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Messaged my mate for a report on Chiquinho as he is a sporting fan, his report was: "Played well him, created quite a few headaches during the 2nd half, and had a good chance but missed the shot." 6.8 rating on FotMob, which was their joint 2nd highest for what that's worth. Not the correct...

It's nice to read one of these threads and for my take to actually seem decent! Still 14 goals behind Connor Wickham...

I felt we needed to upgrade him heading into this season! not saying it's as good, but the start of his goal at the weekend reminded me of George Weah, and his goal of the season in Series A, where he carried it from just outside his own area. The strike is incredible and all I could think was...

The issue then though if you are giving teams a formula. Need to ensure safety or a certain finish and you can begin to calculate that against potential points deductions, Newcastle's owners could hypothetically take a 20 point hit and still be safe if they considered a marquee signing this year...

Whilst searching to see if he had a release clause, I already found mention of rumours and previous interest from about 5 different teams in January. Whilst he has only had this one outstanding season at that level, I doubt they are going to be short of offers even though I don't expect them to...

That's different to how you worded it so apologies for sounding patronising. I didn't get you were making a direct comparison between our injuries and them. Kluivert is finally coming good but it's taken him till now to get to this stage and he'd not offer the same focal point Solanke does.

That's a false argument, you take Solanke out and they aren't as good but they aren't playing with 10 men. They have developed Solanke from a signing everyone was mocking them for making with his early struggles, into a player who has continually improved under different managers and made...

Yeah I get that. And the whole midfield structure is totally different and I can see that, but still it's a nagging feeling I have overall.

I think that's fair. Iraola has changed and adapted the side to him. Our success has been reverting to our previously successful system at least to some extents. Not saying that is to blame on O'Neil, and I have been wrong about him as labelled him the 20th worst manager in the Prem at the...

See that is a call to be annoyed about. That was so fast even in the replay.

Didn't post on here at the weekend but it's also offside for me. I know I am a big keepers union man, but any player in the 6 yard box is interfering in the sense you are aware of them and then making decisions off their position. He doesn't need to be there other than as a distraction tactic...

He would, but that is why I mentioned Grealish, he went from free role and doing his own thing mostly to now being ingrained in what they want. This is where City have a financial advantage as they don't need to wait and see on Neto's further development and injury issues, can just purchase him...

It's the classic "more rights for others must mean less rights for me." It's very similar to a issue I have at work with a group of kids who keep having to be challenged about homophobic remarks. And they don't understand the difference between freedom of speech for your own opinions, and your...

City are also slow to bring people through too. Look how differently Grealish now plays, they are good at identifying and then integrating players. The finances obviously help but you only need to look at how much Liverpool, Spurs, Everton spent at different periods without a clear plan or...

How long do we have left on his contract?

Missing striker options like ourself though and yet still doing fairly well. Personally I am incredibly impressed with him, very well drilled but just missing that little bit of attacking quality occasionally.

Totally, big ask being an inmediate contributor in the Prem at 22 when not particularly experienced. Feel like this is another downside of our squad. With better depth we could have himself and the two striker options already out playing regularly somewhere better levelled for them.

Wolves are near the bottom of when we've used all 5 subs, but joint top (at least at time of Pub) of when we have made 4. People may not like it but the game has changed with the huge amount of options off the bench and we are currently not particularly well versed to do that. So Brownhill as...

Yeah been impressed with him considering the plight of the team. Played well in the game V LFC.

Have you heard any of what they think they see with Brownhill? I don't particularly want him but then I didn't want Lemina also for context on the face of the initial link. Granted I hadn't seen Lemina in ages where as have seen plenty of Brownhill and he is more uninspiring and probably at his...