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Gareth has done wonders creating a great group spirit and positive atmosphire, he should have always been the assitant manager to someone with half a brain, some charisma and a forward thinking, attacking philosophy. His tactics just aren't working and it will destroy the good things he has created.

I don't disagree but in our current team if he recycled possession it just means Willock or Jonjo etc would give the ball away anyway.

I'd rather have Joelinton than Fred, at least Joelinton runs forward and inspires moments of hope. Fred is really uninspiring, even when he has a "good game".

Agreed, Hojbjerg was rated at one point but he's just a slightly above average midfielder, he's never going to be special.

So many times he wins the ball back in the opposition 3rd and plays a good pass and we haven't capitalised on the attack. That will change.

I'm loving it, impatience is just misguided excitement in this regard. People need to chill out.

Couldn't agree more.

Phworrrrrr

I hope so, that sounds fair. Fingers crossed.

I was all in until this injury. We've had so many bad experiences with injury prone strikers. I have a feeling the deal may crumble now unless it's just a short term issue.

PHWOARRRRRRRRRR

I think the budget thing is a lie that they've decided to peddle to keep things sensible. FFP is over 3 seasons so they can spend big right now and then rectify that by upping revenue over the next 3 years etc. They're being tactical to keep fees and expectations as low as possible and it probably is working to some degree seeing as many believe the lie. Maybe i'm wrong of course, but I have a feeling we'll spend over 100 mil this Summer, possibly more.

It's going to be a 200 mil summer I think.

It's baffling how good they've been, we struck gold... twice.

Agreed, delusional.

Issue with Neymar is he's injury prone.

Yikes

I agree with you, it was a tongue in cheek comment to be fair. I was at that game viewing it from that angle too. Heartbreaking wasn't it as we wanted a nice clean win to end the season.

Silver lining is he seems nice enough and not toxic. Imagine being your country's all time scorer and still actually being rubbish.

IMO McGinn is the archetypal top half prem footballer but will never, ever be a top player. He's decent enough but there's no genuine top quality there, and there never will be. He's a Mark Noble type of player. He was just good enough to hang around but have you ever seen him on a team sheet and thought, "Oh, he's a threat, he'll boss the midfield, he'll keep us at bay" No for me, but maybe I'm wrong.

I agree. That being said I'll be happy about it. More signings please barkeep. I can't be the only one that enjoys signings regardless.

The 14 years was our sacrifice, an offering to the football gods, and they have delivered us unto greatness.

I'd be buzzing with his signing also. But all my Summer is going to be looking at transfer gossip and news, be a bit of a damp squib if we only sign one player. 8 new players please barkeep!