Kimbo

Schar would’ve popped that in no problem.

Penalty surely

It’s pretty clear that Andersen was the leader in that defence, and for the fee being talked about the player has to be a leader.

I’m surprised the Utilita Arena isn’t listed.

Kompany getting a huge job after that joke of a season will only encourage this nonsense.

They signed a Serbian international RB in the summer.

I think Konate would be rated much higher if not for his injury record. He’s always been in and out of the team. Liverpool have Quansah as his long term backup/replacement though.

I don’t see where he fits at Liverpool. Konate is better than him and surely he’s not a Van Dijk replacement.

His reaction whenever he loses the ball is terrible.

Southgate will be in the job by Christmas. We know the board at Man U don't rate Ten Haag, they just bottled getting a replacement because of the cup final.

I think he generally deserves a red card but not for that.

Hard to understand how Man U are still so poor given their signings at boardroom level.

Milenkovic was only £12m and Forest fans are raving about him. You can find value if you have good scouts and trust them.

But why use those players as a reference point when we don’t know if they’re good signings. Those clubs might have overspent, and in the case of Kilman they probably have IMO.

Neither of those have been value for money yet.

Signed last summer for £3m. I wish we did more of that.

I’m happy for Man City to ruin the league for the cartel the same way they club together to ruin the league for everyone else. Like Mike said, the premier league isn’t really a proper sports league, it’s rigged nonsense, so it may as well be Man City as far as I’m concerned.

Gordon is probably going to go anyway thanks to Ashworth’s dogshit contract negotiation skills. I’m not saying Howe should be sacked, though if he fails to establish a coherent way of playing this season I’ll have questions about why. I’m thinking about what the owners mindset will be if we play poorly all season and end up with purples wanting out, and you have the possible issue between Howe and Mitchell on top of that. My guess is they would make changes.

I’ve never argued we should sack Howe, I just think it’s a likely consequence if we finish midtable. If we get European football we’re a lot more likely to keep our best players, so I don’t think a rebuilding job is inevitable whatever happens.

If you finish midtable then you’re possibly going to lose Gordon, Isak, and Bruno, then you’re looking at a rebuilding project that will take another couple of seasons. So IMO the decision at the end of the season wouldn’t just be “do we give him another year”.

I blame Arteta, he’s cultivated a whiny victim mentality that has sent an already annoying fanbase into overdrive.

Top 6 would be incredible given the way we’re playing, if we had 5 losses and were out of the league cup we could have no complaints. This season is a huge test to see if he really is a top coach. The intense pressing style has gone and we can’t play a possession game. If he doesn’t fix one of those two problems then we’ll finish midtable and PIF will probably get a replacement IMO.

I wish we were still good at shithousing.

Haaland is pointless the way they’re playing.

These long range shots are doing my head in. Tiote-esque attempts.