Froggy

Martinez played 208 more minutes than Tonali this season...

For the FA Cup?

There's that £1b again.

Forgot Howe played Murphy at full back when you had Livramento, Murphy and Hall on the bench. Bad management to be honest. Howe out.

I didn't.

Tell me about him, what's he like?

We've been a counter attacking side for 30 years.

I think we need to decide what the word better means.

I'd call you names on here but I wouldn't say shit to your face.

Happy with the fast action in terms of the club hierachy, not happy with how he seems to like the sound of his own voice. He's mouthy and he's mouthy publicly which I hate.

@r0cafella From The Athletic this morning.

And we had to play McTominay and Mainoo because Casemiro and Mount were injured, which is the same thing as having to play Longstaff/Miley but looks like it worked out for us simply because Mainoo is incredible. If Miley was even half as good as Mainoo I doubt we'd even discuss this. We going to pretend like Howe doesn't love Longstaff anyway? There was no area of your team that was devastated anywhere near as much as our defence was which is why it's the topic on hand. I could be wrong, but I believe nobody on your team all year had to play out of position. You always had a player available in their recognised position. We had defensive midfielders at centre back, defensive midfielders at left back, wingers at striker. Jesus Christ we even had to play Antony at left back at one point. We had the most separate injuries. We had the most individual players injured. We had the most players out injured in a single gameweek. And the "minutes lost" table that people will inevitably share doesn't include players who were injured before the season starts, so add on 3000+ for Malacia and we'll top that list too. Your injuries, while bad, were not worse.

If that's what he's doing, and he's going to grow the profile of the club quicker and sell, then happy days. It benefits the club either way IMO.

OK, well loaning £235m to inject into the club seems an even stranger decision if he's looking to make a quick profit and flip.

Injecting £235m of his own money is a strange decision if he's looking to make a quick profit and flip.

True or not it looks like it was written by a toddler.

I read an article about the same thing happening with Brighton and Union Saint-Gilloise who have the same owner. All they needed to do was "restructure their board."

Welcome to Manchester.

Unforunate Mainoo was injured for half the season, but fortunate Ten Hag was able to get the best out of them yes. Agreed on the transfers. Hopefully with competent executives like Berrada, Ashworth and Wilcox, overinflated transfer fees will be a thing of the past.

Not fact, as that specific list doesn't include players who were injured before the campaign started.

Murphy played 11 minutes. 3 against Chelsea when you were 4-1 up, and 8 against Sheffield United when you were 5-1 up. Against Chelsea your back four was Livramento, Schar, Lascelles and Trippier. Dummett was on the bench for this. Against Sheffield United it was Hall, Burn, Schar and Livramentio. Krafth was on the bench and Dummett was an unused substitute. You weren't "dipping into Academy." You were giving an academy player a runout. There's a huge difference. Not once did you have to actually rely on Murphy, whereas we were forced to rely on Willy Kambwala. Kambwala played over 600 minutes for us this season despite never playing a minute of senior football before it. Of course he got injured and we then had to start using midfielders at centre back instead. There is no comparison.

Dummett is a senior player. We were having to dip into our academy. Put it this way. If we had Paul Dummett this season, he'd have played more games for us than he did for you. Infact, he'd have likely played 2 or 3 times as many. That will tell you all you need to know.

Cheers mate.

You can include the £120m worth of signings (two of which have been injured all year) that Ten Hag brought on of course. As long as you include the £60m worth you brought on against Brentford.