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Or some dark arts Are we back?

Injured left hammy somehow ffs

Hopefully not a theme of leaving Mount free behind our flat midfield.

Unmarked run ffs.

Win free kick. Take it to Murphy and lost it straight away

He’s like Romero. Can be exceptional at line breaking passes, but can easily be a proper donkey when asked to do defending quite a lot in a game.

The only thing he had going was being durable. Now he doesn’t even have that.

Is it related-party stuff if he moves to a Saudi side that’s not PIF owned? Such as Al-Taawoun or Al Qadsiah.

Wrexham 2-3 Sheff Utd. 43 mins gone. Fun.

Depends who’s calling the shots. If it’s Wilson, then Joelinton and / or Willock will be off because their value is nose diving and they require replacing in next 6-18 months.

If we can’t win anyway at Man Utd where they’re not just without Fernandes, but multiple other first team players, then we really need to shelve ideas of Europe via league, maybe even top half, because for me it would be on par with results of West Ham away giving context. Not even going to make a prediction because fuck knows what mentality we turn up with. Just want to see same XI, but Wissa for Wolte.

Algeria will do well to get out of this game without any injuries.

His injuries are more from unfortunate knocks being knee this season and ankle season back. If it was muscle injuries (on top of not being quality in two positions), may be a different narrative. But he's far more reliable for me than Sven.

He won’t be playing a single minute for rest of season unless we get decimated by injuries. He just needs getting rid so we can drum up interest on back or some glimpses back end of last season before it goes. If it’s option, then so be it.

That’s all I needed to know. Wilcox is a proper red flag, continuously goes for people he knows. Destroyed Southampton with that approach.

LB is a necessity. Just no reason not to sign one. Willock gone and a young CM in. (Scope then in summer is Joelinton off and a big ticket CM in, that’s if there’s interest in Joelinton). That’s the two deals I want happening. Osula out too (likely loan with option/obligation to buy). Summer will be the big spend as there’s valid argument for GK, RB, CB (maybe x2), CM (as above) and a winger (can see one of the four leaving).

Most logical signing ever that. Said as soon as the release clause was known that Man City should be all over him because that’s all they’re missing from the previous great Pep sides in terms of attack, a scoring winger.

We are regularly linked to Trafford after he went to Man City, but I wonder if come summer we are linked with going back for Khusanov as that RCB (and can cover RB) if our data is still saying he’s one of the best to get for a young age still.

It’s a tough one. I understand rationale for renewing, because he’s still a good defender when fit (if he’ll accept same wages, which is a different question). Flipside I can see, it blocks off a pathway for LCB if we wanted to sign a young successor. Burn is contracted to 2027, but if he’s still useful and more reliable than Botman next season, do we let Burn leave on a free? For me it comes down to do we see and Trust Botman to be our main starting LCB for rest of decade? If answer is no, you sell in summer and sign that starting CB like Thaiw was this summer. Burn has a final season and you sign a young CB in 2027 (like we should be signing a young RCB in 2026).

The championship has been wiped recent seasons. Nothing really stand out that’s been similar before, and we’ve gone beyond some of them with our signings. For example, the likes of Jonathan Rowe were low cost, but we went for Elanga because they rightly had the output in Prem. So we don’t really have the squad places anymore for low cost. It’s now starting quality or raw youngsters.

Semenyo is about as a sure thing as Mbeumo. You know what you are getting, and output will be there in a good side.

Ramsey will be similar to what he was at Villa. A useful squad player. Think people will be lying to themselves and be naive if they feel he will be a starter for us long term. He’ll be a CM we upgrade on quickly. We are going to eventually have a bench that’s worth like £250m+, where the depth will be there be in terms of names, but the return for the value not so much. Like mentioned before, it should cement us as a top 8 side and maybe that is the medium goal right now that’s changed since the takeover because of the PSR stuff. We can’t fly into the elite, but what we need to do is ensure we’re best of the rest, stay consistent in that then push on as revenues naturally grow. Will mean seeing a lot more players leaving though in same vein to Isak IMO. Because they likely would’ve been expecting different.

Haaland was a much more fun player at Dortmund, but then he was picking up more injuries. So it’s probably fair at Man City he’s asked to do less deep runs / running with the ball etc. with his body more protected, and so Man City near enough have him available for every game going as a result. Will mean he’s seen as more robotic, but suppose that’s the trade off.

Hopefully that’s him missing World Cup games and Sweden don’t qualify, because him pissing away the summer has cost them. 4 months out would be dreamy, come back late April, and pick up a nice muscle injury in May that then sees him miss start of pre-season and he’s playing catch up next season. Liverpool fans will be sick of him by this time next year. Shame he avoids a good kicking by us, unless we meet each other in like FA Cup Semis / Final or UCL SFs.

This is the biggest game of our season so far IMO. Been stop start, but this is even bigger than Sunderland because Man Utd is a side we have to finish above, so have to win at OT to get in front. A draw is no good. Winning at a side that should be finishing top 8 this season will give us an almighty kick on that we need. Not sure what the team will be because of how much was put in at weekend. I’d want it to be same, but Wissa starting over Wolte, just because Man Utd struggle hardest against runners behind their defence.