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Yeah I think it's crazy everyone is complaining about who we sign,will wait to see it come together.

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/article/harvey-barnes-at-leicester-202223-scout-report-tactical-analysis-tactics https://theathletic.com./4241329/2023/02/24/harveybarnes-leicester-premierleague-analysis/

Barnes is way more productive than ASM has been. He provides more goal threat. ASM may dribble more but doesn't offer that much in way of assists or goals and is often frustrating. Having someone that can score outside or inside box compliments Isaak and Wilson when teams try to stay deep. I think it's a really good signing for us. He can probably help out more defensively than ASM as well. Never quite get the negativity considering where we have been. I trust Howe/Ashworth and the rest to get it right more often than wrong so going to trust that and they must have seen something to think he's a good fit with the team/tactics etc.

I think it's a class signing. If they got chiesa as well they have 3 players in Gordon, Barnes and Chiesa that could play in most positions across that front line in a 4-3-3 or even in a 4-2-3-1 and the midfield behind that has the legs and ability to dominate midfields. Still need a left back hopefully and maybe a young central defender

Hendrick for 20 million? Manquillo as well, Lascelles for 40 million. FFP sorted

He started there didn't he ?

The stamina of our players improved massively last summer tbf, they couldn't run for 20 mins under Captain Kebab, confident he will improve massively.

They moved the ball well yesterday and we're at us. Longstaff needs a rest but does the things Joelinton and Willock don't with the cover he provides and he helps out Trips and Murphy on the right. I think he's very underrated because he doesn't do the sexy stuff. He's pretty consistent as well.

He's still been part of a team as a whole that hasn't conceded a lot of goals. He's not great and needs an upgrade but has played his part in getting us here. Same as the Longstaff crack, people would probably notice if he wasn't in the team. He helps when Trips moves up pitch Burn slots in at times to make a 3. It's about balance which is maybe why Howe has him in there from tactical perspective. He has been making a lot of mistakes though and is limited at Left Back so I get it but just look at team performance as a whole and we have been so good at times.

3 away games off the trot probably didn't help yesterday. Hopefully we can turn Spurs over next week and we will nearly be there. We have a pretty decent run left and I could see Arsenal not wanting to come and play us at home at all. I never thought we would be here with 8 games left in 3rd having lost only 4 games. Apart from today we look better than Man U and Spurs and I don't think the other teams will catch us.

Massive overreaction to a bad performance. We could definitely upgrade but he's been part of a defence that's been solid most season and we have lost same number of games as Man City and have 3rd best goal difference in league. Just a really bad off day and tbf Villa played well.

Been asleep this whole game, worst performance this season

Can't believe we are complaining about this being horrible. Steve Bruce says hello ? we aren't as good as we were earlier in the season but hard to get annoy6at being 5th right now

Yeah our wretched form unbeaten in 18 league games. It's so awful at the moment it's unreal ? we have been on runs of draws before and then started run of wins again. We go into a final where we have a real chance compared to previous times

Shelvey has only played 3 games this season, we are where we are without him being available anyway. I think we have strengthened and also having ASM and Isak available will help attacking and Gordon/Ashby seem like good buys as well. Centre will be short but we have a few options to rejig formations given our resources. I would have snapped your hand off for this team with Shelvey gone a year ago. He doesn't really fit the tempo and even if you think Longstaff is limited he is fit and plays a part.

He's a 21 year old kid getting loads of abuse and scapegoated while showing more effort that most last season to keep those Scouse makem cunts up. I trust our lot to have checked everything on him and have faith anyone we sign has a purpose as they have shown that so far. A kid like him with Trips etc around him could be good as he has talent.

Underated signing at the time but he's been nothing short of class is most games he's played for us, decent with the ball as well and so consistent. It's good we have 3 centre backs that are decent on the ball and show a bit of composure.

I thought he looked decent and only 20.

First comment by a mackem ?

2 very practical signings so far and expect a fair few to go out including Darlow for £5m? And probably money now aside to cover the players with greater potential. Think we will be ok by start of season and now have 2 good keepers which is important given Darlow limitations and Dubravka injury record

Personally think we will sign players under age of 26 mostly due to age of the squad. Season has just finished and will take few weeks to sign players and I bet we end up in a much stronger position or at least as strong as villa do based on nothing other than the Owners having ambition.

He's not shite, he was Bruced for 2 years and didn't train or get any coaching at all. No surprise he's looked decent last 2 games after being coached and playing in a better setup. Happy to see how he develops next year and then get rid. Cant believe amount of people that would complain about this. Complain when they give Ritchie and Gayle new deals ?

That fella from Bournemouth has been unreal and has shown what a manager with a plan that will coach players and work on tactics can do compared to Bruce that had this looking so disjointed. Somehow Howe has brought squad together, improved a huge number of the players already here, has no problem implementing a back 4, has us pressing high up the pitch without getting caught short often and has the players able to run for 90 mins when previously they were blowing out their arse after 10. Our injury list doesn't seem too bad either. Almost like he's professional as fuck and knows what he's doing. Proved the fans right all along that Bruce was the problem and deserved every bit the abuse he got for stealing a living. If he was still in place we would have been relegated months ago.

Got to be a software bug, fixed in next version of Fifa

Wtf is this ????