Matt1892

Tonali looks completely off the pace.

Fifth fastest in the league. The only defender in the top ten is Kyle Walker, as CB’s are just not as quick as forwards in general. It is why tactical adjustments are more important if you are playing against a team that play the long ball over the top for quick attackers, like we did at home against Brighton last season.

Andersen passes the shit house test. Sign him up.

Worrying.

Looked deflected from one of the angles.

We should offer them Targett.

I think they will, to the point that I can see the atmosphere amongst opposition fans being so bad that he could easily be assaulted on the pitch if he scores and celebrates.

Greenwood not being a rapist is like Prince Andrew not being a nonce. The issue with the law is that for one reason or another people with excess wealth can influence other people to withdraw charges and statements. Man Utd are a club that have carefully cultivated their public imagine over the years and that is about to go out of the window.

Both goals are penalties but he has ability.

I think it was the Chelsea friendly in the second half where we had Isak, Gordon and Joelinton playing wide left at different points. It is difficult to pick runners up that way.

Even more so that we signed a LW and a back up RB in January.

The nice thing about this signing is that there is a long term plan in place for the position, like a changing of the guard.

It isn’t about people never being happy, it is about people wanting to see the club build on this success and push forward by strengthening those positions where they believe we are at our weakest. If you don’t do that and everyone around you does then the likely hood is you fall away. We can’t rest on our laurels if we want to be considered a threat to the establishment clubs.

He can see both of those things and still realise that they are the weakest positions in the first team now we have upgraded in midfield. If he doesn’t then where does he see the weaknesses? If we don’t improve the first team then we go backwards, as our rivals will continue to improve. I like how we lauded Ashworth coming in to bring in similar signings like he did at Brighton and now we can’t find a better left back in world football who is better than Dan Burn for less than £40 million!

That doesn’t justify not improving our worst positions in the starting eleven though, teams were targeting Burn in the second half of the season and they will do it again.

If we are getting battered down our left hand side in the first four games by Diaby, Silva, Salah and Enciso then it’s fair to ask why we are starting the season with Dan Burn at left back instead of upgrading on the position, since it is a clear weakness in the starting eleven.

Surely that is the reason to sign better players though, to give us a better chance of beating the more difficult teams.

It depends who the RCB is but it wouldn’t have been great. The summer improvements should have been to improvements to CM, LB, RW and RCB cover and we would have only filled half of those.

I’ve never mentioned £50m but £30m could be achieved.

Surely that depends on who we replace him with and if it is a long term improvement.

My understanding is the purchase from the draw isn’t mandatory, as in if you do not want the seat then you didn’t have to have it even if you are in the draw.

The argument would have to be that it was indirect discrimination but I don’t think it would be, the club would say there is no obligation on the individual to buy the ticket if they were not happy with the location.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/callum-wilsons-agent-speak-newcastle-27132765.amp

We are quick to point out that Almiron had a bright month which inflated his figures but nearly 45% of Wilson’s league goals last season were scored in April. If we could get £30 million for him then I would sell him and invest in someone who will be the future, he is going to need replacing in the next couple of years anyway as he is 32 in February.

His contract should have been sorted last season as if he doesn’t start the majority of games I can see him leaving on a free.