JimJams

There's a Soumaila Coulibaly currently on loan at Brest from Dortmund. 21. Left footed. Rapid. Sign him up.

Ayew is outperforming Osario though in fairness!

I don't think it makes much difference tbh. Neither are good enough defensively and neither offer much going forwards. You aren't noticing a drop off when Thomas plays instead of VK.

I expect he'll be Enzos priority assuming he's still in the job.

Sell because they make money: Mads - £40mill hopefully. There's a lot of clubs with shit keepers. Soumare - Final year of his contract. Souttar - If Sheffield Utd go up, they may well offer an attractive sum for him, and whilst there's an argument he should stay because of our options, my opinion is that he's not good enough for the step up so ultimately will not be good enough if we keep him and get promoted. He's a saleable asset and ironically is probably likely to fetch more than any of our current defenders, therefore if we can make money on him, I think we should. If not, it's not a problem, but I think Nelson and Okoli is fine for the starters. HS would be good for depth, but we might be better off with the money. All of which is moot if Sheffield Utd don't want him. Sell if we can but who's buying? Any fullback bar Woyo. JJ, Thomas and Riccy are in their last year of their deals, VK isn't good enough so if there's money on the table, see ya later. Faes. For a quid to anyone stupid enough. Nobody is buying Coady or Vesty are they? Every midfielder is up for sale. Bilal needs to be £40mill to consider it. Daka. Leaving us with 0 strikers! Another in his final year. If we can sell I'd hope we could buy/loan someone to replace. So: Jakub Woyo Nelson Okoli *?* Wilf Alves Bilal Fatawu R.Kone Monga *?* Literally whichever of the 3 we can't get out the door! GK Hamza Coady Vesty *?* Skipp Golding Evans McAteer Mav Ayew We really need to make the loan market work next season.

I think as a wingback in a 343 putting him behind another winger would be fine. I think solely as a fullback it's a total waste unless his injury has ruined him. The fullbacks you see that have transitioned to FB from wingers in their career have done it largely because they're limited in the attack. Fatawu isn't.

IF we had 2 fullbacks that could get up and down the pitch I think without massively changing his formation he could go 433 with Buo and ELK behind Vardy, pack the mid with an extra body and force your opponents wide. But I don't know if we have an LB that can do that. Now get this! We swap Vardy out for Patson and we'll start a game with a younger front line than the opposition! I think we get 3 points just for that don't we?

Well given the side that has taken and is using our cast offs in Cannon and Hamza Choudhury are currently sitting top of the league, I'd argue it could. We are shit. Have no doubt about that. But the standard below is doggo.

I get the theory, but just because he's largely managed at youth level doesn't mean he'd be bringing through the young players. That's what some expected of Cooper and he saddled us with a few pensioners and put experience above all else. If it's in his remit, is he better than other options? A manager who has actively chosen youth players over senior players rather than someone who hasn't had that decision to make.

Dog shit. Unfortunately he's under contract until 2028. I'd fxxk him off for some spare cones and bibs.

Odd one. Didn't watch the Sheffield Utd game today but had a look on their forums match thread and Hamza is getting chewed out.

We didn't have to shop in the bargain basement for Ayew and BDR though. We dropped £20mill on Skipp and later £20mill on Bilal. We spent money.

Fatawu says piss off.

He, bizarrely, moved up.

Yep. Hence the same points and a difference of -3 goals. Despite us not scoring in 300 years, we've still outscored them too.

We need to beat Saints, Ipswich and Wolves and hope they're so shit they can't garner enough points to beat that measly total.

How has Asensio missed there?

1-1 Good free kick from Rashford, well followed in by Watkins.

He's been one of their better players since coming on at half time.

Ipswich winning.

Said it before but with him being the least senior player and both new to the team/country/league you can bet the other options were all in RvNs ear the minute he walked through the door, talking a good game and Ruud has fell for it.

They have a better front line than Arsenal did today. We'll do well to keep them down to 2. But can we score? Tune in next week....

Half time boos at West Ham.

Tuanzebe off for Ipswich.

Woyo! Rock. So far,...