CalmintheChaos

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Same, he would instantly start for us and be our best attacking midfielder after ASM.

I like Man city to win the title at evens! They seem to be clicking into gear and have a great run coming up so I expect them to be a few points clear soon. I just cant see past them.

Aye the mobility and work rate of Sean, Shelvey, wor andy and big joe ffs

Aye no way we get anything here even if we go full strength, if we had ASM I would give us a small chance but without him we are totally devoid of any attacking ideas and incapable of even getting up the pitch. I am usually a big advocate for going all out for the FA cup as I do love it but this squad under Bruce has no chance of winning it regardless so I would pick for Saturday Dubravka Murphy Fernandez Schar Clark Lewis Elliot Anderson Shelvey Hendrick Joelinton Gayle Give Darlow a break from the 20 shots a game bombardments. Save Wilson, Almiron, Hayden and Matty for Tuesday as they will be crucial for us and if we lose that we are right in the shit

money mike back and Ando saying that, I am back in.

Ritchie and Shelvey until 2023 is minging.

As much as I love Rafa he has a dodgy reputation i nthe transfer market to be fair, the Barry/Alonso sage for example. Also signed a lot of deadwood here too alongside some excellent signings. Hit and miss record of 50/50 I would say.

Aye that's fair, maybe a bit harsh labelling him deadwood but I was planning hypothetically for a club that wanted to establish itself in the top 10 in the next 2/3 years.

I'm guessing you're working on the assumption the takeover is going ahead? I mean in that mould just obviously a lot lot cheaper . Must be good young players like that out there just we probably cant be bothered enough to look.

He is exactly that, if he was transfer listed today i don't think hardly any teams above us would be interested, if any. As I say players like him who are counter attackers and have little ability is why we can never keep the ball more than 10 seconds.

We need to faze away from players like Almiron and dogs like Ritchie who are designed to just work and play on the counter, going forward if we are ever going to get away from this style and be a more attacking and easy on the eye team then we have to sign players who are comfortable on the ball and can keep it but also have the energy to press and get about the pitch. I cant think of many players we have who currently have all them attributes. Players like Ndombele should be our aim as he can do the lot.

We have so so much deadwood to shift as well. All of the below need shipping out between now and next summer as they are either finished or will never make a solid mid table level Premier league player and they must all be on around 20m a year in wages between them! Madness. Krafth, Yedlin, Lazaar Shelvey, Sean Longstaff, Almiron, Atsu, Murphy, Ritchie, Aarons Joelinton,Carroll, Gayle I would keep and build a squad around Darlow, Dubravka Manquillo, Schar, Fernandez, Clark, Lascelles, Lewis Matty, Hayden, Fraser, ASM Wilson

Be careful, both teams will make wholesale changes , a betting nightmare . Arsenal are no world beaters and will have no motivation to put us to the sword, they may win but won’t exert themselves too much. Aye I still expect them to have far too much for us regardless, think it will be 3 or 4 nil, cant see them only beating us by 1. Only £30 on so not much risk but looks good to me.

Brandon Williams on loan, would be happy enough with that looked decent from what I have seen of him at Man yoo

I have just got on Arsenal -1 @6/5 for Saturday. All i will be having this weekend. Looks a shoe in.

Genuinely not sure how much credit he deserves for any of that. Maybe I'm being harsh but he had a really good team yet continuously went on 6/7 game losing (or not winning) streaks which means he comfortably deserves a spot on there imo. See I disagree, even that 5th place aside he had a 10th place finish and was top half when he left in January, whatever peoples thoughts are on him as a person I don't think he should be anywhere near this list to be fair, I am no Pardew lover but on the pitch and table wise he did a solid enough job.

Its Carver closely followed by bacon heed.

Why is the king on there? 5th, 10th and sure we were about 9th in January when he was hounded out too? I know he sucked up to Ashley etc but on results and league finishes he shouldn't be anywhere near this list like.

4-0 backside kicking

How many other teams in the league would he get a game for? that's a good way to look at it. Probably 4 or 5 at best for me.

Bring him home!

Lets face it they are both championship level, if that in Sean's case, just like most our squad is championship level.

Thoughts on this plodders performance? I thought he put in one of the worst displays I have seen from a NUFC player for a while, ambling about with no urgency or effort and running in slow motion as well as passing to the other team. Horrendous player