NeilS

I think he should stay at Stockport for the season and aim for 20-25 goals in the season as a reasonable target. He has only just turned 20 years old, so he still has time on his side. He needs to play and score regularly and build his confidence and strength this season, then maybe look at a Championship loan next season if all goes well.

The exceptional circumstances in this case were that the decision favoured Man Utd.

There was the Spurs game last season where they had a few go against them in one match.

I don’t think there is biased decision making in that decision. That is pure ineptitude, and the person who made that decision should not be allowed in the Var room ever again after that. That is horrific decision making.

Wow, I did not see this result coming! Very pleased for Ollie to bag another hat trick to follow up on last weeks winner. Hopefully he is up and running now for the season. Just think, we are not at full strength yet, the team is gelling and getting better. UTV

He is back training with the squad. Confirmed by Unai on the OS. Albeit only a very small mention in the article. I reckon a few more weeks of training and he will be squad ready, assuming no more setbacks. Squad Update pre Brighton Álex Moreno and Tim Iroegbunam are making progress with their respective recoveries, but Emi Buendía and Tyrone Mings are long-term absentees. Unai Emery provided a fitness update at Friday’s pre-match media conference. “Of course, we’ve had injuries to Tyrone and Emiliano Buendía, then we’re having some more injuries and progressively they are coming back,” he said. “Tim is coming back and training with us.

Haha, a little off topic but this thread reminds me of a rare away trip that I went to back in my younger days. I will alway remember how bad the seat I had in the away end at the old White Hart Lane back in the early 90's, it might have been the year we ended runner up under Big Ron. I arrived for the match just in time for kick off thanks to my Spurs supporting mate and his Dad and Brother forgetting their tickets and having to turn around. When I sat down the first thing I saw was that a pillar blocked out the entirety of the goal at the other end of the pitch. No mention of restricted view when I bought the ticket, I can only think they weren't obliged to mention it back in those days. My memory of the game was Nigel Kennedy was sat a few rows in front of me, and the game itself was a drab 0-0 so I didn't miss anything, which in hindsight was probably for the best as I needed a lift home afterwards with my mate and his family. I can't imagine any of the restricted views at VP are as bad as that. Modern Stadia are far better now with the pillars all gone.

I knew we were screwed when I saw an article about 5 or 6 years ago about Man Utd's official tractor partner, and before that there was their official Noodle partner.

I wonder if the only reason we didn't move Olsen on this summer is because we see Viljami Sinisalo coming back from his loan next summer and taking the back up keeper role next season. Hopefully we don't pay for that decision too much this season, and manage to qualify again for Europe next season so we have the same volume of matches to play so we can give Sinisalo more minutes on the pitch next season.

I think the only short term option is the bottom one on your list, and that Castore work 24/7 to manufacture a new variation of this years kit which performs better on the wicking of sweat. This should already be happening, and I imagine the press releases are people asserting pressure to speed up this process. It sounds like concerns were voiced during pre-season, and the club are running out of patience with Castore to get this sorted.

We as a fanbase would have to be foolish to chase Emery out of the club after a slight setback, don't be an entitled idiot like the Arsenal fans who chased Wenger and Emery out. Remember what we had not that long ago under Gerrard, and where we are now. I know that I feel far better about our team and future than I did one year ago today and that is down to Emery and his backroom team. We also need to remember our plans for this season were thrown into turmoil with some very bad injuries to Buendia, Mings, Ramsey and Moreno before the season even got going, which means we are currently going through the learning process again of new players learning their new team mates and the system. Give them time, I am certain Unai will get it right.

The Europa Conference League is probably our best bet of silverware this season, but that is not a given by any means. We need to take it seriously, not underestimate any opponent, put out our best team, and need a little bit of fortune to win it. The two domestic cups I would love to win, especially the FA Cup, but recent history shows that they tend to be won by the same few teams year on year. That is partly why last nights defeat hurt, but not as much as last Thursday for me.

Hopefully we can get a decent fee for him and turn a profit in the summer. He doesn’t fit our team.

If you want to punish yourself:- Awful defending all round.

Agreed 100%. Get off to a good start, then rest your players when you are feeling comfortable. It feels like as a team we have regressed defensively back to where we were in January. The injuries to Mings and Moreno have contributed to that. I do feel we will get better again once the team gels again, but they need to play together to do that. I would have kept the back four as Digne, Pau, Konsa and Cash for last night to try and gain that time together. Lenglet and Chambers could have come on after an hour if all was going well. The number 1 rule in Europe is to silence the crowd early on, we did the opposite and gave them something to shout about in the first few minutes. I feel this is Unai’s first big error. He will sort it out though, so I am not too worried.

Agree, he is not good enough in reality. At his best he is a lower level PL player/upper championship player. He is a useful utility player off the bench, but should not be starting games for us.

I felt this is our best chance of winning some long overdue silverware. I am deeply annoyed we have changed half the team and messed about with our he defence in such a tricky first away tie. I am not against rotating, and understand the necessity, but 5 is too many changes to the starting line up in my opinion. All is not lost though, we have just made our job harder going forward and have left less room for errors from here on. Still annoyed though!

This is why you don’t underestimate the opposition! It annoys me when people say we should rotate and rest so and so. Get the job done first, then rotate. We have made our life more difficult for this competition now. So frustrating!

I think he started work with Scotland at around the same time he came here.

Nice pass from Bellingham.

The tweet has a total of 6 pages of candidates, so that is just one page of the candidates.

Yeah sadly it looks like his body isn’t capable of holding up to the rigours and physicality of playing professional sports. He is a big lad and that will put a lot of strain on his body especially in a sport like football which relies on explosive speed and turns. I had hoped a change of lifestyle and climate may work out for him. Unfortunately It is looking less and less likely for him now.

Poor old Kienan can't catch a break. It looks like his career in Italy has stalled before it has even started. Sadly I think the amount of injuries he has suffered during his short playing career show that he is unlikely to stay fit for long enough to build up his confidence and some momentum in his career. Davis Injured The Italian newspaper cover the situation on Monday, pointing to the statement released by Udinese regarding their new striker. Davis has yet to feature for the Serie A club since his arrival from Aston Villa, and there was hope he could do so after the international break. However, that will need to be put on hold due to a calf issue, where, ‘according to first investigations’, there is a fear that some muscle fibres ‘would have broken, caused by excessive stress’, meaning too much exertion. It’s explained that this happened during some running drills ‘precisely to evaluate the physical conditions of the new arrivals’. They point out the player certainly didn’t arrive from Aston Villa ‘in good shape’, and it was understood he would need a good month to get back to fitness. This plan has now been ‘ruined due to this injury’, and they will now have to ‘evaluate the conditions’ of his left calf nearly ‘every day’, with the belief he could be out until potentially November.

I might be misremembering but think we were linked with Klinsmann and ended up with Fashanu, Klinsmann then went on to join Spurs. Also, a strong link to Bergkamp from Inter Milan, ended up with Savo. I think we were linked with a young Pires , pre Arsenal as well. Christian Vieri and Junhinho were strongly linked back in the 90’s, but again neither signed for us.

Ha, we use Corpay at work for our currency. It used to be Afex, but they were bought out last year or so. I might have to contact my reps and see if they have any free tickets going although I think we are probably small fry in the scheme of things now.