Reddish-Blue

Credit goes to the team, super strike from Caicedo and then ESTEVAO getting his first goal for the club, what a time to do it! Who would have thought we would beat Liverpool with 4 fullbacks on the pitch 😆 That's 3 losses in a row for Slot!

we also got a red card today 😄

That's about as likely as Sterling somehow returning to the first team when Pedro picks up a red card and George gets injured from too much running around and we have no-one available to play up front 😄

Forest didn't win again...their next 2 fixtures: Newcastle away, then us at home (hope Maresca is ready!)

0% in 30+ age group I wonder what the squad breakdown percentage was when Mourinho won those titles or when Conte helped us win the league.

He had 12 starts in 23 PL games last season, pretty similar. Probably to help manage his fitness. Bayern, United, Brighton were all starts, so makes sense to give a rest against Benfica.

JP is more of a 10/supporting striker, honestly feel like he'd do way better alongside another experienced striker up top.

I know @Vesper is a big fan of the current Liverpool backup keeper! It really is a shame that the Valencia keeper (can't spell his name), Donnarumma, Maignan and even Chevalier were all available in the transfer window and yet the club really thought Sanchez + Jorgensen would be enough to compete for top 4 this season.

Lol Reece can't start every game and Gusto has never been a good defender, maybe in a few years time with experience he'll get better.

Seems like a very lazy list, including names such as Nagelsmann, Conte, Ancelotti, Simeone. Glasner would be interesting. Iraola will be managing a top 6 side sooner or later.

Sesko broke his duck

Wonder if Guiu finally gets some minutes or if he goes with George for another cardio session

He can run at pace but thats about it Dortmund laughing at the transfer fee they were able to get for such a limited player.

Not surprising, was able to catch the last 30-35 minutes and it was a scrappy game. At least the players tried the counter-attack and Gittens has the pace, just doesn't know what to do with the ball when he gets near the box, had 2 chances to cut inside and put in a cross or even shoot but kept the ball too long. Good to see Badiashile get some minutes Liverpool will be all over us, especially after two losses.

We had Colwill available last season and we saw how pissed Maresca was after Colwill got that training ground injury, he kept saying that the CB role Colwill was playing was crucial for his system. Sometimes that is all it takes, one bad injury and the whole defensive line starts to collapse. Also, this season, Sanchez got sent off against United in the first few minutes. As an experienced keeper, he really should know better than leaving his team down to 10 men.

Great to see AC Milan around the top of Serie A! Pulisic in fine form this season, 4 goals in 5 games and what an assist vs Napoli 🤩 I miss the days when we had a left winger who would actually take on the opposition (Pulisic/Hazard)

The CWC win has bought Maresca time but he panicked against a pretty poor United side (taking off two attackers in the first 20 mins knowing that Palmer was carrying an injury). Then against Brighton, whats with the fascination of Gusto playing as a winger, he's not a good defender and he doesn't offer a goal threat in attack.

I think the bigger problem is, we have a GK who wouldn't start for any other top 6-8 PL team. And we have five CB's on the books but none of them get into the top 6 PL sides. Between Tosin, Chalobah, Fofana, Badi and Disasi....I don't see any of them at Arsenal/Livo/City, even Spurs have better CB's.

Where would Enzo play at Real madrid? They already have Bellingham in advanced position, then the two french midfielders in deeper positions.

Its his first season playing PL football, I think he's fine as a squad midfielder. If Lavia wasn't made of glass, we'd actually have a decent rotation in midfield!

Another coach may not panic every time we get a red card and take off all the attacking options. First at United, taking off two attacking players in the first 20 minutes. Then against Brighton throwing on Gusto, Lavia, Josh. You don't beat a team like Brighton by throwing on "defensive" players and trying to soak up pressure.

Lol there was a player in Sancho as well (back in the day) but when your current club want nothing to do with you, that's a massive red flag.

Good point, I like to ask this question: how many of the current starting XI would walk into the title challenging sides? Caicedo, Palmer, Cucurella, Estevao for potential, Joao Pedro as a squad option. Its been clear for a while that our squad isn't good enough to challenge Livo/Arsenal or even City. Spending 90+ million on two wingers and both weren't needed by their current clubs. Garnacho was basically in United's bomb squad with Anthony and a few others and yet we still ended up paying them 40 million (at least they got part of the Mount fee back).

The problem is, we don't have any other goalkeepers. Its not like we have an experienced keeper in the squad like Begovic or Schwarzer back in the day who can come in and play 1-2 games. The choice was: stick with Jorgensen or put Sanchez back in.

The funny thing is, Sancho's permanent transfer to us was 25 million....and yet we ended up paying 40+ for Garnacho. United must have been delighted when Garnacho said he's not leaving the PL as Napoli were only offering 25-30 million.