Tiresias

I still do if we win, which meant for a lot of brucie era i didn't much (actually think i got numb to our shit after a while and started watching again anyway). I do like watching all the other games etc etc, and feels like a nice celebratory tradition.

I thought that was why it was suggested, would be a pretty funny acronym.

I think he needs to maybe rotate a little more. But as shown from his progress from Bournemouth and even with us, he learns and improves. Brewcie thought he was above learning anything new since he was 6 years old. Half the good managers are all a bit set in how they do things. Howe clearly thinks about things and has changed things. He was famously bad at organising defences at Bournemouth...look now! I was concerned when he joined that he wouldn't be up with modern high press football we would want, he is not. Most important he needs to keep learning. There will be times he will not be doing so well, I hope our owners have the patience they claim to, because he has already moulded the squad into combative attacking players who are bastards but also play with joy. I want that happiness to stay. He is going to have to learn on the job about european football next season, he will have to rotate more and he will have to coach some very challenging ties. I would not be surprised if we struggle in europe first season or so, I hope patience is granted him, because he has learned and improved and he will again.

Mate i probably talk about football the most is an Everton fan so never really bought into the wild hatred. He's so depressed I have tbh been rooting for them to stay up, even if it is all quite funny and how they are run...sweet jesus

Well sign me up

They are really very good right now we will need to be on it

they're just fucked from 2 big performances in a week, still plenty of time to find something in the tank

took inspiration from west hams defending?

Maybe Bruno was upset about asm not himself after game lol

old trafford reffing lol

Well if Boehly gave them £100m or something totally in character

It's a bit odd because I think we ought to get a midfielder who can slow game down and control stuff even if just to be subbed up when we have a lead we need to hold and the players are running on fumes. A little bit of me wonders though if it was like Thiago at liverpool who certainly improved them and they came close to the league and yet klopp's best liverpool side was probably when had none of that passing and was just all out all the time. Similarly we may dilute Howe's pressing game, and yet I feel it is our clearest weakness, we need to be all out full press and if we're huffing a bit we get sloppy.

I do agree, but stadiums do have ghosts, their history should have a little weight and equally i dread the day every stadium visited is hyper modern spaceships all surface and no feeling

well duuur though does imply lascelles is out

oh i agree it's just equally going to make us an easier sell to players other clubs are sniffing around

Equally we become more attractive to players, champs league quality players are super expensive still but there's no premium for convincing a player to walk away from european football, players will look at us and think maybe can win something with them

Well yes but if we sell him he does need replacing. If we were only getting £20m for him he could fund only a speculative purchase rather than a definite upgrade. He's contracted till 2026 so hardly like he's going to go cheap anytime soon, another year of howe coaching may add value more than anything. If someone came in with £35m+ i'd maybe be a bit tempted, but I would be led by Howe's read on Maxi, does he want to go? Does he want to stay then why risk replacement? If we need to sell to buy that is a slightly different matter. I'd find it horrendous selling any of the players who could command much of a fee at this point to be honest.

It is daft but it's a free hit for Lampard to rebuild his reputation isn't it, he either does ok, which may persuade a minnow of a club to take a chance on him, he does terribly, in which case he's probably no worse off than now when he's been binned off as a premier league coach, or he wins the champions league by fluke (chelsea fucking love doing that don't they?) in which case he will inevitably get given the job at chelsea then get a massive payoff in october when reality has sunk in that he's not good enough. For chelsea guess appeals to the fans to buy in, he'll be probably ok at motivating dressing room but how he's going to parse the enourmous squad. Tactically he will be hopeless but that may be a relief from Potter's overthinking. I predict he will get some results but lose the big games badly, everyone will shrug and proper operator will come in in summer despite calls from media shouting for him to be given the job permanently for no reason. Boehly may relent, he does seem an idiot. There is clearly decent coach willing to jump on board late season, what is in it for them? Another two months out of work isn't going to diminish their reputation too much but two months crashing and burning in a dumpster fire may do.

Unless Maxi is going to be genuinely unhappy, and he has to accept he will be rotated in and out especially with europe, I would definitely want to keep him. Howe is doing wonders, why can't he get Maxi to be consistent? He seems to be really buying in at the moment, and answering critics who don't think he works hard enough in games

Genuinely looking forward to having final score on in the background while doing stuff, sick of the tv games!

Worth noting how many of those goals were from us high pressing, midweek, 3 days after last match. If anyone wonders why Howe needs players to commit to being ultra fit that is why

Just unbelievable player, just ludicrous transformation

Wtf is this +26 goal difference, feels weird lol

man u win, booo