Matt1892

I have never taken that much notice of Van Hecke before but I thought he was excellent today.

Hopefully this opens the game up now.

Man Utd the better team so far but the game hasn’t really warmed up yet.

I don’t think he will throw a public hissy fit but he will be disappointed that the club failed to bring in the quality he needs if they expect him to push on, especially when the clubs around him are strengthening. He will also know that if our form suffers because we haven’t strengthened like those around us, then it becomes difficult to keep our better players. That might not be his problem though, as if we don’t get European football then he will be gone at the end of the season.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that Solanke found form in the Premier League after the arrival of Ireola, it took the players a while to get used to the style of football he wanted from them but once they did they have been very good. There is no reason why we can’t beat them, we just need to be disciplined in our performance as they will look to draw us out and then hit us for pace on the counter.

I will rephrase that to take in to account that Howe doesn’t specifically negotiate and sign players… I cannot believe Howe would willingly advocate the club not signing players this window when money is available.

Seven days before the transfer window slams shut. Hopefully Mitchell is working this weekend.

I cannot believe Howe would willingly not make any more signings when money is available, add to that his comments regarding staying instead of taking the England job and it points to things not running smoothly behind the scenes. If that is the case then either him or Mitchell won’t be here in a years time.

Joao Pedro scored 20 goals in all competitions last season but 11 of them were penalties.

Likely that Howe is trying to protect him if he can’t get his move away, it doesn’t benefit anyone if his place at the club becomes untenable.

I thought he was going to be riding the motorbike.

Can I meant, must of autocorrected but I have edited now.

Like Gordon he can play down the right but his best position is down the left, Leeds only played him down the right as he wasn’t anywhere near as good as Summerville. Now he has left Gnonto is back on the left. He is a decent youngster but nothing special, probably worth £15 million max considering what the other Leeds players went for this summer.

I know we are bad sellers but surely we can find someone to buy a current England international?😂

Maybe Longstaff will be moved on in the final week.

Maybe if we can’t get rid of one of the right wingers then we convert one to a back up right back instead? Then sell Trippier to fund a new right wing.

Elanga shares a lot of similar attributes with Anthony Gordon, in fact there isn't many things that Gordon is capable of that Elanga isn’t, he just hasn’t put it all together yet consistently but he has age on his side to do that I don’t know what Elanga’s footballing IQ is like which might be the difference, as Gordon’s comes across as being quite high with his off the ball movement in the box which might be what holds Elanga back from performing at a similar level. The question is do we want someone with similar attributes to Gordon down the right or do we need a more technical player? It wouldn’t bother me that Man Utd thought him not good enough, in fact I like the idea of one of their youngsters coming here and fulfilling their potential, same goes for Madueke and Chelsea.

I don’t recall Disasi being that bad from the games I watched him last season, not that he particularly stood out in those games either by the way, he just went about his job. There does seem to be an overly negative reaction with Chelsea players on here when we are linked with them, so it is hard to gauge genuine criticism of the player on ability or being part of the Chelsea machine which does come across as a shambles. I would say this one could be a possibility, he was linked with us last summer and also the Mitchell link so he will know him personally.

We were linked with Disasi before he signed for Chelsea.

We need a CB and a RW, if we only get one then questions should be asked about how we have failed to sufficiently support the manager in upgrading the starting eleven. People arguing about how hard it is to find a suitable upgrade on players, whilst simultaneously claiming that the current players are so shit that it is impossible to find a buyer for them. I mean, fucking hell.

I would rather have Chalobah than Gomez.

11 days left before the transfer window slams shut.