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Talking about how Man U fans were wondering about the wisdom of signing a 33 year old Cavani, but what a striker you can buy if you don't worry about the long term. Hope we can pick up these sort of players if we get the takeover.

Loads mocked the signing, but his record is exceptional and he has always looked in great shape and not one that was deteriorating physically at all.

They didn't even have to buy him. The guy was on a free.

Ole at the wheel 

Very interesting. They really should adjust that so that the Champions League teams don't play that early on Saturday. It's a bit daft.

What a signing the guy is proving to be.

Pretending to be injured after bottling the pen?

Seems like it

Maupay man

Think the guy is just really discouraged at this point. He would also benefit from a bit more direction on the pitch.

Under Rafa, when Miggy first joined he made a lot more runs in behind and was killing teams with his pace that way.

Under Bruce he drifts around way too much, usually in deeper areas of the pitch, which doesn't do him any favours.

The one thing I will say about the striking of the ball is that most of those miss hits were with his left foot, which is his weaker one.

In general though, his balance and coordination is not the best and that plays a big part in his poor finishing, and him being pushed off the ball and falling over at times.

He does link play really well though and releases the ball to teammates in good time. Would have been even more useful if we had some pace and forward runs down the wings as well for him to thread the ball to.

Don't understand how he scored so few for Bournemouth last season. Makes no sense.

Maybe dramatic but I think I’m done watching our games while Bruce is manager now. I’ll just follow the score and watch those 3 minute sky sports clips at full time. That was actually awful today against one of the worst sides we’ve played in a while. There was absolutely no gamelan or alteration to a system that wasn’t even nearly working and this is every single week.

 

You can point fingers at Ashley for all of his failings or an on/off takeover but we’ve gone so far backwards as a team from Rafa to Bruce with an objectivity much stronger squad. I don’t think the players are buying into it anymore either.

It's why it is so frustrating when we pull out a result.

Because Bruce can then just continue getting away with it.

It was a shocking performance tonight again, with Darlow really keeping us in it and then 5 mins at the end and all anyone will see is a 2 nil win.

It's sickening. It really is.

All those times wanting a win and we don’t. Hope for a defeat and we can’t even do that. This fucking club.

Honestly, it's so infuriating man

This guy is something else. Didn't know it was possible to play 90 mins and be so invisible.

We're in 10th. :lol:

 

It's so tragic it really is

How serving up the utter garbage we do every week gets you in 10th place I'll never know

Joelinton has genuinely been quite good in this match. Never going to be a goalscorer, but he's shown some positive attributes this season.

 

Gets into great positions playing off the front man and uses the ball well. Just has such poor shooting ability.

Looks decent other than the key attribute needed to be a striker, finishing.

Yeah, his coordination and balance are really bad, and it plays into his shooting and heading of the ball.

Cannot believe this, like

Going to have to listen to the shite from Bruce and his stupid groupies in the media all weekend now.

It's kind of depressing to be honest

Joelinton has genuinely been quite good in this match. Never going to be a goalscorer, but he's shown some positive attributes this season.

Gets into great positions playing off the front man and uses the ball well. Just has such poor shooting ability.

van Aanholt's final ball has been terrible all game. Simple slide ball across for the win and he lashes it. Terrible.

Is Hendrick still on?

Game is almost over and I haven't seen him do a single thing.

Almiron hauled off

Of course. Bruce is just tragic at this point

It’s quite impressive that Hendrick can be so anonymous with the hair-do and beard that he has.

Absolutely nothing coming down that side.

Why didn't he just start Murphy there?

We're so much better lined up in this formation and yet we never play it.

Lewis' backpasses are really pissing me off now.

It's really out of hand.

Palace look worse than us

Can't believe Eze is still on the left and he's using Schlupp as a striker when Batshuayi and Benteke are on the bench.

Prime's not working for a load of people apparently. Tried in multiple apps, restarts, etc

 

Oh well

That's shocking. Don't understand why it's working for some people and not others. Weird.

Almiron is on the left and Joelinton is playing off Wilson. Caused an early problem for Palace with both linking up.

IF ASM had been on the right would have been very interesting. But Hendrick ...