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Agree he's a forward like, or atleast seeing him last seas he looked like he'd be better there. Howe does seem to see him as a midfielder though, so I trust him and all that blah blah... He's clearly very takented though so hopefully he can fully adapt to whichever rile he's given. I like Longstaff but he's pretty limited.

Possibly not but the club aren't revealing much. It's hard to know how much is legit, other than that we obviously aren't letting clubs take the piss.

Paqueta looks world class and potentially a bargain at £40m if that could get him. On paper he instantly transforms our best XI.

I cannot see how it's mental at all. We play a 4-3-3 with 1 centre forward, and as we've seen in recent years teams don't always need a goalscoring number 9, especially if they can play with inside forwards. The fact Howe mentioned Maxi as being able to play there suggests he wouldn't be against doing the same.

Howe will want his wingers to defend from the front though. It does Maxi no favours when he's visibly sulky after losing the ball, sitting on the floor instead of getting up and blocking off a passing line or applying pressure to their player in possession. He doesn't necessarily need to track back. But SJP would go crackers if he showed more determinination off the ball and contributed more to the opposition losing the ball in their half. Pardew was playing awful football whilst also depriving us of the only form of excitement we could get on a matchday. HBA contributed far more in possession outside of rinsing fullbacks. I get the comparison but they don't really fit imo. I love Maxi like, I really want him to adjust and become a part of Howe's team properly.

Obviously not playing as a 9 like, we would have to rely on the wide forwards making runs into the box.

If we had better and more attacking wide fowards ASM might work through the middle tbf.

https://fbref.com/en/players/57e3f0c7/scout/365_euro/Nicolas-Pepe-Scouting-Report Stats are fine as well for the most part. I know it's not everything and they could be decieving due to Arsenal's style of play or something, but on the surface it suggests he hasn't been as bad as is made out with the minutes he's had over the past year.

Pepe's weird because he looks too good to be bad Not sure what the full story is with him at Arsenal like.

You really cannot say that until he's performed in comparative leagues (or you're talking to one of the coaches/players). Murphy and Almiron are actually very good footballers, they're just not Premiership level. Anderson looks promising but it's hard to say where he's at right now. It would be great if he can stay and make 30 starts next year but we have no real frame of reference to tell us that he would be even capable of doing that in the Championship.

Tony Yeboah with shades of Cisse

That goal at 3.43 is absolutely insane like

Yeah that's how I remember it. He was basically the best thing we've seen on the ball in years so it was understandably glossed over like. The fact he'd just come from one of the best defences on the planet, who would have read his runs/played the offside trap better would have probably been a factor too

Maybe you fell a kip? Pretty sure it was Watford where he was woefully out of possition on atleast a couple of occations and didnt have the pace to recover, we never go punished but it was pretty apparent.

Watford murdered him like. Think he adjusted to Harrison after a shakey start and didn't have much trouble 2nd half.

Cannot see how it's shitty move like We have no obligation to save clubs from liquidation when it would clearly impact our own plans. Southampton will be signing the player (probably on a cut price) if they feel they're getting a good deal.

100% I do get it like, but since I actually started paying attention to him a bit more he's a really tidy player and does a lot more defensively than I thought. We need to replace him, but he's a more than good enough squad player. Despite his reputation he actually seems a decent bloke aswell.

Harrison (or whoever) needs to come in alongside

Last thing we need to be doing is selling our best winger like

True Geordie literally just used to performatively scream opening FIFA packs. It was cringey as out but he obviously knew it was getting him hits and allowed him to build up his 'brand'. It will be the same with Adam P. He edits his videos I assume, he chooses to keep in all of the obvious 'mistakes'. I mean he obviously never went to get a meal deal from Boots and ended up just buying three bags of apple slices because that's what he actually wanted . It's a bit. It probably started out with him just being naturally awkward, and then he'll have leaned into it. At this point he'll be fully aware of what's going on.

Going to go out on a limb here and say @Bompetermight be pulling your legs

Not sure Howe should have wished the lad dead in a car crash like but good interview otherwise.

Pushing teams wide and then asking them to try and beat Botman and Burn in the air could be a plan though. I do think Schar and Botman is just too handsome a pairing to break up like

He's probably not thought too deeply into it. Just 'say something to kill this conversation so I can leave'. And even if he is taking the piss out of Brentford, that doesn't actually mean anything Like you can joke on about the club you play for without it meaning you're ashamed to play for them, or are a bad personality in the dressing room. How the fans choose to take it is up to them.