Dr Jinx

We’ve had an excellent window in fairness and cleared some of the deadwood. Remember, there won’t be a window that we don’t strengthen from now on. I think we can easily get to January in good shape.

Sad to see him leave but it’s unlikely he’d be playing much. Maybe the warm weather will be good for his fitness as well. He’s missed a lot over the last 12 months.

There’s absolutely batshit stuff about Pogba doing the rounds, witch doctors and something about burying a hyena under the pitch at Old Trafford.

Ayoze would be ideal for Howe, really good at pressing, would have him back in a heartbeat.

Think a cm would have to fit in with a long term plan so don’t think a loan would work there. A winger is different as unless they are top notch, a player in that position can be hit and miss depending on who they are playing with, or servicing.

Just because, Tie Lemons.

4 minutes ago, andyc35i said:

Nah he’s slow in general, that Willock run just made it look worse.
 

Athleticism isn’t his really the best part of his game though so that’s why I wouldn’t want him here 

I saw another clip of him just giving up on running back, like just looked really poor. It’s all well and good being able to hit a thundercunt of a goal but in this team you need to do all the other stuff primarily.

For balance, I’ve seen Longstaff and Willock do exactly the same thing with tracking back a few times so maybe Howe can work with it and make him fitter.

That twitchy drunk can fuck right off.

We looked much better when Targett came on for Burn though.

There were rumours from long before the summer that we were looking to upgrade the goalkeeper position, not making excuses for playing badly but that has to effect your psyche? It’s a strange move to go somewhere else to be another second choice, surely there was another club he could have gone to where he’d have been 1st choice?

Shelvey and Krafth won’t be named in the 25 so how much more trimming do we have to do?

I’d take those comments with a pinch of salt. They did make a bid for Alvarez after the Isak deal was done so there’s obviously funds still there.

Sounds like he wanted the sack. If he didn’t, all he had to do was play Bruce Bullshit Bingo with his quotes and he’d get a long career of one after the other compensation payments from the various clubs that love that shit.

9-0 and then shifting the blame to the owners was never going to go down well.

If you drill even poor to mediocre players how to defend as a unit, even the likes of Liverpool and City on top form will have to work hard to break that down, as Rafa showed here. He did that with Lascelles in the side.

7 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Pedro himself didn't actually say that, despite how the Tweet appears.

Can you imagine him saying “It’s not over for the Joao Pedro transfer”

In the most nufc thing ever, Pope will end up dislocating his shoulder against Crystal Palace.

While we shouldn’t be trying to keep any player who wants away, I just don’t think the deal is good for us, like he didn’t have us over a barrel, we should be sure to have what we need beforehand and not firefighting to have a decent replacement? Can’t be Darlow, surely?

Makes perfect sense though for Dubravka, being no.2 for nufc this year will do far more damage to his international chances than being understudy to De Gea.. he hasn’t played for them in over a year iirc

5 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

 

We are probably going to struggle to sign him if Liverpool are after him, especially as midfield is probably the area which they are looking to bolster.

Liverpool won’t panic when it comes to transfers. They’ve set up a great system where they identify a target and have it all set up and agreed well in advance when it comes to replacing players in certain positions.

A couple of short term injuries won’t make them deviate from that.

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.

4 minutes ago, madras said:

Maddison instead of Willock or Longstaff probably makes no difference but Alvarez playing probably stops their goal ? What's this based on  ?

 

 

Any way, as much as a few of you want a designated DM to allow Bruno to go further forward, I think Brunos most important role for us is that transition from defence forward, they can play it to him and we don't panic on losing it and he finds our players, often in great positions.

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.

1 hour ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

Exactly that. Allows Bruno to operate in oppositions halves more often and provides a good passing range on top of defensive cover. Good in the air too.

 

Would be absolutely delighted with him and I'd probably implode if we got Pulisic on loan on top of Alvarez. Likewise if we got Maddison instead of Alvarez but I just can't see Leicester selling.

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.