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Yeah, I missed it. Just saw that this was posted yesterday. Good to see them being cautious though, it's not an easy one to recove from as he said.

Just saw that he featured 39 times for PSG in one season, yet they sold him to Palace in the summer after that? I guess he came on as a sub for the most part?

Was a strange one. He was never the same player again after leaving us.

Christ. Their 3rd ACL injury this season. He's also a very important player.

There was a long streak from january to around the start of may where Trippier got 1-2 FPL points ever single game (except in the 2-0 one against Man Utd where he hauled). We conceded 1 goal almost every single game (sometimes 2 and once 3), and he didn't get a single goal or assist apart from that one game. It was at the time when we were not scoring from any of our corners, or set pieces in general. We were winning nearly every game in that period though, so it didn't get noticed as much. That's why it feels like he had more last season.

Not sure if it was mentioned here, but he injured his calf in the warmup? Hope he is okay.. We are even getting injuries in the warmup now.

Luckily I brought him in 2 gameweeks before he became shit.

I'm just going to let double fixture fool me once again. It often does.

Defensive midfielders are rarely included in the "best player in the world" discussions. Definetly the player that would hurt them the most if he got injured, I'd even say that he's their best player overall. Probably also better than Mbappe overall. I don't think that he's better than Bellingham though.

Welcome to Brazil!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13048717/Michael-Olise-hamstring-injury-Brighton-Crystal-Palace-Roy-Hodgson.html And that... that is why you need to be careful with a player returning from hamstring.

Hilarious how Pochettino said that Chelsea need to go on another spending spree in january, because he doesn't have good enough players.. That didn't really work out well.

Saudi league to the rescue.

Olise possibly, but this season he has just kept getting reoccurences of the same injury, since Hodgson keeps playing him when he's recovering from a hamstring. He seems like the kind of player who would get a bunch of muscular injuries, however. Like the Doku/ASM category.

Remember when they said this about our team with Steve Bruce? Honestly Hodgson is starting to remind me of Bruce lately, making excuses before the games have even started, and conceding tons despite setting up his team to be quite defensive.

Feels kind of weird how he played for 11 years at Man United and Arsenal. I think he was a decent sub at Man United, but he was never really that good. It also feels like an eternity ago, I was surprised to find out that he's "only" 33.

It's a bit contradictive to mention his strengths as a reason to pick him against Luton, right after you pointed out how he was up against his biggest weakness.

Which would be counter productive, because it would be at the expense of other players. More "loyalty" to Burn = less "loyalty" for Tino. He could've been loyal to Tino after his spell in the team, but he dropped him at the first opportunity.

Then why was he picked to play against "his worst nightmare"? Personally I don't have a personal agenda against Burn, what I have a problem with is the decision to allways play him over Tino.

As much as I think Howe can be pretty stubborn at times, I would still be really surprised if Livramento isn't starting the next one.

I'd have to see it in video instead of still images. Anyways, you seem to be forgetting that we already saw the left back upgrade being necessary before the season even started. It's not like he's been more than good enough for one and a half year, and now all of a sudden people are getting on his back for one bad performance. He has had good games aswell, but he's one of our most limited senior players (if not the most) if you judge him by the position he plays (left back). This leads to a lot of inconsistency when he is playing all the time regardless of opponent and situation. It's obvious that Livramento is an upgrade overall, despite the fact that Burn can sometimes win a header that Livramento can't. Because that ignores all other aspects of the game.

I didn't know that Burn is 5 meters tall.

He also never gets injured. Like they have terrible coverage in that position, but it doesn't matter when Watkins can play every single game anyways.

He's great as a backup option.. He can cover both CB and LB. But even before the season we expected someone to take his place. If someone told me 1 year ago that he would still be our first choice LB as of today, I would be surprised.