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That is big time hindsight though, as no one on here would have wanted him to move on after that season. In fact I remember plenty of posts on here saying things along the lines of - that patch of form will be sustained and it’s just the player hes become under Howe.

I’m not sure it’s him being defensively lacking, although he’s not as effective as a Joe or Gordon he can still execute that role. I just think it’s that he’s simply suited to games where we see a lot of attacks in transition, most of his goals that come to mind are from that scenario. It’s why he’s a super sub for games like that at the weekend. Hes just very direct and he always wants to cut in and shoot and he’s very good at that, I think he would have been incredibly effective in our 22/23 season for example.

That’s why he’s an important player for us

Wonder if we step off now, playing with fire with their counters

Havnt all of your previous managers been fairly invested in Rashford though? Correct me if I’m wrong, I know he’s a fairly one season on one season off player so I’m not sure if his form has been worse than previous seasons.

He caught that so sweet

Osimhen at Gala is so 2033/34 in FM, love to see it

To be fair I chose this game for Leverkusen and not Liverpool, I’m thoroughly disappointed as I watched probably as many Leverkusen games as NUFC games last season and they were usually great

Liverpool game is utter tosh

Don’t know if it has been posted here but apparently Gerrard is on the brink in Saudi and has been turned on by the Al Ettifaq fanbase, so we’ll probably have to suffer him while he sits in one of those comfy punditry chairs every week soon.

You’ve pretty much nailed it here I think

I know it’s been mentioned but my god is Drury horrendous to listen to or what? Trying to make moments in the game bigger with sound bite style commentary that just comes off as totally cringe, does it appeal to anyone? It just feels like a constant distraction from what’s actually happening on the pitch

There’s definitely scenarios where he can play that #6 role, either coming on at 60 mins or against certain opponents. I think Howe will keep Bruno there for the majority of the time though.

Nah, not really I’m just poking some fun. I do find that he becomes one of the whipping boys fairly quickly when things arnt going our way though.

With most people it depends on if we win or lose week to week