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Exactly, it’s not like he flew in trying to hurt the guy. It’s not a red every time you kick someone’s shin.

Ironic this commentator talking about things that are a caricature of themselves.

Didn’t look a red to me. Ref should’ve given a yellow.

Mental teams these.

I think pretty much all of those players could start for a top 4 team. You’re right about the two halves of the squad though, I think that’s what makes it so hard to assess how good we should be.

Maybe not right now but he will be.

That’s what I meant, typo.

It’s too early in Michell’s work with us to say anything about how he’s done IMO. The timing of his arrival was unfortunate but he still had the chance to make us a much better club.

Surely Ten Hag wanted all those players.

Absolute chancer, fair play with how much free time and money he’s made for absolutely nothing.

I mean, it’s always better to sign a cheaper better player.

Well we need both. Maddison paired with Bruno and Longstaff would be suicide. We signed one of the highest rated young midfielders in Europe, it was a great signing. The annoyance is that the betting thing happened and he couldn’t establish himself straight away.

Tonali was desperately needed, Longstaff was starting games for us. Sadly he got banned for a year.

We definitely seem to Have a more basic coaching staff than really elite clubs. But then, we haven’t been a really elite club for a long time. I would like to see Howe go and recruit a couple of new coaches TBH, but I have no idea how a manager goes about doing that. Must managers are very close to their team and work with the same staff for years.

No.

Are you confident all of those are better than Howe?

I didn’t see the game today but I feel like he should’ve just started the exact same team as the last match. Bollocks to tiredness and all that shit. They were in good spirits and had just rattled the best team in the league. Taking out Gordon and Tonali seemed an error. That said, people have said we played well in the first half so I dunno.

I also hope you’re wrong.

But standing at all was for fans, wasn’t it?

IIRC the second bit of the quote and the ‘unbelievable things’ is about winning the league and trophies etc, achieving the lofty ambitions that Staveley set. He also said that everything she said is still the ultimate ambition. It’s just more difficult because of the rules.

And how average he is.

If possible he would be class, yeah. But fear he's done too well for us to get him at a reasonable price.

Players wanting to leave is fair enough, I was more talking about actively planning to sell our stars to buy more prospects.

Of course not.

The midfield issues are caused by being so bad at retaining the ball as well. Killer in a team which wants to flood forward quickly.