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That Arblaster looked decent in spells as well, haven't seen or heard much of him this season, but that 1st 20 had me thinking he'd been a decent back up to Bruno.

I think it's a 4-2-3-1, but the front 4 are very fluid and playing very high up.

Lacking quality all across the middle, Gordon also needs to use that overlap more, it's too predictable so far

I agree with this to a point, but Isak is unique in the fact that he is world class. We have to play him that level of wages, Levy has that approach to players he does feel deserve the pay increase, but the top top players get the ones they deserve

I just cant see where he would go, maybe i'm being naive. Real have one of the best sets of young midfielders ever assembled. PSG doesn't feel like a Bruno type of club, and with Mbappe leaving surely that sets them back a few years. Barca are broke? City are 1/2 years away from potentially not even being a premier league club Man U is genuinely a sideways step atm Arsenal cant spend another 100mil on 1 player in a postion they're pretty well stacked Liverpool same as above, just not as stacked.

My biggest issue with tonight is, we had 10 days to come up with a plan to beat Palace, and though "Nah, let's just use the one that worked against Tottenham" who play a completely different type of football. We then followed that up by not changing it for 60 mins.

Gallagher would be a good signing, if Tonali wasn't returning very early next season and also if Miley and Anderson didnt show the signs of being able to become a top level players. Even if Lonstaff left, we the only type of CM we should be looking at is someone who can play in the middle of our 3 when needed.

If he's not a complete crock these days, i'd be looking at someone like Andre Gomez as a cheap back up for the 6 role. He wouldn't demand to play and is very good on the ball. It's just a question of if his body would stay together long enough to be able to work in the way we play. Still a little worried that if Bruno is injured/suspended/in need of a rest that we have no-one other than Schar* that can play the role *

Biggest compliment I can give to him is that since his return, he's plugged most of the big Joelinton shaped hole we had in our midfield

I'd still say all parties took a risk. If all the medical people said he needed an op, the club would have pushed him harder, because of the mixed information I think the club did all they could in this case.

Some advised surgery, some said he'd be OK to play through, player made a choice to play through. Don't see why it's such a big issue. Sometime Drs advise to turn off life support, family refuse and the patient recovers. I know Drs are highly qualified, but they're not always right. He and we took a risk, it didn't work out. It's s a shame, but it's not a reason to overly criticise anyone. If he had had the surgery initially we would have had times where we could have had 1 of our 1st choice back 5 playing as well

I think there's a lot of worrying going on for no reason here tbh, he came in when were was looking like relegation fodder, we've progressed massively since, he and his family love the club/city. It's been a disappointing and underwhelming season in the main, but I can't see anything that would make him push for a move. If he leaves, we've received an ridiculous offer that makes the club accept because they believe it'll help us develop better going forward (which I alsodont see happening, because i dont think anyone has that type of money atm)

For me we definitely need a LB and an upgraded RW. If everyone if fit and available the Midfield is fine for next season. After that a younger RCB and then a Striker are the next 2 on the list. I've seen 4-2-3-1 mentioned and I'd love to see it tried, but not sure how well it would work in practice. Pope* Tino New CB Schar New LB Tonali Bruno Isak/Willock Gordon Isak/New CF Barnes *Schar is LCB because Botman won't make 1st few months of the season As we likely won't see a new formation I think we'll see something like this once Tonali finishes his ban Pope* Tino. New CB Schar Hall Tonali Bruno Willock Gordon Isak Joelinton *I think we'll make at least 4 1st team signings, but they won't all be straight in

Lewis Hall is the best Left Back we have

Just shoot FFS

Genuinely, one of the worse halves of officiating I've seen in a while.

With City getting pretty every decision and creating basically nothing clear cut, 2 stupidly lucky goal. I've also never seen City go long this many times from GK because we have 6 players pressing from every GK.

The more I watch Wolves, the more I think Ait Nouri would be a great addition

Imagine if we actually created him a few chances as game.

Can't even be bothered to find his thread, Burn is a terrible Left Back. I can't see how or why he's still starting every game. So many goals come from our left.

If we're signing another wide player, they need to be left footed imo. Out of everyone that you wouldn't mind seeing play wide for us, Miggy is the only left footed player. Its all about balance.

That a typo on my part, was meant to say it wasn't lucky for the 2nd goal

1st 1 slightly, but they did hat we have done too often recently got caught on the break and didn't track, we earnt that luck. 2nd wasn't lucky really, Murphy put in a perfect ball really that caused confusion and Gordon followed it up and benefited, good play all round on out part.

Arsenal is an anomaly, because they'd both be number 1 keepers for 90% of the league. I don't feel Liverpool and City are clear cut, as I've seen both of those keepers make pretty basic mistakes while having to be less involved as Dubs is. That said I'd take a gamble on the Liverpool one.

Totally agree, that is the ideal scenario. Hopefully the club can find someone that fits the bill, although I feel it could be hard because I'm sure we only manage to get Tino because of the big injury and no-one wanting to take the risk with that amount of money. Turns out it was an excellent gamble.