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Played a massive part in us beating arsenal at the Emirates, but he sadly showed too little too often and I would sign him even if he weren't injured.

Good luck to him 

What a colossal waste of time. I was fine with the loan move, started brilliantly for a handful of games, then vanished. I was against us signing him permanently as I felt Buendia was a better option, but I didn't think he'd would be THAT useless.

It also really annoyed me how Chelsea were managing to get rid of all sorts of players sending them to Saudi for tens of millions, and we couldn't even manage to ship him out for free, which would have been great business 

In the late stage of the season we have really struggled progressing the ball centrally so you can see why Unai is looking for a profile like Barkley. If the money is right and the contract not too long I'd be very happy with this.

It's also easy to remember just how good he was for us before his injury in late 2020

Martinez

Cash Mings Torres Moreno 

Kamara Tielemans

Bailey Buendia Ramsey 

Rogers 

Is the unavailable team we could have fielded. Plus Zaniolo.

Arguably a better team than the one we fielded, even though there isn't a proper striker 

This ref is an absolute joke

Defender sticks his bum out, obstructing Duran's run, surely a pen?

So far the difference has been they score 1vs1, we miss them 

City looking eager to bottle it

Massive, massive credit to him. With all that happened at the end of the game it's easy to forget just how good he was, not just for the goal (top finish) but how effortlessly he moves the ball forward through players. Since the arsenal game he absolutely blossomed in that double pivot role 

Unai Emery's man, he's better than Zlatan, we've got super Jhon Duran

If you exclude his finishing, he had a very solid performance, always a threat. Shame he couldn't bury that last one.

And the miss of the season award of the season goes to.....

What a waste for all parties involved. Napoli wasted money on him, he wasted his time as he would've played a lot more here, we saved peanuts but really could have done with another midfielder, especially a defensive minded one, both for rotation and for allowing the others to play in their natural positions

Needs a new song at this point

If he doesn't fall asleep for their goal, we don't concede.

Conceding 10 minutes in killed us. Sure he's good in the ball.

So is tielemans.

Maybe we should play Tielemans at CB

He CAN play in a 2 with Dougie, he did it last season when Kamara was out and we were winning game after game.

13 minutes ago, tommytenjobs said:

Is there any other option than Morgan for young player of the year? Thinking about this last night and I couldn't come up with one. Perhaps says more about Ramseys injuries and the 'aging' squad we have thanks to relegation avoiding squad building and Gerrard in recent past.....and Rogers has been great don't get me wrong....but i think he gets it almost through default. And he's only been here for a third of the season. 

Any other shouts? 

 

 

The closest one is probably Duran, and he's miles away 

Needs to learn how to hold the bloody line, every time there's an offside check it's him who's trailing behind.

Exact same thing happened last weekend with Jackson. We got lucky then, sadly not today 

I get the "he misses Kamara", but Kamara being on the field doesn't prevent him from jumping with his arm stretched out or messing around with the ball and losing it like he did against Chelsea (despite it being a poor pass to him from Digne) and especially putting his face into other players' faces (it's happening very often now).

He is a great player but he really needs to step his game up.

I won't give him crap for the penalties, he never missed one for us before, pressure was high, and McGinn and Diaby f**** around at the edge of the box delaying the kick did him no favours at all.

The corner they got their penalty from never should have been allowed to be a corner, Lenglet should have dealt with that. Especially considering how poor we are at defending set pieces.

I want to be nice and will praise his great ball to Bailey which led up to the 2-2

For context and comparison, Bertrand Traore finished his first season with the same number of goal contributions (7 goals, 6 assists) in 2333 minutes.

The thing is that he's showing poor intelligence/leadership/maturity.

We know how good he can be technically, but his mentality right now is letting him (and us) down. 

I believe it's more than fair to expect much more from him, and judging by Unai's reactions, so does he

Hope it was a useful warm up for Thursday 

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