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BobbyD said:
Yeah, sterling makes the squad, maybe in first 11. He's not a 100% guaranteed starter. Palmer, is a deffo then on the other wing you have Neto, Madueke, Nkunku, Mudryk (not sure i should point him in there), chukwuemeka all vying for a chance (unless you shove palmer in the middle)

Lukaku is decent when he can be arsed but he can't so no point keeping him around to eat burgers
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BobbyD said:
think you overrate our players.

Sterling over Barnes/Almiron/Gordon. Probably.
What has Mudryk ever done apart from cost a lot of money? Rock it up for half a season in the ukranian league. No chance
Madueke is a player i like a lot but he's in the midfield 3
Disasi, Badiashile, Chalabah all have looked good and bad (obviously we love chalobah being our youth players) but you could throw them into a hat with Burns, Botman and Schah and anyone of them would be as strong as each other.
Chilwell was great when he first came but he's just injured all the time. Not sure how he is now
Gallagher is great in a certain system, he's a proper grafter and plays his heart out (like henderson). Your midfield 3 is pretty strong not sure he's an out and out starter.

We only signed adarabioyo cause he was free. He wasn't even starting every match for fulham was he (i know he got loaned out last year).
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Fair points. Sterling would be a definite for us, we're currently playing Jacob Murphy as our RW so there's not a lot of competition. I think even your 3rd/4th choice RW players are better than him - don't get me wrong I like Murphy as he works hard and is capable of moments of good play but he's a Championship player (well pre-Howe he was on loan in the Championship in his mid-20s and it was very much his level).

Gallagher only needs to be better than Saun Longstaff. Pretty sure he is. Our best three in the middle are Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton but I'm not sure they'll work together in our system so we need the legs of a Longstaff or Willock (who I really rate) and suspect Gallagher would be better.

As for CB, we're due to be Emile Kraft again at the weekend. The RB of limited ability who we signed for £5m 5 years ago and has average 14 games a season for us since. I reckon any of those 3 CB cast offs would be better, indeed we've been trying to sign two of your previous cast offs to fill that hole (Timori and Guehi).
 
Horny 4 Hamas said:
Yeah. Mad career really.

He’s also 31 and doesn’t exactly scream fitness enthusiast so you could see him declining quickly in a year or so.
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I'll let you be the one to tell him he's let himself go:

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Horny 4 Hamas said:
I hope they preserverw with all of racist Enzo/Caicedo/Lavia. They need to create a dozen chances for Jackson to finish one off and those ****s look lost once they’re past the halfway line.
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yeah, we need a create guy in there and they chuck enzo in there. Biggest waste of money can't believe he was signed for over 100m. The only thing he can do is pass and be racist. He can barely shoot, he's slow as hell but he's not actually that creative. Theres a reason poch dropped him but maresca the dumb **** has made him the creative fulcrum
 
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FosseFilberto said:
As long as they are happy with 7th at best then? - coz to finish higher they are going to have to beat the teams above - there's a good reason for loaning him out ... a good statistical one ...
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Feel I should point out that Newcastle did far better against the Sky Six last year than we had done the season we finished 4th. Last year we messed up massively against the "smaller" teams, if you told me Lukaku would get 15 goals for us this year against the bottom 10 teams I'd sign him and save Isak for the other games - they all count!
 
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haslam said:
Fair points. Sterling would be a definite for us, we're currently playing Jacob Murphy as our RW so there's not a lot of competition. I think even your 3rd/4th choice RW players are better than him - don't get me wrong I like Murphy as he works hard and is capable of moments of good play but he's a Championship player (well pre-Howe he was on loan in the Championship in his mid-20s and it was very much his level).

Gallagher only needs to be better than Saun Longstaff. Pretty sure he is. Our best three in the middle are Tonali, Bruno and Joelinton but I'm not sure they'll work together in our system so we need the legs of a Longstaff or Willock (who I really rate) and suspect Gallagher would be better.

As for CB, we're due to be Emile Kraft again at the weekend. The RB of limited ability who we signed for £5m 5 years ago and has average 14 games a season for us since. I reckon any of those 3 CB cast offs would be better, indeed we've been trying to sign two of your previous cast offs to fill that hole (Timori and Guehi).
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yea, i though tonali bruno and joelinton were your best 3. Agree he's better than longstaff.

I thought tonali and joelinton were runners. Obviously joelinton started off as your failed striker but i thought they were both pretty athletic.

Not sure you can say that our CBs would be starters for you because there are injuries. Thats like saying Callum Wilson is a starter for United because their strikers are injured.
 
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BobbyD said:
yeah, we need a create guy in there and they chuck enzo in there. Biggest waste of money can't believe he was signed for over 100m. The only thing he can do is pass and be racist. He can barely shoot, he's slow as hell but he's not actually that creative. Theres a reason poch dropped him but maresca the dumb **** has made him the creative fulcrum
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Refusing to pass to Caicedo, Lavia, Jackson, Madueke, Nkunku etc can’t help.
 
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BobbyD said:
yeah, we need a create guy in there and they chuck enzo in there. Biggest waste of money can't believe he was signed for over 100m. The only thing he can do is pass and be racist. He can barely shoot, he's slow as hell but he's not actually that creative. Theres a reason poch dropped him but maresca the dumb **** has made him the creative fulcrum
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Given all the racist issues I found it utterly astonishing they made Enzo captain. All whilst trying to whore out Gallagher to anyone willing to slip a tenner in Boehly's bra. Clusterfuck of a club I'm afraid buddy.
 
Dier Hard said:
What's funny is that roughly half of those players on that list are probably better than the ones they've been dropped for.
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Yeah makes no sense to me. Some are saying the manager has been told to select certain players over others the owners have decided they no longer want

Chelsea are a shambles
 
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