Tiresias

No thanks

i don't think we will be often dominating posession, I think we need more technically gifted midfielders to do that, Bruno is great but Joelinton isn't, maybe sean longstaff can step up but not exactly iniesta is he. Shelvey isn't the quickest and his instant decision making can be suspect. Sign a really technically gifted mid to go along with bruno and joe we can maybe dominate possession. Do we need to? Absolutely not, I am not sure that's Howe's style it's more counter press than posession style. That is fine by me, but, when we have depth of squad to have it as an option, and certainly drill teh squad as is to get better at it, I think it is a weakness of us when a team is getting away from us we sometimes fail to take the sting out of games by just passing it around.

The prices quoted for paqueta seemed a bit beyond what we were willing to pay

Yeah I imagine we are listening to offers for Fernandez and if we can't get rid of him must be at risk of being excluded from the 25 if Dummet is still wanted.

He was/is neither has bad as some claim nor particularly good. He certainly helped out play and kept us higher up the pitch. That is only part of his job though and I think even he would likely admit he ought to be threatening goal more.

I could not stomach moving from the present location. I could cope with complete rebuild I guess but I fear a soulless identikit stadium. But anyone happy to move it from it's current location is utterly mad. I am angry enough with how much development has been allowed to block views to it as is.

So Barca demand their players all take a pay cut and/or defer wages. They try to ship De Jong to Man U even though he wants to stay, when he decides screw it might as well go they tell him he can't unless he waives the £17m deferred wages, meanwhile they also court Lewandowski and bid £50m for Raphinha. How is this nonsense allowed.

Tbh that's actually suspicious someone for a cheeky bet on?

I am quite happy with our main style being that of the Arsenal game (which i think was our 'best' performance of the howe era) where we got better posession through pressing and through intensity not through 'posession' guardiola style football. I would though like us to manage games better and that involves being able to turn downt he aggression conserve energy and play keep ball and prevent counter attacks. We played with desperation last season under Howe, we won't have that backs against the wall desperation and while some of continuing is keeping that intensity up it will also be making sure the squad can play different ways. With 5 subs next season too I imagine plenty of scope for changing up.

Bruno was not playing as a no 10 for us though, he was playing deeper than for lyon, helping defend with joelinton and still scored more goals for us than he ever did at Lyon. We also greatly need his comfort on the ball and short passing in that area of the pitch as Joelintons not the greatest passer, shelvey can have vision with time but struggles when heavily pressed. I would love us to sign a very competent passing defensively minded midfield to complement bruno and joelinton but joelinton bruno paqueta has a bit of everything too

Injury backup for Digne presumably. Digne is better than Target tbh but does get injured a lot

Dreams of psg? please dont sign him even if he comes back to us lol

In truth i dont mind it too much, overly formal would be ridiculous but i find a lot of 'banter' that comes out of clubs social media fairly cringe worthy.

Ship has sailed on that unfortunately all club communication from all clubs had to be in this forced tone of as if it's a mate talking to you

I dunno bruno and joe playing deeper more combative giving him liscence to drift around ahead would be sexy

Would he really mind if it was loan with obligation to buy on end of it?

Aaah ratboy been a while since last heard of him

Hawkeye was what gave the goal though I am not sure I saw a convincing angle showing it over the line hah

Love the car

Really liked Odoi when seen him would be happy with that

Can see leicester tbh, Rodgers had a mixed season, they start poorly will seem ideal for getting young squad going and unless he wants to wait a long time for a champions league team it is an attractive project with a patient owner

Worrying ;d

More goals upfront is very much the priority i would have thought but we do really need another cm who is good at passing. Shelvey, Longstaff and Willock are all pretty poor at recycling ball and keeping posession. We want to get better possession stats we need a 3rd mid. The ideal Tielemans wouldnt come cos he wouldnt be able to displace shelvey is funny. Really doubt it though, been reported he wants european footy and suspect again we are looking abroad cos premier league wages break our wage structure generaly.

If we sign players who want to play in europe to get us into europe if we dont match their expectations they will want to move on. Ambition is good, I dont want players not caring how well teh club is doing anymore

I thought Chelsea would win the league last season and they were rubbish so I feel I can't back them again, but yes anything short of competing for the league would be underperformance. They do need to sort out their defense.