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Should also say, this 433 stuff is a bit of a particular bugbear of mine which means I'm probably overthinking it a bit.

I think it's more about being able to control possession and save the constant running back and forth. At least it is for me. You can protect your legs by just getting on the ball and make the opposition chase you for a bit. IMO we're very reliant on turnovers and quick counters and really struggle when we can't do that (eg from goal kicks). It also means when momentum goes against us in a game we can't take the sting out of things. (Eg Everton, Bournemouth, Fulham). Obviously having Pope and Burn doesn't help, but even when not under much pressure we're still not very good at it & I personally think the 433 with just one DM coming deep doesn't work in play out from the back situations. It's really predictable, everyone's too far apart, Isak stays isolated which isn't really his game. I think the 4231 gives more control around the DM/CB area which allows more secure build up and if we do need to boot it long, means there's actually someone near the striker to cchallenge for the second ball. Plus they have to commit another player forward if they want to press both DMs, leaving a bit more space if we want to go over the top.

Think we need a transfer dehumidifier to help us all cope.

Agree with the 4231, particular switching to it in obvious passy situations like goal kicks where we're not going to be able to catch teams on the counter.

Hope absolutely loves Eddie Howe, so without listening to what he said my guess is it's all about 'woe is Eddie, he has it so tough' etc.

Personally I think there's a lot of useful info on FB Ref, but it's certainly not as simple as 'look at the bars' Like, you could have two players & one scores highly for pass completion % and gets a nice big green bar and the other fairly low and gets a red bar. So green bar man is the better passer. Right? But what if green bar man is always playing super safe obvious high % passes and the other guy's the playmaker playing lots of lower % through balls etc. Actually red bar man could be the better passer. That's when you can look into the stats a bit further - see how many short/medium/long passes they play, how many are through balls etc. You can get some useful info from that. Lots of stuff on it can be skewed by a team's playing style/general quality as well, particularly volume stats like how many passes someone makes etc. So yeah, I think there's a lot of useful stuff but you need to weed through the figures a little bit.

You might as well at least get him to make the tea.

Yeah Eddie loves being in control of everything. Or perhaps just hates not being in control of everything.

So if Bruno F stays, what's the set up of that front three? Cunha Bruno F Mbeumo Something like that? Or does Bruno F drop into one of the CM roles with Cunha on the left and a specialist CF?

Deuce knows his scat. Name's on point.

He'll ask for 250, man u will offer 170, then 225, 185, 215, 195, 205 Done.

Cunha and Mbeumo should be a tasty pair of 10s in a 343.

Jason Tindall to get the hump and consider his position in 3, 2, 1...

Phenomenal's better than absolutely outstanding right?

Yeah basically, though we'd have that 24 million extra over the next few windows.

I can live with that.

Instead of just saying basically 'he's not that good you're wrong' and then quibbling over semantic definitions, it might be helpful to actually have some reasons as to why he's not that good and people are wrong. Would probably make the discussion a bit more productive.

Assuming we want Trafford, wonder if they'd accept a lower price if we loaned him back to them for a year. Keeping their super tight defence together gives them the best chance of staying up so that should be worth a lot to them. Plus, for all the talk of him being England's next No1. for the next decade, he hasn't actually had a good year at Premier League level yet. He had a really good year in L1. Struggled in the prem, had a really good year in the Championship. Buy him now but loan him back to reduce the fee and allow him to get the extra PL experience with Burnley. Then he can come to us when he's got that extra bit of top level experience. Meanwhile Neek Pope is still a quality keeper and Dubs can cover too. Of course if he's ready to go now then perhaps we want to just make it happen. Would seem a bit mad to spend our money on players who won't even play for us this year when we really need to beef up the squad for Champions League. But might be worth it in the long-term.

When Chelsea make a billion by selling the Statue of Liberty back to the US I'll be pissed off.

Don't forget his ace reporter contact.

Doubt even Al-Hilal could afford Targett's wages fwiw.

Think you're right - it's labelled as that match on getty images. Did the old scoreboard count down to 0 rather than go up? For example here it's the end of the match and scoreboard shows 0

Think it's fucking Bauhaus & therefore ace.

I take it you read The Mag then.

All online football fans hate every other team and most of their own team tbf.