Smal

in the last year of his contract it kind of is.

Burn provides the balance. Against decent sides a good rest defence has 5 outfield players in it to defend on transitions and ours regularly does with Burn, Botman, Schar and two midfielders generally behind the ball when it’s turned over high up the field. If you start sending two full backs flying forward you’d need to pull someone else back to keep the defensive structure/solidity. We don’t really want all 3 midfielders having to defend transitions. Yes we can upgrade on Burn’s athleticism and ability on the ball for build-up, but getting some more ability and flexibility in forward areas is way more important imo. Our defensive record was mega last season.

The wages seem like a stumbling block, aye. To me it would seem sensible to offer him a salary just above what he's on with guaranteed increases year on year.

I hate to defend Edwards, truly I do, but he won’t have been the one to write the headline and his tweet simply says nufc are working hard to get it done.

The run in looks pretty good for us

don’t really believe this. Seems about £30m too little.

Didn't know where to put this so just putting it here. We are the 12th best across the big 5 leagues at creating from set-pieces when adjusted for volume (ie, per attempt). We really need to get better at attacking the ball at these set-pieces next year. We could also defend them a lot more efficiently than we do. We have massive players so we really should be doing better than we managed last season.

urgh. He can stay over there.

a few posts up! ---- youtube and data scouting makes me think taller but slower Willock.

the high performance stuff is some of the most toxic culture going . Proper revolting bloke.

what’s the use in being owned by human rights abusers if we can’t have both

https://twitter.com/georgeball95/status/1667989087423193095?s=46&t=ESLUrfpWavUWtHVLH1vDSA saw this on Tielemans. Might explain why he can’t run anymore.

Fergie was the perfect manager for his time and got out of the game at the right time. Pep is the perfect manager for the past 15 years where the game has become more tactical. It's almost as though there isn't and doesn't have to be a singular answer to this.

Dumfries is absolutely terrible

https://twitter.com/Scottwilsonecho/status/1666785630032887808

Tyler Adams supposedly has a release clause of £30m. If it's him for £30m or McTominay for £25m it's a no brainer, like.

I wouldn't begrudge Maddison choosing Spurs over us. He's no reason to have any affinity for us and I imagine living in London as a millionaire would be amazing if that's what you're in to. It's not like Spurs are a small club or owt either. He can have a very good career there. I don't get people attacking his character for making that choice at all.

Absolutely delighted to see he appears to be over the worst of his struggles.

I don't really care but it blows my mind that Miggy can't even give a pre-prepared answer in English . He's been in English speaking countries since 2016... how does he get by? Presumably he can understand it but just not speak it.

"[Annoyed] Peas." Howling . Don't need to read further.

Arsenal game could've gone either way and we were definitely unlucky to lose it. We didn't batter them though.

Could easily fill Burn's current role though