TheBrownBottle

I’ve seen us play Barcelona four times. Someone new would be nice. Bayern or Real for me, please.

Unpopular opinion, but Burn starts ahead of Livramento at LB for me when fit. Didn’t think the lad looked great vs Bournemouth, Everton or Spurs. Clearly he’s quality and will become consistent.

We’d get £25 of it tbf (Not really fair, mind)

He might well be tbf - I would have said so before that European Cup Final. He hasn’t played a lot of football since. Not sure at all - but I’ve no issue with him being given a shot.

No danger of that, there won’t be any shit just laying around there, it’s a football ground Oh

Goalkeepers are defined by their mistakes, particularly if they occur when it matters most

I’d heard PSG had a fair few knobheads

Ye

Loan to buy - maybe, given that we’ve likely got nowt to spend due to FFP. But we’d be daft not to ensure that we’re confident with the man in nets. Far, far more important than a RW or a covering centre back.

I’d say there is no other time than now. Watching Dubravka and Karius in nets for the next five months could cost us a lot of points. Who is more likely to win you more points - a first rate goalkeeper or a third choice centre half?

Goalkeeper should be prioritised ahead of any other considerations. If the view is that what we have isn’t good enough, then strengthening elsewhere is meaningless. If your GK is costing you a couple of goals per game, I’m not convinced that getting a DM or a RW really is going to make up that difference.

I wouldn’t, tbh, if offered that Faustian pact. A cup run including beating the Mackems would be sumptuous

I just love the fact that the soppy cunts think that the KSA govt gives a solitary shite about away allocations in the FA Cup. Their sense of their own importance is incredible.

Love that everyone’s favourite footballing pop intellectual and philosopher doesn’t know the difference between AM and PM. I’m worried that he isn’t a footballing Marcus Aurelius after all.

Yep. Livramento is the only player signed in the summer who has had any real impact on the side (and of course I’m aware of the circumstances around all the signings). This can’t happen again next summer.

Is that normal pooing you’re doing, Moyes? Doesn’t sound like it. Doesn’t smell like it.

He’s every bit a centre forward for me. Wasted when moved out wide.

Bringing him off the bench is still an appearance - and from memory, it was something like one match to trigger the permanent move. It was an FFP fiddle, not a genuine option.

I still think that Pickford being handled by our current management / coaches could be significantly better than Pope. But it’s never going to happen, so we’ll never know

I’ve a lot of sympathy for him, he’s a model pro and a top player who is so completely cabbaged at this point that it’s sad to watch him. Glad he misses Fulham, given that Howe simply won’t rest him a ban is the only way he misses a game or two. Hopefully the knowledge of a week off to rest after it will see him back to something like his best vs Milan

I think Pickford is a better goalkeeper, and the only reason Pope would play ahead of him here is the obvious - I doubt we’d go for him (for obvious reasons) and I doubt he’d sign (for obvious reasons).

You’re right, but for this one it’s a case of savour it and see how it goes for me. Fantasy land stuff playing Milan in the European Cup - and we only need a draw to go through

Milan were Europe’s dominant club when I was young. Their 4-0 demolition of Cruyff’s Barcelona in the 1994 European Cup Final remains the greatest performance I’ve seen by a side in a big game. They absolutely were levels above them - Romario, Stoichkov, Koeman, Nadal, Guardiola et al included.

I’d have Pickford ahead of Pope for England

I’d be astonished if whatever means we have to bring players in is not used on a GK first. Howe has never rated Dubravka - and Howe isn’t wrong on much when it comes to football.