Richard

If he can harness their attacking talent whilst fixing their defence they'll do well this season. However their defence has been truly shocking so far

I say let them have their European super league to launder the worlds dirty money with all the turgid debate panel shows debating pogba for hours.

This gets overlooked so often. Even when we won the title we one-nilled from the Etihad onwards (blasphemy I know). The only decent football after that we played was Swansea and Everton, we just had the momentum.

We have seasoned pros not getting anywhere near the 18 so there will undoubtedly be grumbling in the squad. King and Simpson (and Jakupovic) are still here, very connected to the very senior players (Morgan, Schmeichel) and probably the owners too. I would imagine a lot of the disgruntlement is coming from these fringe players who Puel obviously doesn’t want here. Last season we had Ulloa and Slimani in a similar position also.

We must be paying him, Ndidi, Maguire etc a huge wedge unless they’ve got release clauses for them to want to commit so long given how hardball we are with outgoings.

Tbf Burnley should’ve had at least 1 of those decisions go their way. Their defending for the Bernardo goal was laughable

Chalobah came on to tighten the midfield. Maddison would have come on and defended the whole time which is hardly his skill set. People can criticise Nations League but both sides really wanted to win that and you could tell the loss really hurt Spain.

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The Argentinians generally say Maradona>Messi

You’ve quoted two people who’ve been dead almost 40 years. You can also find that Cloughie quote which is in a similar vein - from a man who’s only contribution to the Premier League is to get relegated.

Incorrect

There used to be the exact same arguments about Watford and the Pozzos on here, give it 18 months and the next promoted club with underhand owners (tbh much like ours) will come along. Like The Bear has said most of the championship is trying to get that competitive edge, it’s just that they did it better. Even Bournemouth massively failed FFP when they came up and we generally saw them as a great miracle from league 2 journey.

Away at Newcastle? I know they’re in a bit of turmoil but away at St James’ is never an easy fixture

His debut heaped a reasonable amount of pressure, when he’s not actually all that good. He could still come good but looks like he was about worth the ~£3m we paid for him.