Dr Jinx

Just search his name on Twitter and it’s one of the top tweets. Really doesn’t look good for the club either who would have known about this.

Any word on how serious it was?

Oh yeah, that for sure. If you’re in the position to pick and choose a bank to work with you’re hardly going to go with them after how they carried on.

Every club has some form of credit facility, we had one with Barclays under Ashley, now it’s a new company essentially, so this is just a formality that would have been done at any stage. New ownership chose HSBC. It might have a bearing on summer spending or may be irrelevant. Not sure what all the arguing has been about.

Nope, was scratching my head for a minute but then remembered a post about some young kids being brought out for the trip. I suspect Dummett breaking down and the managers complete lack of trust in Lewis means he wanted to have a proper look at this kid. He did well considering, looks pacy and confident on the ball. Few misplaced passes later on but we were under pressure at that point. Providing Targett can stay fit, this lad should be an able understudy. We do also have Dan Burn who can play that position so we should be ok there.

There’s variances but pretty much it’s an accent thing and I’ve heard from a few Brazilian pals that the Portuguese folk can be a little snobby in regards to them.

Hopefully him and Bruno will have gotten something out of their systems tonight. Seems strange that it was the Portuguese speaking lads who seemed riled up. Some words said in the tunnel beforehand?

Joelinton is sort of carving an aura of hard man midfielder.. like he’s a beast for sure but he’s becoming more intimidating, like a few bad tackles.. nobody likes to see that but players will be thinking of that when they play us and he’ll start getting more time on the ball. The likes of Keane and Vieira made careers out of that. Especially Keane, nobody ever really put it up to him because of his reputation. Joelintons footwork and ability to make space just keeps improving all the time too though, we haven’t seen the best of him yet.

Enjoyed that! Was more like a Europa qualifier, their free kick, can’t complain, first goal, Lascelles.. just terrible positioning and mistiming the jump. Hopefully he won’t play much. I think it’s going to be fair to say our strongest midfield will be Bruno, Joelinton and Shelvey but Willock looks sharp as well, ideally be great if someone else came in there to give us something different. Almiron looks confident which bodes well but we need more down that side. We need another striker, I think assuming Wilson will carry the burden could backfire massively. Maxi had a better game for what we saw of him. He’s the strongest option at forward left we have. Anderson should be his backup there, whatever position he played at during the first half didn’t do him any favours but can obviously mix it at this level.

Bit ugly, game didn’t need to go that way.

Miggy!!!!!!

“Benfica gonna have a heart attack when he see what Eddie brung them in the second half”

Jesus Christ Premier Sports, sort it out.. ?

What’s the formation? Looks like could be 4-4-2

I may or may not pay €49 for all the channels and vod a year

There's just this vindictiveness about Bruce, either tow the media line that he's this great bloke or he'll ruin your career. As mentioned above by many, he's somehow more hated than Mike Ashley by a lot of people on here and that's really something. I mean 14 years of lies and deliberate stifling of our club, somehow gets trumped by 2 years of this absolute whopper. The club made a mistake allowing him to have his day out but i suppose with everything that's happened since, you'd have taken it obviously.

Are his cheeks actually like that or does he have make up on?

Pinched from Serena’s FB ☺️ They look a happy camp this week

It’s his build I think, he’s got that explosive power/pace but he runs out of steam pretty much in every full game at some point. Some athletes are just made that way and nothing they can do about it. Lactic acid builds up and they just start hobbling around. Like McGregor in the UFC, Diaz found him out while he was at the peak of his ability, had to train ridiculously hard to be able to just about make it through 5 rounds with him. Diaz on the other hand would be out doing an iron man competition a week or two later, yet he couldn’t do what McGregor is capable of early doors. Might be a shit analogy but ?‍♂️ I wonder if they are doing all those high end physical and blood tests at various stress points with him, he’s unique in the squad in that sense so it shouldn’t perhaps be a once size fits all approach where he’s concerned.

Offer them 40 with add ons. Think this kid could be well worth it. Must admit I was excited about the potential of Ekitike but I think this guy could be as good if not better.

I remember last season as well, Joelinton had one of his first motm performances and was being interviewed alongside Longstaff and he totally stood up for him, saying every player loves being on his side in training because that means they win! I thought he’d somewhat checked out while Bruce was there but didn’t realise it had affected him mentally so much. Great article and really puts that 2 years in perspective. Also shows how Matt Ritchie was/is one of the leaders in that dressing room, especially before Tripps and Burn have come in.

That sounds like something imminent in the next week or so. There could only be a handful of players who have had that interest going back a while too so be interesting to see which one it is.

Serious question, how often do you watch our games?

What absolute twoddle. If Messi was scoring about 5 goals and getting 5 assists for 2 seasons in a row, but he was regularly having games where he was repeatedly beating 4 and 5 players with the ball before getting dispossessed, every pundit, journalist and supporter would be saying the same thing. 'Totally out of form' Now don't think i'm saying ASM should be getting Messi stats, i'm not. But he should be doing better than he is. He should be aiming for 10-15 assists a season.

I didn't say he had a better season, i said it was a myth that he played better under Bruce. His end product is pretty much exactly the same. And yes, there is a massive difference between Messi (even at the age he is now) and a 25 year old ASM. One has high end product, the other does not. So saying that he's the best forward on the pitch in some games (which you did), doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. He needs to do much much better, he has the ability but the question is does he feel like he needs to improve. If he thinks 5 assists a year is going to get him the Ballon d'Or he'll be left waiting.