Tiresias

Yeah but just if you're adding a 25% tax for buying in january hard to commit to any big moves. Sure if there's a good deal, someone out of contract soon who can be pursuaded who is really good maybe

I doubt we'll spend now. If you want a 'gamechanging' player you generally have to pay over the odds this window and Howe may think the squad is fine and no need to make changes. May use PSR as an excuse to save up till summer. I would be minded if there's room to try for a RW player to bring some goals almost as much in case of Isak getting injured than to fill that role. I also doubt if we do plan on spending anything we would be advertising it and saying as such

General consensus still seems to be he's a boring bad coach. I agree with you.

I dunno they have been fairly consistent in style for a while now, solid Moyes ball, not as negative as all that with lot of directness and some really good players at times, Moyes got them into europe, focused on that and did well in europe but diminished them in the league. They lost Rice, squad seemed bit diminished but Paqueta and Bowen have kept them with some threat. My defense of Moyes ends a bit there as did seem just to be slowly winding down somewhat regardless but Lopetgui hasn't really changed that, so I don't know if the players really have struggled to adapt or they're just a midtable team with midtable players who can have a good season but will rarely string them together. You're absolutely right, Potter given time could change their style and that could be positive, or they could continue with lucky dip transfer policy and end up with a very confused squad. They're still the team most likely to buy some extremely average player based on doing alright at the euros, see Fulkrug, and call that a transfer window.

May be controversial but thought Moyes did a good job at West Ham. If they wanted to get away from that style Lopetegui seemed the signing of someone who has heard spanish and not actually checked what kind of football he played. He's probably better than what he has showed there though, it always seems team assembled with muddled thinking.

I mean i've been guilty of frustration when things bit rough have to admit. He can be stubborn with players staying in the team etc...

Howe never gets any credit for being adaptable tactically. Howe has a style of play that he likes and we play but he tweaks and changes where and when needed. Not sure why not bothering to do this counts as principled.

Hmmm i think it'll go ahead, or possibly get postponed

Hmmm maybe. I do find i am more lenient on keepers than some. My partner always thinks its keepers fault it seems and i'm not sure. I often think the keepers people rave at are often given an easy time by a defence that doesnt let people shoot very easily so always making spectacular looking saves from long shots that actually they will save those 9 times out of 10 regardless

I'm really not sure why dubs was written off by so many in here, no he's not greatest keeper but he's rarely been terrible for us, steady Eddie of a keeper.

The narrative should have been Newcastle were clinical in first half spurs got goal but not much else, second half spurs played better but ultimately blunt up top. Instead we get all this nonsense. Imagine if big ange had come out and said "we need to be better at putting away our chances, we can't be shipping soft goals and not converting in that second half when we played how i want us to" would that really have hurt so bad?

We're all guilty of bias wanting ref calls for our own team but this has been ridiculous a) not only was the first handball absolutely clearly correctly ignored by the ref according to the law, on any other day 99% of their fanbase would be entirely in favour of ignoring completely obviously accidental handballs in the buildup to goals. b) the dan burn thing, yes he got a big lucky with that but its amazing how football fans suddenly want incredibly pedantic refs throwing yellow cards around for every incident when it would benefit their team. Right so all you want is consistency right? Lets just have constant yellow cards and several red cards a game? No actually most fans (and feel free to correct me on this) want the ref to get involved as little as possible, to protect players from injury and punish cheating. The dan ball 'hand ball; was the kind of minor crap that should never cause a player to be sent off. I hate it when a whole game is ruined for a nothing infraction. c) The only time there is a case is the joelinton foul. I saw it and thought could be a red. I think there was a case. Just as there was a case for a red for the shove on Gordon. The game was better for the ref giving benefit of the doubt to be honest. Never a game goes by though when an opposition player fails to get red carded for something fans see. Embarassing for a manager to be acting in this myopic a manner. I didnt like it when Mourinho was like this, didnt like it when klopp was like this or now when arteta and postecoglu are like it. Act like the adults in the room not like a screaming moron fan.

Is it just me or does Lopetegui look a bit like if Neil Morrissey had slept rough for a few years?

Yeah all the handball rules etc are attempts that swing between trying to punish every handball or only punish those actually deliberate ones. The issue with handballs is often the punshment is waaaay over the top compared to the offence. You try and legislate for every handball, welcome to penalties that decide games based on players accidently brushing the ball with their hands in the corner of the box that was not leading up to a goal scoring opportunity. You try and be lenient and goals are scored because it bounced off someone hands, either way people are very angry because their entirely biased opinion of course has swung a match.

As everton mate says why not add a few more wins could be top of the league

Oh yeah. I dont think theyll win the league playing like they are unless everyone has a scrappy year.

im not sure sacking him would achieve much, if a really great manager was available. Tbh if they want to seriously challenge for the league they could drop over £200m for Isak who would double their goals and that Robinson left back from Fulham who would add a lot more left sided threat and then maybe its a title winning side. But i dunno if even with that could get the players...

for all the praise arsenal get for scoring lot of set pieces they do look out of ideas in open play. I just dont know if you can grind out leagues like this anymore, liverpool are breezing past everyone too easily and you will always drop points when you make such hard work of it. I dunno think its just the gap from liverpool (and normally man city) to the rest of the league is so great you can't leave this many points up for grabs.

Never understand players slowing down when they are on a break on goal, estupinian there had good chance and lost it

Also i think i'd be furious if that pen was awarded against us

first pen brighton have been awarded all season? I remember we never got pens used to drive me mad cos surely you look menacing in the box enough someone will badly tackle you...

Yeah heard someone speculate was a NFL franchise owner sniffing around. I'm sure an american owner will mean more level headed forum discussion on here...

if all things were equal being if the players and managers were cloned and the crowd was cloned and the ref a clone or something???

was absurd.

Bournemouth fans apparently singing "how do you watch this every week" at everton hah