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Just purely off his YouTube vids, he reminds me of Son.

Sure they'll be a loan in the mix, don't believe we're done at all

I'd be on board with this. Tete looks a player

Can see us going after him this window. He's clearly been a long term target even before CL was possibility so I'm sure the club will be thinking it's the type of transfer then would be happy to expedite in light of our current position.

Guys been credibly linked with some top clubs, it's a steep price but I'm sure he's gonna be a top drawer signing.

Still pinching myself. Everytime I read about us being in competition with another club for another player, the pessimism that Ashley conditioned me to have kicks in and I internally accept we'll have to move on but then I remind myself that we've already signed a player of higher calibre in Isak, so why not?

Still think freeing up Bruno has to be key. He's shackled by the fact he needs to be disciplined with his positioning. Give him the freedom to dictate play further forward and the front 3 will thrive.

Hypotehtical scenario - but would you go for 2nd/3rd choice who's avaialble now or 1st choice who is available in Summer? I wonder if that's dilemma the club are facing now

Ahh yeh he did, my bad

He said "alternative" to be fair

It's one of those things I've always felt never felt the need to comment on but I guess it boils down to what you class as a 'good quality chance'. For me a specualtive cross into the box, whilst clearly an obviously successfull strategy, it's not my definition of a good quality chance in comparison to one crafted in the same way Almiron's 2nd at Fulham came about or Isaks debut goal vs Liverpool. We're brilliant at pinning in teams 20 yards from their goal and putting in speculative crosses but there's very little imagination through the centre because players like Longstaff and Willock don't quote have as much vision as the likes of Bruno. Also don't agree it's right to assume a number 6 is purely defensive minded. A Neves type number 6 is not by definition a box to box type midfield nor defensive but his passing range is critical to the way Wolves play, and whilst we've been excellent defensively it's largely because of how high up the pitch we win the ball and that's driven largely from our midfielders, we shouldn't compromise on that, which I beleive Howe feels the same on as he's clearly not trusting ASM despite him being one of our most creative players.

Number 6 for me. Quality of posession in the final 3rd needs to be better and pushing Bruno into his best position would do that. I personally think the problems not with our abilty to create chances but the quality of chances we create - a player with a little more imagination and vision would improve that imo.

It is coming from fans of good sides but I'd discount anything negative anyone says about players in a shite team like Everton

Think there's a top quality player in there somewhere, just a shame he's a massive cunt.

Based on nothing, this guy will be the Brazillian Bellingham.

I dont think anyone's arguing that you don't need to build a squad or that the likes of Fraser and Murphy don't need improving on, just that given the chance the club would sell ASM because they feel they can improve on him.

Don't disagree with any of that tbf, just saying that given the opportunity to sell him and replace him with someone more suited to the team then I think the club would do that on the basis that outside of him, there's no other player outside the first team that would command any sort of fee that would make replacing them particularly easy.

Agreed, he doesn't, but he's the only player 'on the fringes' who's got any resale value so having the opportunity of improving on our bette players can in some way become more important to the team than improving on the likes of Fraser - at this stage anyway.

Or, he could be replaced with someone better and/or more suited to our game?

I think we're open to selling him tbh

He's actually a more complete striker than I cared to realise. Great finisher, good in the air, strong, quick, great gold up play, quick, good dribbler, great movement, just top drawer.

Rewatched the game last night and thought that even though this wasn't a great game for him, he's got a canny knack of being able to play himself into the game. Absolute top class striker imo.

Confirmation of Big 7

I want Man U away. Come away from that game with a chance and I can't imagine what St James would be like for the 2nd leg.

Tbf, he said he's based his game on Thierry Henry (which I can see) and he himself spent a fair bit of time on the left of Barca's front 3 - which no one would have called during his PL days. Wouldn't rule anything out personally.