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and there we have it.

Lots of sloppiness on display tonight. Spurs will murder us on Sunday if we continue like this.

Retire him.

Like Botman and Lascelles, we need to discount Willock from any squad planning for the season tbh

Yeah, that looks like a damaged hamstring to me. Usually 2 or 3 months to recover?

See you December Willock

wrong thread

Can't say I'm keen on Isak starting. Need to protect him as much as we can.

A PIF owned Saudi club will force us into a bidding war then beat us on deadline day lol

Absolutely. Our best players will not unreasonably assume lower top half is where we're going to be stuck for the foreseeable future. Our top players deserve better than that. A major announcement on stadium or training facilities could offer some re-assurance on progress, but the fruits of those will be several years away or more.

We're also facing half the season without our first choice centre back and his backup. Avoiding another injury crisis and hopefully Tonali will be our only salvation in terms of improvement.

Well, we signed Lewis Hall. Wasn't cheap either.

Can't see us any higher than 7th this season, so we're likely counting on the FA Cup winners having already qualified for Europe. We really need to win the League Cup tbh. Think a trophy will help encourage Isak, Bruno and Gordon to stay. Otherwise 7th and Europa or even 8-9th and nowt and they'll want out.

Gonna need Dan Burn to work hard on his distribution and runs. He's got a long season ahead.

Absolutely. Losing our best next summer seems probable if we don't strengthen enough to achieve 4-5th. There's huge long-term implications. 6-8th could end up being our long term ceiling. Like it or not, we're not currently on an upward trajectory - be it squad, training ground or stadium.

Don't think it's particularly happy camp right now. Losing Staveley and Ghodoussi seems to have been a bit of a blow to Howe and has left a hole in the club, we don't seem particularly organised on the FFP and transfer front, and a couple of key players don't seem in the right state of mind - either itching for a move or suffering personal turmoil. Isak must be getting sick of having average at best players such as Longstaff and Murphy behind him. And then you realise City, Arse and Pool look nailed on for 1st, 2nd and 3rd - leaving a strong looking Villa, Spurs, Chelsea, Brighton and still possibly Man Utd knocking us down the pecking order once again.

He's too good for us right now.

Liverpool, City, Arse, Chelsea, Villa, Brighton are all looking pretty decent, Spurs will be up there, and Man U will around as usual too. If this remains our squad for the season, even 7th could be a stretch, as the mindset doesn't seem quite there any more, and Howe seems somewhat unhappy as well.

Hopefully season really starts with our traditional 4-6 goals against Spurs

Shit, sorry. my mistake

disaster

ahhh fuckkkkkkkkkk off man

A shit as we'd been for much of the game, Bournmouth are becoming a slightly lesser Liverpool to us, aren't they.

Unless we bring in some quality over the next week, my prediction of 7th this season is looking a tad optimistic

This is atrocious and deeply concerning. Half the team either don't appear fit or can't pass, and Gordon looks like he wants to be at another club.