Tiresias

Yeah fine for backup, in an ideal world shouldn't be a starter but there is also a combination of things making him look worse, he's not that great defensively, he's not some ultra positionally aware disciplined defensive mid like Rhodri, but because he's most physically capable since Joelinton's injury he's being asked to be the deepest midfielder. Even under Benitez he played best next to Hayden rather than Shelvey. He's good at pressing high as he will win the ball back in opponents half and will score goals causing chaos in opponents half, but he offers no control and equally because he is all action he's a bit positionally suspect so may over commit and then leave defence exposed in a way a 'true' defensive mid wouldnt

RIP

Considering he's a world cup winner and one of the outstanding players in that win shouldn't be, but i agree he's class

Agree but don't think they're that good either. Would he a weird season they have been far from the usual standard, city have been a bit off it. Arsenal have been as good as they have been since peak Wenger and yet they still can't win it. Strange season.

The only question mark on captaincy for me is his discipline but had managed to avoid that second yellow so far...

Just depends on clubs judgement over summer see how he compares to first team in training and then will trust howes judgement. If he's a real talent but not quite there yet probably would be better if he plays a lot of games than occasional sub here

Oh man wish ol lego head didnt make it so hard to root for arsenal cos i am bored of city winning everything and can't stand klopp don't want that fucking 'fairy tale' media talk on him winning league in last season with 'klopps kids'

Presumably get him back for training over summer see if he can impress howe and decide whether to loan him out on that. Players take a little ring to get up to fitness for Howe so suspect about loan out to more physically demanding league

Make him captain, make him mayor, make him manager just please stay

He's also by far most creative quite happy for him to prioritise dinked through balls to isak

Rice would rightly be worth more. The thing is, Isak's injury record means we probably wouldn't get as much money proportional to how actually good he is as a footballer so would never feel reasonable.

defence isn't working at all, and doesnt show sign of improvement, albeit also so disrupted by injury there are reasons but would still expect some more improvement than there has been. It's also so weird considering how good we were last season. I do think Joelinton and Pope are huge losses and maybe just impossible to replace at all in terms of their defensive contributions, however I do think Longstaff is playing below his level, he gets slagged off a bunch on here sometimes justifiably but he has played better than he is right now, maybe for lack of help but still. He has muscled the ball off teams pressed well and worked well in transition before and here he is giving ball away waaaay too much, i know technical stuff never his game but feels too eager to take risks sometimes.

I can't believe i went round York air museum with my dad as a nice thing for him instead of watching this

Well good news in terms of jinxes is going to miss this out of family obligation stuff, and normally if i cant watch us we end up winning a fun one. (i still take responsibility for that Spurs thrashing last season, was sat with non football mate catching up outside cluny and swear i could hear the goals going in)

Suspect it will be but I am not sure. A lot of the coaches coming through like Potter seem very much systems managers with excellent tactical knowledge etc etc but you just don't get the time with the players at international level to drill them into a particular model. This is why Southgate has done fine, he's well short on the tactics and it's shown him up a bit and yet he's got us to a final and reasonably close another. Look at Potter's struggle to get Chelsea playing how he wanted, and by internal accounts it wasn't like he was disliked by players even it just never clicked. I'd be looking for an astute in game tactical manager as an upgrade, and frankly if it is an English manager (and I am about as far from a tubthumping engerland type as you can get), which i think in an ideal world would be just as the players are all english kinda makes sense if we are doing this national teams thing, I just can't see any candidates now? Potter I think wouldn't thrive in international set-up, Howe makes more sense but he wants his players super fit, he would then have to pick from teams that play that style, City and Arsenal players would be fine but would any others?

I honestly think he's bad for tactics great for vibes, why cant we have him to man manage the squad and someone else to do subs and tactics?

dont be silly its not a friendly with a bunch of players missing trying some new players it's all cos england r woke we lost, we should have a picture of st george murdering some transgenders on and then we would win (just to clarify this is a joke)

The ice caps are melting, noone can afford to live, theres war all over and all the news is about tiny flags being a different colour, it's just wank. Anyway just watching for gordon and bruno and i hope it ends like this between them ;d

Ffs of course

I mean it's kinda for the Nottingham Forests of the world where the owner could be splurging more than he can afford and who would know, and what would happen if he ran at a £200m loss and then bailed leaving the club in financial ruin. The issue is how the rules are a) favoring clubs with outrageous incomes massively so rather than at all limiting spending of the rich clubs to bring others closer to them are restricting everyone else, and b) incentivising the fire-sale of homegrown players by clubs which feels mad to me... I think it does mean clubs are less likely to implode but it's bad for the league in it's current form. It either needs to be changed to mean clubs that have the cash can spend it (even if it meant extensive proof of funds required) while still incentivising growing clubs revenue etc as should happen, or somehow scaling back the completely bonkers inflated prices and wages of players to allow clubs to be more competitive. I have no idea how to do that though. I also think something to make it more difficult for clubs to hoard players somehow could help? None of this will happen tho

They could have sold someone else too. I know but with these things you do have to have cut off points at some point

Gif that kid

Thanks

Incidentally does anyone know if there's a pub showing the game in vicinity of the cluny? Never go that way to watch but got gig directly after