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They did similar when they beat us 2-0 at SJP. Maybe they were trying to replicate that or something.. The real reason why they won that was an early goal right after we missed two huge chances, though.

The time when they were signing players like Jonjo Shelvey for £10m.

Fair point, they actually didn't have that much.

I didn't mean that you said it, didn't remember who did (was quite a few). But good thing margins goes both ways. Beating Arsenal is fantastic nomatter what happened, didn't mean to complain here.

"If Gordon had scored x chance and Isak scored the other one we would have x amount of points" etc..

To be fair it's not much different from going "if we had scored this and they didn't score that" when we lose.

So now we're going to have Arsenal fans whining on all our social media posts for a year.

Sometimes he is frustratingly slow and conservative, but when things are at its worst he often tries to change some things. And it often works some way or another aswell. Well played. Hoping it lasts.

He also said "at the end if your carreer it doesn't matter how many trophies you have." Right, who cares about trophies?

Still looking for a right wing. Gordon? Big Joe? Barnes? Hall? Schär maybe??

If only we could just shell out 70m on Guehi, and if it doesn't work we can just buy a different 70m defender next window.

Imagine being able to spend 120m + wages on a flop, and still have massive spending power in future windows..

I'm just worried about what your team can do without mr trophies.

@Froggy Your favourite manager Eric Ten Trophies is finally turning it around here! You look like a different team! Oh wait..

That's my impression aswell, the only reason I can think of as to why we we have been sort of trying to not go all in on the press. But Howes on managerial style revolves around high press and hard work. That's what he does best. It's a very difficult dilemma to solve. And before anyone else say it, I'm well aware that we have been pressing a bit more lately, but it has still been nowhere near the 2022-2023 games.

I had a dream last night that we took all the Guehi money and spent it on Haaland in january instead. Just saying.

There was a time where he was isolated and wasn't scoring, and I said that I couldn't for the life of me understand why some people said he was our best player. I thought he was too inconsistent to be a top player. 6 months later I felt like a fool. I'm not going there again. I believe the guy was 2nd in the league last season for goals per 90, behind Haaland.

Team (and individual) performances in international tournaments has so much weight in these..

Gotta love twitter "leaks".

We used to have our left back function as a 3rd centreback when attacking, but with a more attacking minded left back (which I think is a necessary evolution of tactics), the lack of a pure defensive midfielder is more apparent. Trying to find a new centreback to play as a left back is not a long term solution imo. It doesn't give us a good balance when attacking.

From Bruno himself: “But if I have to choose I prefer to be a ‘segundo volonte’ (a box-to-box). It was the role I played at Athletico Paranaense and Lyon. But I can also play as the most defensive midfielder.

This is from september last year:

Interview from Howe when we signed Bruno "When asked if such a goal was on Bruno's highlights reel, Howe confessed he's been signed to play as a number 6 more than anything else." He said: "Goal-scoring is not something he has made a name for himself doing but he is capable of the unexpected and that is what he did. "The goal was something we probably did not expect from him but shows his technical ability and he is going to be a huge player for us." It seems like Howe made up his mind about it like 2,5 years ago.

There needs to be a balance, we can't have half the game be VAR stopping the play to evaluate replays. I think diving is getting more and more nasty and rewarding every season, so that's worth trying to crack down on regardless.