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Cracking finish from Traoré - pretty sure he meant it.

He was alright in the Six Nations

Press 2 for Benni McCarthy.

Fair enough mate. Absolute clickbait nonsense like 90% of the content in that rag

Why post this in the largest possible font?

Of all the linked players this window, I'd like to see us go hell for leather to sign Sarr. Not interested at all in Rashica if we can get him, he'll be massive for whoever he joins. Really really hope it's us.

Honestly, Werder can get to f*ck at this point, what a waste of time and energy (including theirs) trying to get a deal over the line on their apparently very strict terms. It's a bit like Brentford with Benrahma for me - totally daft to leave a player out of your squad in preparation for a move on the one hand, while being unwilling to compromise with the bidding club/s on the other. As a short term principle - when a deal is very close - it makes perfect sense. Keep the player injury-free and start transitioning the squad, introducing his replacement etc. If a deal isn't close or you're not happy with the inquiries/offers then you're only affecting his match fitness and future value, as well as sending out a message that you want rid of him - which surely is no way to strongarm another club into paying more than they're willing.

Sarr is going to be world class in a few years. Can't see him joining us with bigger fish in the waters, but you never know I suppose.

Side by side? Behave. Watkins spots the long ball before Egan and is quicker off the mark. He's half a yard in front when the wrestling starts, and would have been on to the ball for a clear goal-scoring opportunity if he hadn't been held back by both an arm across and Egan having a handful of his shirt, both from behind. Ollie's arm doesn't come out until after Egan takes a hold of his shirt. What's he supposed to do? He has two options there - either he stays on his feet and tries to fend off Egan so he can get to the ball, or he chooses to go down. He's chosen the high road but was clearly fouled, preventing him from reaching the ball. It's preventing a clear goal-scoring opportunity, so it's a red.

100%!

Please explain why?

He's now said Targett should have been sent off for the penalty foul. The man is 100% pure shithouse

Nice goal Jesus 3-1. Is anyone else amazed that Ruben Neves and Jimenez are still Wolves players? Not entirely sure why they're not playing for CL clubs yet.

Why?

Chris Wilder reminds me of that one friend we all have who has opinions that some might find objectionable, but manages to fly under the radar because he phrases everything in such an overly amiable way. You can't sit there and criticize multiple referees over multiple games and say "I think they all know I respect them and I'm well liked in the game [so I can now slate them all with inpunity]..." What a bollocks and disingenuous way to present your view. If you think they've been crap and disagree with them, have some balls and just say it without the slightly sycophantic arse-covering. Also, if he's confused about the red card tonight, someone needs to send him a rule book. Egan gave the ref no choice. He was the last defender, had a handful of Ollie's shirt and an arm around him too. If he'd gone to ground nobody could have had any complaints but because he didn't there's some sort of question over it. Credit to Watkins for not making a meal of it, frankly - all he wanted was the ball.

Although I didn't think we were great by any stretch of the imagination, I don't really understand all the negative reaction. Sheffield United are characteristically very hard to break down even when they're more open, looking for the win with 11 men, so naturally an early sending off was going to make them very hard to crack. There's been plenty of evidence to suggest that we are poor in unlocking a highly defensive tactic, and whilst that's something that we'll have to work on, it's also not representative of the majority scenario for the rest of our season. We will primarily be dealing with teams who give as good as they get, and perhaps better more often than not, going forward. So training will generally be focused on scenarios where we're up against it. Ultimately we got the 3 points and Martínez and Cash both looked good, so lots to be positive about.

Full time. Lovely that'll do.

Really??

McGinn is so far from the player he was pre-injury. Sad really

Luiz is the facking business.

can you stay away from your screen for the rest of the game? in fact, f*ck your screen out the window for us!

Well, then 10 men need to play actual football now if they want something from this. Could get interesting.

Ezriiiii

Our passing makes us look like we think we're Bayern Munich, when in fact we look more like TSV 1860 Munich.

Jesus wept we are completely devoid of ideas up top.