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Scored already. Fuck knows where hes playing, they say LB but its not really there. Nagelsmann going for it with the whatever the fuck formation that is 😂.

Saying it “predates this ownership” as if it will do anything or make them look more favourably is incredibly naive. When you buy a house and it has a dodgy roof that you don’t know about too well, you have still bought the house. It is then your problem, not the previous owners. Everton getting -10 points is a dangerous dangerous precedent. Us and City should be very very wary now about what could happen.

Hes going to be top notch irrespective of where he goes, how much he goes for, when he goes. I am surprised United didn’t get him in the summer instead of Hojlund. Probably if it were summer 2024 and they wanted a CF, they would of. We have a long standing interest since before the pre-season game v Bohemians IIRC (2018 or 2019?) where he made his first appearance age 14. We tried to get him over before Brighton got him. Personally think he is probably better than Jackson in terms of being a more natural CF but no point stockpiling another young player who needs regular minutes. I mean it would be typical if we neglected signing a more established, experienced CF again for another prospect as this seems to be our mantra at the moment. As mentioned in the board thread and previously before, the sporting director boys, their head’s should roll come the summer irrespective of where we finish as they have made poor decision after decision since being involved in recruitment since January be it prices we’ve paid, who we’ve signed or the obvious not signing players of a certain experience/proven quality. The likes of Madueke, Mudryk, Ugo, Lavia, Santos…. money that should of been better spent elsewhere or more on quality. Then theres the Emma Hayes situation on the womens side. They’ve not put up any trees and irrespective of where we finish they need to be the first ones cleared out for me as we cannot afford another window or two of wasting huge sums on poor signings and stockpiling positions we don’t need too many bodies in. I mean look at Villa, how is it that they somehow can have one of the most competent directors of football out there such as Monchi whilst we have 2 clowns intent on turning us into Ajax or Monaco? I hope we throw bags and bags of money at Michael Edwards in the summer.

Been saying it for ages him and other boy in the sporting directors roles, they are fucking hopeless and need to have some real criticism and scrutiny thrown their way. For the money we’ve spent on the mens team since they were given the reigns and where we are at, its reflects poorly on them. We have needed a top GK and prolific CF for years now yet we will ended up with Sanchez and Jackson, who yes is a good prospect but not the man to be the main man right now, as well as countless players such as both Lavia & Ugo - who you could argue we didn’t need both of at once considering we were always after Caicedo instead and had Santos already signed. Then also Mudryk signing for that huge huge fee also. Not to mention Madueke - who has vanished off the face of the earth, what a waste of a signing. Clearly not up to the job at this level and failing to secure Emma Hayes on a new deal for the women’s team is also further signs of that. If this project of Boehly’s is going to work for both the mens and womens team, he needs to appoint some competent, shrewd, high end people in these positions. The demands here are always going to be different to what they are at Brighton or Monaco. Theres always going to be more at stake and losing a manager of Emma’s calibre because of a breakdown in negotiations is piss poor for a club of this magnitude.

He has 100% surprised me, thought we had overpaid and signed a very very overrated youngster with similar qualities to Kai in terms of skillset and laboured sort of style but he does look a bit different. Mata and Di Maria comparisons are cool but he’s not particularly more like one or the other, sort of a mix in between, maybe even more the likes of a David Silva. Maybe not in terms of the quality and style in his later years with Pep but in style, similarly to where when he played off the sides under Mancini at times and even early Pellegrini.

Less games for England more for us, sounds good.

Yeah have to agree. Performance has been pretty bad. Enzo had a stinker too again.

Thank fuck we got the third. Was shitting myself when Son had that chance thought it was going to be 2-2.

Only taken the lad about 11 big chances to score. Game could of been out of sight already.

Fernandez has had a stinker. Utter shite all game.

Yeah not confident we will beat them. They had 8 changes tonight - no recognised CF, god knows how many FBs in their starting 11 & still barring a 10-15 min spell at beginning of second half comfortably were better than United. Us vs United if we and they keep playing like this is going to be one of the worst footballing games to watch in existence come December. Holy shit.

The moment I see us linked with a player and “bargain” its just hard not to laugh. At the prices we’ve signed players at the last 3 windows we haven’t had one fucking bargain yet…. Wirtz is talented yes and I’ve seen more than enough of Leverkusen to say that but honestly he looks no better than Kai did there. Thats the truth. Leverkusen on a very good run with Alonso. No doubt about it. For the player, he would be better finishing the season before going to Bayern or the PL, which are the big links.

The lack of Maatsen game time talk and following as if hes a top player on here is mental. If Cucurella was playing as he is now last season nobody would be giving a shit about Maatsen and would of wanted him sold. Playing well in the championship for a team who are now playing absolutely pathetically in the PL says it all. Not good enough and should of pushed him out the door.

Jackson couldn’t score if he fell into a barrel of fannies. Fucking hopeless.

We will. Because we are that desperate. Look at every other signing we’ve made under Boehly & co.

Good god. What the fuck are these idiots thinking.

Seems to be the common theme on here. Usually 1 or 2 major injuries and folk go OTT player X Y or Z are finished. Then they usually suggest signing players with genuine poor injury records. Then they deny/change their minds having said X Y or Z are finished before same happens again and its rinse, repeat.

We spent £100m plus on Caicedo and Fernandez. Basically £80m on Mudryk. £55m on Lavia. We will pay it. Don’t kid on we will walkaway. We are far too stupid to do so. And we desperately need a CF.

Tough run coming up after Blackburn game, if he doesn’t get results & performances I think he will be out the door by the new year. Genuinely haven’t seen anywhere near enough or anything resembling any progress- whilst I agree it is not just his fault, as players have been poor and areas we need again neglected for anyone under the age of 23 with potential - he will be the first one thrown to the Wolves by this absolute circus that is the footballing department and ownership model.

The French Antony. Just good at dribbling thats it. Avoid.

Lavia could turn out good but it really should of been either him or Caicedo considering we had already signed Ugo and prioritise looking towards a creative midfielder or goal scoring CF. 3 similarly profiled, less than creative DMs was overkill. I mean he’s had 1 PL season at Southampton where they were awful also so I am still not entirely sure he’s going to be the player many expect either, I mean he had a good game against us which I think most people are using as the barometer for as to why he is a very good player (for example Torres did this before we signed him, Benayoun did this, Meireles did this). I mean people were suggesting we would play a MF 3 of Enzo, Caicedo & Lavia and it would be one of the best in the PL but honestly can’t see it. I mean when we signed Felix on loan, Mudryk and Madueke in the same window when we were already stacked with attacking players, I didn’t think it would happen again. Then we did it with the MFers. I mean people also are right to use Ange and his start at Spurs in comparison to Poch here. Nobody expected anything from Ange before the Kane sale, never mind after & a lot of people expected more from Poch but the results, performances and trajectory have been the complete opposite. Yes can they sustain it will be a question but as I said beforehand once he got started at Celtic, they didn’t really let up. Do I expect them to win the league? No obviously not due to City, Liverpool and even Arsenal having a mix of either better players or experience of going for trophies but I don’t think they will fall away as badly as some people expect.

Needs to do more. Has shown good moments also and whilst the price tags always going to be there, for me he never was and may never be worth the money we paid. I think the Kante comparisons have to stop also, nowhere near the level and may never be.

Killed our entire season? Oh fuck off with that pish 🤣 Sanchez not good enough to be number 1 for what we should be aiming to achieve yes but to say he killed our season, what 10 games in? When we have been pretty pish so far is absolutely typical OTT lets find a scapegoat and tip toe around the real issues. Our recruitment (or lack of recruitment for the positions we desperately need quality in) has been piss poor since Boehly let those 2 idiots from Brighton and Monaco dig their claws in but people had a hard on because Caicedo (who was pretty poor today) and Lavia (when is he going to play?) joined here and not Liverpool - whilst they signed two creative type midfielders who can play deeper, the type we could of done with today to bring a spark to the game. And Poch isn’t a miracle worker. You give him over £300m worth of central midfield players and there isn’t any goals or really someone who offers creativity in the final third between them but choose to moan about a GK after watching us pass the ball backwards and sideways without really penetrating through the lines consistently? Ridiculous take. There is no point even talking about the lack of a really good number 9 because it has been an issue since Diego Costa left.

Regardless he isn’t good enough. Its that simple. A very good number 2 yes but never an elite level number 1. Just like Raya.

The results are papering over the cracks. I think 2 or 3 bad results on top of going out of the CL (looks very likely) will crank the pressure up on EtH. They are so poor at breaking reams down without counter attacking. And he has been given the players he has wanted, if they don’t get top 4 again this season, with the new ownership, I wouldn’t be surprised if they change.