Tomo

Best keeper in the world.

It's actually more Pulisic's performances that grate me more than his injury's. If he (most of the time) gave us top form when he does play (ala what Ledley King did for Spurs) It would somewhat soften the blow but he was an American Iwobi for the entirety of last season bar two games. Werner for all his finishing frustrations is a much more productive member of the squad. And unless Tuchel sees him as an option for the wingback role I simply can't see how he gets back in the side, even as an impact sub.

Would be sods law if he misses a chunk of his bread and butter fixtures and returns for the United game.

Wasn't Mahrez their only signing in 2018? Members here were kicking off merry hell when it looked like we were only going to be signing Lukaku. His main argument is they've also got caught with their pants down more times than an elite club/team should. Jorginho, Ronaldo, Alexis and Fred the main examples, the latter two may have turned out to be a blessing in disguise but still.

That's shit then, I thought the rules would be changing to they have to quarantine but can leave to train and play (similar to what Tuchel himself had to do when he came here).

Selfishly speaking I'm quite glad as this gives a higher chance of him being picked for Malmo which I'm going too. He stated from day one that his big motivation to keep going was playing in the next World Cup so this is just a trade off we are going to have to suck up.

I always worry when the service excuse starts to be made.

That's strange because I'm close friends with a City fan and he thinks bar 2017 their transfer recruitment team have been an absolute embarrassment.

Is this the first time we've ended a weekend top since the title?

Pep having the balls to haul off the record signing has changed the game back in their favour. I wish TT would do that with Lukaku occasionally.

But on the flip side they could be this good because they have so many players deeply involved in the build-up. Putting a striker into that sort of system doesn't usually work as well as it does on paper, even one's on Haaland's level.

Always made sense to give him a number when we couldn't find him a loan. As infuriating as he can be he does have a purple patch or two a season, if a said patch can come now with Havertz and Mount out of sorts that will be extremely handy.

If we revert to a back 4 my preference would be to try and get the chemistry with him and Reece going again on the right.

Nothing to controversal but the team I've gone to follow have just blew a lead aswell, lol.

I'm at an EFL game.

BBC say it's Rom on RW with Werner up top.

What formation are we playing? (not watching the game)

It's getting to the point where it's almost better long term if United nick something.

Ole would have genuinely kept his job for years if Ronaldo didn't show up. Such a shame.

The PR that is being done for this guy is borderline deranged. They knew the "he took over a mess" line was wearing thin so they brought a load of young players on the guise of it will take a few years and people have fallen for it already, absolutely insane.

That's not true, many players who are shit in the present time but their natural talent is still acknowledged (case in point Hudson Odoi). Players skillset is defined very early (for example had Josh McEachran made it was obvious it would have been in the Pirlo/Cesc mould instead of the Vieira/Essien one) the only question mark is what level they get up to with said skillset. To conclude with another example, if someone comes at you with a crystal ball today and says in a few years from now either Christensen or Zouma mature into a Thiago Silva esque defender while the other evolves into a Vidic lite one, I don't think anyone on the planet will be under any illusions as to which will be which.

At this point I would put Arsenal and Spurs in the lesser game category if we're talking purely levels.

I think one thing we can all agree on is that Lukaku must deliver in the run of fixtures we have between now and the United game. We signed him to stop us dropping points in these type of games, so if us compromising our style of play can even begin to be justified then he has to be winning us these games.

Unless you finish with 109 or more points then you are always relying on opponents to some degree.