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How depressing for Villa, they already suffered Bruce the original and now they’ve landed the future one…

He is the Ivan Drago of football

I just meant retention of the ball and intensity and like for like quality to match with MC formidable midfield

Add Paqueta instead of Willock in there today and we’d hold on to that lead. Add another striker instead of Wood and we could have got a 4th

Really felt for Howe that when City were on the ropes he didn’t have anyone on the bench worth bringing on to make a difference. Another speedy winger to double up the ASM threat on the counter as Man City attacked would have been great as would a defensive midfielder to come on in place of Willock. They really need to bring in 2-3 first teamers by deadline day to do this progress justice.

Other than Steven Taylor and Dummet, both of whom have had too many chances for us it shows we cannot produce any decent CBs. It’s not the greatest XI, you could arguably put in Carrick over Beardsley due to recency. Shows we haven’t produced much at all in the academy in over 30 years. You could also put Vuckic or Bigrimana in there but then you could say they did get a chance. Wonder what happened to all those highly rated youngsters in Carr’s time, Oliver Kemen, Zamblera, Aaron Spear etc. The fact not even one of them made it to any decent level shows how poor our youth set up has been.

Always rated Mitro, even with us. Really want him to do well

Can we have a Paqueta thread too in that case? Surely he’s been linked far more than Pulisic?

The peak for us: Shearer, Bellamy, Kluivert, Ameobi and LuaLua and we STILL bid for Wayne Rooney! halcyon days

Thiago is a player who feels like he's been around forever. Even SBR was talking about Thiago when he was here (or in his autobiography, I forget which) about one of the youngsters he expects to take the world by storm. And he's still only 31!

A weird one but as this guy is more of a number 10 who can play along the front and is not prolific he is definitely not a Wilson back up. But I think Ramos actually would be a great back up as he seems to know where the goal is. I’d love to get both if possible, along with a loan or two.

I live in hope

That is ridiculous. Gibbs white is Steve cooper’s favourite tho so he must have pushed hard for him. He’s played for him through the youth teams at different levels so huge amount of trust there. the team will probably be built around him. way overpriced it seems tho. Nffc not messing around, paying the going rate to get their man. I like the level of conviction even if it does seem overly scattergun. surely they won’t get aouar now

Paqueta on deadline day pulisic on loan Ramos or Pedro permanent murphy shortstaff and Anderson out on loan

Wouldn't mind Pedro as the backup AM, and Ramos as the back up CF. Both are under 21 so won't count in the 25. I think can use the 40m we have as 20m upfront payments each with more in installments later. Pulisic and a CM (you know who) would be a great bonus.

Pulisic is game changer the same way Diaby would be. Can definitely see us interested as we seem to be going for very highly rated talents. Pulisic, Pacqueta and Pedro. Perfect. All the P’s.

I’m hoping the strategy the NUFC heads are using is the Ali Rope a dope. After some early promise, take a pounding throughout the window, and with that saved up energy (cash plus fake bids of those they’re not interested in), they can go on a flurry in the last few days of the transfer window getting their first choice targets at less than expected as teams don’t see them coming, become desperate and time is ticking. And we end August the newwwwwww transfer window champions of the woooooorldddd something like that anyway

Out of everyone who lefts clubs and been transferred that we were linked to, are there any that we think omg that’s a huge miss, if only we had gotten them in instead of x club? I can’t think of many, especially ones where they went somewhere else INSTEAD of us. Ekitike is the only snub we’ve really had, and it’s just potential really no idea how good he is. The ones we all really wanted, Paqueta, Diaby, Maddison, Harrison, Isak, Osimhen, none of these kind of names have actually gone anywhere. And so I do believe NUFC have a long term approach to signing the specific people they have earmarked, and are prepared to wait accordingly. I think we are frustrated because it’s a no brainer where we lack depth and anyone decent would help but I think they have a plan of action on how to jump to 4th using certain profile of players, and would rather not fill out the squad with ones which do not fit and take up resources. If you said take Cornet or Dennis now vs Isak or Osimhen in January or next summer it’s a no brainer, get someone on loan and wait. The one seemingly obvious frustration is that of Paqueta as he is someone potentially world class, within our budget and would definitely come to us, and also an area we need. So it makes too much sense and the fear is that he has plenty of interest elsewhere. the 80/20 rule, if only Paqueta was signed that would satisfy most.

Nah you can’t be that productive in one place and drop off a cliff to that extent… can you?? Ok yes at one he played with Haaland but it’s the equivalent of saying Diaby being overrated if he had similar numbers after moving to a dysfunctional team. How many good calibre players have flopped with our dysfunctional teams of the past. I think he’d solve the RW problem all day long, problem theyd never let him go so this entire post was pointless

Wouldn’t mind putting in a cheeky bid for Sancho, give him a way out of this mess

Well technically she’s also Meg from Family guy so you wouldn’t be able close your eyes during the process etc etc something like that?

Honestly think Howe is the British Nageslmann, probably one of the most well rounded professional modern young coaches in the game. Actually was a huge coup in hindsight.

I would buy it on pay per view

A good way of determining this: do we have or have we had anyone who is capable of or who has won the Ballon D’Or? That is the measuring stick most of the world uses so why shouldn’t we? We know Owen won it in 2001 (but it is largely accepted he is one of the weakest ones to have won it). Keegan won it twice but before his NUFC days. Shearer finished 3rd in 1996. No one has come close, since. Do we think Bruno has that potential to make this shortlist one day?

I do think Shearer is probably the ultimate elite performer we have ever had, but we only got one season out of that version. Bruno is not on that level yet and it is premature to even compare. Potential is not the same as actually performance, Ben Arfa for example perhaps may be the most talented in terms of raw potential and talent. Obviously he had his flaws, too. But Shearer at his peak had sustained proven success, the world after him, leadership, mindset, longevity, the works. Love Bruno and am excited to see him grow with us but he’s only played 20 or so games so far. He definitely has elite potential but let’s see what level he can take us to first.