aimaad22

Isak not even in the squad? Farken fack?

There's about 8 teams in the mix right now, it seems redundant to be looking at results going your way. I suppose City are going to finish third. Are Forrest and Chelsea the most likely challengers right now for 5th? Perhaps Villa too.

GD might become a factor too if things stay this close. We're okay in that respect but could do with overtaking Bournemouth in the coming week. You'd exepct them to drop off a too like Forrest anyway. Another reason to keep it respectable at Anfield as well.

So that's Brighton, Fulham, Villa all in the CL mix now. Right down to 10th place. Incredibly competitive right now and noone seems to have the consistency to pull clear from the lot.

I say he deserves his shot. 5 or 10 years ought to be enough say?

The fact he thinks the solution to their woes are these sorts of measures tells you he's stuck in the legacy business man mode which will lay ruin to the club as we full well know. How much would the savings be in context of the Manu player wage bill? He's probably not even looked at stuff like that and just said in his haughty business man voice to cut everything down because that's all he knows.

The exEXPLANATION must be through the roof by now

Nail on head. I think Howe and the team have managed to squeeze every last bit of potential from this squad and they're just run the course now. God I hope there's a cup win at the end of it. We absolutely don't look like it right now but football can be funny. Another one of those cameos from Wilson and he's going to find himself below Osula in the pecking order. Needs to have a look at what's happened to Longstaff.

They missed at least 3 or 4 golden chances. We decided to not turn up at all after going 4-1 up at home. I know you have this giddy positivity about the team these days but that was diabolical and on another day we easily draw or lose that. A little tired of our captain busying himself with fist pumping the fans when steaming shite is being served on the pitch. I think a couple of his attempts were met with whimpers from the crowd today, read the room Bruno mate.

It was coming. We dont deserve to win this honestly. Beyond pathetic this half

Of course Murphy taps that in Get innnnnnnnnn

Good movement to find the space too

Get in Miley lad, much needed

Murphy having an absolute stinker here

Wtf are Murphy and Pope doing there? We've become a fucking non serious team. Ridiculous

Time for Willock to step up and show that he can have a future here. But aye that midfield doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Need Bruno at his best.

I thought that should have been a pen. Young does dive but there's a couple of clear pulls there. Certainly not a clear and obvious error from the ref for VAR to intervene

I see the club shop is still run like the Mike Ashley days. Ordered a couple of things for the kid. First time the courier lost it somewhere and after about a month of waiting they sent a new shipment out. Except it never even got sent out this time Another couple of weeks passed and upon remembering I ask them and they simply send a message saying we'll refund you. Not a word of explanation/apology either Not really fussed about the items but we might want to raise our game a little here if the club's going to compete on the merchandizing front with the rest. We havent signed anyone in 3 windows you jackasses

Good to have our reliable backup options (hopefully add Schar to the list) tied down as the focus obviously has to be on first team additions.

Terribly sorry to hear this mate. What a kick in the stomach after the good news just the other day. Hope you have good people around you and things go easy as they can under the circumstances.

Ooh that's a nice little compensatory claim right there. I suppose we'll wait till City's proceedings are done.

I think we'll be up for this one after the shambles last Saturday. 1-3 to Forrest

If someone is ready to pay 25M odd for Willock should it be considered? I like him and he was brilliant two seasons ago, not to mention saving our arses with his goals when he first got here. But he seems absolutely all over the place since the injuries and you have to wonder if he can get back to his best.

Schar like Trippier another one whose age seems to have caught up suddenly. We can't start next season with him as first choice if we have any ambition.

I don't disagree with that. That's what I mean by saying we're overachieving and aren't really a CL side yet. But the manner in which we suddenly fall off is concerning. And not just against City. Fulham and Bournemouth were the same and it was clear from the start in those games we were not showing up and were in for a poor defeat. Earlier on in the season we were just as inconsistent. Last season we had fatigue and injuries to blame. This time it's just like we go completely missing. Today should have been a LOT better. I don't see the point in disguising that. Almost everyone has given them proper games in the last few months and we've faced them off the back of a massive midweek fixture and given them an easier game than they could have dreamed off. That's the galling part. They just gave to brush it off and try and get something against Forrest. I'm concerned what this run will do to confidence before the final. Other than that if Howe manages another CL finish he deserves a medal because our natural position is probably 7th or 8th.