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Touch was terrible. Made it a really difficult chance. Great movement and a great pass

Made more sense to play him just to get him up to speed, but madness he's not starting

Makes no sense to have played Alves off the bench in midweek then, for a game that was likely meaningless. Just crap management

Worst choice of the bunch. Been our best player comfortably

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He's broken the news on a few things this summer I think?

Obviously somebody has got to score and set up goals, but it's so easy to carried away with numbers. Alves has been very good so far and he's made a big impact in terms of how direct he is, which lifts the overall performance going forward. I could see him not having amazing numbers over the season but him still being excellent. Whereas somebody like Mavididi is all about the end numbers which have crap for him. Barnes similar vein but obviously he had the numbers to back it up.

I barely drink anymore but the thought of that Actually, maybe you can share it with Hamza and get him to drive you around

This would be a totally fair comment if the club ever gave us any transparency of who does what. It's been speculation the whole time so who do you think people will blame? The management of the club brought that on themselves.

Fingers crossed nobody pinches the likes of Hamza, Faes and Thomas from us

An open goal but you made no mistake. Could have done with that last year instead of the glorious duo of Patson and Jordan.

Good to see us addressing our lack of winger issues that we've had for a few years. Just a shame the club seems to think it's 5 years ago. Looking forward to a couple of centre backs and strikers in 2031 to address our current gaps

I'd take him actually get a chance to shoot first

Wait, you actually think that was genuine? I was taking the piss out of myself for the typo before. Barely made any sense to use the expression damp squib in the first place, so a very forced joke. FFS

You fell for that hook, line and stinker

Hey, my grammar/typing was correct the first time, when it mattered. This is all just a damp squid.

Louis Page to Manchester United is still active – it is a case of United or Arsenal agreeing a fee with Leicester. Ermm, no I don't need to read it again. It should have said to Manchester United or Arsenal is still active. It makes no mention of Arsenal being in for him before that. I'm aware if also talks about United so I'm being pedantic, but without any context (not heard anything or Arsenal being in for him before this tweet), why an earth would Arsenal agreeing a fee with us for the player, mean that Man United would sign him? Makes 0 sense. So maybe you want to read that again before you're trying to make me look stupid

Arsenal agreeing a fee with us means that United will sign him? The stupidity of what gets put out these days.

A logical point though the counter here is that his on low wages and his stock is very high, so if for some reason he wasn't good enough for us over the next few years, you'd have clubs queuing up to take him. Not that I need to tell you but where we normally go wrong is we're massively overpaying on wages for players not good enough to merit that wage (and normally combined with a big fee required for PSR reasons) so there's no way to get rid. 100% get a new contract in place

Eurgh. 2 succinct and logical posts in a row. Go away, your kind aren't welcome here. We prefer hyperbole, inaccuracies and pointless arguing thank you very much

Spot on. Just having a centre forward who can occupy defenders is a huge net win. Jury is still out on him for me but he makes loads of runs off the ball and works hard so that's already in his favour.

Good luck with your exam. Didn't know they did assessments for 'breaking news first on a forum' or 'keeping people updated on loans'

Definitely not the best we've seen of him, for the reason you've stated. Had better games last season but was still pretty good last night. He's got all the tools to play any role in midfield so he's definitely got to be starting with Braybrooke. As you say ideally we get a physical presence in midfield who can come into the team, but I don't particularly worry about Page in that regard (unlike we he started last season where he was way too weak). And sadly I think that silly mistake for the 3rd goal could be the excuse for the manager to sack him off. Though it looks like he'll have no other choices in that position

You're normally trying too hard but I'll give you this one.

Defo being played in the wrong position. You want to see him breaking lines with passes and when carrying it. I don't think he's been great so far but one noticeable difference with him and Page from the rest, is that will absolutely play a 1 touch pass when needed. Makes a big difference