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He's had a crap season and has exhibited an awful attitude since Teg Haag joined. It's clear he doesn't want to play under him but he's not mature or professional enough to suck it up. There's absolutely no way he justifies a place in the England squad when you have the likes of Gordon, Foden, Grealish, Palmer and Saka as your other options. I was a Rashford fan I might add, but this season he's been an embarrassment.

Dead?

Why keep him as backup when Miley has already shown he has far more potential? We'd be better to sell him, recoup the homegrown player money and keep developing Miley. We know what Longstaff is already, and he's not going to get any better.

His decision making already looks a hundred times better than Jacob Murphy's.

I didn't know anything about him before he went to Liverpool but the way people were talking about him, he sounded like the next coming of Maradona!. He's been very good but I wouldn't say he's fully lived up to the huge billing. Maybe just highlights how much of a leveller the Premier League can be.

When was the last time Eddie fast-tracked a young player into the first team though? Every 18 year old we've signed recently has gone out on loan or spent the best part of a season on the bench. Miley was brought in due to an injury crisis, otherwise he'd have been nowhere near the first team. Gray definitely has more first team experience than those we've signed previously but i'm still not he'd be considered first team material.

If he comes here, he won't be going near the first team for probably a whole season. If we could buy him and loan him back to Leeds for a season, that could be attractive all round?

He doesn't look PL ready though, especially not for a team like us. He gives the ball away a lot and his decision making needs significant improvement. Maybe for a Bournemouth, Everton type team.

Oh, is that what it is?! I thought you had something wrong with you pal. My apologies. Laughing at people after you put forward shit opinions with no factual or statistical basis doesn’t paint you in a very good light. It just makes you look like an arsehole. Have a bit more humility and you might get taken more seriously.

You might even be right, but people who use laughing emojis at the end of every posts rarely are ???????????????

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Wasn’t the whole criticism of Howe that he didn’t put Burn at CB? He kept Livra at RB, put Krafth at CB (and we conceded immediately) Burn at LB and only changed it when Livra got injured.

I’m not sure I follow - Burn played LB for most of that game didn’t he?! Granted, it’s too early to say that this is a trend (as I said in an early post ??) and we’re now defensively solid, but there has visibly been a difference defensively in addition to the numbers. We’ll see, harder tests lie ahead but I feel much more confident with Lewis at LB than I have with Burn for most of this season. When you’re conceding 3 goals per game, something is badly wrong. We’re weaker at RB, the keeper is the same, one of the CBs is the same. What else has changed?

I’ll politely disagree. He has clearly been our weakest link for a long time this season. It’s too early to say we’ve become more defensively solid because it’s only two games, but in those two games we’ve conceded 1 goal, 0.5 per game. Our average for the past 10 or so games (with Burn at LB) has been 2.46 ish per game. It looks like the combination of a proper LB and BDB now at CB has eradicated a lot of our defensive frailty. Nothing else has really changed. We were under the cosh today, as we have been in a lot of games lately, and yet we kept a clean sheet this time.

A bad one, gone very wrong

I think what the last 2 games have shown is is that despite Lewis Hall not being the complete article, the Dan Burn at LB experiment should never be repeated. It has been a shit idea for a while and seemingly grossly unfair on a very talented CB. I’m so pleased he’s been given the chance (through unplanned circumstance rather than by design) to remind us what a quality player he is in his natural position. A definite candidate for MOTM in both recent games

We’ve gone from conceding 2.5 per game to conceding 0.5 per game, since playing with a proper left full back and BDB in his actual position. It’s too early to say it’s a trend but we’ve looked so much better defensively the past couple of games. And Burn has been outstanding in both games. Our general play didn’t warrant that victory at all but keep clean sheets and you can grind out results. Fucking brilliant 3 points!

Fucking pussy! He knows it’s not a foul and he wouldn’t have to watch it 15 times if it’s an obvious refereeing error. Just an easy way out. The game is gone, it’s absolutely fucked

This is the worst I’ve ever seen Murphy play, and he’s put in some stinkers in the past. 65 minutes of utter dogshit!

We’ve got 3 championship players all playing on that right hand side, and funnily enough we haven’t created a single fucking thing down there. You can carry one sub-par player, maybe 2 at push, but put 3 around each other and it’s going to cause huge problems.

Do we not practice with a football?! It’s like they’ve never seen the fucking thing before

What does £25m buy you these days though? Or does selling Bruno free up loads more than £100m? I don’t understand the nuances of FFP. We’d probably have to spend £40-50m on a top drawer CM to replace Bruno. A top class RW is going to set us back probably the same. We also need a backup RW, maybe £20m? And we still need another 2-3 after that. It seems like selling Bruno might be the only way to fund the rebuild we need. He’s instrumental in everything good we do, so I’d hate to see him leave, but we can’t go into another season with players like Murphy, Almiron, Longstaff, Lascelles, Burn etc. as regular starters if we want to challenge. It might be one step back to move 2 forward.

good luck!

You clearly have the expert’s eye, STM. Quite the analyst.

Pep has constantly evolved his teams and ways of executing his plan throughout his entire career. His Man City team now looks nothing like his dominant Barca team for example. It’s such a poor reference mate. You’ve literally done the opposite of what you thought you were doing by referencing Pep. We’ve seen the need to evolve this season because what worked last season is a point of vulnerability this season. Injuries will have played a part for sure, but you have to adapt your system to the personnel you have available, right?