janpawel

Aye, if the rumours have some truth, then it's insane how much international football can overhype a manager

That was my thoughts too, but thought his ability on the ball was good yesterday, suprised me Not saying he is Rodri or Bruno G with the ball, but he showed some ability

Thought Onana was quality against us last night, would love him in our midfield

This, since the takeover we've already bought Burn and Targett, and have 30M plus committed out of our summer budget on Hall. As much as I'd love a Hincapie singing or something, it makes no sense funneling half our budget into LB constantly However, whilst we have great depth at LB on paper, it's a clear weak point of our first 11. And all players are different Lloyd Kelly would great as free transfer. But yeah I'm really curious as to what we do at LB in the Summer

Aye, seemed to link up so well will Bellingham considering it was his first game

Proper impressed, played with and against some elite players and didn't look out of place at all.

How has Bruno done?

Feel like I've read it somewhere or maybe just a rumour on here, if it's a recurring problem then an operation may fix it I'd guess

Christ that was longer than needed, just my thoughts and how it's going to be a bit difficult to cover all weaknesses I guess, and how outgoings are going to be crucial if FPP is going to make things as hard as it seems

For me it's clear as day we need a better RW option, and we really can't rely on Wilson as back up, or Isak to be fit for a full season (though hopefully this changes if he has surgery etc) so another ST needed imo. Absolute worst case a RW who can play CF and we keep Wilson The Pope injury, will he be at the same level as he was before? Beforehand, I'd have been happy with Pope as number 1 for another year, but if his levels have dropped, does it become a priority position? Mamardashvili etc and we've hopefully got our own Allison for the next 10 years? Botman injury, I think we'd have already been looking at a new CB, but now I assume this is higher up the list.. Left back situation. Major current weakness, we have Burn, Hall, Targett, Dummett (going). We we've already committed £30M+ to Hall in Summer, so can't see us going big here.... In an ideal world, sell Targett and get Lloyd Kelly on a free. Though not sure how we will ever bed Hall into the team if we keep playing with a '3rd' centre back at left back? Just my thoughts, and that's not even thinking about midfield. There's a few profiles we don't have, not including Bruno. 1 a athletic DM (Onana). 2 Someone who can slow the game down and control (Silva as eg). 3 someone with final third qualities (Maddison eg) Not at all saying we need to get these types of players, Liverpool don't for example, and Howe may want our midfield to be all lungs/energy and get our goals from the wings, the counter press etc, which is likely considering the how we play and the fact we haven't addressed these types of players before

For those saying we now need 2 CBs, don't you think the club will consider if we can get away with 1 CB? It would be Schar, Lascelles, new CB and Krafth who could cover until Botman was back. Leaving Tino and Trippier cover for right back Then at LB, Burn could also cover CB, assuming Targett and Hall are here for LB cover I was thinking it just pushes the need for a CB up the priority list

Yes

Tosin at Fulham is on a free this summer too? Can't say I know much of him but him and Kelly wouldn't be a bad idea I guess if we are hamstrung with FFP

CB's then... Presume the injury to Botman will have pushed the young/talented CB singing up the list of priority?

Aye was literally about to post about Arteta, hate the bastard but once Klopp goes in his hiatus, think Arteta will be comfortabley the second best behind Pep, his Arsenal team are quality

Feel like unless you're Liverpool, Arsenal, Madrid or Bayern, then you're dependent on how poor City perform compared to their best to get a result I realy don't think they're as good as they were last season, they've had plenty of shaky moments and I think they're inconsistent, hoping we perform like we did against Villa away and I'd give us a shot

Not a NUFC rumour, but keep seeing the videos of Toney twerking for a move on a sky sports interview Other than Arsenal (who I could see not wanting him due to Havertz having a lot of his qualities), who else would be after him? If he only has a year left, wonder if we would be tempted if a low fee, even though he doesn't fit our usual buying criteria (age, no dick heads etc)

I used to think he was shite, but have been fairly impressed by him this season, don't think he's great or a world beater, but has been one of Chelsea better players

As someone said before, we just can't build momentum, even when we should he able to put in a good performance I thought Villa would be the turning point, good performance and comfortable win against a team who are excellent this season... Then Wolves last week, great game plan and execution, players coming back and etc.. Only for another shite game

Might be worth sticking a release clause in his contract too

Yeah I know Joelinton and Willock were great in LCM and LW, but do we really think we'd spend £80M on 2 left wingers and do this? Yes, Gordon can play RW you may say, but Eddie has not played him there (I think) and he has been our player of the season on the left this season

I'm sure Onana has been linked with Arsenal, and I think Arteta has been unreal at building this Arsenal squad.. I take that as a good sign

Neto is insane, only caveat is his injuries, I don't follow him close but feel like the last couple have been muscle injuries? So could be down to him being injury prone, rather than occurring from a tackle etc

Yeah depth at CB is increasing as the top teams start to play 3 CBs more often with one as a FB tucking in, in possession I made a comment in the Hall thread wondering what our long term plans will be for him going forward with this in mind

People who want back up to Schar, any particular names in mind? Leny Yoro looks a talent, but may be on the Radar of PSG, Madrid etc so we may have no chance