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The non-automatic signing of Targett suggests we must have a massive budget. Creativity from the left back position is not that high a priority, so going after it means we must have plenty of money to address the more obvious issues.

In fairness to Lampard, Everton had a hard run in but stayed up with a game to spare. As a warning going forward though, they clearly fluked some of the wins, the one against us included. Maybe this greatest achievement BS is some "control the narrative" advice he's got from his uncle. who would come out with the same level of comment.

I'd like Targett myself, but if Howe thinks he's not good enough, then wow, we must be setting the bar very high. So high that the budget must be very large and exciting times are ahead.

Player: Joelinton Improved: Joelinton, Krafth Disappointing: Wood. He's getting back there, but Willock's struggled too. Signing: Trippier. "Who'd go to Noocarsel?" is now dead in the water. Goal: Bruno thunderbolt backheel Game: Win at Leeds Moment: The first time Dan Burn appeared next to Ryan Fraser Manager: Bruce 0 Jones 2 Howe 10 Season rating: 9 out of 10. 10 is winning something

When we signed him Villa were 11th and us 18th. We finished 11th and them 14th.

That was before today, so 8 in 1395 puts him at 173 minutes per goal. Wissa played but didn't score today, leaving Wilson second in the Other14 table.

Disappointing, low-quality performance from us today, but 11th is a great achievement. What a second half to the season! Well done everyone. Hope big Joe is okay, and enjoy the rest everyone, Eddie in particular. Burnley deserve to go down for that gormless display from their fans, never mind the type of football the team plays. It took Wood coming on to rouse them. After letting one slip before, Gerrard lets a two-goal lead slip this time. What a legend! It should shut up all those ex Liverpool cunts and celebrity fans on tv. All in all, a good day.

I hope Howe is laying into them. We're winning, but this is too flat. Let's turn it on and get a second.

That's what I want to see. We've been brilliant since January, but never at full strength. Willock too would have be ideal, but never mind.

I'd go for Nketiah over Toney and spend the money saved on Paqueta. Toney doesn't have good shooting numbers and only seven non-penalties. We can look again for a striker in Jan 2023 because many players have contracts up in summer 2023. If Bruno and Trippier are the level of players we want to buy, then yeah, there will be windows where no suitable proven players are available for a non-crazy price. Liverpool and Man City identify players and wait for them to be available, they don't just pay big for who is out there.

104Kg. It's bringing back memories of William "the Refridgerator" Perry.

Sign all the Brazilians! An impressive number of elite players have contracts expiring in 2023. There's pretty much a title winning team here on the first page, all potentially available for free next year. https://www.transfermarkt.com/transfers/endendevertraege/statistik?plus=0&jahr=2023&ausrichtung=alle&spielerposition_id=alle&altersklasse=alle&land_id=0&yt0=Show

A rare game in a while where (non-elite) opposition have better much form than us. Burnley last four at home P4 W3 L1. The wins were Everton, Soton, and Wolves. Our last four away are P4 W1 L3 including two pastings. I still expect us to win, but I doubt it'll be a pushover. Leeds may well lose, in which case Burnley stay up anyway.

He may have potential, but it's not a skill you'd develop at Burnley playing Orcball.

Using Arsenal as a feeder club has echoes of Man City. I like it! Saka is under contract till 2024, so he'll be top dollar. Almiron sold plus 70M? Saka is so good that its tempting to start playing mental games of fantasy football where you also sell ASM. My mental games of fantasy football include sacrificing Willock to get Paqueta.

Yest, there are the missed opportunities in there, Everton away too of course, and I would say they cancel out the concerns you could have from us getting so many not-exactly-convincing single goal wins. Anyway, since that's 2/3 of a season starting with zero confidence and poor fitness, continuing with Wilson out, and then ending on a roll with a very different lineup, I would say that level of points return is sustainable. With further strengthening, I would be very confident of seventh or better next season. The current lot even look capable of it. We've been playing 4-3-3 and tallking about evolution, so if there is no big change in tactics, I can't foresee us upgrading our attack in a way that would threat our newfound defensive stability.

Confirmed 7th at worst in the Eddie table which starts November 20th if you count the Brentford game with Tindall on the sidelines. Half the goals conceded were in five heavy defeats City 4 and 5, Liverpool 3, Leicester 4 and Spurs 5. We conceded 16 in the other 21 games.

Nah, you don't do "evolution" not "revolution" with Mourinho. He'll just sign his own players, not bother improving the squad, and won't use any youth players, even if they are a Salah or de Bruyne. That's what history says. To Mourinho's credit, he is not finished when it comes to winning the odd thing and did so as well as anyone at Man U. It was very Spursy of them to sack him just before a cup final he may well have won for them. Anyway, sounds like BS to me.

Paqueta in that strip! I hope they won't remain "unknown pleasures".

Yeah, that spell has ultimately done them, losing to Palace, Brighton and Southampton. Their xG went really weird around then, with them seemingly missing lots of chances and conceding easily. Them conceding easily isn't hard to imagine given Ramsdale's performance yesterday. They've just lost against us and Spurs away but look at where the two teams are in the home form table. In 2022, NUFC is not a readily winnable away game. Arsenal fans might be kicking tables, but that's only because they think playing us must be a banker. As they always say, past performance does not guarantee future returns etc. etc.

Three Bruno level players and we strongly challenge for CL. Leicester won the league with three players, Kante, Mahrez and Vardy, going supernova. The supporting cast was merely quite good. Mahrez and Vardy weren't even new signings and were there already. I doubt ASM and Wilson will go supernova, but they can burn more brightly than under a fat cunt who can't be bothered to hold training sessions. I'd expect PIF to buy higher up the food chain this summer than Leicester did going into that season, Fuchs, Okazaki and whoever else it was. Merino and Tiote both started very well in Black and White, but were soon found out to be weak when pressed hard and crowded out. Bruno looks so sharp and strong under pressure that opponents are going to have to find another weakness. Kicking him perhaps and testing his temperament. The goals are probably a purple patch and I don't expect them to continue, but that's not what he was bought for.

The current Arsenal can't be historically shite because they just beat Chelsea and West Ham away. They beat Man U too at home. They lost to Spurs, but there is no shame in that, especially if you're down to 10 men. Anything can happen in a derby. As an organisation, you can have a go at their big wigs because they let PEA leave and are relying on an out of contract young player to get them (unsuccessfully by the looks) over the CL line. However, their recent results going into yesterday were good. This is the strongest challenge for fourth they have mounted in a while. fwiw, 2019/20 Arsenal amassed a mighty total of 56 points, 7 more than us this season if we beat Burnley. That's after us being "winning none of the first fourteen" relegation-certs level shite.

Him and Fernandinho in the same summer suggests they need to buy someone.

Poor lad was totally Bruced, but there are glimmers of the Rafa-era player in there. Good luck to him whatever happens.

I agree with sentiments one and three but not sentiment two. In their last six games, us included, Arsenal beat Chelsea and West Ham away and Man U at home. We outplayed them, but that does not make them shit, regardless of how much the result may have disappointed those in the Sky studio. It means some combination of them having an offday (compared to the recent results mentioned above) and us being good. For those not paying attention, again those in the Sky studio included, 35 points off the last 18 games also means we must be good in what are hard to deny terms. Nobody flukes half a season.