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Looked juicy. Class performance.

Ideally I would want Gordon, Joe and Wilson starting this with Isak, Anderson and Tonali dropping to the bench. That’s a strong three to come in

They’ll be managing him. Think this is the sort of game we would want Wilson for anyway if he’s fit. Save Alex for Dortmund.

Same people demanding we get players to share all their personal information, vices and relationship history before signing would not doubt be fuming if they were asked the same before a job offer. Fair enough if you work in legal profession or police or something but howeh, he plays football.

How would you do that though? Other than asking the individual to disclose

Would it matter if he was gambling on Milan though? Obvs if he’s gambled on us then it’s a different story.

What’s a class way to help a millionaire with a gambling problem…give them a shit load of free time

I guess it would maybe allow Bruno to play further forward with 1 other option? I don’t think they would necessarily be in competition for the same position, but obviously Howe likes players to be flexible enough to play in a few roles.

Would be happy with that to be honest. There’s a good player there. Prior to his move to city I would have rated him higher than Rice.

Might explain why he’s been a bit all over the place performance wise.

From what I’ve seen so far I think some of his strengths are instinctual first time passes, carrying the ball and surging/finding the spaces between fullback and defender. He’s also very strong on the ball. His passing when he has time to take a touch is not amazing, and his confidence is clearly not there to take risks. I think he will be class for us but will take a season. Remember Milan basically thought he was shite in his first season there.

That chant also annoys me that it’s not “he fucking hates Sunderland”. He hates fucking Sunderland sounds silly to me.

He’s moved to a new team, a new city, a new country, learning a new language, playing a new style of football in a new league. Not only that, he has had documented fitness issues. The lad was a part of a seismic win on Wednesday night against elite opponents, and found it tricky today like many others. So that’s the context of him supposedly being crap or whatever people are saying about him. Then you add in how many players have started slowly or were completely written off that Howe and his team have improved. People ignoring this and arguing about him not being good enough are just pure fucking idiots.

There’s a lot more to come from this squad you feel. Should give us hope.

People on here are just cunts sometimes. After the week we’ve had, and now everyone is shite. Fuck off.

Annoying to draw that but I’d have taken a point before. We were lucky to have 10 men on the pitch.

Think we need ball carriers. Murphy on, Isak left and Wilson up top. As much as I think he will come good, Sandro can come off. Would also be tempted to throw on hall for Burn.

We’ve been poor. They’ve done what they set up to do and we have no answer.

Re: Tonali. I don’t understand where he’s supposed to be positionally. Often he’s up supporting Anderson. Is that intentional or is he wandering?

Would be absolutely raging if I was a West Ham fan

That’s a red all day. Bruno is so lucky

Paqueta has us on toast at the moment.

If your answer is bringing on Scott Mctominay to save your skin in the 87th minute, fair to say you’re in bad shape.

But what if we move it brick by brick to beamish?

Couldn’t get one. Surely the sellers could have stopped the lad buying 30 in one go like. Also Ian is a cunt