DH1988

Christ, all I can hear on BEIN sports is heavy breathing, and not the good kind.

What the actual

Hello? Penalty?

5-1 against a Leeds that are in second gear and lets not kid ourselves, they have had good opportunities as well.

@Vesper always comes through with the streams, patience.

Impressive against a Leeds side who are known for being great or awful. Taking my blue glasses off, its an impressive game from Pogba and Bruno. Is there any other expectation of Pogba? Its contract time, he is being shopped around, wanted to go to PSG this summer, but Messi came up. Its either to attain a new contract or put himself in the shop window for a huge contract on a free transfer, when either of those things are sorted, he will revert to type.

I don't think it helps having Chambers next to you though, at Brighton he had Dunk, very vocal and commanding CB. Against teams that cannot stick to a gameplan, White will look better for sure, but ultimately, as Sky said last night, each team is looking at that and thinking to stick someone on him. White needs to go watch some Riccy C videos from the day on how to deal with taller strikers and long balls, masterful.

Let's move on. Obviously Timo starts today, but against Arsenal, I'd prefer to have Puli on that side if its Lukaku's debut, thoughts?

This, without Tuchel I don’t believe he steps up to the level he is now. Keen to see La Liga this year, I think Atleti take it, but it will be interesting to see what happens with RM for sure.

Actually delusional or concerned about his ambassador pay packet. Or both. As bad as Spurs former players and aligned pundits, shocking and worrying fantasy about their clubs. Anyway, if hope Arteta doesn’t change a thing, keep Tierney going down the left flank like he’s a striker, not knocking him he’s a decent player, but Tuchel will eat their formation and tactics alive, if things stay as they were tonight.

Best news of the evening, and Arsenal lost.

Baptism of fire for Ben White there after a summer of being inundated with praise. Toney absolutely bossed him.

Quoting this, just in case..

Just a reminder, Norwich are the late game tomorrow.

Andy Robertson at home

Wish him the best, its such a shame with his injuries, at one point, whilst he played some minutes for us I thought he showcased his talents well.

Tuchel advised that 'we have some issues with N'golo' in terms of fitness, waiting to read more when its posted, but worrying.

Do I think its the right signing? Not really, I've been pretty clear about that in my posts, similarly, I am fully supportive of him, why? Wears our blue. The narrative is definitely there with his old videos and such, I hope he uses the criticism from pundits to good effect. That said, the Villareal game was crying out for the type of player he is, so that does bode well for us, in terms of teams that put 6+ behind the ball and such. Not saying its a solution, but definitely another string to our bow and I'm interested to see how that works out.

Hope Rudi comes to his senses and signs a sensible deal, I'm all for 'looking after number one', but there needs to be some realistic thoughts about where he is.

Marina is fire.

I'm sure he is, but I'd hope he was working on his fitness in some capacity during this time, the last thing we want is him regressing into what we were concerned with.

I've always been cautious on debuts for players in attacking positions, ever since Torres, I thought we killed his confidence right from the off on that one, I understand there were other issues with Torres, but I don't think it helped matters.

30 minutes against Palace, then?

Kepa’s mind games there.