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How did we not score there Could've scored 3 already

My money's on us. Got Harvey Barnes, best closer property magnate in the city.

Just caught up on all this. Box office stuff

Loan with obligation to buy. Juve have a past with doing it for both outgoings and incomings. Just bring me a RW ffs absolutely clamming

Would rather they revert to the type of badges that were on the Puma kits than change the badge for the sake of them being embroidered. Not arsed about embroidered crests personally, don't think any other club in the league even does them anymore.

Still no word on the European font for player names and numbers? Club leaving a few things late this year. Memberships n'al.

Given what Howe's said since his appointment regarding ASM, his place in the team in 2021-22 when he started 31 matches, this season when we slightly tweaked how we played (mid March when ASM, Isak, Murphy displaced the usual front 3 of Almiron, Wilson and Joelinton) and his affection for the club, area and fans I don't think he would be off tbh. But out of the players in the squad we have, he's probably the only one that would garner a sizeable fee that could help with FFP and that we wouldn't miss too much, as seen last season with his injuries. As there is no chance we could entertain selling any of Bruno, Isak or Botman right now. But I do feel as someone who really likes ASM that there's been a mixture of revisionism about him and a refusal to give him credit on top of a perpetuation of things such as him not tracking back, working hard enough etc from some. He is what he is, he'll frustrate. If he didn't frustrate more than not he likely wouldn't have signed for us in summer 2019. But he's hella entertaining and capable of things few if any in the squad have been in his time here. I'll miss him a lot; he's the type of player you love watching and are more than happy to pay your money to go and see just like you thought with Ginola. G+A don't matter with that regard as has been pointed out. But onwards we go, we'll get better players who will hopefully he capable of what ASM could do when he's on it and then some.

I admit I'm being a minute bit facetious. People, not solely on here but across socials, have been going on about ASM being exciting and about how they will miss him but have been shot down by others saying Barnes is better because his numbers are better and that ASM was/is nowhere near the likes of Ginola, Robert, Ben Arfa etc. Which is counterintuitive as his goals and assists per 90, which are what some are using to rate Barnes as clear of ASM, are better than Ginola's whom people say ASM is nowhere near. So which is it? I don't care too much tbh. I'm sad to see ASM go and don't think he would be going if FFP didn't restrict us. But he is, we're onwards to better things. And I'll be chuffed with the window if we get a RW on top of Livramento, Barnes and Tonali.

Yep. Ginola for us in his two seasons had 19 goals and assists in 5195 minutes. Works out at 1 goal involvement every 273 minutes. ASM has 30 goals and assists over 8067 minutes, works out 1 goal involvement per 268 minutes. Marginal but still fewer.

Clearly not given ASM averaged a goal or assist in fewer minutes for us than Ginola did for us.

I agree, though Lascelles was probably the best CB in the 2 games he played in last season which are arguably the toughest fixtures in the calendar; Liverpool and Man City away. Competent at the very least. Of course we need better, though barring an absolute disaster where Schär gets a long term injury I think it's something we can sort out next summer. Especially for the fee it would take to get what basically should be a right sided Botman with FFP and all.

We need a long term successor to Schär which can be sorted in the medium term. Schär is our best CB imo, Botman will get better and surpass him but a successor to Schär needs to be in a similar mould in terms of on-the-ball ability and age to Botman. Andersen is not that imo. It'll be abroad we look for, as I say in the medium term. January perhaps but probably next summer.

Unsure if there's any truth in the rumour itself but Chiesa may apply to that. Juve have a past for doing it for incomings and outgoings; it's how they signed Douglas Costa and sold Kulusevski.

Tonali, Barnes, Livramento and a RW and I'll be delighted.

Tonali OG from a Diaby cross to wrap it all up. Be a totally rational reaction from our fanbase across Twitter and this place as our fans are really level headed iirc. They'll get even more level headed when Szoboszlai scores for Liverpool two weeks later.

Looking forward to the reaction to "16' Goal Villa. Diaby. [0-1] #NEWAVL" At approximately 17:46 on Saturday 12th August 2023.

Immediately thought of this kit after seeing that.

Us discussing how much the Saint-Maximin sale helps us with FFP.

Hope he gets the number 10 shirt to symbolise the tenner his namesake threw at Katie Cutler before fucking off over the River Styx with the 330k she raised for him.

And it's daft imo if Howe likes Isak out wide, like. But that's another matter. Basically, it's alright to disagree with some of his team selections. We changed the way we played a tad after Man City away. Threw caution to the wind a bit after our run of 1 league win in 8 and 3 league goals scored in that time. Took Wilson and Almirón out, brought Isak, ASM and Murphy in. It worked as we scored more goals, were winning more games but became a bit leaky in defence as a result. When ASM was fit, he was in the team; played well v Wolves, iffy at Forest, MOTM v Man Utd and an assist at West Ham. Then got injured again. In contrast to 2021-22 where he started 31 matches, he just had an injury laden season, his worst one yet AFAIK.

It was 7 matches he was benched for. Leicester LC, Fulham home, Palace away, both Southampton semi final legs, LC final, Man City away. He returned from injury and was back in full training on the 2nd January. Just find "if he's so good why's he been on the bench" a bit shortsighted. Howe hasn't got all of his team selections right as seen with him persisting with Wilson ahead of Isak when he looked shot to pieces up to mid-March. And in that time there have been times where ASM should also have been in the team ahead of Almiron in 2023, when he sometimes wasn't.

Why do you think Isak was being left out by Howe post-WC when Wilson was stinking the place out from January-March?