Dusty

Think cannon needed a rotation, started really well in his first few games but looked far less impressive in the last couple. At Coventry he was awful. Plus Daka was on good form before he left and did a bit at afcon too.

Cannon didn’t keep the ball when we had 11 players on the pitch. At half time I was thinking he could come off for Mcateer but then we’d struggle without a recognised striker. The tactics and changes didn’t work, but I don’t know if the there was a clear alternative option either.

Lamin Sonko is a gem, would love him here. Unbelievably talented dribbler and puts a great shift in. Get it done rudders.

Tbf he’s never really shown he’s been a player capable of playing above leave 1 before this season, and now he’s had 2 injuries which have limited his minutes. I hope he’ll be treated like Marcal and Hamza and get given new contracts, then worst case we can shift them all in the summer for a few million.

Bit surprised to see so many compliments about him considering we rarely saw him play. When he was in the squad last season he was fine but not great, and kept booting it out of play from goal kicks. His mistake for that Blackburn goal was also one of the worst bits of goalkeeping I’d ever seen. I suspect he’ll have a decent career in and around the championship and league one. Surprised that viktor Johansson is still in the championship as he’s pretty poor too.

agree on both of those, thought it was Yunus’ best game for us.

Feel like the winks and Vestergaard ratings are a little harsh. The way those two control the games for us is a little under appreciated I think. Vesty completed 136 passes from 145, that’s just a crazy amount of responsibility on his shoulders, even if a lot of them are short and simple passes it still requires so much awareness, control, disciple and skill to be able to do it to that level for the entire match and it’s a very similar story for winks. They both earned an 8 in my eyes. Lots of people have said how comfortable the game felt and that came from those 2.

He definitely wasn’t a car crash last season. He had a couple of lows that were really bad, but his general performers were one of the best in our team I’d argue. I think we would have been in a far worse position last season if we didn’t have him. He’s a capable premier league defender, but I do wonder if he’d get exposed more next season if he’s still playing in the same role. I would be back him to be good enough tho.

There’s so many players that I could still see leaving, either through contract running out, not good enough, not wanted or some development loans Souttar, Praet, Ndidi, Iheanacho, Daka, Smithies, Ward, Iversen, Albrighton, Madivadua, Braybrooke, Alves. It’s not usually a buyers market in Jan but if teams come to us I think they could get some pretty good deals. In terms of who I think we need to bring in I think a left footed defender, an 8, then a winger or striker depending on who leaves.

Tbf that Fatawu one in the second half was bad, in the prem with VAR I think he goes there. I think it is accidental because he’s close to getting the ball but he’s also close to seriously harming him. At the same time we were far better than them so he can stop moaning.

I think he has much more fun playing this style of football than just hoofing it. I think loads of the players will love playing this way, they will never have had the ball so much before. He’ll make mistakes, hardly anyone has 100% pass accuracy so you can’t expect a 23 year old goalkeeper to do so.

Easy to say in hindsight that it didn’t work but we’ve rotated heavily several times this season and still won. We’ve also been on a bad run of form so I think changing it up and trying new things was probably a good call too. It was also against the worst team in the division and the players on the pitch were good enough to win.

If he does this and players pick up injuries because they’re burnt out then he’s showing his inexperience by not rotating. As much as I like MoN, Pep regularly and constantly rotates his players and I trust him more than MoN. We’ve got to rotate or we’ll get tonnes of injuries, after the few years we’ve had with constant serious injuries I think it’s a fresh perspective that we desperately need. Yeah we’ll drop points, but hopefully means we have more players ready for the first time so when we do get injuries then we can easily replace with someone who’s already up to speed.

Not a player but Lee Congerton being linked with the sporting directors role at United when Ratcliffe takes over.

Nah we picked up and actually played very well for the final 25.

Yep club just confirmed it was our member off staff, they’re in hospital now.

Antonio Nusa

Geertruida at feyenoord could be the perfect Rciardo alternative, that could also play the Faes role. He’ll only have a year left on his contract at the end of the season too. Someone like Andre at fluminese would be a great winks alternative but it looks like he’s onto bigger and better things. As mentioned above Arthur Theate would be a great signing as well, could play the Doyle or Vestergaard role. Rennes forked out £20m for him tho so would expect him to cost upwards of £30m which might price him out. Aboukhlal from Toulouse is still playing well, he could be a relatively cheap option for one of the wing positions. I wonder if this will be the year that Almada comes over to Europe - his stats are still unbelievable and he is so creative, I think he could do a job as one of the wingers on an 8 in our system, would need to work harder defensively tho.

The flip side of that is that iheanacho can do no wrong in some peoples eyes. It was a chance he should have scored. The keeper did make a very good save tho, but he still has to score that. He’s been average besides that, some good and some bad. Really silly booking tho, I think he would have kept clapping all game if the ref didn’t book him then.

Feels like this commentator is from pne-tv.com. Absolutely loves them. Every time they do something good he gets so excited.

Well we also didn’t play our best players so our flow was disrupted somewhat. I honestly think if we had winks, Hermansen, faes and KDH starting we would have been really effective at playing out.

Akgun had a really poor second half tbf so not a bad decision imo. I like him in that midfield role tho, more to come from him I think.

Middlesbrough is strange as well, hard to put a finger on why it’s fallen apart so much this season. This suggested they are still doing lots of good things, but clearly struggling to score since akpom left for Ajax.

Yeah well it wouldn’t surprise me if Chelsea try and fix their problems by throwing money at Brighton again.

His style is very similar to De Zerbi, who he’s also said he’s good friends with. If De Zerbi moved on somewhere else I wouldn’t be surprised if they came in for him. It wouldn’t disrupt their team a lot and not too expensive for them either.