Finnegan

I don't remember anyone wanting us to pay that kind of money for Nketiah.

They know they should have played 90% of the match with 10 men right?

Spawny late equaliser against these is sort of justice after last year.

He won't get sacked until we're adrift. Don't do it to yourselves.

Behave Mark

Depression

Or your lower standards.

Really not all that sure about that. Think you'll find PSV fans and players less complimentary. Think he might be a bit of a weird dude in general.

Aldi's "fresh" produce is great if you don't expect it to last more than 36 hours in your house without being compost.

We looked better in possession, I'd stick with the Forest lineup and give it time to settle but if he's starting to feel any pressure I can't see it.

After losing 3 - 1 using "the Enzo system" and being away from home I assume we'll be back to a flat back four and a 4231 anyway?

I just think JJ is desperately in need of a game or two break to hit the factory reset. He's an excellent player and seems a good character but he's just snowballing a bit from mistake to mistake at the moment.

Enzo would have had them both at 8.

It's not like Okoli lacks athleticism tbf.

We could concede ten tonight and the board won't sack him. He won't get sacked while we're outside the bottom three in the league and even then as long as the rest of the pack above are only a point or so adrift we'll just tolerate it. If they wanted to spend any more money we wouldn't have him in the first place.

Wymsey, you do know that because you called Cooper long before it happened, you're going to have people over-reacting every time you write something slightly cryptic now, right?

What a ringing endorsement of their squad building.

In his defence, the prince tag was absurd. Nobody is worth that. De Laurentiis is a lunatic and always has been. It just tends to work out for him.

I just think it's an impossible fight there. Their recruitment has been so bad for a decade that that's all the club is, egos bought to sell shirts and over rated youngsters they paid silly amounts for. The entire club needs gutting from the board to the pitch. Sell everyone, get a proper director of football, decide on a footballing direction, stick to it, accept that they've fallen down the pecking order and start just building again with some humility.

Hahahahahahahhah Real Madrid Unbelievable entitlement.

Literally the best thing he did there tbh.

Bundesliga Edit: especially with the Nuri Sahin clock ticking.

It's written in the stars that Ten Hag will be a success at his next club just so the United pantomime can roll on. If his stock has dropped far off for his tenure there (which I doubt) that he'd come here, I'd snap him up in a heartbeat.

I thought he got the tactics fine on Friday. Of course I have some bias but I don't think the changes were why we lost and the goals we conceded we would have done however we wanted to play. I think we looked pretty good for large parts of the game, especially early on. Our right hand side looked no more exposed with an inverted full back than it already has all season with a conventional one. But what we gained was the ability to build properly for almost the first time this season with Ricardo and Winks combining well to help us beat the press and get out. The goal we scored was a great example of that, it was a superb move and the kind of football we've barely played at all in any first half this year. In defence of Cooper, there's just absolutely nothing you can do as a manager about a goal like the first. No tactical system, however progressive, however much you want to play out from the back, involves Facundo doing that. It was one of the stupidest bits of play from any player all season and he's one of our best, everyone here - Cooper in, Cooper out, Enzoball or "PrAgMaTiSt" would have Buonanotte in the side. The second is just, ugh. You can defend every goal better but sometimes a ball is just destined to go in. I think every footballer has at least one of these spells in his life, that rare purple patch where everything they touch turns to gold. Like that three months Jesse Lingard at West Ham was Maradona. It wasn't the worst defending you'll ever see (I'm not claiming it was the best) but he put it on the postage stamp he needed to hit to get that in. Like it or not it was just a great finish. And the third we're chasing the game, we're obviously vulnerable to a counter attack and Faes and Okoli just completely fail to deal with a route one hoof down the middle to a man Jannik Vestergaard could probably out-sprint. I don't really think any of these are about tactics, they're about players losing their one on one duels. You could debate for ever about whether or not concentration or decision making would be better if the morale in the squad was better or if the players were better coached but you're talking about fan speculation there. All I can say is that for the first time this season, in a first half, in possession, we actually looked like there was a plan and we knew what to do.

I'm pro VAR, especially for offside but I hate this so much. If you can't tell, if its this close, if the naked eye can't tell - just give it on side. Advantage to the attacker. There should be a time limit on it, if they can't tell in 30 seconds it gets given.