janpawel

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

Trippier out the team.... To fit Burn at LB over Tino? ?

Willock, Bruno and Joelinton played last season I think after many (including me) were clamouring for it. But it felt unbalanced and not as effective / defensively secure as when Longstaff is in I completely agree it is our most talented midfield 3, which is why as I mentioned I'm keen to know how Howe will use the 4 of Joelinton/Willock/Barnes/Gordon Agree on your last point. We have 3 pretty good 11s which would have been perfect for rotating over these 4 competitions, such a shame

Presuming Bruno and Longstaff are 2 of the midfield 3, I have no idea who Howe would pick out of Joelinton/Willock and Barnes/Gordon to fill the left hand side

Leny Yoro looks an amazing talent at 18 as a CB, think he plays on the right side too

City have been dreadful recently Like someone previously said, would rather they win the league over Arsenal or Liverpool

He'd improve them, their midfield quality isn't what it was and they are too reliant on Rodri

Anyone know roughly how much extra cash towards FFP the 6 results will have got us? I know we've missed out on the 10m (I think) for progressing which is a shame

Absolutely, he has so much credit in the bank and for me the CL exit, poor away performances etc are primarily down to injuries impacting the squad and the knock on effect Can only think of Howe and Emery as managers who squeeze the absolute most out of the players and team

Seriously can't wait to see him play for us, especially after 10 months where he hopefully learns English and has time to bed in like Gordon did between Jan and Aug Some of his 1 touch play was great in the games he played, sure he will be something unique to add to our midfield

Absolutely quality, in what is a very hard and disciplined role in being a no 8 for us. Crazy to think how could he could possibly be if this is the start of his trajectory, I hope!

Aye, I'm sure he was advised on what to say for his best interests