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10 on 10. We have a club that tries again, whether I'm fully on board with the skills of a particular signing or not doesn't matter, we have a great team, manager and some cracking effort is going in to making us the best we can be, riding this wave after the stormy seas of the last 15 years and seeing where we end up is magical.

Quite, now they're drowning in buckets of it, lovely stuff.

Crazy that 30 million gets you someone with 12 first team appearances. Not overly convinced by him but he's 18, plenty of room to develop and Howe will make him the best version of himself so no qualms about this, especially if he's a Jacob Murphy-esque displaced childhood fan.

Nice goal, nowt like upsetting the Aussies.

I mean yeah most likely, Howe evidently learned a few tricks from Dr. Fuentes in Madrid.

Willock.

You don't know ball.

By the same token I'd expect Howe to adjust and figure out a means of playing in a way that doesn't require outrageous fitness for an international cup competition and be great in that, or any role, man is class.

Usual lot give midfielders grief when they're dispossessed from behind once or twice, Bruno has had that creep into his game recently by dallying in posession so now there's a giant magnifying glass on it everytime it happens, meaning they'll focus on that instead of the 85+minutes of decent to good play. It's remedial shit.

Yep, though I'm loathe to agree with Kaka (half joke) he nailed it suggesting comparisons with Ambrosini in addition to Gattuso/Pirlo, complete midfielder.

Absolutely loved the 15 or so minutes in the second half where he went full Pirlo and strutted about controlling the tempo of the game. He's magic.

But is he top 6 quality?

Give it a few months.

I see a new boo boy has been found now ASM left...

Didn't think he had it in him to cross like that with his left, superb assist. Great performance, him and Barnes are hopefully going to push each other all season.

Went on about the moon landings being faked in one of his youtube vlogs, ignored his shite since tbh.

He's a conspiracy nonce, can't take him seriously knowing that.

There's going to be some ructions when Dummett and Richie are starting in a glorious 3-0 victory.

Bobby Concur on this. Hope he brings his shooting boots this season, he's getting Howe'd.

De Gea's goal kicks at SJP account for most of that tbf.

Under the presumption he remains in a fixed state of performance, yes. I'd imagine the point is that with more games in his legs he'll improve somewhat, which makes sense given the stop start nature his 2nd half of last season had and can likely perform well in our setup, a setup Dan Burn can play well in as a LB.

Literally said Almiron isn't good at football. It's pathetic.

If people are expecting high percentage pass competion from Tonali they'll be disappointed. Not his game to sit and recycle.

Surprised at that as he's not good at football.

Him, Schar and Colo for a 3 man defensive midfield in a Christmas tree formation, we'd never lose.