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Don’t keepers Only go for pennies these days?

Maybe Howe wants him involved in our training more so he knows what’s expected of him if called upon in say cup games or something

Fair enough - he’s not back to himself just yet.

Thinking about it - the way Tranmere kicked shit out of us then palace and Bournemouth playing the way they did in the cup, we’ve not had a a chance to play nice football yet in the cup.

ASM does this to opinions / conversations every time so I’m gonna back away ✌️

After yesterday I agree - need to be more ruthless where teams sit back and waaaay too many shots skied yesterday where they had plenty of time.

That is odd

Maybe I’m being too harsh on him but those three games you list - Bournemouth in the cup we got through with an own goal, Leicester game - he didn’t effect the score in any way as he didn’t yesterday. All I mean is this is arguably the hardest game of the season - the team top of the league, playing away from home and I don’t think he’s gonna be a magic bullet so to speak. Really hope in wrong but as it stands I just feel arsenal have too much for us and they’ll beat us regardless, I see this as a free hit.

Howe will have a plan and will be interesting to see what positions we buy for as I said in the other thread - 3 games where teams have played for the draw and got them (Palace, Bournemouth & Leeds) have not only cost us 6 points this season but told others the best way to go about coming away from SJP with something. Howe will obviously know how to tackle this problem and will be interesting to see how - maybe that is with a new CM or upgrade wood, let’s see.

ASM’s been awful last few appearances where he’s come off the bench - not sure he’s fit enough to be this saviour just yet people are wanting him to be. For me this game has come too soon for us as I really wish isak was back for it as he looked class against Liverpool

For me go all out for a Botman / trippier quality more conventional fullback as you say as I feel somebody who can bring our left into play more gives us more options to switch things up with them and burn waiting on the bench. We could really start using the five subs rule more to our advantage in games like yesterday.

I do think after the Leeds game and them doubling up on miggy and coming away with a point then we will be looking for a more attacking trippier quality LB so we have that option on both wings. Watched an arsenal game over the festive season and they scored one down the left, one down the right and one through the middle - that’s where we need to be eventually. The flip side of course is arsenal concede a lot compared to us so there is a trade off

I also saw a media piece a few days back saying City aren’t expecting Perrone to do anything just yet - he’s for the future to replace players going on. If this is true then City won’t be in a rush to sell just yet.

It always happens on the back of us getting good results - we had Palace and Bournemouth doing it after the Man City game then after the Leicester and so many positive articles about us having a strong restart etc Leeds do it as well. Best time for it to happen though as for me this needs to be the area we work on in transfer market / training to break down as it’s cost us at least 6 points in games listed above alone.

That depends on our league finish among other things, if we do finish in CL for arguments sake then that opens more revenue and allows us to charge more for shirt sponsorship etc. This gives us that little more wiggle room with ffp and targets will be more attached to us because of our bigger league finish and CL

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Disagree with that, not gonna slag him off but he’s an average mid table player that’s all and we should replace him if we’re gonna have higher ambitions.

We also had a great defence last season when he played and got a lot of 1-0 victories. Why all of a sudden is it trendy to slag off these players?

Can’t see anything but a defeat and not expecting anything - just get this game out of the way for me. Arsenal look the real deal to me this season.

You don’t support Newcastle for the glory

And they were given 11 minutes injury time to find a winner ?

I’m not upset - just disappointed, the minimum if you can’t win is to not get beat and yet again we’ve done that so you can’t get upset at that.

In all fairness - we did win the Crystal Palace game

Fuck off oldtype ?

The next four to be replaced for me has to be wood, Murphy, willock & longstaff. no idea what ASM issue has been recently - maybe not fully fit yet?