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PS Great to have this debate again

If all your players are injured it might be slightly difficult to give everyone the week off. Unless we just started skipping matches or something.

How are content creators part of the problem?

Wanting to maximise performance and make improvements doesn't mean Eddie Howe drove our players into early graves by asking them to run.

I hate to think how people felt when we were actually bad.

I thought it was pretty clear I was exaggerating. It's not literally impossible.

His job is to talk absolute nonsense to get engagement. It's all bullshit.

Last season? Incredibly difficult PL start and the hardest CL group in living memory? We still nearly qualified for the next round if we hadn't been robbed by a ref. And we still finished in a league position that means Europe 90% of the time. People love to ask tough question where the answer is bloody obvious

Did they start supporting us when we were the best team in the league?

Well we know the reason - injury crisis and impossible fixture list.

Guess the point of Man City is that you don't need CBs who are individually the best players in the league. The team as a whole is such a machine that the defence is very well protected. Of course, once the midfield isn't working and the machine starts creaking it's a different story.

No reason at all we shouldn't be winning this. Hopefully we have a good first half and actually finish a couple of chances.

Gabby can barely analyse which door lets him out of his house.

No, but what I mean is, you’re saying Barnes is a squad player but you want a better squad player than him? He’s probably one of the best forwards in the league who isn’t playing regularly. I agree about Schar and Pope, sure that’s already in the plans. Guehi and Botman could be our CBs come February.

Pretty much all of those shouldn’t be playing already TBH. Only Schar and Pope should be starters, and even Schar is probably one window away from replacement. Bit harsh to put Barnes in there.

I don’t think we’re getting worse, we’re just not managing to consistently play well for a few games in a row.

I knew it wouldn’t be given live, but I thought jt would look so bad on the replay they might have to give it.

Almost looked a handball in their first goal, but haven’t seen it in detail. For the guy who won the ball from Bruno.

Your lone striker is never going to be ‘that’ involved. Even Haaland basically just runs onto chances and knocks them in.

Antonio beat himself TBH, he was more interested in getting into fights than playing football. Absolute clogger.

I mean, they’ll never do anything just because consumers want it. They’ll only do it if they think they can make more money than they make now from TV.

I would probably still start Trippier if he was fit.

Aye, he was shocking. Really bad.

Yeah I know, but in the last few we’ve been better. Even last night we were very decent before both the goals. Totally outplayed West Ham in the first half. I’m not saying everything is great or perfect, it just feels a lot worse after games like last night.

If we’d won last night we would’ve been 6th. We’re 4 points behind 3rd. The last third of the game last night was terrible, but we put ourselves in a stupid position by letting in two soft goals and not finishing any of our chances. We don’t need to soul search after every defeat.