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comment by Culer (U22424)
posted 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 31 seconds ago
comment by Robb Pochettino (U22311)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 8 seconds ago
comment by Robb Pochettino (U22311)
posted 1 minute ago
Wouldn’t say ‘very decent’ as it’s irrelevant what other sides have done. We’ve dropped more points than we’ve gained and that makes all the other sides points dropped as a wasted opportunity. Our worst league start at home since 1972.

In the league it’s been poor. In the CL it’s been very good so far.
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You have to take into account we had no pre season and less preparation than pretty much every one else.
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Or on the flip side we came back from lockdown with a settled side - more settled than other teams bar Liverpool and should have had some sort of plan to keep that going this season but the management failed to mitigate the potential problems with a short pre season.
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This ‘flip side’ doesn’t work. All teams need a proper pre-season and ours was particularly short. Not only that, but this season will and already is throwing up all sorts of anomalies; partly due to the disrupted preseasons, partly due to the lack of crowd and partly due to the evolution of VAR.

Recent score lines suggest things might start to normalise - results this weekend don’t look out of place compared to previous weekends where we’ve seen a ridiculous number of goals.

Basically, all bets are off and I can’t see much value in reading too much into things at the moment. The good news is we seem to be turning a corner and finding some form - hopefully it’s terminal!
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Another negative fan. Back Ole or just stop supporting the club.
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I didn’t say anything negative at all - the opposite if anything. Grow up.

comment by rosso - it’s not good enough to be right; you have to be effective (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by (U22224)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
You have to take into account we had no pre season and less preparation than pretty much every one else.

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It is really weird how most and it is most of our fans on here have totally ignored this.

Spurs for example had three friendlies, two Europey League qualifiers and a league game on us and wonder why they were sharper
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And Bet you were all moaning during lockdown we was playing to many games in a short amount of time. Now it’s we not played enough as an excuse.
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1) Completely different circumstances. Go read about the conditioning of elite sports professionals.

2) We aren’t talking about excuses; we’re talking about reasons.
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Excuses, doesn’t matter what pre season we had. 7pts from 5 games is shocking. Do you really think we be better off if we had other 2 or 3 games under our belt.

comment by (U22224)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by rosso - it’s not good enough to be right; you have to be effective (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by (U22224)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
You have to take into account we had no pre season and less preparation than pretty much every one else.

........

It is really weird how most and it is most of our fans on here have totally ignored this.

Spurs for example had three friendlies, two Europey League qualifiers and a league game on us and wonder why they were sharper
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And Bet you were all moaning during lockdown we was playing to many games in a short amount of time. Now it’s we not played enough as an excuse.
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1) Completely different circumstances. Go read about the conditioning of elite sports professionals.

2) We aren’t talking about excuses; we’re talking about reasons.
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Excuses, doesn’t matter what pre season we had. 7pts from 5 games is shocking. Do you really think we be better off if we had other 2 or 3 games under our belt.
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Literally everybody with half a brain cell does.

comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 40 minutes ago
Our strikers are very poor and miss lot of chances. This was the case post lockdown as well. Imagine Haaland or similar level striker yesterday, we could have won by 2+ goals.

Apart from spurs result, our defense and midfield is shaping up fine, not top quality, but with proper coaching they can play well. If you ask me the priority for next transfer windows should be a top striker and succession plan for Matic.
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Don’t agree with that at all. If you look we actually have very good strikers who scored plenty of goals. 60+ in fact last season and none of them played a full season. Albeit we need a top centre half in we also imo need to find the right balance in midfield. We are either far to open and cut through far too easily when we have Matic, Pogba and Bruno or on the other hand we are too defensive when the midfield 3 is McTominay, Fred and a Bruno which is also well and good when playing top teams such as PSG but in 70-80% Premier league games it won’t work. I still feel for as good as we are attacking wise in midfield we don’t have the quality defensively. Matic is the best out of McTomimay, Fred and him however he doesn’t have the legs to cover for Pogba and Bruno nor can he play every game. Fred and McTominay aren’t top quality. I would love next summer to see a top defensive mid come in. If that means one of Matic, Fred or both going then do be it.

Win next Sunday and we’re at worst 6 points from the top of the table with a game less played.

Given around preparation times we would have taken that.

comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 40 minutes ago
Our strikers are very poor and miss lot of chances. This was the case post lockdown as well. Imagine Haaland or similar level striker yesterday, we could have won by 2+ goals.

Apart from spurs result, our defense and midfield is shaping up fine, not top quality, but with proper coaching they can play well. If you ask me the priority for next transfer windows should be a top striker and succession plan for Matic.
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Don’t agree with that at all. If you look we actually have very good strikers who scored plenty of goals. 60+ in fact last season and none of them played a full season. Albeit we need a top centre half in we also imo need to find the right balance in midfield. We are either far to open and cut through far too easily when we have Matic, Pogba and Bruno or on the other hand we are too defensive when the midfield 3 is McTominay, Fred and a Bruno which is also well and good when playing top teams such as PSG but in 70-80% Premier league games it won’t work. I still feel for as good as we are attacking wise in midfield we don’t have the quality defensively. Matic is the best out of McTomimay, Fred and him however he doesn’t have the legs to cover for Pogba and Bruno nor can he play every game. Fred and McTominay aren’t top quality. I would love next summer to see a top defensive mid come in. If that means one of Matic, Fred or both going then do be it.
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This is exactly what Scholes said few days back. Martial/Rashford has conned everyone that we don't need another striker. Given a choice, I'm sure most of us would choose Haaland or striker of that quality over Martial/Rashford as #9.

I'm fully aware of the fact that Martial/Rashford scored ~20 league goals last season, they are nowhere near lethal enough to fill me with confidence.

comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 40 minutes ago
Our strikers are very poor and miss lot of chances. This was the case post lockdown as well. Imagine Haaland or similar level striker yesterday, we could have won by 2+ goals.

Apart from spurs result, our defense and midfield is shaping up fine, not top quality, but with proper coaching they can play well. If you ask me the priority for next transfer windows should be a top striker and succession plan for Matic.
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Don’t agree with that at all. If you look we actually have very good strikers who scored plenty of goals. 60+ in fact last season and none of them played a full season. Albeit we need a top centre half in we also imo need to find the right balance in midfield. We are either far to open and cut through far too easily when we have Matic, Pogba and Bruno or on the other hand we are too defensive when the midfield 3 is McTominay, Fred and a Bruno which is also well and good when playing top teams such as PSG but in 70-80% Premier league games it won’t work. I still feel for as good as we are attacking wise in midfield we don’t have the quality defensively. Matic is the best out of McTomimay, Fred and him however he doesn’t have the legs to cover for Pogba and Bruno nor can he play every game. Fred and McTominay aren’t top quality. I would love next summer to see a top defensive mid come in. If that means one of Matic, Fred or both going then do be it.
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This is exactly what Scholes said few days back. Martial/Rashford has conned everyone that we don't need another striker. Given a choice, I'm sure most of us would choose Haaland or striker of that quality over Martial/Rashford as #9.

I'm fully aware of the fact that Martial/Rashford scored ~20 league goals last season, they are nowhere near lethal enough to fill me with confidence.
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Scholes isn't right all the time you know. Martial missed 3 months last season. Yes he isn't the perfect 9 however he still is very good. Good finisher and links the play up very well. Nearly 50 goals between him and Rashford where they combined missed around 5 months of the season is very good whether you like it or not

comment by rosso - it’s not good enough to be right; you have to be effective (U17054)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by (U22224)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by rosso - it’s not good enough to be right; you have to be effective (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by (U22224)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
You have to take into account we had no pre season and less preparation than pretty much every one else.

........

It is really weird how most and it is most of our fans on here have totally ignored this.

Spurs for example had three friendlies, two Europey League qualifiers and a league game on us and wonder why they were sharper
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And Bet you were all moaning during lockdown we was playing to many games in a short amount of time. Now it’s we not played enough as an excuse.
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1) Completely different circumstances. Go read about the conditioning of elite sports professionals.

2) We aren’t talking about excuses; we’re talking about reasons.
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Excuses, doesn’t matter what pre season we had. 7pts from 5 games is shocking. Do you really think we be better off if we had other 2 or 3 games under our belt.
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Literally everybody with half a brain cell does.
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I think even RDD would get this.

It might take a few hours but he would get there.

comment by (U22224)
posted 42 minutes ago
comment by rosso - it’s not good enough to be right; you have to be effective (U17054)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by (U22224)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 1 minute ago
You have to take into account we had no pre season and less preparation than pretty much every one else.

........

It is really weird how most and it is most of our fans on here have totally ignored this.

Spurs for example had three friendlies, two Europey League qualifiers and a league game on us and wonder why they were sharper
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And Bet you were all moaning during lockdown we was playing to many games in a short amount of time. Now it’s we not played enough as an excuse.
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1) Completely different circumstances. Go read about the conditioning of elite sports professionals.

2) We aren’t talking about excuses; we’re talking about reasons.
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Excuses, doesn’t matter what pre season we had. 7pts from 5 games is shocking. Do you really think we be better off if we had other 2 or 3 games under our belt.
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A lot better off.

comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Manc Python (U17527)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by DeltaHedge (U8662)
posted 40 minutes ago
Our strikers are very poor and miss lot of chances. This was the case post lockdown as well. Imagine Haaland or similar level striker yesterday, we could have won by 2+ goals.

Apart from spurs result, our defense and midfield is shaping up fine, not top quality, but with proper coaching they can play well. If you ask me the priority for next transfer windows should be a top striker and succession plan for Matic.
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Don’t agree with that at all. If you look we actually have very good strikers who scored plenty of goals. 60+ in fact last season and none of them played a full season. Albeit we need a top centre half in we also imo need to find the right balance in midfield. We are either far to open and cut through far too easily when we have Matic, Pogba and Bruno or on the other hand we are too defensive when the midfield 3 is McTominay, Fred and a Bruno which is also well and good when playing top teams such as PSG but in 70-80% Premier league games it won’t work. I still feel for as good as we are attacking wise in midfield we don’t have the quality defensively. Matic is the best out of McTomimay, Fred and him however he doesn’t have the legs to cover for Pogba and Bruno nor can he play every game. Fred and McTominay aren’t top quality. I would love next summer to see a top defensive mid come in. If that means one of Matic, Fred or both going then do be it.
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This is exactly what Scholes said few days back. Martial/Rashford has conned everyone that we don't need another striker. Given a choice, I'm sure most of us would choose Haaland or striker of that quality over Martial/Rashford as #9.

I'm fully aware of the fact that Martial/Rashford scored ~20 league goals last season, they are nowhere near lethal enough to fill me with confidence.
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Scholes isn't right all the time you know. Martial missed 3 months last season. Yes he isn't the perfect 9 however he still is very good. Good finisher and links the play up very well. Nearly 50 goals between him and Rashford where they combined missed around 5 months of the season is very good whether you like it or not
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Yes, they scored 50 goals between them last season. Will they score 50 goals again this season? I doubt it but only time will tell and I'll be happy to be proved wrong. Would I take Haaland over Martial/Rashford? Definite yes. According to me, club should focus on buying a top quality striker and DM to replace Matic instead of CB.