janpawel

Pizza Rob seems to barely post ITK bits, majority of the time it's his shit patter, which makes me more inclined to believe compared to say a Sean Casey who puts hundreds of tweets out there, as if he has a hidden camera in our meeting rooms

Really struggle to see this team without Trippier! He's been amazing for us, wasn't he statistally the best RB in euore last season and in the European team of the season for something? Having said that, I wonder if this could be our equivalent of what Madrid did when we sold Casemiro to Man U

Agree, people forget Longstaff played in majority of our games, including our best games. With Willock / Joelinton LCM and LW mainly.

Osimhen is a bit of a 1 man army

Feel like him and Gordon look their best on the transition and when the game is stretched, probably why they both have good records against the top teams

This for me, I want Howe to be here for as long as possible, I hope this is his next stage of evolution from next season

Livramento looks like he will be elite imo, has absolutely everything in abundance and is so young, would be mental if this is why Howe took an age to introduce them.... But who knows!

Man City are the kings of exploiting the half spaces Thinking of us, are best example of it is the Longstaff runs between the CB/LB where he sometimes gets a shot away Regardless of how this season goes, I hope next season I hope we have more technical ability in the final third and can do this more in possession, as all top teams do

Is it not £7m we've rumoured to have been quoted? So £14m if looking at it for a full season

Can't wait to see this guy in action, hoping he gives us a lift when we is back

Wonder how the deal will compare to ours, think Villa will make top 4 or 5 if CL spot, similar boat to us last year

Yeah, that wet look is ridiculous. No idea how they got away with it ?

Looks like he's going to be world class very soon

Feel like Howe would absolutely love a prime Henderson in this team, all his qualities are physical and leadership based But yeah he's so washed and Phillips would offer more for 6 months

Gordon absolutely tormented them all game

Yeah absolutely would have took Werner for 6 months

Dier would be a lucky, lucky bastard

If we sell him, I can't imagine how we'd replace him and then play as he has rare qualities If we bought a defensive mid / 6, say Kalvin Phillips.. Imagine a midfield 3 of Phillips, Joelinton and Longstaff... Very physical but such limited technical ability, uninspiring tbh Then again due to FFP we could probably buy 2 World class midfielders and bring a more attacking midfielder into the 3

Livramento vs Salah hopefully

What's peoples thoughts of Gallagher? Was never a big fan until recently, but have been fairly impressed by him of late. Think he'd be a pretty decent improvement on that specific 'Longstaff' right sides no 8 role Though similar to all of our midfielders other than Bruno, his best traits seem to be around workrate and stamina... Think we have enough of those and not enough technical qualitily!

Wonder if some kind of 'exceptional circumstances' could apply regarding FFP and us starting the hit of his contract next year. Guess not unless we didn't pay wages / extended his contract by a year

Good point, I feel a lot of our success comes from our 'system' the majority of the time Probably the reason we perform/have performed better than the sum of our parts, but when it's not going well such as now, individual players levels and abilities stand out

FFS, didn't know this was confirmed

Gordon to be out surely?

I feel this transfer window would have been much more 'exciting' had we still been in Europe and the LC, with us more inclined to pursue long term targets and bring them in early ala Gordon As someone posted above, I could us waiting out until Summer for a lot of positions now