Away Toon

I mean we are playing with 9 and a half men. Ritchie being the half. Nothing can convince me that Willock is actually on the pitch.

I thought Pedro was the one to get but seemingly in the end we lost interest. How is he doing at Brighton?

Neves has pretty much all the same strengths and weaknesses as Bruno. Together although technically they would be excellent, out of possession both are slow and lack athleticism. I'd like to see us sign and a number 6 and let Bruno off the leash to get forward and cause some havoc which he's shown he can do.

I'd be going all out in the cup and picking the strongest team available. If we continue to pick up injuries we are going to finish somewhere between 6-8th in the league. You get no medals for that.

Burn is on toast here, get a sub on.

Shite from Pope, then Bruno and then Burn. They look like going on to win this.

We are very open and needs some subs on quickly.

Lots of conjecture as normal in the murky world of football and very few answers. The one person we are sure who knew of his gambling problems was Tonali himself plus the people he used to place bets. Did Milan or the Italian authorities know about any of this before he was transferred? Did either Tonali or his agent declare anything to NUFC before he signed his contract. Without knowing answers to these questions we have no idea if compensation, loss of wages, fines etc. is applicable. If Tonali didn't mention anything to NUFC before he signed his contract it is potentially null and void due to all kinds of breaches of employment law. The big issue is that we paid or are paying in installments 55m quid for someone who either lied, mislead or we knew but signed him anyhow. The truth as always in football might never come out.

I've never thought he could play in a central three to the standard we need going forward. Wide left forward or on the bench for me.

Maybe Milan will give us a full refund. We can claim damaged goods. Maybe a little extra as compensation.

His wife is a bunny.

Everytime I've seen Ortega play his distribution is as good as any goalkeeper I've ever seen.

Wrong Brazilian.

Dembele up against Dan Burn should be interesting.

He plays for Arsenal

Newcastle United captain Jamaal Lascelles, 29, is a target for Saudi Pro League side Al-Shabab. The English defender has slipped down the pecking order at St James' Park and could be tempted by the offer of first-team football. (TEAMtalk)

If we give the ball away in transition against PSG it will get ugly very quickly. Lethal on the break.

In Eddie's defense would any of our squad start for Arsenal , Man City or Liverpool? Doubt it.

On paper I think this is our best starting 11, whether it will work not so sure. One of the things I didn't understand about pre season was that Bruno and Tonali were virtually never on the pitch together and watching them play together so far this season it shows.

Everybody keeps repeating this. How many of the players who started yesterday are not away on international duty? Pope, Burn, Targett, Gordon I think.

Surely if we really wanted to play it out from the back we'd have bought a goalkeeper who could do that.

Need to find a way to get both Isak and Wilson on the pitch together.

I know it's a bit of hindsight looking at the Brighton shambles but I thought and think it's at best a 5/10 window. We didn't buy a GK who can kick the ball, a CB with pace, a new starting LB, a defensive midfielder, an attacking midfielder or a better RW. Tonali has replaced Longstaff that's it so far. Gordon who can't finish is keeping Barnes who can out of the starting 11. When we play the so called weaker teams we'll know whether this is a blip or a crisis.

It's hard to tell what has happened with the players. Maybe they've thought fuck this running around like madmen shit, forget this intensity is our identity stuff, we want to stroll around and play football. Something is really wrong.

Brighton have a very clear way of playing and stick to it for better or worse. We have lost our identity and apparently regressed since last season. Only 1-0 so there is hope.