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Yeah, good point. Last season Poch often played Palmer on the right wing, but he had freedom to find spaces to influence the game by coming inside, with Gusto overlapping. Was very effective. Could see a similar setup if Pedro is played there.

More of a free role from that position would work IMO. Especially because of how well Tino gets up and down the line to provide width. Would allow for Pedro to come inside and find spaces to pick up playing off Isak. Bruno could then be a bit more reserved in how much he pushes forward too.

This. Instead it now gets brought up regarding any player that has ever had any kind of strop or fiery moment on the pitch!

Guehi replacement perhaps?

One of the most annoying thing about negotiating with Prem clubs, is that they will drag it on throughout the summer, and so we're looking at not getting players in early if we are insisting on this. No surprise that all the deals we are seeing done early are with players being brought in from outside of the Prem. Be interesting to see if we have an earlier cut of point to avoid the nonsense that took place with Guehi last year.

Yeah, the over reaction to that game was crazy. At least he was trying something different. Instead of always just going with the same setups and players all the time. And like you said they were really good in the other games.

What is Targett's value though, like £5 million?

Not sure why he's being selected. Having said that when he was first picked there were some people on here that said he was a top player that they'd have at Newcastle!

England's Curtis Jones

I thought Carsley had the right idea. Was freshening the team up by bringing through a lot of the younger players from the under 21s. He was also playing much more attacking football, and experimented a fair bit with his lineups. This is looking like a step backwards with Tuchel.

Why do England keep hiring these dull football managers that don't really get their teams playing any decent football going forward?

Yeah, Gordon's homework should be to work more on being effective on both sides of the pitch, and to be more open minded to it. Need the wingers to be far more capable of doing so.

Yeah, would be great if we could get someone in that can feature anywhere across the front line. Both Gordon and Barnes really didn't look convincing enough on the right and it limited us so much, as we couldn't really mix things up and play them together effectively. Would be amazing if Pedro can play on the right and be productive, and make that position his own, while being able to fill in elsewhere. Villa used Morgan Rogers behind the striker, left, right and even as an 8 in central midfield and he always caused problems and was a threat. We could really do with some more players with the versatility to be a threat in different positions. Starting with that pesky right side.

Now that's interesting.

Fair play. Looks like they're looking to keep their best players and try and continue to challenge for European places too.

Yes, it was an exaggerated figure to emphasize the point. Even up till now you're still struggling to get your head around such a simple thing. So you believe whatever you want. I can't help you.

Great game.

Such a bad pen from Morata

Sensational play from Mendes. Left the guy defending him in the dust.

Bernardo Silva diving again. Good ref to see through it.

Great goal Nuno Mendes. Good game this.

Pedri should do better there.

Yeah, maybe. There's a chance it's all a lot of noise being fed to local journos to throw teams off other targets.

Uncanny timing