ExiledGeordie

I think it’ll be more difficult than people think. We should go there and win though and have to if we want champions league.

Completely agree, just win today, no messing about.

Completely but ironic Edwards wrote an article where the initial argument was Staveley and the club used to be braver and not being so could cost us champions league. The flipped it explaining how we are at risk of a points deduction with any Jan signing😂 You can’t have it both ways ffs

Winning the next two allows us to drop points in tougher games.

Just looking at the table, we’re 6 points behind Forest and Arsenal who have tough games coming up and on paper we have winnable games. Massive opportunity.

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RW is presumably still priority?

I wonder if Miggy goes plus the players out of contract in the summer we aren’t renewing gives us the leeway to bring someone in?

Jan transfer usually hots up in the final week anyway, so probs from Monday/tues is when most deals will happen.

Massively contradicting article from Edwards lol. Throws out one argument insinuating that’s it’s ridiculous the club aren’t strengthening and risk blowing champions league qualification. Then goes into detail about how hands are tied and essentially we could up having to sell players in another emergency situation come June if we sign someone 🤷‍♂️ 😂

Totally agree, him going to Arsenal would be unbearable. I could tolerate Liverpool a bit more. I not as confident as some that he stays if we don’t get champions league.

Yeah when the takeover happened I was really excited for the ambition and also that we’d progressively build the club making shrewd and exciting signings each window, or in the summer anyway. Our wings have totally been clipped by PSR and it’s massively tapered my ambitions for what the club can achieve.

It’s a tough fixture but they’re beatable at home, games are so hard to predict too.

Seems like if you get into europe you get punished even more 🤷‍♂️

Written in the stars

I’ve forgotten what a new signing is 😂

😂 so true, PSR has completely killed competition and any excitement. Total farce

The difficulty for any manager coming in for them at the moment is this mish mash of players that are left over from previous reigns. Some of ETH’s signings have been awful and just simply not worked and cost a fortune. This combined with the fact Amorim has come in halfway through the season makes it even harder for him certainly in the short term whereas getting a pre-season makes all the difference. Maybe they couldn’t get him in the summer but it seems mad looking back now giving ETH a new contract then sacking him and paying him off. The Ashworth situation was an odd one too.

Yeah I wondered that too

That is awful, KSI ffs

They play some really good stuff at times but certainly against Man U lacked that finishing edge. At least Dibling will be missing for them, he’s dangerous.

Agreed

We just need a committed, professional performance. I’m not bothered about thrashing them but we need to get back on track and take advantage of the fact Bournemouth play Forest and City play Chelsea next weekend. Weekend after when we play Fulham at home the Arse play City and Forest play Brighton at home. Win the next two and things could look pretty good going into some tough fixtures.

You’d think this is where Mitchel comes into his own. Squad rotation and player sales is probably on Howe’s areas to improve.

They are good on the ball but give you loads of chances so Isak should be all over them.