Thor

Maresca plays boring football. The only saving grace is when he plays big teams - his players who are extremely talented can spread their wings from his boring build up and play properly since the other team has possession and we can play openly.

I want to not play with wingers. These idiot players and manager are obsessed with going wide despite open players running into goal right in the middle of the pitch. Fuck me dead its annoying.

Ref is a clown giving Caivedo a yellow there. Fucking clown.

We are always obsessed with going wide when there are clear and obvious triangles in the middle to pass through. I don't fucking get it.

How is that not a yellow? That is literally 3 in a row by him.

Only reason I think its a foul because its not a natural movement. Left foot on ball then comes down on left foot.

Nah was talking about the West Ham one where people on here saying we were saved by VAR. Offside in that game.

We played pretty meh against West Ham too. Don't be fooled by 5-1.

I mean offside is offside. This one i would deem a foul as well. Controlling the ball with your left than planting again with it. I usually wouldn't say anything but it isn't a natural move.

Facundo funnily enough means - OMG it was so much better with Roman and these sporting directors are shit - in pig latin. I think that is so beautiful to be honest.

Also - apparently we broke a transfer window record for most sales (263 million pounds).

Won us a club world cup. Happy with Cole, Cucu, Pedro, Levi and Moi. Lavia too when he actually plays. Early days but Delap looks like he has a bunch of talent too. So again I struggle to see where the issue is when they've been some of our best signings...

Are you contrarian for the sake of it? 4 of our 5 best players are Brighton former players. Cucu, Moi, Pedro, Levi... Haven't exactly gone wrong dipping into that well have we?

Interesting... He falls in the same line of players as Neto, McTominay and Semenyo - meaning, every time I have watched them play, they have impressed me a great deal, but I don't actually know how good they are overall until I get other peoples opinions. As per the above players, its generally been a good source of turning out correct by pure chance.

I really don’t think it’s that bad. If you’re okay with going to Spurs it tells you where your ambition lies. Not high enough. This isn’t anywhere near as catastrophic as people make it out to be. We are fairly set in attack anyway.

If we get Rogers I’d rate our attack as right up there with the best in the world.

I was happy to see Gallagher go. I'd want Fermin here though. The logic of "If he is good, why would they want to sell"? or "*Insert team name* fans all say he is terrible so we shouldn't buy him" don't mean anything. Barcelona sold Neymar - I guess he was shit? We sold Hazard. R9 was sold so many times in his career. Ashley Cole got sold. Why did Liverpool sell Suarez. I'm just going to stop because this reactionary board would eat itself with backwards logic brought to light.

Edgy again because I’m not jumping to conclusions after a game worth of assessment? It’s an internet forum mate. Couldn’t give two shits how it’s perceived. Dortmund fans mocked us? Oh they must know it all. Just like how City fans mocked us buying Palmer and saying thanks for helping us get Doku. They really showed us! Clearly I’m wrong and we have all seen enough. Hope he doesn’t play anymore because we know he’s shit now. Just commenting how hypocritical some are when a player who wasn’t wanted doesn’t hit the ground running from minute 1.

Cool. Cucu, Neto and Caicedo should all have left as well based on that.

How are you making this call after 1 game? He was BVBs second leading scorer despite getting benched at the end due to not being in the new managers plans. He scored 2 less goals than Xavi and Wirtz despite playing less minutes. So where is this assessment coming from? Aside from the 50 minute cameo - where he actually looked better than Palmer and J Pedro that game funnily enough.

lol the nonsense on here. Happens every single time. You guys pile on to signings you don’t like. Bloke has played one game and we are acting like he is off the pace. This forum is absolute shambles when we aren’t winning every second of the day. The first 15 mins of the West Ham game thread is another great example of this.

Paez isn’t anywhere near as good as he’s made out to be.

Rio is talented but you can’t get every young golden boy. I honestly don’t think he’s close to the talent Estevao, Dowman and a few others are. Also as I stated, Pool look very shaky and I don’t think they will go on some crazy unchallenged run.