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I do too like, if we'd signed Lingard and a forward/winger I'd be massively confident in us staying up. Like it's touch and go at the minute but there's some absolute around us.

The old 6-2-2 formation utilising both wingbacks and fullbacks is probably past it's time like.

I think we could have done better in January but do some people not realise that several teams around us also have "too many key positions still need a serious upgrade"? We're in a bad situation but I cannot wrap my head around the genuine doom looking at the table now.

I know it's a meme but Burnley really are horrendous on the ball. Even Cornet looks like absolute shite around the box.

Deffo Burnley.

People harking for the likes of Keane nowadays are fucking thick like They, like anybody else, need someone with a legitimate, deep understanding of the game. Not a shouty man. It's not the 1920s. The thing is is that they could probably easily get that too. The fact they're still in League 1 is hilarious but a complete disaster on their part. Anybody on their board with an ounce of credibility should have had them up years ago. Lukily for our entertainment their fans are just as dosile.

Think it's better they get a convincing win tbh It's rare teams just keep blowing sides out the water unless they're Man City or Liverpool.

Lascelles isn't coughing up possession though. Howe has him distributing the ball short (mainly to Trippier I think). It's clearly tactical and looking at recent passing stats Lascelles is more than capable of it. Not a chance he drops him imo, Burn will come in on the left with a licence to be a bit more possitive in possession.

Think that probably had more to do with the break in play halting Leeds' momentum than it did Longstaff coming in though. I do think Longstaff is a bit underrated though, as is any player who's main attribute is just running towards people Joelinton does need to refine himself though and nail down an actual position as it would be a massive waste to just replace him in the summer.

I think Joelinton should be our furthest back midfielder personally. There aren't many midfielders in his mould so see a lot of "he can't play here" etc but if he limits his game he has everything needed to mop up in the middle and get it to Bruno or someone else He's an absolute beast, he wins everything and reads the game well. He can pass and carry the ball well but but one he takes it past a certain point he doesn't have enough to create or score.

He'll still very likely be able to act like a normal human being around his team mates though.

He'll be fine man, he'll be mates with most of the squad and they'll likely just get along like normal colleagues. I doubt he's going to be curled up in the dressing room every day blasting Sparklehorse, crying.

His passing is like 78% according to WhoScored where as Schar is about 66%. Lascelles has Trippier to his right where a lot of our build up goes down, a lot of Lascelles' passes will be to Trippier moving into space up the wing. Schar is probably hitting a lot of balls long which are being headed clear by a defender. Brighton are one of the best teams in the league at keeping the ball so all of their players will be favourably skewed I would imagine.

it's mad like. He has some Manson like cult following that I was never aware of. Reiterating what has been said but Paul Dummett is historically a solid and reliable left back who can also play in a back 3. Matt Ritchie is a winger. Both will very likely see game time through necessity this season (Dummett at LCB and Ritchie at LW), Jamal Lewis would likely not play a single minute.

I assume Lascelles has been instructed to keep it simple and give it to Trippier. Atleast once in the past few games he made the most passes out of anyone in the side. Schar could obviously do that.

Cabaye & Debuchy round 2.

The reason he's "not had a sniff" though is partly down to him being too slow to react or having a poor touch in several situations. I think he deffinitely played his part against Leeds, statistically he won an absurd amount of balls in the air so he has to have, but so far in and around the box he's looked poor.

Not sure he deserves to be banned from Twitter like. Like we don't need to destroy his entire career over it or out Agree with the rest though.

When both are fit it could possibly be Wood up top with Wilson and ASM either side of him. Or Willock up there. We're still in a situation where anything we do in a 4 at the back formation either looks imballanced or bad.

They've got another 3 on the bench. They could theoretically field a starting XI of Kims and Lees. They should imo

If it's clear that they did it then I agree like. Raping a woman is an absolutely horrific act, it's not really something you can just look over Don't know much about this case but the Ched Evans one was an example where it was nowhere near clear enough to destroy the blokes life over.

Aye his tweet being aimed at trying to rile a specific group of people up got it's obvious and intended reaction. There are many things he could have done which would have got him unfairly targeted, but I don't think what he did was one of them. FWIW you absolutely SHOULD be allowed to "joke about rape" etc, it's just harder to pull off than joking about your ma's Sunday dinners, so unfunny cunts with their job in their twitter profile should probably stay away from it. I joke about horrific shit all the time but I've never done it in a place where my boss is obviously going to publicly see or hear about it Certainly if the subject at hand involved a rape victim who has just recently been thrown into the public eye. It's insane behaviour.

Bruno and Big Joe will tear the league up and both be in Qatar.

If he'd posted that 10 year ago and it had been dragged up I'd agree like, but he posted it a few days ago. You cannot drag your employers name through the mud in such an obviously thick way and not expect the sack like. I'd feel differently if he'd been secretly recorded down the pub or something.

Cannot see Howe wanting to deal with Costs like Marlos might be worth a punt, surely he's better than Ritchie.