more involved in the build up. Great passes to play through Hall and Murphy most notably, but rarely seen him have the ball as much in general as he had yesterday.

Didn't see that the ball was deflected for the first goal until after the game, so in retrospect can't really blame him for that. He was really shaky after their first goal though. Didn't feel like he had any confidence for the remainder of the game. The pass to Livramento at the end of the first half though. He's done that once before this season and I just laugh at how uncharacteristic it is when he does it His distribution was really good in general yesterday.

Could see Fulham or West Ham being interested in him. Don't think Villa, Bournemouth or Brentford (unless they sell one of or don't think its worthwhile to continue betting on Schade and Lewis-Potter to come good) would be interested or needing him. That being said, I want us to have a squad with competition for places, so ideally he'll stay here.