Optimistic Nut

All I will say is what I said then. Look at his goals.

Definitely a decent spell where he played more from the left with Wilson through the centre, not 6 months, like.

Just a bump to say he's probably my favourite NUFC player of all-time and absolutely love the bloke. Brilliant club captain, seems to bring it all together. Was thinking it's probably going to be the next year or so when he'll be at his peak value to sell for PSR but sod that, I want him here as our Vincent Kompany and he's here until he's 33-34 after seeing it all the way through with us. Beautiful player, beautiful man.

Reckon this could be Wissa's first start?

Brilliant tonight.

Yeah you could definitely see Barnes or Gordon, even Joelinton scoring more than average feeding off him.

Lovely.

Or that playing against players he knows he's miles better than, gives him the confidence to do it?

He's been great other than that one moment. Just saying this is very close to what I'd view as our strongest XI.

Think we're Tino for Krafth, Tonali for Miley and either Woltemade/Wissa for Osula away from the XI I'd like to see start more often than not.

About as comprehensive as you can get, this.

Could be a rout.

Crap pass, foul then weak tackle. Poor Miley.

I normally end up reacting about 2-3 weeks too late to these sorts of things, not being on penalties is making me think of maybe sticking with Palmer over Saka and Gyokeres instead of Isak but will play about with it for a couple of days.

Wildcard used. Van Hecke, Eze, Palmer, Ekitike out Esteve, Saka, Szoboszlai Isak in

Tempted to do the same, think the Ekitike suspension has forced my hand. Currently going with Grealish in for him in the XI but Isak....

Obviously want to win anything we can, but now we've got last year's in the bag, I think I'd take Quarters of the CL over it this season.

Main dilemma I've got is when Isak gets back in the team, whether to replace Ekitike with Gyokeres to go along with Pedro & Haaland, or work in Isak with a £5.5 to £6m forward like Muniz or Isidor to replace Pedro.

Sold him anyway for Donnarumma.

Similar to Sheff Utd. One poor pass and they blow promotion. Sunderland go on to spend £200m or so, Sheff Utd are bottom of the Championship without a point. Mad.

Ranger got to 46 before he turned 20 so gave it a good shot.

Sort of performance I think we'll get until he gets regular football. He'll come in and do a job, do what he's asked to do in the system, look tidy, but won't impose himself on games and play with the confidence he needs to do that.

Think we're 2 points down on what would be "par" for the fixtures we've had. Beat Arsenal and we're probably not far off what you'd expect points wise from the 6 games we've had.

Looks like Voller but needs to be a bit more Klinsmann. It's one where I've been wanting a penalty awarded and the forward gets booked for diving for ages.

There must be a reason for it but I don't see it. Massive waste to me.