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In the medium term we need to be planning for Isak to be our main forward and build everything else around that. Wilson might even become backup fairly quickly.

I never believed we'd sign him TBH, but admittedly that's not based on a hell of a lot.

Did he?

Doubt they allow scousers to get to senior positions in the civil service.

Bournemouth will probably go down either way, so I guess they may as well make a change to someone who's not so frustrated or where there's not so much conflict with their strategy.

It's a shame about Bruno because midfield is their biggest weakness. Also if ASM isn't available to make Alexander-Arnold defend a bit more. Diaz looks in top form so that could be a worry for whichever RB we can field. Defeat but not by loads.

Can’t see us buying a RB when we have 3 on the books. It’ll take a fairly long time to get a squad good enough so we’re not affected by injuries to people like Bruno and Trippier. That’s just something we have to live with.

I thought Gerrard looked much better than Lampard when they both first started in the PL. Still probably is, but it's a low bar.

Kane is an absolutely twat so I want him to achieve as little as possible But I don’t really care if Al is top scorer or someone else, he’s a legend whatever.

I’d say ASM and Trippier are doubts based on how they finished the last game. But we don’t know.

That argument is fine. But some people were saying ‘you’d have been complaining if we had gone out’ etc, which implies that the outcome is important. It’s equally fair to say you would have kept Bruno on the bench and taken the risk. Just saying outcome is influencing a lot of the arguments on both sides.

Serviceable midfielder who is better than everyone except the Brasileiros. And maybe Anderson, but different role.

Not really in this case, outcome bias works both ways. If you can say he should have come on because we won, you can say he shouldn’t because he got injured. They’re both outcome biases.

I think 30 minutes chatting to Eddie Howe makes Isak many times more suitable for our system than Wood. Bedding him in’s a waste of time.

I don’t know how good he is but that is a massive fee.

Even at the end of the season you could see he was on the right track. Trying to pass more and get into more space. Think he’s going to have a superb season once Bruno and Isak are in place.

We're looking for a first-team CM though, I don't think backup to Bruno will be a priority.

Which is correct.

When he plays on the left he needs the ball threaded inside for him. Which we can’t do when we don’t really have good attacks and Bruno isn’t playing.

Don’t think he was especially bad today, didn’t really notice him. I think we put in one decent cross while he was on and the defender nearly scored an OG. Just need to ride out the rest of his contract and wave him off into the sunset.

Can’t believe we had 21 shots like.

Yep.

Course it does. 1) NUFC have shown they don’t rate him that highly by buying Pope - feels bad. 2) Man Utd are in Europe so likely significantly more games there.

Immense, absolutely crushes the defender.

That is shocking