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We all know that Tonali will most likely give us more than Longstaff in the weekend despite playing twice for Italy. It's very very likely. It doesn't even make sense to go Longstaff regardless. It would be like using a player who is pretty much guaranteed to give you a mediocre performance, just incase the other clearly superior player may not play at the level of prime Zidane due to slight fatigue.

I was thinking the same. He did need some help though.

Disaster for Arsenal. They lost Merino to a long term injury right after signing him. Rice suspended for the derby aswell.

Typically when you are given a proper run you start becoming more consistent with time aswell.

Turned 20 yesterday aswell.

Ødegaard injured his ankle. Could be serious.

I posted a list like this earlier this summer, and was criticized for giving them clicks. Didn't want to take the risk.

Our last 5 games at Craven Cottage: 1-0 win 2-0 win 4-1 win 2-0 win 4-0 win 5-0-0, 13-1 gd

Good points. Almiron still does it, but instead of putting a cross in he has to turn around and go back again.

It's true that it's hard to judge Anthony based on his time at Man Utd. Likewise it's also hard to judge whether he can perform in the Prem based on his time at Ajax. MLS is ofcourse not on the same level as Eredivisie, but Almiron looked like CR7 over there. I think he would look like a completely different player in Eredivisie aswell, if he went there. Besides, wouldn't Anthonys wage demand be pretty high? Man Utd often give players like him pretty high wages.

Forgot about him, yeah. Maybe, but there are many levels to this. There's a long way from favouring one foot to being "one footed".

Going back to him being one footed. It's a serious flaw that will be a lot more apparent when you play in the Prem, because here every margin matters. It makes him a lot easier to defend against, as long as he is not at a different level than the opponent like in Eredivisie. Robben was able to succeed because he was extremely fast and just amazingly good in other parts of his game. How many of the top 20 attackers in the prem right now are one footed to a high degree? 0?

Sign him up!

I remember a certain against Palace at the end of last season. We had a break of 2 weeks without a game, while they had played 3 days ago. They were all over us, and it was argued that the difference in breaks was actually to their advantage since we were rusty and off rhythm. Is this not a factor in this case?

I just hope we won't be sitting so deep again. Our next 2 games are both away games, and then comes Man City.

Howes wife must be getting jealous..

Agree. As long as Mitchell is telling the truth about the window and how they worked during it, I really don't mind it. It's just honesty at that point. If Howe doesn't want the truth to come out, maybe he should be consider changing his methods, if he thinks that those methods being revealed in public puts him in such a bad light. If he thinks that his methods are fine, then I don't see him being too annoyed about it.

That's a win.

Did we not talk about how Ashworth wasn't were long enough for us to be able to evaluate him? Didn't he cover 3 or 4 windows? Quite a bit more than 6 weeks or so.

Maybe the list wasn't as bad as I thought initially. I did sort of agree with the top 5. But price tag? So being more expensive will count as a negative? Then it's absolutely bizarre that Szob is higher than Bruno G as he cost nearly twice as much.

I might be underestimating him. But at the same time, we have been absolutely useless everytime we have been missing Bruno G, so in that sense, you could argue that he is "carrying" us aswell. Most distance covered in the league is a part of it, like he is everywhere.

The thing I hate about Antony is that he is seriously one footed. Similar to Almiron in this regard.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm rarely amazed by Bruno F when I see him play. Has some great moments, and works hard for the team, but he can be a bit of a hot head. When they are down by a goal, he typically start blasting shots from 25m into the stands out of frustration and doesn't actually do that much productive (in these scenarios). He's a top player on his day, but Bruno G seem more consistent to me.

Exactly my thoughts aswell, that's why I included all of them in the screenshot. MacAllister is underrated imo, but not better than Bruno G..

"He cost us 20 mill" Gotta find a way to include that.