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If there was anything substantial to the Liverpool doping claims we would be hearing some rumours stemming from other players in the league, which we haven’t so far.

Can’t fault our overall performance much. Didn’t really agree with Joelinton out wide and Willock centrally but Howe made a lot of brave judgement calls for the game. Didn’t get anything out of Maxi, Almiron or Wood when he came on. Can’t wait for a bit more quality up front. Dubravka absolutely immense today. Been so solid and really no reason to replace him next season.

We definitely have a chance to hurt them. In between CL games, Everton managed to contain them a bit and no one wants to come to SJP currently. However they have ridiculous squad depth and on current form I'm not entirely sure I've seen a better football team bar peak Barcelona.

What a brilliant read. It becomes more clear every day what a perfect appointment Howe was. He’s literally providing everything we wanted before the takeover while also providing everything this new takeover era needs. The single facet of his repertoire that excites me the most is his ability to develop players. We can’t just buy ourselves towards the top - you need every player to perform at their peak levels of abilty even if they are mediocre in talent. This is what Liverpool and Man City have done right and what Man Utd have got wrong for the past few years. Most of City’s and Liverpool’s elite players were not quite world class when they signed but they definitely are now (Salah, Mané, Robertson, de Bruyne, Silva, Dias etc). Man Utd have gone down the path of signing world class players for extortionate fees just because they were available (Ronaldo, Pogba, Cavani, di María, Sanchez etc) resulting in a disjointed squad most of whom playing well below their ceiling of ability. I honestly belive this type of player development is by far the most important factor to take us forward and Howe really seems to have this ability.

I have no idea who these people in the Norwich team are.

Very disappointed not to see Gayle start.

How this guy plays in tight spaces… fuck me he’s good. Can’t wait for a proper striker to latch on to his and Trippier’s balls.

1. Robert's incomprehensible scorpion kick against Fulham. All time favourite player. 2. HBA against Everton. Made me so excited for times ahead. God how wrong was I. 3. Cisse against Chelsea. I made sounds on that occasion I will never be able to replicate.

Might sound a bit bonkers but Romelu Lukaku will definitely be available this summer. Not many teams will be able to afford him aside from us and he doesn’t suit Tuchel’s football. He also seems to like being the biggest fish in the pond which he’ll be here like he was at Everton and WBA. He’ll also want to be fresh for Belgium’s last push in this winter’s WC.

Thought Gayle looked fresh in his few minutes. Refuse to belive he can’t be useful at least late in games.

I think you could be right in the sense that it's not so much about the transfer itself but about the player's development that happens afterwards. I recall some serious doubts about Van Dijk signing for Liverpool and de Bruyne signing for Man City. I also don't recall that much excitement about Liverpool signing Salah or Bale signing with Spurs or when Bernardo Silva signed for City. There's also definitely an element of luck in this as I recall Salah not even being Liverpool's second or third option in that transfer window. At the end of the day a succesful transfer strategy is an extremely elusive thing but I do hope that the current NUFC brass have a better idea of it than I do

You’re essentially describing Man Utd’s approach to transfer the last few years which I think we can all agree hasn’t been very sensible. I’m very unsure we can just ‘spend’ our way towards the top 6 or so. If you look at Man City’s transfer track record since their takeover it’s like they struck gold at least with a couple of signings each year and to be fair there hasn’t been many expensive Mangala-like flops. Why has it worked out so well for them while it hasn’t for Man Utd? There are definitely some decisve factors behind the scenes in term of recruitment which I can’t really put my finger on. Why didn’t Chelsea recognize Salah’s and de Bruyne’s talent? I’m not entirely sure it’s very much down to the manager in charge each time as Citeh have had some turnover in management since the takeover yet always consistantly brilliant transfers. I’ve seriously no idea how to spend our newfound money and I’ve really no idea either how much money we are actually capable of spending. All I really want to know is what it really is deep down behind the scenes that decides a great recruitment strategy that City undoubtedly have. Everton have spent half a billion since their takeover and Man Utd have spent a billion since Fergie. Both clubs are worse off. Maybe it’s down to a great technical director. I barely even know what these guys even do.

This midfield trio has a lot of future potential. Happy to see them all start and good to see Almiron getting a look in. Secure survival and send these in to the abyss please.

More than half of our best XI missing today. If Howe gets a result today he should be knighted.

On the whole he looked good last night. He's gonna need a few games to adjust to the pace, you're not afforded the same time on the ball as in Ligue 1.

Man of the match yesterday for me. Proves we can rely on him for next season.

Murphy needs subbed at half time.

You don’t see a finish like that very often. Absolute class by Mbappe. He’s gonna link up well with Chris Wood next season.

Bargain for a good quality PL player at 26 years of age.

This is beautiful. I so wish Everton go down. Btw I really like Kulusevski. Just does the simple things effectively.

He has zero assists and zero goals in seven games. I’m not saying he can’t do it, he just isn’t good at it.

Great win but we let them have way too much of the ball. None of the midfield three had a good game so no excuse not to start Bruno agaist Southampton. Fraser was great and Schar to an extent too. On a negative note - Wood is an absolute travesty of a footballer. Offers nothing. Actually can’t remember him even being close to scoring a goal since he came and his hold up and link up play is not good. Can’t wait to see us with a proper striker.

I genuinely thought he couldn’t play in a PL back four. I was dead wrong. Compliments Burn well. This is another one that has to be handed to Howe.

Voted for Watford and Norwich and Everton as a wildcard. More wishful thinking than anything else. They might get a spanking agains City next weekend and could crumble after that. It’ll probably be Brentford tho.

VAR fucking blows