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Under 24 policy? In that case, Disasi and Tosin shouldn't be at the club 😄

Tosin is fine as backup. Came on a free. I doubt the club went into the season thinking he would start so many games back to back, it was probably Fofana/Badi/Colwill to rotate and Tosin to fill in and play conference league.

It's a shame that our 2 best defenders appear to be made of glass (Fofana, James). Colwill's a good prospect but nowhere near ready to lead the defense, would be awesome to find a Cahill type who can slot into CB and calm them down a bit. I don't really get why we had Gusto and Acheampong on the bench, rather than one of them starting at RB? Disasi reminds me of Bakayoko, just a bang average Monaco player.

It's not a spark, not one of our attackers tried to take on their backline. We just kept recycling possession for 5 minutes, then give it to Palmer or Enzo and hope something would happen. Every time they won the ball off us, it was simple, get the ball forward as quick as possible and find Delap. The reason why we lost was because our players were complacent, sort of expecting Ipswich to make errors. That's the problem, not a single player wanted to take on their defense and give it a go. It was like, "yea we're happy to recycle possession even though we are down 2-0 at 60 minutes". Also, don't really understand why Disasi starts when you have Josh and Malo on the bench. And then you hear from Maresca in previous games, "Felix and Palmer can't really play together as it affects team balance" and yet he starts both of them today. I can see what Leicester fans were saying about Maresca last season, they said he's a good manager but also frustrating to watch as he doesn't want to adapt the style of play to the opposition, prefers to stick to possession.

This is what we should expect when players aren't available at CB and in midfield. Feel like people forget that Fulham let Tosin go on a free transfer and he's our starting CB right now and playing Disasi is like giving the opposition an extra player. It's a shame that Lavia got injured again as he could have helped keep Caicedo/Enzo fresh in this run of games.

Just be ready for some more 'ugly' results throughout January as we have a bad fixture list coming up. 🙃

You can't really consider Santos at this stage, he won't be back from his development loan till next season and Lesley's on loan at Southampton. So that leaves: KDH, Carney, Casadei....and to be honest, you wouldn't want any of them playing heavy minutes in midfield for Caicedo or Enzo. Will be interesting to see if the club goes out for reinforcements in January considering the injury concerns of Lavia, James, Fofana.

They'll definitely sign a new attacker in January, seems like their best shot to give it a go this season (especially with City looking mentally gone).

That's how Silva usually sets up though, keeps the impact subs ready to go for that 15-20 minute burst at the end of the game against tired legs. Feel like most of the PL sides would have learnt from that game where Wilson or whoever it was scored twice in injury time to get the points. Hopefully Maresca sorts it out as our January fixtures will be massive in terms of whether we keep pace for top 4 or not.

We don't have depth in midfield or defense as Lavia, Fofana and James spend 90% of their time in the treatment room. It will be an interesting end of the season as we look decent in most games but still off the pace against the more organised teams.

Seems like Newcastle have started clicking as well, Isak doing his thing. Think we're short in defense and midfield (particularly with Lavia's constant injuries).

If we don't invest in january, we may not get CL football next season. Feel like it's Liverpool, Arsenal, City then us or Newcastle for the 4th spot.

I like Guiu's energy up front and for a raw player, has the skills you want to see in a young striker.

Mudryk isn't being sold anywhere with the incoming ban and it would be stupid for the club to rely on a youngster with zero PL experience to be the backup RW option. I would have thought: Sancho on the left, Palmer/Nkunku/Felix through the middle, Neto and the Brazilian kid on the right.

It wouldn't be surprising, considering Pogba's original ban was 4 years, which then got reduced to 18 months by CAS. Think Sharapova (Tennis Player) had a drug related issue a few years back and it was a 2 year ban, which later got brought down to 15 months. The interesting part would be, if it is a long term ban (3+ years), would the club go down the path like Mutu and try to rip up Mudryk's contract?

Chilwell to make a rare appearance at LB and secure a transfer away from the club in January 😆

Brentford will be all over Sanchez and our defenders. Expecting a draw but hoping we can pull off a moment of magic and get the 3 points 😃

What has happened in this thread? 😆

Well... the positive is that most of the starting XI didn't have to travel for Conference League. Brentford will kill us on set pieces, hopefully Sanchez and the defenders are ready.

We'll end up getting a cheap loan from a Serie A team with "option to buy". 😄

Looking at the midfield and attack for this game, it's like we're playing a pre-season friendly 😆 (with the exception of Neto).

I don't see Palmer leaving England, if City survive the 115 charges, they'll buy him back

Why would West Ham do that? 😆 Bowen's like their most important attacker.

Such a shame about Acheampong's contract situation, would have been good to see him get a run of games at RB. Would be awesome to see young Kiano Dyer get some minutes in midfield.

Depends who is playing in our defense, our CB's tend to have heart attack moments every now and then, particularly Disasi and co.