Hobsons Choice

Will be interesting to see how Kane goes this season wherever he is at. I kind of get the impression that at some point his performance is going to fall off a cliff. The euros may have shown that....or it could be that Southgate's system just did not suit him, which imo it didn't. Interesting to see.

Because Grealish is a top player and they want him? Because by letting the player know they are interested they are more likely to get him? That's about getting their man, not destabilising us as a club. If anything it shows that they see us as insignificant, a feeder club, not a threat. We can show real intent by moving heaven and earth to keep him. Then we can be a threat to City in the future. If we swagger about thinking we're within a country mile of being on a par with City even within a 5 year period, then we will never get there, because we have failed to understand what we do realistically need to improve.

With respect, why would Man City try to destabilise us? We're not a threat to them. I doubt they give our squad strength a thought even on the dullest of dull days.

Perfect. I mean.. all of those really. You/Fbref just expressed it much better than myself. I do have a slight reservation in we have both McGinn and Buendia in the line-up that we could be dominated by teams with decent heading ability in midfield.

What are his stats on winning the ball/ second balls? Anyone know? (somebody on here is bound to know).

Thanks for everything John, been integral to what we have been building. Sad to see you go, but all the best, and I'll be following your management career with interest!

24 hours is as an epoch wrapped inside the age of the earth.

Gone quiet again?

‘Nuff said

Where the f**k do you work!?!?

Sort of thinking we’ll be trying to win games 5-4 next year. Well it won’t be boring!!

I think you can change that hashtag to the simpler: ITSOTP

I would not want to be working in their PR department right now.

100%. If we’ve seen all our business this window (and I don’t think we have by any means), I would be concerned. We’ll have a bunch of hyper talented passengers up front, but won’t be able to win the ball or get it to them.

Fair point, although I think you are ruling out the possibility that there are on this website; a)posters who either don’t know how they stand on a subject, or flit from viewpoint to viewpoint like a startled deer with the runs, or b) people on here who do the above on purpose for the lols (not naming names).

I quite like it in that explains roles. You could theoretically call an ‘8’ ‘6’ and ‘10’ CM. Seems to have replaced DCM CM and ACM as terminology. And i’m old.

Yeah you win. Nice.

That is quality memeing. Oldest meme source ever?

Holy crap, really?

And the futurama parody:

Palletgate a few years back.

You mean ‘itchy beard’?

I’ve been critical so far, but our tactics in that half were perfect. We had an overload on the wings every. single. attack. They were so narrow. Now if they come out to match us we get space through the middle.