Fantail Breeze

Someone like Rivière? We’ve seen under Ashley, a decent striker is one hell of an important position and if you neglect it, 9/10 you’re scraping a relegation battle. I’d rather us spend £40m on a striker right now than a CB. At least we already have some CB options.

We’re going to need more than five goals (which his entire career has shown to be his probable ceiling, not taking into account his age and potential decline). There are far better options available for the same money Burnley would demand for him.

By that logic we could just sign someone from League Two and they’d score those goals too.

Not had a single decent win all season which is really poor from me, usually have a few which balance out the losses.

What would we be getting? A striker who gets 10 goals a season? So we’d probably get up to five from him between now and then end of the season. Brereton would have to be a total disaster to not manage five goals for us. Signing Wood might not weaken anyone. Who knows, the funds we give them for him might be used on another Cornet. Could backfire terribly.

Signing Wood would scream a stop-gap appointment to be Wilson’s temporary replacement and get us through to the summer. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to it, but someone like Brereton would be much more progressive/exciting.

Has he said our newest bid has been rejected? Otherwise why would we be trying again?

He admitted he had kissed her to the club, IIRC.

Is Beth not Burnsie?

Another who is seemingly made out of Weetabix.

Fun fact to cheer us all up: We’re the only PL team to have not yet played at the new Wembley (discounting vs Spurs in the league).

Is it eight weeks from now, or from when the injury happened?

It’s not berating players in public I expected to see. But I certainly didn’t expect to see him try and tell us we played well after losing at home to a team fighting relegation in League One.

Yorkie’s the better admin, imo. But Disco’s not that bad.

He’s got 2 goals and 0 assists since Howe came in. He was actually better under Bruce, both on the eye and statistically with 2 goals and 3 assists. He’s gone off injured more times than he’s contributed to goals and assists under Howe.

@Hanshithispantz It’s this paragraph from Rule 11: ”A player in an offside position receiving the ball from an opponent who deliberately plays the ball, including by deliberate handball, is not considered to have gained an advantage, unless it was a deliberate save by any opponent. A ‘save’ is when a player stops, or attempts to stop, a ball which is going into or very close to the goal with any part of the body except the hands/arms (unless the goalkeeper within the penalty area).” So their player was not offside and not considered to have gained an advantage because they received the ball from Shelvey (as he was the last player to deliberately play the ball). Schar was offside because despite receiving the ball from the keeper, that is considered a deliberate save.

Rule doesn’t apply to goalkeepers when making a save, nor if the ball hits the frame of the goal. I remember asking a similar point when this happened previously, someone found some guidance or rule on it somewhere - will try dig it out.

Oh good, more embarrassment.

It’s still a red if you foul them without attempting to play the ball.

It’s technically not a deflection because Shelvey intentionally attempts to play for the ball. I don’t think it’s necessarily a new rule, I think it’s the updated guidance/interpretation around phases of play (when VAR came in). An opponent intentionally playing for the ball and making contact = a new phase of play.

Yep. Wasn’t even like their win was a smash and grab, they deserved it and it could’ve been more than one.

Cambridge had more possession and shots against us than we have managed in eight PL games this season. Liverpool, Man City, Norwich, Arsenal, Brighton, Chelsea, Palace, Tottenham. A team 16th in League One, performed better against us than we have when playing teams in our own league. We were outstandingly bad today. That’s as bad a result and performance (when taking into account the opposition) that I can recall for years.

I agree in parts but he also seems like a genuinely nice guy. I think his problem is that he thinks he’s better than he is and he doesn’t think too highly of his teammates’ abilities. Which leads him to trying to do it all on his own and ultimately achieving nothing. Having him lose the ball after doing 40 stepovers and pirouettes while ignoring his team mates in better positions is criminal. If he was scoring every game or singlehandedly winning it, fair enough. But he’s not. One moment of magic every five games or so is not good enough to mask his obvious limitations. Said it countless times but football is a team game for a reason. When you’re in the shit it’s even more important to play as a team. Man Utd are having the same issue right now with Ronaldo, an individual playing for himself rather than the team.

It doesn’t even get much better with the likes of: Joelinton 1 goal 1 assist Murphy 1 goal 1 assist Another 35 appearances between them. 100 appearances across six attacking players and we can celebrate 3 goals and 3 assists. Our only attacking players that have really contributed are ASM and Wilson, it’s not possible to win games like this.

Worrying that nobody has said how worrying it is.