Lotus

Is he having an op this summer?

I’ll start by saying I’m by no means unhappy with our owners. Couple of points though. Didn’t the club go after Emery first? Wasn’t it Amanda and Merdad rather than the Saudis who making those choices at the time? I'm certain they all knew the PSR restrictions at the time so knew in advance we couldn’t go all Galacticos. My personal concern is not the willingness of the Saudis to fund us, it’s their inability to do anything in a timely fashion. Or think ‘outside the box’.

Ederson > Ramsey

I would imagine that such a hiring would require an approval from a particular key person/group and there’s the bottleneck right there. The kind of decision where, if it doesn’t work out, would be very hard to pin it on someone else…..creates a certain reluctance in said key person/persons.

Given all the hype around Bardghji pre injury I hope we’re having a very serious look at him.

That must near on untenable for everyone involved.

Love Froggy and his input but given he seems to know every intricate detail of all the financial deals, wages, pay offs, etc with Manu either, a) he’s speculating or quoting someone who’s widely speculating or, b) Manu is possibly one of the leakiest clubs in the world. No one can simply look ‘at the published expenditure’ and then accurately workout what each individual player is earning. And if during negotiations players requests are leaked to the press at every juncture the club is gonna become a pariah.

Mbeumo would be away for AFCON I presume. From the 21st of December. That could be an important factor in whether to sign him or not.

Antonio Silva Arthur Vermeeren Oscar Gloukh Roony Bardghji

If I was Delap I’d want a move to Villa. I reckon he’d be the main man before long while not having the pressure of being the only striker.

If/when Trippier leaves/retires I'd be more than happy if we signed Dalot as a replacement. There must be a way Amorim can get a tune out of him.

He's good enough when he's in a Portugal shirt. He's a talented lad. I bet, if he moved on you'd see him playing well at a new club. I've even seen you say he's a good player, I'm certain of it! Something is badly off all over at ManU. You can't have that many decent to good players out of form for so long.

Dalot is a good RWB.

Spurs were much more in it in the 1st half. After they scored, in the most un-Spursy way ever they successfully shut up shop. ManU didn't have the cutting edge to score. I do honestly believe if Spurs needed a goal they would have got forward a lot more and do I think they'd have caused ManU problems if they had needed to.

Think the assist stat can be a bit unfair as it relies on another player to do the hardest thing to do on the pitch. Gordon put 2 balls across the box on Sunday that I reckon Murphy would’ve been in on (no guarantee of a shot on target, obvs).Barnes didn’t make the run. Isak has been a bit in and off. Gordon may have a couple more assists if Isak had been sharper/fitter.