Roids

He's a bit like Kompany was for Man City before Pep turned up in the leadership and stature sense, yet so young. Love the lad, did he get a new contract? https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4628907/jamaal-lascelles-six-year-contract-newcastle/

Despite his flaws he's arguably our 2nd most talented player after Merino. Not sure why there's such fervour to sell him the squad is lacking in genuine talent. I agree with whoever said his problems comes from cowardice (or to put it another way, an inherent lack of drive & motivation to be the best player he could be) rather than his athleticism, or lack of thereof.

I want City to lose & I want our relegation rivals to lose as well. So conflicting.

Haha! I genuinely like Brighton (might be biased as I lived there for a while). One of the best cities in the country, solid affable fanbase who have supported there team through some truly genuine bullshit over the last 2 decades. Well run and managed club who came up organically and of course big Chris at the helm. That said I hope we pump 'em tomorrow and furthermore we can both avoid relegation.

BBC Comment ' John Main: Just to put all the criticism into perspective you can buy the whole NUFC club at least twice for the amount City have spent on their squad.' Crazy when it's highlighted in black & white like that

Brighton/Stoke. This game's literally meaningless. Edit: With Gayle, Merino, Atsu & Ritchie on the bench, it would seem Rafa rightfully agrees with the sentiment

I really hope this is the case, I'll be upset if the likes of Atsu, Gayle, Lascelles, Merino et al play in this game

He's the best keeper on our books, for better or worse

Play the youth team & save the legs/confidence of the 1st team

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It really isn't though. Once in 3 matches he'll actually get a tackle right and that's about it. Everything about his game apart from some of his freekicks and sideways passes is substandard. Oh I agree 100%, point being it gives the illusion of him being useful when in reality it's the Dirk Kuyt effect, but at the risk of scapegoating him he's no better/worse than his fellow teammates, whole squad lack real quality sans Shelvey & arguably Gayle.

That 1st goal, Christ...

Truthfully he's limited at Prem level, the work rate might be endearing but offers little outside deadballs.

Fun while it lasted

Pen all day

Gwan Darlow

wow

*yawn*

#freembemba

Had such high hopes for him when he initially broke through, God knows what's happened to him over the last two seasons.

Can't watch so keeping with it on the BBC live feed, sounds like a dreadful game lol

He gets a lot of stick but he didn't ask to be in this position (i.e. #1 keeper). Always does his 'limited' best, hopefully rectify the situation come Jan.

Jose, what a player he was Now stuck with Manquillo & Dummett

Dummett's pap, but I'd take him over Manquillo every day of the week. He defends like a Liverpool player.

I'd happily take 17th now. It's gonna be a long grueling season & Europe's but a pipe dream for now. Maybe when our new PCP overlords take over.