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I don’t remember him making loads of massive howlers. Apart from Luton or Bournemouth I think it was last season. When he let it under his foot. Plus two horrendous mistakes against Spain. I’m just regularly thinking he should be saving certain shots and he gets nowhere near them. He collapses all the while and that stat about shots to his right hand side was pretty telling. Throw in the fact we’ve had Pope playing as a sweeper since joining. That side of his game has been really magnified as a weakness, too. When it wasn’t an issue before Howe came. He was decent for us before the knee injury and before we upgraded on him/started playing with a different type of keeper. But I thought he looked rubbish last season.

I really don’t understand people blaming Wilson for getting injured or assuming some lack of professionalism on his part. He’s spent most of his career crocked. His body is just obviously not up to playing regularly at the top level. Blame the club for keeping him around when he is past it and can’t be relied upon, sure. But I don’t know why Wilson gets so much flak. It’s not like he’s deliberately injuring himself.

I mean, a draw would see a bad enough response. Rightly so, TBH. A loss would be nuclear.

Depends. Could just be a sprain or something fairly minor like with his meniscus or something? FWIW, I got told it was a neck injury in training. Which hardly sounds much better….

I mean. He does lie an awful lot in press conferences

This. Bit too coincidental that basically all of our players bar Hall and possibly Burn seem below their usual levels, stats not up to scratch and they’re wildly inconsistent. To balance it out. I do think Howe managed to mask certain players deficiencies and elevate quite a few above their level. But our big name, big money players haven’t suddenly become shit. But none of them are performing well. It is also this place after some bad results and performances. One week player X is one of our best signings of all time. The next he’s shit, past it and needs moving on.

Yeah, sorry. Worded that terribly. I know a few of them and played a season with his brother years and years ago. With that and from being round this way.it’s why I’m so biased about him. For all I do genuinely rate him.

I think it’s more that we’ll go back to even bigger gaps between all the lines again. As Dubravka isn’t confident coming out and sweeping up.

A family member lives round the corner from me. Just messaged me.

Out for 3-4 weeks apparently

Yamal is different gear. His passing and vision shouldn’t be that good at his age.

At no point was keeping Wood a good idea or perhaps a better option than Wilson. The same way not looking to move Wilson on when he actually had some value, was also a poor decision. As his injuries were only going to get worse and that’s what has happened. I’m sure some re-evaluation has already started. Mainly why we didn’t look to shift the likes of Almiron, Wilson, possibly Trippier. I’m not sure there will be much issue with moving on a player who was massively underperforming, wasn’t in the first team plans and at the same time, almost recouping what we paid for him. If anything, we need to be doing more of that. His transfer should be the blueprint if we need to start trading due to PSR.

Is he available for loan then?

Problem is. I don’t think it is. More chance of seeing Gordon or even Barnes up top for any meaningful league minutes, unfortunately. Not a chance Isak gets through this busy run of fixtures if he’s doing close to 90 every game.

Or sell both when their value was high/we actually had offers. Then buy a striker who isn’t a perma crock or crap. Honestly. The re-writing on this forum of Wood’s time here is a real head scratcher. Seems a top bloke. Glad he is now doing well. But he was terrible here.

Quite right and all. Chris Wood was absolutely shite for us. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Assuming he had any suitors. Selling Wilson was the right thing to do after the season when he got 16-18 goals or whatever it was. But keeping Wood was not the answer.

Bit harsh. Definitely a busted flush at this point and he was over a year ago. But I don’t think he’s a sicknote in the same way Owen or Marcelino were. Plus he has been a quality player and goalscorer when he’s been fit. The problem is, he’s just never fit

Looks like AI that. Don’t remember him being so gorgeous.

No chance Big Joe is a 10. I’m not sure he has any of the attributes you’d want to see in that position.

He started the season well. Then looked nothing like he did previously when he returned at the beginning of the year, last Christmas or whenever it was. I doubt the club would come out with "dropped a massive bollock here. He's not right and will need an op to sort it out. We should have done that in the first place." not that I listen to much from the club or players. Howe is notorious for his lies to the press or straight batting everything.

Lemina had a full head loss at the end of the game What was all that about? Had some weird handshake with Bowen, then they started wrestling. Before he then started trying to fight everyone on the pitch. Yet again, it feels like the level of officiating has gotten worse since VAR and the on-field refs seem even more unsure of themselves. Leave any decision to VAR, as you know if it's a blatant error it will be overturned. Yet quite blatant fouls, red cards, penalties etc are getting checked and cleared almost instantly. All because of this new directive from Howard Webb? So what are we left with? A system that clearly isn't working. We don't want it constantly re-refereeing games and over-analyzing every decision. But it would also be nice if the refs went back to making some decisions themselves and also when they don't or perhaps they miss something. VAR is seen as something that assists them and it not being seen as undermining referees when intervening. In the last week alone, off the top of my head from games I've watched and can remember. We have seen what is IMO a clear pen on Isak, a clear pen/red card for VVD on Gordon, a red card for Kulusevski, the two penalties last night that weren't given. Seems the general consensus amongst fans, ex-pros and pundits alike are that all of the above were the wrong call from VAR. They are clear and obvious errors, so call them out as such.

I'm not sure his or the team's performances are helping his value. Not suggesting he wants to leave or that we should sell him. Just that I think he is more easily replaced than Bruno and Isak if we HAVE to go down that route. I think Isak is understandably going to want away unless our performances suddenly do a 180 and we start playing well consistently and racking up some wins. I think the others will have less suitors for the money we'd want and are less likely to be demanding to move.

He clearly was playing through a problem. It was the same knee that was operated on. There was conflicting advice about whether he could rehab and not need the op or if the operation was required straight away. They went with the former. He came back and looked miles off it. Then ended up having to go under the knife, anyway.

Assuming our most sellable assets are Bruno, Isak and Gordon and we are considering moving one on so that we can rebuild the squad. I’d sell the latter before the other two. Not even close, for me.

I dunno like. I think it seemed like he’d lose his job on the first video alone. As he’d never be out of the limelight and Liverpool would always feel like he is against them. Then there was more, wasn’t there? Like the video of him sniffing gear, the text messages etc. My job doesn’t involve being in the public domain (thank fuck). But if I was involved in something like the above. Say massively slagging off a customer/supplier on video, then doing lines and then a load of messages hinting at possible corruption/being a bit of a nonce and/or creep. Then I’d fully expect to lose my job.