Kid Icarus

Including Herrera? Interesting.

Gameweek 18 Man City 1-0 Everton Bournemouth 2-1 Palace Chelsea 3-0 Fulham Newcastle 3-2 Villa Forest 2-2 Spurs Southampton 1-2 West Ham Wolves 2-2 Man United Liverpool 4-0 Leicester Brighton 2-2 Brentford Arsenal 4-0 Ipswich

Reminds me a bit of the situation with Herrera, then to a lesser extent Fred (for a phase) and McTominay. Looking class at what they do in the context of this Man United side is all well and good, but is what they do what you need to get where you want to be?

He's definitely good enough and gets the chances to be a 1 in 1 striker like.

He's coming back from injury. Providing he doesn't have another setback, he'll not only be fine, he'll be class.

Think it's more that there was nothing wrong with what the reporter said for him to react like he was being underhanded with the question.

At 18 he's already playing and starring for the under 21s. If he doesn't play for England it'll be because of the real wealth of talent out there rather than him not being good enough imo.

It was more just that I'd forgotten how good and generally assured he is for his age. Never any panic, or making rash decisions, always calm and controlled and good decision making. It was just a cameo but I enjoyed it, if he was 10 years older it would be different.

Manager initially seen as easy-going and charismatic firebrand in actually just yet another thin-skinned narcissist with a victim complex shocker.

Jamie Redknapp going on about how he gives them assurance at the back after conceding 3. Just talk about any of the other players involved in their 6 goals you relentlessly thick cunt.

I think Brighton, Everton and West Ham (first half) were all results that didn't really match our performances and our finishing let us down.

Missed this today but was delighted when I snuck out to get signal and saw it was 3 nil at half time, put me in a great mood. Watched it since and these are my takes. Although everything else is different, I noticed shades of 21/22 about our midfield. Bruno is just a very good footballer in general, but you really get quality over quantity when he plays further forward. I thought he was fantastic today and Tonali was too, playing the 100x better 24/25 version of Shelvey. Willock just needs game time, but so long as he does he'll be a massive asset again, you can see it. Isak brilliant again, I'm sort of lost for words a bit tbh. Gordon is close to looking amazing again and it's nigh on all down to finishing at the moment. Murphy is sort of the opposite, not necessarily a player that looks amazing but is really effective. For posterity: Dubravka 7 Livramento 7 Schär 7 Burn 7 Hall 7 Bruno 9 Tonali 8.5 Willock 6.5 Murphy 9 Isak 10 Gordon 6.5

Stanley Busquets. Ridiculous how he has barely any rawness despite only being 18. He can be a seriously special player if he wants to be.

Delighted for him. He has his weaknesses and there's a lot of fair and unfair whinging about him, but he really is a statman like.