Kid Dynamite

Aye. Elanga put a similar ball in towards the end of the game and Nick was miles away from it. They need to coach him to play higher up the pitch. A half fit Wissa changed our attacking output today vs Sunday. He also looks like he lets flats with Stath

We've got games every 4 days against PSV, Villa, PSG, Liverpool and then City at the end of January 🤮

He's declaring war on Venezuela tonight apparently. Because "they stole America's oil." Which is underground in Venezuela... This is the fucking recipient of FIFAs peace prize btw

No easy ties tbf. Hopefully we will have a new player or two through the door before the games. Crazy that there's 3 weeks between ties

The ballroom he's spunking a fortune on is bigger than the fucking whitehouse

What's up with Joe btw? Not given any minutes 2 games in a row

Got there in the end. Hall and Tino potentially both fucked is metal though. Miley and Alex Murphy full backs at Chelsea?

This keeper is awful

Ramsey having a good game. Willock anonymous so far

I'm aware I'm stating the obvious, but this is an Important couple of weeks for Howe. Lose against Fulham, Chelsea and PSV and it's potentially a repeat of 2023 where we dropped out of the CL, race for the top 4 and lost the Carabao Cup a few weeks apart. PIF might start getting a bit twitchy as we head into the transfer window.

I hope that's Miley at RB rather than Murphy, because that would mean Willock is playing left side of our attack

They will write books about this cunts chip on his shoulder

Tonight's our 25th game of the season. No one expected instant results, but everyone agreed the Summer window was vitally important in giving us a squad that can compete on 4 fronts. And Elanga and Ramsey appear to be 4th choice winger and 6th choice midfielder respectively despite accounting for almost half of our transfer spend this Summer. Howe has said himself, multiple times, we can't afford to make expensive mistakes in the transfer market because of PSR. Until this Summer, I think most would argue his transfers were a success. How long do we give these 2 signings before we can judge them?

I had hopes that Howe would do with Elanga and Ramsey what he did with Burn Schar Hall Tino Murphy Joelinton Gordon Isak He got those lads playing the best football of their careers. The likes of Targett, Krafth, Almiron, Willock, Osula are the other side of the coin though. I wouldn't say they've regressed, but I certainly wouldn't say they improved under Howe

That's all he's got left these days. Living off a playing career from 30 years ago and slagging off the fans of every club he's failed at in management.

There's not much hunting to be done in Sydney. And even if there is, you should be limited to one gun. I suspect the laws will be tightened after this.

Any news on Botman's return date? He's gone from being a Rolls Royce to a sicknote

Im not clear on weapons laws in Australia. But what legitimate reason is there to allow a civilian to own 6 different guns, including shotguns and long rage rifles?

Anyone else try to press play?

I assume a decent chunk of his voters struggle to square away shit like this with their own moral compass. Cognitive dissonance is doing some heavy lifting atm

It seems like Elanga, Ramsey and Thiaw were on the wanted list. They were all linked months if not years ago. Trafford was obviously our first choice GK target, but Ramsdale has been consistently linked since Howe joined as well. Wissa can't be judged yet, and Woltemade is hardly a flop. I think he's scored more goals than Sesko, Isak, Gyokeres, Cunha et al. He was also a bit of a Hail Mary given we'd been shafted by Isak and fucked off by Ekitike, Delap, Cunha, Mbuemo and Sesko, and only had days left in the transfer window. I think the point I'm trying to make is, whilst we didn't get our first choices in Ekitike, Mbuemo and Trafford, we still appear to have got players Howe was happy with and had been on his list for a while. He wasn't chucking mud at a wall and hoping it stuck. It's up to him to make it work.

When Wissa was a whisker away from getting a toe onto that ball over the defence I said to my dad that Nick would have been 20yds behind the play. The quickest solution to this malaise might be to get Wissa fit and just drop him into last seasons setup as Isak's replacement

I had to check this was real

It's nuanced though. It's nigh on impossible to be a standout player in a team that is underperforming. If you haven't got people moving into space to receive the ball or to pull players out of position it's going to be much tougher to look like you're having a good game, even if you haven't really done a lot wrong. I think that's why the likes of Tonali and Bruno look off the boil at times, even though they are our best players by a country mile