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Wasn’t Jude Smith highly rated when we signed him?

Let’s just do it, win the league, and refuse to compete in the CL if we are in breach of their rules - it won’t be a good luck for them if (hypothetically) the PL champs refuse to take part and it will only encourage another start up to rival it, eventually UEFA will change their rules too

This is the thing, we brought Krafth on instead and still shipped 3 goals. Can’t imagine it would have been more if Hall had come on originally. just give him some starts man

So so poor

What the fuck. Centre back is top priority now with RW.

It’s irrelevant anyway because even with Burn in the team, we are shipping goals so we may as well continue to ship goals and have someone offer more in an attacking sense.

Another one when hall had made an overlapping run in space and he tried to pass inside instead and lost the ball. Should be a bench player next season

The logic of them leaving if we don’t get Europe makes no sense, as we weren’t in Europe when they signed for us and I’m sure they weren’t expecting CL so soon.

Based on what?

Is Tonali not technical? He’s certainly more comfortable/skilful with a football than the majority of our squad from what I’ve seen so far.

Half of them were already here. Almiron, Longstaff, Murphy etc. others were necessary buys at first I.e burn. he has signed trippier, tonali, Bruno who can all play. his style of play isn’t technical because it can’t be right now due to personnel.

He gets the summer window and the first part of next season for me, regardless of how this season ends he’s earnt that. I believe he will be more flexible with styles of play once we have more technical players. Currently we have a handful who are actually good at using a football, the rest are just athletes

Isn’t Uefas just wages to revenue? Whereas currently transfer fees and wages contribute to the allowable losses? so in theory we could spend whatever we want on transfer fees as long as the wages are sensible?

I used 12ft mate to bypass it https://12ft.io/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/match-day/article-13173761/ANTHONY-GORDON-Scouse-Newcastle-celebration.html pop the mail link into the first one and you can read it all

Great read. Love Gordon. Howe is a real gem isn’t he

We haven’t spent the money on hall yet - this season is a loan

Still believe this is the case after Eddies comments today

I’d say a new RW is critical personally, Miggy/Murphy no where near good enough

Was great today, constantly causing trouble. First half he played 2 lovely passes which should have resulted in a goal (Burns chance) and one for Bruno who couldn’t get a shot away. Great work rate and constantly creating for us, by far player of the season.

Really grates me that people are against it purely because he’s related to Howe. we know nothing about how good he is at his job, I’m fairly confident under this ownership that any role is handed out on ability rather than ‘because they are family’.

The most logical solution for me is that we signed him not for the immediate future and the first year being a loan helps with that. he gets 12 months in and around the squad, purely focusing on developing into a full time LB. Then, next season when the actual transfer kicks in, he is ready for regular game time.

It’s a valid theory to put forward, and you’re right in the sense that overachieving isn’t limited just to the players. however I believe that a large part of them overperforming was down to Howe. As said I do have faith in Howe, however I do acknowledge that he also needs to evolve and make improvements to himself if he is going to reach the top.

Eddie isnt immune from criticism and he isn’t helping himself with a few of the decisions he is making, but some of the comments (not necessarily on here) are way overboard. we massively overachieved last season. This season, as poor as the performances have been recently, we are still fighting for a European spot, and in a fa cup QF, when you add the context of the CL draw and the injury crisis, we are not doing too bad. A lot of the problems that were evident to me last night is a lot of our squad are bang average at best; last season they overperformed but have now reverted to type. Longstaff, Murphy, Burn, Lascelles etc. Howe is not in control of players decision making. He can’t control Lascelles missing the ball completely leading to their goal. Every time Murphy got the ball he didnt know what to do with it and slowed the play down. Similar with longstaff. the fact is it will take time to revamp the squad to where we want to be. I still have faith that Eddie is the man.

Can’t wait for him to come back and last 2.5 games

This season is a loan, so the fee doesn’t kick in until the summer. For all we know come August he will be ready for regular first team minutes.