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I can’t be arsed debating it. I watched Shearer for 10 years here. I think Isak will be a better footballer if he isn’t already and have a better career.

Good chat. Enjoyed it.

I think Isak is a slight improvement away from being better than Shearer - for us, certainly. I rate him very highly, if that wasn’t obvious.

Isak is our best forward since Shearer just for his entire contribution, and to be honest he’s a slight improvement away from being better. Wilson our best goalscorer and out and out striker since Shearer.

That’s the point surely. We finished 4th way ahead of Villa and Brighton etc last season and they’ve got more matches too. Spurs have lost their best player. The whole point of the transfer window was to prepare for those additional fixtures and try to consolidate our place, surely? If we finish 7th or 8th the owner will ask why the money was spent as it was on players who thus far aren’t able / being allowed to contribute.

We did the latter under Alan fkin Pardew dude. Top 6 is the absolute minimum we need to aim for given the early season mitigating circumstances.

Not if we want to encourage continual investment and keep our top players happy.

My attitude is we’re capable of more. If you want to see that as negative, that’s on you dude.

Such a defeatist, negative attitude. We had CL football to offer but have no chance of buying proven top players?

Well yeah, that’s the question I’m asking.

I’ve said, multiple times, that there’s far more to be positive about than negative but saying ‘great point, we go again’ is worthless. My honest opinion is that the transfer window has seen our competitors make far, far better decisions than us that go beyond budget constraints, and that we’re owned by people who rightly or wrongly want immediate tangible results when they spend money.

He’s fucked and can’t be blamed for it. He’s 33 and playing far too much football.

I did look. You’re making things up.

The fact we have a significantly more congested schedule this season and needed players the manager could trust to play?

Sorry, I don’t agree we have. I see a good side that hasn’t been improved by the money spent.

I really didn’t go on about it religiously and I defy you to prove me wrong. I mentioned it was odd that we did that without a replacement. Bottom line, we’ve lost a lot of ground on our competitors and as much as I’d like to be positive I think not signing JM, in particular, and wasting so much of the budget is a sliding doors moment and will be scrutinised by the owner when he asks why we’ve gone backwards at the end of the season.

Eh? Shelvey?

They’re not trusted as backup though. If ever there was a time to use backup it was that second half. And we simply didn’t have the budget / latitude to prioritise the future over what we needed not to go backwards with our competitors all making their starting Xls far better.

Who signed Hall and Liv? They were either signed for the future or signed by someone else. Either way it’s not what was needed.

Not really sure who’s even been close tbh.

It is pretty bizarre mind. Clearly neither of them are trusted to get minutes which makes it all the more baffling. Dan Burn still playing every minute of every game.

Anyone got a means of watching this? In the States and really struggling. Cheers

2 keepers, effectively 5-6 full backs and Willock.

He’s been done at top level for half a decade. I understand him being decent for morale or whatever behind the scenes but I’m uncomfortable with him having the place in the squad he does and have been for a while. Surely personalities worth listening to don’t spend year after year warming benches into retirement instead of playing football?

I think I’d genuinely lose a lot of respect for Howe were he to start Ritchie in a PL game. He won’t, of course. He knows Ritchie’s completely done at anything approaching a competitive level.