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Joelintons finishing > Sons finishing

His solo run and shot was highlight of the match for me. Burst out laughing. It's unreal how good he is.

Could just keep our formation and play Hall - Schar - Livramento

Would be nice with ex. Koopmeiners if we were to qualify for play-offs in CL or EL, but if we don't then Miley has shown he can step up seamlessly. Longstaff & Anderson are back soon too. It's just the immediate period before the transfer window opens that will be nerve wrecking as we're on bare bones if one more central midfielder gets injured.

ova the moon thank you

Reet Howe, time to hoy the young'uns on

Lascelles and Joelinton are shit and needs to be sold.

I'm genuinely just laughing at it at this point. Who was it pre-match that called the Lascelles goal today?

Crap. If it had gone a bit lower Sanchez would have got his hand on it though.

So which one is it?

Didn't know Sterling was the goat at free kicks. Shame. Regroup and go again.

Fucking hell Gordon & Joelinton don't do this to us. Just pretend like you're fine until after the game so we don't have to see this.

fluffing hekk it's match day again

Gordon is much better up top for the pressing. Don't know why Joelinton don't seem capable at it up top considering how much of a monster he is from midfield. ------Gordon------ Joelinton----Almiron Willock-Bruno-whomever is fit (swap position with Bruno if it is Miley) Hall-schar-Lascelles-Trippier/Livramento -------Pope-------- Joelinton and Willock to cover and swap positions as they feel like. Edit: Trippier for Hall if he can't play against Chelsea. Livramento at RB

If Howe wants someone, I'm onboard (even if I were to voice questions/concerns about the player on here) with it. I would assume that Pope was a signing for the medium term, and if someone were to replace him I'd hope it would be a transformational player much like Botman, Bruno & Isak. I don't think Ramsdale is that player, but happy for Howe to prove me wrong if that was the case. At least I wouldn't have a minor heart attack every time the ball is played back to the keeper when the nearest opponent is 30m away.

Looking back it's actually pretty insane how much football we played when young. Basically every break time at school, as much as we could convince the teacher to in gymnastics, every day after school incl. 1 sometimes 2 days of youth team practice and one youth team game, and every so often during the weekends unless you had other plans. Still 99% of us were miles and miles away from being considered genuine talents. Goes to show how narrow the eye of the needle is to make it to the top.

Was really good in the beginning around age 5-7. Played as a libero and scored quite a few goals. Highlight being limiting an opponent to 2 goals while playing in front of a keeper who had brought his TMNT backpack and spent the entire match playing fighting against imaginary foot clans, and scoring the equalizing goal from midfield at the end of the game. Got stuck at RB from age 13-16 when we started playing 11-a-side which is always a bad sign though so I had a very early peak. Retired at 16.

You get no arguments from me on those points, but his contract isn't up until another 4 years as it stands. My main point was I don't see the reason why we would extend that duration to 5. He'll be 34 when the new contract is up. Why would the club want to carry those improved wages for another season when we (hopefully) are in a position where he will be nowehere near even being on the bench? By that time you'd hope we can also start harvesting the fruits of an improve youth setup as well so we aren't in danger of not meeting any kind of quotas for competitions.

Would have preferred if we just gave him a wage increase without extending his contract. He's done good lately, is a good character and bonus for being a boyhood fan so it would be the right thing to do and send a signal to all other players that if they improve they will be rewarded, but if he is even remotely close (like Ritchie is now) to getting into our team in 4+ years time, something has gone terribly wrong at some point between now and then like

Wasn't there something about Everton taking the piss in their accounting wrt how much they lost due to covid which is not calculated into FFP?

He has played several players who were carrying injuries, even before the injury list got to the point it is now, and he hasn't really shown that he can manage and rotate a squad competing in 4 competitions. That being said, this media driven "pressure" stuff are just fairytales amplified on here during a slow news week. Besides Pep he is probably the safest manager in the league right now, and rightly so. He's not infallible but he's pretty fucking close to being it

Stop going on twitter.

If we let him get time on the pitch instead of drowning him behind new players he'll be good enough to start for us regularly in 2 years. Needs to add a bit more muscle around those lanky legs for that pace & power so he can more confidently use his awareness and technique to shrug off the press when he received the ball and carry or pass it forward.

He's done nothing to warrant getting subbed at HT in the games he's started, and Howe has kept on players who's done way worse before, so I think it was a pre-planned sub on both occasions, thus won't fuck him mentally at all.

Of course we have, but always good to add context as to why