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Can’t see any way they promised him the captaincy just for his contract. They might have thought Trippier was on the way out and we needed a passionate captain who loves the club and plays every game.

I don’t think he’s that famous in Brazil, but don’t know about dedicated national team fans.

Is the cartel all the clubs who voted for PSR?

I wouldn’t say we’re in decline, we’re just not in incline. I only managed a minute of the video, so that’s my view

Osula

I think they’re not justifying the performances, it’s more that there’s scope to catch up quickly so it’s not a lost cause. And to highlight how competitive the league is this year.

Performances are what the manager can control though. That’s his input, the rest is a result of that input plus luck. Of course you can play average and still deserve to win. And you can be the worse team and still defend well enough to deserve some points etc.

There’s no way he’s going out on loan this season.

Was he that good today? Palace should've scored at least 3.

We couldn't send him on loan, could we? We needed a third striker because Wilson is so likely to be injured.

I'm definitely fully behind Howe and have him down as a club legend already. But, I am starting to worry that the performances are so poor so often. Can easily turn around though, he will obviously be here at least until the end of the season so he has a chance to make everything great again.

I'm unsure if Willock is ever going to be tidy enough to play CM. Depends what we're asking them to do, of course, but we give the ball away so easily.

He needs to be playing really, he's the only real top-level experienced head we have. Surely the personal life stuff is exaggerated though, it wouldn't destroy his game. Whatever has happened, he needs to knuckle down for the rest of the season and the management needs to remind him of the massive responsibility he has in this squad.

As we always said, they need to work together. Probably the summer is where we'll really see it though, Jan is quite early and always a difficult window to work in. Wouldn't be surprised if we got Guehi in January at all.

I don't think there's any reason they can't play together, even with Bruno as the deepest. Just needs work, they're both intelligent and high-quality players. I actually think the solution longer-term could be a third midfielder to start with them, either RCM or LCM depending on where Tonali ends up playing. I'd even consider Tonali-Bruno-Miley TBH.

This whole thing about judging signings based on random criteria is mental. Happening in every thread

Just need to pretend a hammering, minimise bookings and not get any reds. TBH it could be close if we work our arses off.

Well no, because we needed a 3rd striker. Agree I would like to see him play a bit more though. But Wilson is available somehow.

If I understood this I might be offended.

I’m not sure what I would do if I was Howe TBH. He really can’t abandon the basic philosophy he’s been pushing since day one. And whichever best 11 I sketch out has some serious questions and contains at least 2 or 3 players who aren’t top quality. Very difficult, starting to think Tonali - Bruno - Miley might be our best midfield 3.

Do you think we can attract an elite manager?

I know, I was being a nob. Soz.

Needs to drop more ‘dust waselves down’?

Shock, he’s mint.

This is really confusing me as well, Joey doesn’t have what it takes to be a PL attacker. That’s been proven, that’s why he was playing in midfield. Seeing Gordon moved but not to accommodate Barnes is very hard to grasp.