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He came into the team that had conceded 7 goals in 4 games losing 3 and we went on a run of… Brentford 1-0 AC Milan (A) 0-0 Sheffield Utd (A) 0-8 (scored) Man City (Injured/Rested) 1-0 Burnley 2-0 PSG 4-1 (scored) WHU (A) 2-2 Palace 4-0 (scored) Then subbed against Dortmund finally losing 0-1 at home. He then played Wolves (A) 2-2 Man Utd (A) 0-3 Arsenal 1-0 Then we lost again against Dortmund 2-0 away. W 7 D 3 L 2 both against UCL finalist 🙂 If that’s not a significant change of form after being introduced to the team I’m not sure what is TBH. I think we should sell him this summer (1yr only left on contract) for PSR but let’s have it right. In EH’s system he clearly does a decent job. Do I want him in the team or on the bench this season? Ideally not. Doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate what he’s done in the past whilst clearly running on fumes at times.

Yet we were a defensive mess without him in the team and our fortunes only changed when he replaced Tonali and we started a winning run and tightened up at the back. Im no big fan of his but let’s never forget he’s been quite pivotal in his role since EH arrived.

Not just jealousy of success mind. I’d say more so the arrogance of the fan base (albeit a Manc trait) and the fact (for the older lot) they were one of the main culprits for fan violence and where the reason fences were erected so there was no love lost there. My grandad who’s coming up to 10yrs gone (actually died just shy of 101 the morning of the weekend you crashed at mine funnily enough!) used to say your fans were the worst for troublemaking and I can back that up by saying the only away days I’ve suffered verbal and physical threats were my visits to Old Trafford in the mid to late 90’s and that was with my old man and brother keeping a low profile. Much worse than any visit to Roker Park or SOL. Then you’ve got the fact now that its an open secret with retire officials coming out and confirming how much Fergie had them them in his pocket which although denied at the time was plain to see with opposing teams. Then you probably had that celebrity nature of a lot of them jumping on the Man Utd bandwagon and claiming their support when asked in interviews which would probably also come under the jealousy that you mentioned. So there wasn’t a lot to like. For the record I say this all whilst having a soft spot for them when I was a school kid (due to lack of TV coverage of other teams) and Bryan Robson was probably one of my favourite English players if not favourite player when growing up. Used to always want them to beat Liverpool back in the day. Remember looking forward to the new season starting and you’d just signed Jesper Olsen and were first game on MOTD (typically) and drew 1-1 at OT against Watford in that distinct strip with the white bands around the armpits. Think you won the FA Cup that season with the Whiteside goal against Everton.

German footballers generally always on good wages. Some of the highest there is.

I got stick on here for saying they are a good team. Let’s face it our good results against them aside the two games against them when we really needed a result we lost to them both times. I appreciate they’ve a bigger squad but their injuries last season were probably only second to ours. Not convinced on their transfer window so far for the money spent but still 4 weeks to go.

The game will go ahead as normal IMO. Would be very surprised if it didn’t.

Farewell sweet prince…

Think it shows up the lad giving him the information more TBH. Not sure what the lads done wrong. Given some quite detailed information. Asked a few questions then said he’ll trust him and pass it on. Hardly said it was nailed on or 100%. You do realise the yellow ticker on Sky works in exactly the same way? If you doubt me read the Secret Footballer’s book as he explains how easily it is to get a story out on SSN.

Think it’s pretty clear it will be this if he signs… “You to me are everything you make the Geordies want to sing, Marc Guehi, Marc Guehi”

Watching some YT and he looks great defending on the grass. Then when he wins it looks very composed. Long term should partner up well with Botman if we get him.

Bit more info here before the deal was on the cards…

Looks very lightweight compared to the Turkish lad. Not as quick either.

Does feel like every day they are signing a player for £20m+ from all over the world.

It doesn’t help that Chelsea halve a 20% clause.

This and this… So that’s EH staying…

Disagree. Last year of contract so unless we plan to extend this is the summer to sell him. Tonali, Hall, Miley and at a push Willock can cover him along with one or two from our shadow squad. We’ve no European football this year either.

Yes but buying them THIS window would likely mean losing one of our best players next summer so we’d be worse off… If you had the choice of Guehi this window and lose one of Bruno, Isak, Gordon next window or see this window out with what we have at CB and look again next window and keep all our purples which option would you take? I’d just stick with Burn and Kraft for 3-5 months until our injuries clear up then get a purple CB next accounting window personally. Obviously if we sell Trippier, Almiron, Wilson, Longstaff and Fraser this window the hopefully that gives us room to do both along with a RW purple.

You can discuss things and still enjoy the ride. I know I do. Find it quite educating the discussions. Think a lot of fans would benefit from it also when they expect us to spend £200m this window. I’ll admit I was under the impression originally we could buy similar to our Trippier/Targett/Burn/Bruno window which would be around £70m in total fees approximately.

I don’t pretend to understand PSR but these posts are a reality check of the situation as it stands. The Guehi deal makes no sense to me. We are buying him at his highest stock price if the reported figures are close. Let’s find the next Guehi and keep hold of all our purples next summer. If he’s available for £45m then you might have a dilemma if its the player you REALLY want but it sounds like its going to be closer to £65m I really don’t get it. Lets see how it plays out over the next two weeks as you’d think they like a purple for Southampton if not the Sela Cup.

Yep. I said when the news broke there was something fishy about the wording. Ornstein I feel pipes up when deal is getting rubber stamped with Romano following closely behind. The tweet read like a sales pitch to alert clubs.

Yeah I’m basing my Tomori judgement on the games against us. Thought he was great. Also basing my judgement of Guehi on the games against us and the Euros. Thought he was very hit and miss after a very good first game. Thiaw only saw the once against us and remember very little about him TBH. Will definitely leave this one to the experts. With PSR a thing we can’t just discount the size of the fee not being important though. Hence I don’t want us to be getting our pants taken down by Palace off the back of a tournament. As he was going for less when he had 3yrs on his contract.

Seem to recall it being part of a fan charter. Possibly the home strip only. Think the government got involved at one point. In the years I bought replica strips from early 90’s to mid 00’s all the strips lasted 2yrs.