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One thing you can say is that he never shrinks or shy's away. He's just always going for glory and sometimes that doesn't have to be taking on 5 players, cutting inside or shooting. A simple through ball or side ways pass every now and then would improve him no end.

Needs to know when to just pass. But as others have said he's that wild card that can play bad yet score a winner.

Quality player. It's nice to have a player within the England fold as well. Been a long time since we had that

Seeing us offer in excess for £20m a player now must cut them deep. Like really bad.

My god. They are fucking pathetic haha. Never changed Sunderland.

I was just thinking this myself. I've never known a fanbase turn on each other so much. Their desperate need to be better even extends to competing with their own fans. They are truly a weird breed like.

I'd be happy with Wood if he was mainly on the bench next season. I think he's a decent / good striker that would be a good option to bring off the bench in the long term. Hopefully in the short term he can bang them in and keep us up.

Hopefully he's got great Ekitike

Not this season but my concern is filling the squad with players that can't cut it at the top level on 3/4 year contracts and then having to shift deadwood again.

I know it's January and it's notoriously hard to sign the players needed but when Staveley was coming out after the takeover and saying the aim is to win the Premier League, I'd like to think we are aiming higher than Cantwell and Wood like.

Were we schooled? I saw a questionable offside goal for them and very little else. I did however see over hit passes, misses from 6 yards, 2 disallowed goals and a great save at the end there.

Agreed. The players are absolutely hopeless. The fact we have absolutely peppered their goal with shit quality speaks volumes for me.

What did he get wrong? We've dominated from start to finish. They've camped in their own half all game. The players are missing sitters. What could Howe have done?

The class thing gets me every time. It's always the last resort for their one upmanship. Lyeast we have pewer class unlike the gravy stained. You'd be hard pushed to find a less classy bunch of people in the entire country.

They just can't help themselves. They absolutely hate it lol.

Ask that melt Agbonlahor

Seemed being the key word there. No doubt Trips is gonna be awesome.

Reminds me of the time we got Duff for like £5m. Seemed incredible value at the time.

The Rafa / Everton thing never seemed a good fit from the get go. Gut feeling tells me he'll be gone sooner rather than later.

Is a player like Pogba with a questionable attitude what we really need in a relegation scrap? In other circumstances I'd take him absolutely. I can see the reluctance at this moment in time though as crazy as that sounds.

Feeling a lot better now December is out the way. Can't wait until this thread fucks off forever

Such a good feeling to actually be in for players rather than the 'we tried' narrative of the last 15 years.

Aye that's how I see it. Loved it when he was riling Rio up about Ashley spending on the club and he was sitting there like a petulant child.

Course its not given. Bad PL marketing. We can't have Man City not competing at the top of the table in the best league in the world ®

I personally think it's a squad of championship players bar one or two and the position in the table reflects that. For me Howe is trying to play a style of football that's incompatible with the players at his disposal. We've scraped previous seasons because we have played so defensively and it worked to a point until our luck ran out. I like Howe though, I think with the right players he could be very good. It's just I'm not seeing where the wins are going to come from personally.