Smal

Wilson and Miley on please.

is Gordon injured? You’d think he’d be desperate to impress but has just been walking around the centre circle this half so far.

Or ASM right and Isak left. Their full backs are there for the taking (on)

I don't think Gordon is knackered; he just never looks like he wants to defend. ASM's been really good. We could do with a bit more intensity from somewhere (Wilson?)

yeah, we need someone who has a right foot for RW don't we

we seem to be inverting Trippier today to help the midfield a bit. Makes sense I guess but no threat on the right at all.

WTF Miggy

they're on about Southgate picking him

why do the comms think Gordon's been picked for England?

Scored in their last game, didn't get off the bench in today's. Make it make sense.

Now would be the time to get him imo. He will triple his value in the next couple of years.

The quotes from that article so as few of us as possible have to visit the mail's site:

Lavia would not take a league registration slot, but he would take a CL slot. For the CL under 21s have to have been here for at least two years before they don’t need to be registered.

the mackems who are spreading it are saying she's 17 and some of our lot have found out she was in uni in 2020 so... I dunno. I would take it all with a pinch of salt.

the family portrait on the wall pic doesn't make any sense. Why would he take her back to his home? I can't see that at all

This is what I thought. If we want to register a full 25 man squad for the CL then 4 of them have to be club homegrown. Anderson doesn't need to be registered as he's under 21 so we currently only have 2 - Dummett and Longstaff. If we're going to register a full 25 then we need two more on top of those so it makes sense to keep Dummett. I don't even know which club homegrown players are out there to get so that we can register 25? Krul, Woodman and Forster? Ivan Toney? Adam Armstrong? Andy Carroll? .

most of his pressing stuff is accurate, agreed. The whole thread is just full of typical twitter tactico word salad for no good reason though, which is a bit grating tbh . The stuff about Willock dropping deep to form a double pivot in build up is just wrong, isn’t it. Willock is rarely, if ever, involved in build up and usually plays close to the last line or hovers out wide. Only one of our 8s contribute to build up and even then it’s usually Longstaff down the right with Trips, Bruno and Almiron. Willock has amongst the fewest passes of any midfielder in the prem this season and the left sided 8 is pretty much a pure transitional player. Burn inverting into a central midfield position was a feature against Brighton and Leicester and that’s about it. I don’t remember it happening at all before those games - I like it though; it’s a good way to maintain pressure. The one overarching feature of our build up is how we progress pretty much everything down the right hand side but that’s not even mentioned. It’s like he watched the Brighton game and based his thread off that. I think the account’s takes are generally a bit lazy.

KdB has twice as many non-penalty goals per 90 and over 2.5 times more assists per 90. There's quite a lot between them. It's fine to rate Fernandes but he's not even on the same planet as KdB.

Longstaff was this good under Benitez as well. He's always had this level in him. McTominay has not.

Leeds are known as United here in Leeds, like. In Sheffield where I’ve lived before it’s very much either Wednesday or United too.

we already have a better version of McTominay in Longstaff. We should be looking at an upgrade for Longstaff so that he can be a squad player. I can’t think of a single reason to sign McTominay at all, but then I couldn’t for Gordon either.

I didn’t really agree with much of this thread and then I’ve seen this morning that this account just chats a load of random old shite https://twitter.com/lehmannsterms_/status/1661392144542597122?s=46&t=ESLUrfpWavUWtHVLH1vDSA

https://twitter.com/ScotlandSky/status/1661473236888985601

How much would Levi Colwill cost from Chelsea? Seems like the ideal Dan Burn upgrade to me.

In terms of ranking the players' performances this season, as a top 10 I'd go: 1. Trippier 2. Schar 3. Wilson 4. Joelinton 5. Longstaff 6. Almiron 7. Botman 8. Willock 9. Bruno 10. Isak Feels harsh on the likes Big Dan and Pope, and even Murphy who've been good and important too. Pope would be up there but I reckon we'd have probably won a cup if he hadn't done a derp.