Tiotes Witch Doctor

Longstaff offering far more than Tonali and has shored up the midfield, bloke isn't good enough overall but a better option for me ATM.

Don't think he's very good at all, loads of weird hype with this lad.

It'll take some a long time to admit this, but I've thought this from day one, he's done so much for us but never thought hed be the one to deliver any real or consistent success.

Can see us between 8th-10th but an impressive January window could change that I suppose.

The problem is both Gordon and Barnes only really look effective on the left, still one of our strangest moves spending 85 million on two LW's when we don't have any competent RW's, both are good players of course but when money is limited, spending half of that on an RW would have been the smart choice.

To be fair Tonali hasn't looked particularly bad but he's shown nothing yet to suggest he's going to be a transformative signing for us. I'm not saying that can't and won't happen but so far he does look distinctly average.

During games we seem to have lots of chances to cross the ball or pull it back and we never seem to have anyone in the right place to attack them, the quality of the balls are sometimes not good but ultimately we just never seem to move to the right areas, it's incredibly frustrating.

Positive of today is that he's looked closer to being back to his old self today, loads of good movement and getting into the right areas.

To be fair as a team that's vocal about wanting to be a top European team I don't think it's too much to expect a good performance and a win to go with it now and then 🤣

Lewis Hall is another one to add to our list of awful crossers of the ball/corner takers.

We've been great but barely threatened their goal, we've got a real problem in the final third at the moment. Isak just hasnt looked the same player in the games he's played which doesn't help.

Is there no way we can pursue a legal challenge ourselves based on this?

He played well overall but hasn't been in sparkling form so far this season anyway, tbh his finishing has always been a weak point of his game that he needs to work on, despite his numbers last season his end product let's him down at times, do think the occasion got to him on the pen though, and in hindsight he probably shouldn't have taken it.

Unless we do some good business in January it's going to be a long long season I'd say. The team has no identity, we were second to most duels today and dominated but still looked the least dangerous of the two. We are painful to watch.

Must be those extra European games interfering with our game 😜

Just a matter of time before we gift them a goal, it's coming

Tonali needs to come off he's been appalling in the second half, get Willock on ffs

Christ that's a bad call for the sub, happy to be proven wrong but loyalty to shite like Murphy is becoming tiresome.

Get Almiron and Willock on

Were so painful in the final third, every key pass right at the end is wrong.

We look great until the final third, then it's just pass to the wing, turn around and back to the keeper, we really are lacking ideas going forward ATM, can't seem to break down teams unless they go right at us, ala City or Spurs games. It's probably the best we've looked on the ball all season though despite giving the ball away a fair bit in the first 5. Just feels like no matter what we aren't gonna get anything from this though, definitely has the one of those games sort of vibes.

Trippier misplaced his first 4 forward passes of the game putting a lot of pressure on us, weird from him, one thing you can usually rely on.

It was an absolute disaster of a transfer window, no other way to describe it. ST, RW and CB very weak.

How is Murphy our starting right winger in 2024 man.

Thought he played well, but like others have said I just wish he had that extra little bit of quality, never good enough to be starting for us once we get a proper RW but a very good player to have as a squad player, gives absolutely everything and is capable of moments especially late on against tired defences.