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Exactly. Bar a couple of pen saves (one which was his fault anyway) he’s never had anything resembling the type of game(s) against us to be fearful. If anything at SJP he goes full ADHD, and it goes the other way (albeit he has been less twitchy the last couple of times he’s been).

Getting drafted in for Isak?

Feel like the only way this goes wrong is if we miss loads of chances. I mean you can probably say that about most games tbh, but we know the nervousness that missing chance after chance creates will be significantly amplified here.

Mykolenko at CB and Garner at LWB would certainly be interesting…

Have they got 5 defenders?

Hope @Heron and the guys heard what Eddie said about them in his presser.

I was on your bus and “completely sober” might be pushing it…

Would definitely take Mainoo for a sensible fee. Doesn’t get into the starting three at the moment, but has physical attributes Eddie would love, so a year or so of being re-taught how to play football, and he’d be grand. Hard no to Fernandes. Think Diallo’s price would reflect the fact he’s somewhat overrated, but considering the absolute fume it would cause on Wearside, it could possibly be worth the overpay.

Zero chance Burn plays LB like. Hasn’t played there all season and in that video that came out recently he was talking about how he’s deliberately put weight on to help his strength at CB, and as a result he thinks he’d probably struggle getting up and down at LB.

If they haven’t got a green tick next to them they aren’t confirmed yet, just projected/predicted to make it. Think Bodo would still have to go through qualifying, but because of their Europa run this season, they’ve got a good coefficient, should they make it.

Yeah, depending on who replaced the others in Pot 2 not already confirmed.

Guehi. England international. Feel he would fit perfectly with the other defensive players we have already.

Yeah, hardly anything concrete like:

Yep, not really any new names in the article, bar that young defender from Ajax (can’t remember if he’s been linked before?)

You can only get two teams from the same country.

Tarkowski is but nothing on the other two yet. But given they both went off with muscle injuries, you’d be very surprised if they were OK.

That’s an anagram of Dan Ashworth.

Yeah, that is true tbh.

Used to be, but not the case now.

Spurs probably in Pot 3.

Go a couple of goals down and I think it’ll just be half-empty.

Tonali’s got a great hit on him. Big Joe has occasionally, but is massively inconsistent with it. Miley we haven’t really seen enough to say, but that Bromley goal was very promising. Longstaff and Willock not great, but capable of the odd decent hit. Bruno has got no dig at all, but because he has football IQ 3000, he manages to find ways to compensate for his significant physical shortcomings when it comes to shooting.

Howay mate, Bruno shoots like a 12 yo girl. The good thing is he knows this, and usually goes for the scuff into the corner, which is an underrated tactic.

Aye, I would say it’ll be toxic, but I don’t think it’ll be even that, just completely flat and apathetic. Villa fans will dominate the noise.