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Even if Tino is fit, we need to shift away from him being the default back up LB, because it doesn’t maximise his ability going forward and 2, it’s not going to be his long term position.

Everton at home, hopefully won’t need to chase a goal with 15-20 to go.

And they’re getting in a bunch of chancers to own club who don’t have a pot to piss in.

New deal incoming.

Fuck us trying to get any sort of fee too. Must be legit discussion behind closed doors of ‘fuck FFP’ and just going balls deep with spending and new ‘sponsors’.

It’s a running joke/bet I have with a mate when we watch Newcastle together. What minute in game will Schar go down ‘injured’.

Fuck I hate Man Utd. Such a spunky team. Cunts.

But that was the key though, after a 2 week break, home game, wanting a response, that we were flat for large majority of that game making mistakes, looking slow in our fitness and terrible with the ball. Credit to the players and changes that shifted things all towards us, coupled with Moyes making the opposite negative changes, but the 3-1 was alarming in how West Ham didn’t need to be anything more than 6/10 to be 3-1 up away.

Nearly had a head loss when he flapped at the cross towards end, thankfully Soucek somehow missed an open goal. Just proper crap goalkeeping. We score well, but just conceding far too many. Going to end season scoring more goals than the champions at this rate

I’d have Anderson and Hall starting, but giving past 29 games, I’m not going to be shocked if it’s the same guys

Assume Trips will come back in. Depending on how bad Tino ankle is over next few days… Trippier, Schar, Burn, Tino: Longstaff, Bruno, Willock: Barnes, Isak, Murphy

He got kicked quite a bit, think even rolled ankle slipping over, so whilst not ideal, glad he’s got a rest midweek to avoid anything long term.

Going to enjoy the win, but the first 60 and how little energy we had and couldn’t string passes together, after a break was proper alarming. Hope it’s a turning point, and not a flash in a pan.

The expectation for me has always been the same. The guy can play football, we need players in the team who can receive the ball, be press resistant and move it forward to break lines. You will get some bad games due to his age, but overall it will be net benefit. Krafth coming on over him today, meaning Tino was moved to left back so the threat disappeared from RB was a joke. So many over hit crosses from Krafth.

What a game that was to be part off. Pure chaos. Wonderful. Hall changed it with Anderson, two players who want and can get on the ball, and importantly play forward balls. Totally different team with them on. Willock had a proper donkey game, along with many others. Our injuries

Stuck on train because there’s a point failure Good start so far.

We didn’t take the risk though, he did, with highly likely the view of wanting to play at Euros. Now we lose him for next season, after being hampered this season by not having him for large part. Having only one available of back 5 shouldn’t play a part either, as we should always be looking long term.

Wonder if long term, the damage is now done with the relationship between player and club? Asset now depreciating in value, not helped this season, not going to help next season. If we invest in a long term LCB in summer, doubt Botman when he comes back would be content being a back up if he wants to push for a World Cup 26 place.

Jordan Henderson.

He’s not, but he can do a solid job out there, and Hall needs to be trusted long term and not stunting further. When CB/RW, and potentially back up Striker / GK (if Pope is broken now) are more priorities because of depth, they need to be focusses. Signing a LB for say £30m+ would just be dumb in the short term.

Really don’t think we need a LB. FFP no issue, sure, but we have 5 players on the books currently who can play LB. Literally a position of most depth. Even if Targett goes, it’s 4.

We had Gallagher in a more defensive role yesterday, get regularly bypassed by Brazil and defence exposed loads by simple balls. So it wouldn’t be any more exposed. Sick of watching England in the games against ‘named’ sides, and Southgate take the cautious, pragmatic approach. Why our record is so poor in them, like 4 wins in 25 against top 10 ranked countries at the time? Argument mostly comes down to, a defensive approach wins tournaments. But how about trying our own approach and changing that narrative whilst we’ve got an abundance of exciting attacking talent. Maguire is Maguire, we’ll concede one from a mistake in big games regardless, but at set up to create more and hopefully score more.

Ok going forward as it’s a cautious passing. Not offering anything defensively, may as well have Foden centrally for more going forward.

Gallagher is so out of depth.