Smal

nah, pen all day. You can’t grab someone round the neck and drag them to the ground. Saved!

Auba got covid just last week whilst in Africa.

‘kin hell man. Hope he’s ok.

Ake has played 14 times for the best team in the country this season and City would only have 3 centre backs if they sold him. He’s not close to realistic as a January signing.

Initial instinct is that this is an absolutey terrible signing.

Like the look of Brennan Johnson at Forest. Few prem clubs linked atm.

I like it a lot to be honest. Arteta clearly has standards.

There are problems all over the pitch to be honest. We can blame our defence for recent losses but today the midfield and forwards looked totally clueless apart from Shelvey. To the extent where you're not sure what they worked on in training.

Hopefully Eddie knows the rules better than this

Honestly I really hate Matt Ritchie.

I know he's in midfield now but you really want Joelinton doing more in their area when we have the ball wide. Longstaff too.

I think ASM is fine as a striker if we're having to play on the counter, but not in a game like this. Doesn't make the right decisions.

We really need a left back . No point in signing centre halves for hundreds of billions if Ritchie is there letting someone in at the far post several times a game.

I don't think Howe would choose to get rid of Schar either to be honest. I think (hope!) it's quite telling that when he's played them both he's played Schar as the right-sided centre back and Lascelles on the left when the latter has always played on the right (in a 2) for past managers. Botman is left footed, so you would presume he would play on the left.

We do need a striker but I'm pretty confident ASM can play as a 9 under Howe if not. He did well there vs Liverpool and in the second half vs Man U until he went off.

I dunno. They've been after the club since uh... October 2017. With that in mind you'd assume there has been some planning done in the meantime so they'll know what structure and types of people they want in place. It seems to be taking a while longer than clubs usually take to make appointments (or indeed sack people); especially considering the precarious position the club is in. Caulkin has mentioned a decision making structure in place within PIF numerous times and perhaps that's not working to our advantage.

How long we seem to take to do stuff worries me a bit, like.

Their formation is absolutely tragic against a wing back system. Always loads of space for Semedo and Marcal.

Aubameyang has been really poor for 18 months. Like, really bad. No thanks.

This guy looked more like his old self athletically today. Got about, pressed well and got stuck in. More of that please. Probably just needed some actual training.

Fraser used to just walk around under Bruce. At least Howe has him running.

I agree but his lack of form was big problem today imo. Killed pretty much all of our counter attacks. I liked ASM in his position against Liverpool, so wouldn't mind seeing that again to be totally honest.

It's obviously a red, but I can't understand why the Kane one isn't overturned if that one is. Absolute brainless officiating.

VAR/refs are a joke, man

Spurs playing how we should have tried to today by the way. Sitting deep and very structured, but look really dangerous on the counter. Wish Conte had been available for us.