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Jackson is absolutely toilet! 
How the fuck much did they pay for him? 

Gallagher is one of the league's best pressers and consistently covers more ground in PL games than any other player. If we are after him, I suspect that's why.

Very underwhelming signing if true, but there will be method to the madness

1 hour ago, tgarve said:

Rashford is so underrated on here it’s embarrassing 

 

Course Gordon should be ahead of him on form but Rashford isn’t that bad he averages about 15 goals a season albeit up and down , scored 30 in all comps last season and is a threat cutting in ( especially in the sub role this slot in the euros squad will likely suffice to )

 

I think Southgate will probably try and get both in somehow- think there’s still a chance the squads could be larger iirc so if that’s the case most likely will be. 
 

Rashford has the polar opposite defensive attitude of Gordon but I just feel that the likely slot in the squad is more of a game changer which maybe Rashford is slightly more of 

 

Gordon though would be a 90 minute player and maybe less of a risk if say foden got injured and also in games we are likely to be defending in as offers a lot more protection and is much more all rounded 

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?

3 hours ago, Kimbo said:

He’s fine as a backup, but if we have to sell someone to create some FFP room and we get an offer (like the rumoured £15m from Leeds), then you’ve got to sell. You don’t stand still because you want to keep Longstaff.

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. 

On 08/04/2024 at 10:47, The Prophet said:

 

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. 

2 hours ago, joeyt said:

 

I'm not sure how he wouldn't be near the first team when we've got the likes of Anderson and Miley playing for us. Gray has played at a higher level than both of them before they played for us

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.

1 hour ago, KaKa said:

 

I'd argue he'd be daft to leave Leeds tbh.

 

He's only just turned 18 this year and is a mainstay in the Leeds first team already, gaining huge experience at a high level.

 

Shouldn't be in a rush to leave his hometown club as they look like being promoted and he'll be featuring in the first team for them in the Prem. 

 

If he moves now it will likely be to the bench of a top club where he likely will be playing far less.

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?

1 hour ago, junkhead said:

Georginio Rutter has been been Leeds' best player whenever I've seen them this season.

If they don't go up, they'll probably have to sell somebody. 

 

 

 

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.

2 minutes ago, Pata said:

 

I'm laughing at you sir.

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 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

1 minute ago, Pata said:

 

No, some people were criticizing Howe for not putting Krafth at CB (??). Tino LB, Burn LCB, Schär RCB, Krafth RB was the backline after the Lascelles injury.

 

Are you commenting on a match you didn't see?

 

 

 

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you’re wrong! 
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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.

4 minutes ago, Pata said:

 

The stats are from a two game sample size that conveniently cuts out the three goals conceded against West Ham ffs.

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? 

5 minutes ago, Pata said:

He's been fine at LB too despite the mass hysteria. Had a poor 10 minutes against fresh Bailey and then poor games against Luton and Nottingham but that's pretty much it.

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. 

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

 

Experiment.  You're an experiment. 

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

36 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

It's been floated in the Athletic again this morning, but would you sell Bruno for his release clause (£100 millon), if it meant we could strengthen the areas of the squad mentioned (GK, CB, CM, RW, ST).

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. 

7 minutes ago, Zero said:

Pretty sure Pep did not exploit the half space that much during his Barca era. He kinda completed his work at Man City. 

 good luck!