Pizy

Not exactly encouraging that both of the young and exciting prospects we pre-signed for the summer currently have major injuries before even joining. 😑

I think he’d definitely come here, yes. But would we spend the monster amount that Forest will ask for is the question. With UCL money, perhaps. Probably also depends on how good Sarr looks the rest of this season.

Tbh, even speculating about potential targets right now is pointless. We’ll surely have a list of players we can target if we achieve UCL football and another fallback list of ones we can go for if we don’t. For instance, I highly doubt we’ll be going for any of the mega expensive midfielders if we don’t get that extra money. Instead of Anderson/Wharton/Tonali we’d probably just bring Barco over from Strasbourg. Which to me I’d actually prefer. And as for CB it’s probably a case of get UCL football - buy super expensive and ready made CB, don’t get UCL football - probably just recall Anselmino and have Colwill, Fofana, Sarr, Trev, and Anselmino as our options at the back.

Doubt we’ll ever hear his name mentioned with us again. Was probably in the “break glass in case of emergency” bucket with Douglas Luiz specifically in the January window if we needed an extra body.

Was only a matter of time until one of our big players this season got a significant injury and I’ve always been concerned that it would be either Caicedo or Cucu considering how many minutes they play. He will apparently be out a month but with hamstring injuries you have to be so careful. Thankfully I think Hato is starting to get more and more comfortable in the team since Rosenior came in and will only get better with more reps. We’re definitely going to lose quite a bit defensively with Cucu out but this is why we spent so much on such a young and super promising talent like Hato. He’s got to step up.

Massive indictment on his time here that he just didn’t seem to fancy Santos at all for some reason. It makes no sense. The level of calm, the positional sense, the intelligence out of possession. He would’ve helped us so much earlier in the season if he was playing. Maresca may still be the manager right now.

That’s the exact move that Delap should be doing week in and week out. That’s his game at his best. Stop trying to do too much.

That’s almost as comical as the second we conceded against Leeds.

They really are both brutal to watch. Delap at least has the excuse of still being inexperienced and new to playing at a huge club. Garnacho has been playing for a huge club for years and hasn’t progressed at all. He’s the same brainless pace merchant everyone said he was before we stupidly bought him. Literally the ONLY situation I feel we can trust Garnacho in is if we play balls over the top and he’s either using his pace to beat the last defender or clear on goal. Can’t beat defenders from the wing to save his life and his decision making is some of the worst ever.

I actually kind of like Neto centrally like this in the #10 area when he’s badly out of form out wide. He’s more likely to cause danger here than slapping in a hundred aimless crosses when he’s out wide.

When we’ve played it quickly they haven’t been able to deal with us but it looks like we’re in full on walking pace/energy conservation mode. Delap is also killing us time and again.

Tbf, who are we playing in his place with Lavia and Essugo out? Gusto I guess?

Why would you have technology for some parts of the competition and not others? That makes no fucking sense to me whether the ball went in or not.

Just praying for no key injuries. Hopefully we don’t run the likes of Caicedo and Enzo into the ground.

I mean that’s not really up to him, is it? He signed a long new deal recently I believe.