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for some reason I've got vivid memories of Rafa dropping him. Fuck knows whats going on there

It tells you nowt tbf, being in a relegation scrap doesn't mean you need to shut teams out and flap your arse trying to scrape draws and 1-0 wins. Howe and Rafa have completely different philosophies, Rafa also didn't like Ben Arfa, completely understandable given the type of manager he is but you'd be hard pressed to say Hatem looked bad for us. Gini was a forward/winger when he was here too, we also had a much better squad.

aye he largely looked quality. Never looked like he could play CM with us but Klopp showed he can.

He's a good manager obviously but management across the board has probably gotten a lot better since his Liverpool and even Napoli days. Managers are getting younger and more tech savvy and there's more going on behind the scenes with regards to fitness and coaching that narrows the gap even more. Pretty much every club in the league now has a billionaire involved too. You're just never going to get to the standard of football Liverpool are playing with Rafa.

I've got no interest in womans football at all like, like has been said it's just not great to watch and the lads who follow them beyond a passing interest are likely sex offenders. However I completely agree that key games should be given priority. Even beyond the positive growth it can have for womens football it just seems fair that any British domestic final should be televised.

If we buy a proper CDM and add Lingard then our midfield (which is currently disgraceful) starts to look more fitting with the Premiership. He's better than pretty much anything we've got and is pretty versatile too. Add a couple of fullbacks and a backup striker and we should be fine.

Thought Almiron played well tbh. He's a shitter Ayoze but it's hard to complain of he gets involved like he did yesterday given the options. Willock again is absolutely pointless though.

Pretty clear now that he blagged that interview like I'm happy with him and the performance with 10 men was impressive. But it's plain as day that he knew very little about us beyond some probable internet scouting and MotD. This is why I wanted a clearout of staff and a proper DoF in and for the club to regulate our coaches and the assistant instead of Howe. As much as I'm excited for Howe's ideas I would feel a lot more confident if the people he talks with about football everyday had some clout about them.

Picking a CB on the basis of which foot he kicks a ball with is not understandable like. Fede looks like a legitimate Premiership centre half and Clarke doesn't. Their kicking foot should have no bearing on the decision. The best guess is that Howe has recieved some pitifiul notes on the squad since coming in.

Great performance given the circumstances. Hopefully Eddie recoveres from his brain injury and sticks with this back 5.

Mo'Linton

Nowrich have put in one of the embarrassing performances I've seen.

3 points may be a worthwile trade if we continue on with this defence. Thank you Clarke. He knew what he was doing.

Absolutely baffling Fernandez has been outcast before now like

Only issue with Lewis so far is that he seems unsure what to do when their winger cuts in. A couple times he just failed to track him.

Class from Willock and Shelvey.

Looking forward to the game all week then he goes and does that shit man

What a fucking idiot man. Literally the thickest thing a defender can do. 9th minute man the pillock.

A 24 hour bakery?

Not really, it's always been like this with Dummett. He gets pelters because he's awful on the ball but with him in the side we mirraculiously stop been torn to shreds every time a team runs down the left wing or targets the back post. He's not a great left back but until he's replaced (or if Lewis is actually good) then not playing him leaves us wide open defensively on the left.

Dummett's been our best left back for like half a decade or something. Until we sign someone else I cannot see why we wouldn't play him there.

Was probably a bit of a baptism of fire for him like The way Arsenal pressed us until they got their 2nd is probably what he will be hoping from us (and might have been expecting it to a degree today) but we just don't have the players for it.

The ammount of times he waved away our players being pushed off the ball moments before or after giving Arsenal a freekick for the same thing was borderline conspiratorial.

I mean he was the best player on the pitch like

As shit as we've been it's typical that a complete cunt of a ref has still arguably cost us the points