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Why bother waiting 5 minutes into the 2nd half and then making another 2 subs?

Loud booing whenever Ward touches it and some Rudkin out You love to see it

wtf was JJ doing Did Ward call for it?

Dreadful

Looking forward to the club giving him a new contract in the next few months when we could finally be getting rid of him in the summer

18th minute - Strand Larsen Curls up into a ball trying to stop a header

He has travelled to the game today, I assume as the 3rd choice keeper if anything happens to Ward or Iversen in the warm up

Winks and Facundo are right there on the bench Ruud… come on…

I assume he missed 22/23 as well

Looks like Stolarczyk is in the squad, Hopefully ahead of Ward either starting or on the bench

Us actually bidding for a South American player whilst they are still in South America? Bullshit Usually pretty good on Football Manager

Todays Results - Saturday 21st December Championship: Harry Souttar (7.1 + clean sheet - 90 mins) - Sheff Utd 2-0 Cardiff City Tom Cannon (6.1 + 1 missed pen - 90 mins) - Stoke City 0-2 Sheff Wed League One: Silko Thomas (6.0 - 19 mins) - Wigan Athletic 2-2 Shrewsbury Amani Richards (not in squad) - Exeter City 2-1 Burton Albion League Two: Brandon Cover (7.4 + clean sheet - 45 mins) - Port Vale 0-0 Carlisle Chris Popov (6.0 - 1 min) - Barrow 2-0 Fleetwood National League: Brad Young (unused sub) - Hartlepool United 2-1 Yeovil Scottish Prem: Sammy Braybrooke (unused sub) - Dundee 0-1 Rangers

Thursdays Result - Thursday 19th December KNVB Cup - 2nd Round Wanya Marcal (7.1 - 61 mins) - De Graafschap 4-0 Sparta Nijkerk

Bloody work getting in the way!

Ruud Van Nistelrooy Pre-Match Conference vs Wolves On Vítor Pereira’s arrival "You can do some research on what he’s been doing in Saudi and the teams he’s managed before. Changes can be made, but he’s only had a small amount of time to implement them. You also have to prepare for surprises." On #LEIWOL "We know where we are in the table, and Wolves as well. For us, it’s important to continue developing, it’s our third week together. It’s also important to react on last week’s performance, it’s the next step in our development and how we want to play." On squad progress "Players are buying into the game model and the way we want to play, we’re getting more aligned in that. We’ve seen some very good bits and some disappointing bits so far. It’s the journey we’re on." On the festive fixtures "Nobody is thinking ahead of Wolves at this moment, we don’t want to affect our performance on Sunday. We have to focus on today, tomorrow and preparing in the same way, being at our peak for Wolves." Injuries Asked if Hermansen could feature against , he said: “That’s a question. We’re still doing everything we can and Mads is as well to make it for the game. There’s a possibility that he can. That’s the good news. “It was worrying that he had to leave the pitch at half-time. It was an immediate assessment, treatment and rehab [after the game] and we’re waiting to see how today and tomorrow is, of course, to see if he can play on Sunday. It’s a possibility but we’ll have to see.” “We keep our options open,” he added. “We know that we’re going for Mads, to see if he can make it. If not, we have a decision to make. We have to wait on today and tomorrow, how training goes. “We know also that the situation is that Jakub is recently only back from a long injury. He’s just played one game in the Under-21s. All that information, we will analyse, and make the best decision possible.” “Harry has been fully a part of team training,” van Nistelrooy explained. “He’s available for selection again which is very positive news for the team, for the squad. Wilfred is in his rehab. He’s not on the pitch so he’s not available for selection.”

Had a good 10 game run in 22/23 but other than that he has been generally shite

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Article/Lens-se-prepare-a-l-idee-de-vendre-abdukodir-khusanov-ou-kevin-danso-lors-du-mercato-hivernal/1527503 https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2024/manchester-city-one-of-four-premier-league-clubs-in-the-hunt-to-sign-lens-abdukodir-khusanov/ Lens are hoping for between €25-30m for Khusanov, according to L’Équipe.

Took weeks for the old set piece coach Lars Knudsen to get a work permit, it can drag on for ages and you can’t really speed it up

Other than one good run of form over 10 games in 22/23 he has overall been pretty crap for Newcastle and would be a massive waste of our one available Prem loan (assuming Edouard goes back)

From the Percy article In preparing for matches, he has been known to teach himself choice insults in the native language of the centre-backs marking him. Earlier this season before a morning session, he amused himself by simply booting balls at the windows of Leicester’s vast training ground HQ.

Even a loan for Rashford would likely be very expensive You would think they would want most, probably all of his wages covered for the loan period which would be around £8m for half a season

I imagine you could probably play him in the double pivot but it would have to be instead of Soumare/Winks - I don’t think you could play KDH with Winks or Soumare as a pair, it would have to be with Wilf But with KDH I think you really need to take advantage of his engine and how much he can press, and personally with how I have thought Bilal and Facundo have looked better starting as wingers/wide players coming inside I think the best way to use him would be in the middle of them and being used as our main presser

Only way I could really see us setup with KDH coming back if we go by how we have set up so far would be: Buonanotte, KDH, Bilal Vardy With KDH pushing up to press with Vardy and freeing up the space in the middle for Buonanotte and Bilal to come inside off the wing whilst being overlapped by the full back I think I have actually been more impressed by Buonanotte and Bilal when they have started wide and been able to come inside I would be quite happy with that setup

Probably gone in the summer with a bit of a payoff then unless he absolutely smashes it