AyeDubbleYoo

Starting Murphy would be insane, even the suggestion shows how difficult it is to pick a decent balanced team from our players.

Need to avoid a ‘final say’ at all really.

Yet.

Well that would be stupid.

Who would you sell?

You know what I mean though, he’s not a star player.

Decline IMO means steadily getting worse, which I wouldn’t say we are. This season has been poor and inconsistent but we’re not steadily getting worse. We’re just struggling to get consistently better. Fairly depressing bar to be arguing over mind

But we’re not consistently getting worse. Before the break we were getting better. We can just never sustain it.

And so slow.

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