Billy Pilgrim

He did an interview in the programme before the spurs game where he said he’d had mental health issues when recovering from his first injury, but my eyes are telling me he was borderline quick enough in the first place and the first proper injury took another couple of yards off him. He would definitely do better with a proper CM alongside him but I’m very much questioning whether he has the legs to get through a rough patch now. Shame cos on paper he is a nice prospect.

MattStaff’s problem is the athlete side of it all. Whenever he got games here he got caught out by the pace of everything and underhit his passes, wanted too much time in his own half, couldn’t get around quick enough to stop the opposition midfield. Joelinton and Lewis at least have the bodies needed, whereas Matty seems to be reasonably decent technically but prone to jelly legs on top of being slow by default.

Let’s smash these crisp farming nobodies and their cringe lord generalissimo

I remember seeing martial at SJP not long after he signed and thinking he was Henry reincarnated. Has totally fucked it. But I’d definitely take him.

Eddie’s in the back seat, Dubravka’s number one Oba Martin’s off to Arsenal according to the sun St Maximin’s skinning everyone, longstaff’s left behind Joelinton’s won the ball back, put through Wilson number 9 Fede’s barking orders, shelvey cannot run Eddie looks behind, and beckons Almiron almiron. Almiron. Almiron. Almiron. (I’ve been trying to establish this Almiron/how bizarre thing for years at this point)

Currently bigging up their fuckin’ horrible accent in the thread about us it’s the sound of a missing chromosome

Big auld head on the young lad. A sniper’s dream.

The game where we wummed them with the throws and towels.

Imagine being a grown man and inventing the prospect of secret rival supporters coming to ruin your game against Morecambe. Peak shelbyville behaviour. The scruff cunts are fighting and being nazi dickheads in and outside of the ground on a weekly basis. It quite simply hasn’t occurred to them that the things that we say about them get picked up and used by everyone else because they’re fucking true, they are impoverished racist mutants who eat cheesy chips and drink blue pop.

My opinions about Eddie Howe are entirely based on him and results and will have nothing to do whatsoever with Benitez tbh

Apparently this botman lad flatters to deceive. Starts off with edge but over time becomes obvious he is predictable and formulaic when defending against attacks.

We can beat these, heads have gone

Good job Man City have a job lined up for Rogers

The football league equivalent of

Forums are great. If you are wrong about some narrow thing or another it drifts off into the ether and solano98 is never thought of again. But give a man a Twitter and a YouTube and let him put his own face on camera and he’s lingering outside of training grounds and losing legal arguments about selling photos of himself at a match.

Has the tools to become a decent left back

Getting closer to the best 11 I feel

From everything we’ve seen so far, it is fair to say that the lad likes an accessory.

I think lingard would be an excellent signing, and that he’s miles better than he’s rated on average. He isn’t a winger and he isn’t an am and he isn’t a number 10 so he has done terrible at man United overall but his time at West Ham and his England performances have proved that he is an intelligent, modern sort of interchanging midfielder who has the attributes to keep the ball, give it to more direct players around him and smash in the occasional thunder bastard. If he does come I think he will look very good feeding Wilson and ASM. When I was watching England at the Euros it was obvious to me that other teams couldn’t deal with the likes of foden, saka, grealish, Mount and Sancho moving all over at high speed. Lingard is the sort of player who does a lot better when he is linking all of that up and worse when he has a more rigid job to do.

He spends a lot of a game just walking around. Which is amazing because if he’s anything, it’s a runner.

The good news is, de gea is fine

Bahahanaha

Over the course of his career he has spent an absolute fortune on complete shite and has zero qualms about having a player for a week and then deciding to never use him. Like I love rafa and think he did an amazing job but what he didn’t do was spend money wisely when he had it. Now for me, in our situation, I’d argue that it actually isn’t a problem anymore and that he is the sort of manager where unlimited money means he can make transfer mistakes and have zero backlash. Maybe 3 for every good signing is overboard but one of the reasons Ashley didn’t want to give him what he wanted was that he had already bought loads of players that didn’t work out or he didn’t want to use. If I could be arsed I’d go through all of the transfers in his time here but the ones that immediately come to mind as less than great signings are the likes of Hanley, sells, lazaar and Jacob Murphy. Even Almiron in hindsight, because as much as I rate him he isn’t worth what we paid and has basically been a square peg in a round hole ever since rafa left.

Nothing in life is all upsides and the downside to Benitez is he loves spunking money on shite in the quest to find someone who can do a job. It takes him 3 signings to get it right but he does eventually.

Formation would depend on who we were playing but for the most part I’d be playing with two technical forwards and at least one winger. Style would be a direct team that murders other teams for pace all over the pitch. I want everything happening at light speed. I would recruit a combination of pace lords and technical passing midfielders, and everyone has to be a bit nasty and to live for the wum like Wilson.