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Howe: "Sportswashing" Bruce: Not washing

Howe: Pass, shoot and lob Bruce: Lazy fat blob Howe: make every day your masterpiece Bruce: every day get more obese

Howe: Mission Driven Man Bruce: Michelin Man

Howe: fella that got Bournemouth relegated Bruce: Won the T20 World Cup

Would like to see Lewis at some point he needs a redemption arc

No if I remember rightly he wanted Mourinho and even asked him to be his assistant. He was knowledgeable about Continental football, even at Barcelona he chose Ronaldo when he could have chosen Shearer etc so defo wasn’t obvious that he would have gone PFM

Yes it was from earlier today that we’d have to break his clubs record transfer to sign him, which is currently 35m for Xhaka

Manu Kone is being linked to us and Liverpool. He would be the midfield version of Botman and Isak, him and Bruno would be amazing

I'm looking forward to seeing Isak in this set up - he could be the prolific front man to put away more of our chances and start tearing teams apart

What's happened to Forest - they started the season quite well and were actually quite attacking, although terrible defensively. They gave West Ham, Everton, Spurs, Bournemouth and Fulham good games, even to the extent where they were unlucky to lose or draw some of those. But it seems they're just trying to survive, by not playing their own game and just defend defend defend. They've become a non entity - why buy all those players in that case? They've got a decent XI but the game plan is terrible right now.

BruJoe surely?

Interesting they are trying to get the highest rated future stars. They already said they think Botman is a world class star in the making. Angelo and Andrew Santos Kuol best Aussie since Kewell Isak Bruno this team in a few years will be mint

Look forward to the headline when he smashes in a 30 yarder in off the crossbar yeboah style… BOOM-Garang

We have one extreme or another as manager, never someone balanced. You either have an Eriksson who completely devalues the shirt and calls up randoms or you have the other extreme of Southgate sticking rigidly to his favourites and not even experimenting in meaningless games. We need someone like Hoddle - who was bold enough to drop Gazza, bring Owen into the team and play a brand of football against big teams I still haven't seen us replicate, 24 years later. Southgate was a cautious defender as a player, whereas Hoddle was a creative maverick. As was Keegan. Are there any good creatives/strikers from the 90's who went on to become decent managers?

For Jan, it has to be Maddison or top draw RW Pedro A CM - e.g. Haidara / Sangare That relegates Almiron, Shelvey and gives us a decent first sub change in Pedro. Keeps the upward progression. CM and RW are absolute musts this window, has really cost us big time already

Darlow is injured atm

Hamann honourable mention Ben Arfa potentially as we didn't see him enough Demba Ba All of those 2015/16 signings under McClaren - Mitro, Wijnaldum, Thauvin, Mbemba and Toney, was the most exciting transfer window as all were genuine potential superstars in the making. Just gave them to the wrong manager.

He was badly needed yesterday. Imagine him as first sub off the bench instead of Murphy or Wood

That game Needed a Paqueta to unlock doors…

Exactly this, who needs crypto or real estate or passive income or Tai Lopez or one of those YouTube get rich gurus, this is indeed the best formula for riches (but sadly not respect)

A hidden compliment in all of that is the fact Burn has gone from training for years under a very highly rated coach in Potter, and even then said under Howe it's a step up.

What's also crazy is that he's only 29, younger than Pope even. Definitely got time to sort himself out here and gain in value and confidence. Normally when you're getting a freebie out of season it's a 38 year old Maik Taylor type.

Swansea are great at spotting good up coming managers, they’re just terrible at being patient with them. Rodgers Laudrup Potter Cooper

Potter May be first choice for a Man City when Pep goes if he continues progressing at Brighton as he plays similar complex tactical football so would be a good appointment at a semi sensible club who operate similar to Brighton but on a huge scale. chelsea are extremely unstable and therefore very risky

Genuinely a brilliant read, and insight into the genius mind. He is actually criminally underrated, probably due to the fact he’s so humble. A great example of us doing what we should do with players, get young talented but experienced players under the radar but with elite potential and best years in front of them. Isak, Bruno, Botman, Howe is the managerial equivalent of them. I honestly love this model way more than the Man City and Chelsea model in their early days.