Dr Jinx

Don’t think Bruno’s will be as serious as we think. Liverpool echo had some different quotes. “Guimaraes was scheduled to be involved for the clash against Wolves, but was withdrawn shortly before kick-off due to an injury. Howe later confirmed that the midfielder won’t be fit in time to face Liverpool. “He has a slight niggle and I don’t think it’s anything serious,” Howe told The Chronicle . “We hope he won’t miss too much. Liverpool might be too soon.”

He was trying to do too much yesterday, in doing so lost the ball a number of times with loose passes or being tackled. It was nothing that cost us but not his best game in recent times. Still better than most of the team but he’s held to a high bar these days. He’s at his best for us when he keeps things simple and uses his skill to break the line and set up a counter. You don’t notice the bad things in his game when Bruno is around because he seems to be all over the pitch bailing everyone out.

Well Willock didn’t close down properly and started from bad positioning to begin with, so there’s that. An excellent DM will have snuffed out that chance much earlier. The few games we’ve played this season so far have made mention to missing Shelvey, well Alvarez is a massive upgrade on Shelvey, he does all of it and a lot better too.

As good as Maddison is, you could have him in the side today instead of Longstaff or Willock and the result of the game may not have been any different. Alvarez makes us stronger though, their goal probably doesn’t happen and we just have more overall control. It unleashes Joelinton who might have less of the dirty work to do and get more into the link up play. Bruno we know can do it all but he also doesn’t have to quite so much of the dirty work so way more structure and control in being creative.

Bournemouth were uber cack and the dippers made the most of it. Don’t be fooled into thinking they’ve somehow turned back into that form side from last season or the year before when they won it. They'll be missing loads of players and we’ll hopefully have one or two back and Isak available. It'll still be likely that Henderson and Milner will be in the middle for them, if we can cut out the supply to their forwards, we should have a chance to make an impression going the other way.

He’s still not quite 100% but he came on and did well.

I really feared for the result when the team news came out. But he did better than I expected, still not up to standard but we got away with it today. You can’t really expect anything from him other than to close players down when we don’t have the ball. That’s all he offers, sadly.

I think a bit like Kyle Walker he’s marginally losing a step so he’ll be slightly vulnerable against wingers but for the most part his positioning and intelligence will make up for that. He reads the game so well. I think Botman brings calmness at the back too so we may not be utterly screwed if he’s to miss any matches, but really hope that’s not the case.

Just caught up on this mornings festivities, you lot need to have a word with yourselves! Mentalists

He starts, so at least we can assume nothing even close to being agreed there.

I wonder if we’ll take a loan right back in as if Tripps gets injured, we’re fucked..

Ajax are playing Utrecht tomorrow morning (11:30) so will see if he starts, they certainly won’t need to sell anyone if they offload Antony so we’ll need to up the bid by around 10m to get this done.

Agree with everything being said about Tranmere, they went too far too often in that game. At one point Bruno was hobbling about after only being on a few minutes, one of their players left one on Trippier and then obviously Krafth got badly injured in what was a clumsy challenge. The ref set the stall out, he let a lot go early doors so they just ran with it. Could see Eddie Howe wasn’t pleased at all by time the final whistle went, there was zero warmth to the handshakes after, yet he stayed very professional. It was a costly win.

He was dogshit too but he cost less ?

We paid more than a 1/4 of what we paid for Bruno for this chap. Mental. Rafa’s worst piece of business here by far.

Within seconds of being on the pitch against Tranmere, he was ordering the back line about to get forward, including Lascelles who did exactly as ordered. There is absolutely no doubt who’s leading this team.

Just imagine ASM running to the line.. normally 2 players running to gang up on him but Isak is waiting at the edge of the box.. panic, one of the central defenders steps out to cover leaving a massive gap in the middle.. ASM pokes the ball into the middle and Bruno arrives just in time for an easy tap in. 5 minutes later, the same situation, but now they don’t know what to do.. leave one on Maxi and he’ll get rinsed, let the ball be cut back for Isak and he’ll find the top corner. There’s literally any number of problems we are now posing teams. Even Almiron will have more time and space to make an impact.

The space this lad is going to open up for ASM (and vice versa) is going to be a sight to see.

SSN reporting Paqueta to West Ham is agreed now ?

I really hope you’re wrong about McHideaway.. for a manager who frequently references bravery, it would be a terrible move, plus he’s been one of the nucleus of a toxic club, don’t want any of those vibes near this squad.

Yep we’ve come a long way since then. There were multiple seasons when clubs would be looking at the fixture list thinking we were easy points because we were that bad. Briefly started looking better under Rafa, but we are light years ahead of that side now with quite a few of the same players, remarkable really.

He’s a clown of a journalist/person.

If they want him to play at the weekend they’ll have to get through it quickly. I’d expect an announcement either tonight or early in the morning.

5m is a poxy fee, even for a 33 year old. We shouldn’t be helping them.