jonny1403

I was there and you could see from the first 5 minutes when he cushioned a defensive header back to Pope that he was going to be on it. A captain's performance when it really mattered.

Starts v Spurs?

Only two, West Ham away and Brentford away. Four points from those and we can build.

He has started four premier league games for us. It beggars belief to me that people STILL haven't learned over five years of Eddie not to jump the gun on our signings and actually let them settle into the team. A perplexing and terrible signing ffs

This isn't true at all. Why would Ashley sell us at a loss when he knew that with a small amount of investment he could get us back into the prem (he'd done it twice before) and sell us for double the value? It made zero sense for him to sell at a huge discount in the championship.

Nah, in terms of end product Wilson contributed way more.

Eh? He pretty much single handedly kept us in the league under Bruce. If we had gone down there was no guarantee the PIF takeover would ever have happened.

Elanga has just put an absolute peach of a delivery in and nobody showed up in the box.

Big Joe is everywhere

And almost got an assist at the other end of the park…

If players do that they can’t play domestic football for as long as the period they say they are injured for.

I never get why they get so much rep, the chicken bake is by far the superior product.

Back in the Brazil squad. Happy for him, but wish he'd get a rest.

Well done Gordon

We are dominating the midfield, I’m not sure what some of these posters are whinging about.

He absolutely was. I don't know how old you are but Shola when he first broke through was an absolute handful physically.

Shola was certainly quick and mobile in his early 20s.

I'm not sure why people keep suggesting that DCL would ever have been a viable option instead of Osula. We couldn't have afforded to sign him as a third choice. DCL was the Wissa alternative.

Ah yes of course . He's still averaged one game a week since the start of the season. He isn't in need of a rest.

Yes, selling your players when they are in great form is certainly the way to go. Let's bin off Tonali as well in Jan while his stock is high.

You don't really need to rotate your CBs though. Especially (i) this early in the season and (ii) given that Burn and Schar have just come off a 2 week rest.

I don't think it was a huge issue tbh. He's still very young and didn't play in Europe last season.

Except that the difference in presence defensively between Miley and Bruno is gigantic.

What a load of shite . He played 90 mins in Bolivia at high altitude 4 days ago. He quite clearly cared in that game.