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Until quite recently I still thought Livramento had a a higher ceiling but I’m not so sure now. He got real class.

Hall was my MOTM but Murphy and Joelinton were excellent tucking in and supporting the FBs.

We’ve definitely got a goal in us. If we can keep a CS in the second half, big ask.

No point sweating it, we won’t know what version of NUFC will turn up until about half an hour in. Howe probably doesn’t know either, we’ll probably at least given them something to think about. I’m more concerned that the totally forseeable  scenario of both Isak and Wilson being injured has occurred after 5 league games. The £15m back up striker appears to be 4th choice and would probably have been loaned out if it wasn’t for the other injuries.

Even funnier it was for kicking the ball away!!! 😃

Just now, Astroblack said:

Off day but everyone needs to liven up

Sixth off day in a row.

The midfield is the issue I don’t care if Howe doesn’t want a specialised CDM but one of the three CMs needs to perform the role.

Anyone checked in on the mentally deranged over at RTG? They must be suffering.

He's a warrior, silk and steel, one minute tangling with centre forwards and the next pinging 60 yard passes and stepping into midfield with the ball or getting in shooting positions. Wish he was 10 years younger, he's almost unique.

Howe needs to go back to basics with this midfield. It’s non-existent.

Carbon copy of Bournemouth away. Dogshit.

2 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

Spurs are really meh to me. 

They’ve got too many average player; Solanke, Johnson to name two obvious ones.

Sick of hearing about this bloke to be honest. Whatever’s happening in the background his immediate future is totally in the hands of Eddie Howe and team. We only ‘move on’ from a disastrous summer window if the team keep winning and we can battle through to the next window largely unscathed. The alternative scenario is more scrutiny on the summer debacle following key injuries and/or a run of defeats. He’d be best advised to batten down his scran hatch for a while.

The worst player I’ve ever seen in professional football was Paul Dalglish, not sure if a single performance stood out  but the lad couldn’t play for toffee.

We definitely need more ‘technical’ players, despite our press and power we often look second best on the ball. Tonali on please.

Just now, leffe186 said:

I mean, there’s a good reason for that

Haha just realised!!

Brighton looked the better team in the last 15 mins or so.

1 minute ago, midds said:

Chalobah going there on loan caps a miserable and pathetic transfer window. Hall was a deal done last summer, Ruddy was a free, Kelly was a free, Pivas was signed from nowhere and Vlach was signed as a favour to Forest for bailing us out of the shit for PSR. The only club we've actually had to deal with is Championship Sheff Utd to get Osula. 

 

It's an absolutely abysmal showing from the recruitment team (scouting to deal-making) and no-one will convince me otherwise. No idea who is responsible for each part of the process but it'll get pulled apart in time and it'll come out eventually. If others want to try and sugar-coat things then they're perfectly entitled to do so but I'm not having it

That’s on top of the PSR fire sales of Anderson and Minteh. Shambolic summer.

In fairness to Forest, they reportedly bought Anderson from us for circa £35m so they will feel Elanga is worth at least that. Plus the fact they have about 5 hours to source a replacement, add on another £10m.

Why wait 4/5 hours before window closes before trying to take a starting player from another PL team? Smacks of desperation and ‘we tried’, this is making things worse IMO.

£35m what the fuck is going on this window? 

‘£20m deadline day deal’. So that’s Trafford then?

PSR has a much greater impact if you forget the first lesson that there’s not much value in buying from the PL.

No club is going to sell their captain within 7/8 hours of the window closing. We must have given up on this a couple of days ago surely. Anyway £70m for this bloke is insane. I’d rather they have the post transfer window debacle inquest and then get back to a more sensible approach for the next window.

4 minutes ago, ponsaelius said:

Obviously everybody will whine but I think it's a good opportunistic signing.

I don’t think this signing would have caused too much consternation a couple of months ago but waiting until the last day and seemingly caving to Burnley’s price…….