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The conspiracy of him putting in more work against the best teams or in CL than the rest of the games is getting more real by the minute. I have a small but unrealistic hope that we can get in a more exciting winger this summer. It gets boring watching us play with wingers like Barnes, Gordon, and Elanga. With Eddie in charge I guess that's something we just have to accept as it suits his style the best, but it isn't all that exciting to watch them struggle to beat a man. The same goes for the Burn over Hall at fullback stuff. It might work for his style, but my god, it's so boring to watch. I get that his job is to win, and everyone will be happy when we win, but if we still lose with this kind of lineup then fans get more annoyed and uninspired when there are also no excitement to any of our attacking play.

I feel like it was a bit like the new manager effect. Opponents quickly learned how to nullify him, and our attack with him in it.

Yeah, I think it's a myth that Anderson wouldn't have gotten enough minutes to develop. Howe liked him, and he was already playing a lot when he wasn't injured. If he kept getting the minutes that he did apart from injury, then his development wouldn't have been strangled at all. You don't need to start every single game to be able to develop quickly. Andersons excellent form started already in the first few months at Forest, right after we sold him. They were impressed right from the start, before they even had time to give him all those minutes that people claim was the difference maker.

As Arne Slot once said. Isak is struggling because they don't have a Jacob Murphy. For the sake of his carreer, Alvarez should pick us.

Was really puzzled by Man City selling him. Must have been because it was difficult to fit him in with Haaland, and he wanted to play more. Massive fee ofcourse, but they miss him.

Imagine if Bou qualify for CL (very real as it can happen even if they get 6th), and he's off to Palace by his own choice.

"It really hurts to see him do that against us today. He’s a great lad, he’ll have a fantastic career wherever he goes. His was a sale we regretted when we were doing it. We knew the player’s quality,” Newcastle boss Howe said after the game. "It was a very painful transfer, one we had to do. We had no choice." Allways thought that Howe really liked him when he was here, and hated selling him, even at the time. Played him a bunch in the time that he was injury free in his last season, but he was injured for a large part of it.

I'm thinking more about the injuries, and not ability. Obviously impossible to tell, but if the injuries would have gotten worse like they have, then his value goes down, and we would be without him more often than not anyways. With Europe this season it would be hard to keep him fit.

The Isak sale in isolation looks like a fantastic sale at this point. In hindight it should've happened much earlier in the window. The sale probably happened at the perfect time in terms of getting a massive fee from it. If only we had spent the money wisely..

Yeah, but several of them are getting stick with even less (or no) people defending them, so I actually think he gets away with more

I see it the other way around. Very few players would get away with the amount of shit performances that he has had, with clear red flags on display, and still have a decent amount of fans defending them.

As critical as I have been of Howe, I've found it really odd how he has been getting the blame for Woltemade simply not being good enough for what we are trying to do. Back in december right before Wissa came back, it was pretty obvious that Wolte wasn't what we needed up top for our system (which in fact was the broad consesus on the forum back then), and that's why Wissa was rushed back. A few months later we're rewriting the history to it being some kind of Pardew/HBA situation. He's just not that good of a striker at this level, and Howe has realised that, hence why he's on the bench most of the time. Should Howe play him just because of price and the fact that a lot of fans likes his character?

He probably got in the way of Wissa and his shooting technique.

Not sure he has it in him to switch off completely, especially not in such a crucial window.

After we finished 4th the media kept saying that Saudi would have no patience, and fire him at the first bad run of form. "Gold rush" as Lahm called it last summer. I think we can safely put that narrative to bed now. More patient than a lot of other owners in a league where managers gets fired all the time.

We play them GW 37. Personally I think West Ham will beat Leeds in 38 and then go down anyways. Meaning that we were "responible" for saving Spurs in that case.

We're going to end up being the ones who relegates West Ham down over them. I think West Ham will beat Leeds only, and come just short as Spurs beat Everton.

Weeird decision to start Rogers if the goal was to throw it, considering the amount of minutes that he has played. I think the players just wasn't motivated for this game with the semi in mind.

There's this expectation in here each summer that we should (or are going to) whole bunch of squad players, while also strengthening the starting 11, but that's never how it unfolds in real life. Unless you're Chelsea (we saw how that went)..

The players knew the punishment for a bad performance on that day.

I didn't have that much of a problem with the front 3 yesterday given the form of some of our forwards, but I'm still not convinced by the Burn pick over Hall, even if Burn scored. He has scored 7 goals in PL his entire carreer, and I'm not really into judging decisions based on absolute anomalies that noone in their right mind could have predicted. It would be like sort of be like applauding a decision to put loads of money on a 1/25, just because it happened to work out, as if it was now somehow a smart decision becuase of that. I'm not saying that it was wrong as a fact, maybe the team does currently function better with him at LB over Hall (I doubt it personally), but I won't judge my opinion based on him scoring on a corner (despite height being part of the reasoning for the decision). If he really wanted Burn in there, it was possible to start him at CB instead. He's alot better there. Overall though, I absolutely agree that he got so many things right yesterday, as evidenced by the performance, so I don't have much reason to complain this weekend.

I'd consider selling Ramsey over of him, because surely that would give us more money to buy a replacement, and I don't think we would sell both in the same window. It's not like Ramsey is looking any better anyways. He might make me eat my words next season ofcourse.

We can say that about so many players in our squad right now, but this is not football manager or fifa where you can just replace everyone who are not key players in one window. Every team needs squad players, and typically they will be of less quality, hence why they are squad players.

If our squad was already good and we just needed to replace like 2-3 players then it would probably be okay to cash in on a small fee. As allways we won't buy 10 players in one window, so unless we feel like we don't need the depth without Europe, then I'm not sure the money is worth the headache of being left with just another hole to fill without getting much to fill it with. It's not like we're forced to start him in many games, or have to rely heavily on him if we keep him. I don't see the problem.

Hope I'm not jinxing an injury or something, but given that we won't get a decent fee for him, I'm okay with him staying as a squad player for the next season as he has shown more positive signs this season. I don't trust us to get a better squad player for the type of money that we will get for him, and our budget is already tight in a very demaning window where we need to prioritize replacing a bunch of other players. I have a feeling that he will stay, unless he wants to go for some reason.