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Wissa on his debut

The dream. Let them suffer.

Here's the video I watched. Impressed by the crossing ability from these. Would be great if he can link up with Wolte in the same way that he did with Wood.

He's strong.

I literally never open football articles like these anymore. I refuse to get clickbaited on a daily. If there is something big, I will find out anyways.

Can't handle the pressure.

Villa should really have gone for Grealish..

I agree with a lot of this, but offside goals are even more sensitive to the result, as they are a certain goal. Lets say your defence lays a great offside trap, the striker is half a meter offside, but then it's given? It's annoying that we have to check the millimeter offsides, but if we can't check those, then we can't check the obvious ones either. New technology has already sped up the process. How about offsides being measures by the shoes? It's a bit silly and overcomplicated when you have to consider what centimetre of the arm that would be classified as a handball if used.

Burn had the biggest impact in the season where we went from 19th to midtable after the january dealings. He was immense at centreback, almost singlehandedly fixing our defensive issues (together with Targett). Bruno only featured towards the end, and Trippier was inured, as pointed out. In the next season (4th place) almost every attack went through Trippier, and it was simply a cheat code.

Just watched some highlights of his g/a from Forest. Obviously very very dangerous on the counter. Most of the goals or assists were on the counter, but that's how Forest play. I must say his delivery looked fantastic. Obviously you only see the good in these videos, but you can see why he had loads of asissts at Forest. His delivery from free kick looked superb. Lots of assists from set pieces, even corners. Chris Wood misses him. He will probably get used to Woltemade and link up with him in a similar fashion.

Did he smile?

Tbh I forgot that the rat also contributed well to the first CL qualification. Might have to be there, as much as we hate it.

Yeah, I was thinking Burn, Trippier and Bruno aswell. Absolutely transformed us and had the most impact coming in early, and has helped us through every achievement. The 3 of them didn't even cost much. What a legendary window that was. I'm still struggling to comprehend how ridiculously good the decisions from that season was. First Howe to start it off, and then probably the best window I've ever witnessed considering where we were and how much we could spend. Even crazier to think that it was a january window. Before that window we thought that we were going down.

Lets say you're going to park the bus against us. And Villa. And Spurs. And Man Utd. And Chelsea, City, Liverpool, Arsenal. Most teams will not park the bus against half of the league. Sure, it will happen, but it's more common with the very top teams. Last season we beat all the bottom 7 teams twice I think?

Sure, but we talked a lot about not having players who can open low blocks last season, and it was rarely a problem (I think?). Maybe that was just the rat giving us a lead, though.. They way the game went yesterday wasn't like seeing City, Liverpool or Arsenal play against lower sides. They were not that deep.

Luckily the very top teams tend to face more and deeper low blocks than what we do. Those who do park the bus against us are often the worst defences in the league, and are prone to individual mistakes. Thanks to our tight defence we haven't been chasing an equalizer against anyone other than Liverpool yet. In the Leeds game, well.. They didn't even need to park the bus as we went 5 at the back.

Not a striker, though.

If we compare our starting 11 (and not depth) with the teams that are expected to finish above us (with everyone fit), I think the quality at the wings make up for the biggest difference. Competing with the likes of Saka and Salah is a tough ask, though.. At the same time our wingers do a lot more defensive and off the ball work. Against a low block you'd obviously want to have one of those £70m+ wingers. If only.. Atleast Murphy isn't too bad against a low block. I'm hoping Elanga will prove himself more useful in such gamestates.

The main transfer journos allways quote our price higher at first aswell, and then everyone only remember the wrong and inflated price. They did it for Hall, Isak (when he came to us), Tonali and now Wolte. Other fans thinks it's €90m..

Why are noone talking about the price of Gyökeres? He's 4 years older than Wolte, cost £5m less, and doesn't look like he is doing that much outside of the goals. He has only scored against Leeds and Forest at home so far. Yet I see way more talk about how much Newcastle paid for Wolte.

We won 2-0 but we could have lost 0-5!

So after 5 games they went from laughing about the price and signing in general, to talking about how a "big club" will get him? I guess that means they admit to being brutally wrong.