Recent content by pr0sl0

I think he was meant to be the JSL replacement but Newcastle never called our bluff.

I just don't think Pereira knows how to use, for want of a better term, small flair merchants. He and his mate spent the summer rebuilding the team and they clearly wanted to fill it with big strong (and/or pacey) lads, and what little creativity left in the squad is being left conspicuously on...

As I say, not a fan of Hwang at all, but he did have that purple patch. Sarabia was just kind of consistently a 1-in-3, 1-in-4 kind of player in terms of good performances. Add all those together and their cumulative impacts end up pretty similar, IMO.

Glad you saved me the effort of doing this after reading your post in the other thread and thinking it was worth compiling. I think if we're counting Sarabia as just over the line of being a hit then I think Hwang probably has to be counted as one too, though I don't say that with any affection...

Tchatchoua is such a weird player. Everything on paper says he should be an attacking wing-back, but I swear he's actually at his best in a situation like this, focused on defending as part of a rigid back line.

Yeah, fair play to Johnstone, this is, what, three games in a row now where he's been completely fine and steady? It can't not be helping settle down so many nerves at the back.

A really solid, comfortable performance by HT, which makes it one of our best against Brighton in recent years by default. The spine of the team is looking better - and, probably relatedly, more settled - with each passing game now. But out wide, on both sides... not sure what we do there. Lots...

I'm starting to believe in Arias.

Can only be because he’s threatening to walk and they don’t know how to replace him/don’t want to pay for it.

This is the thing, though... how has he learned nothing? And how, if anything, has he got progressively worse? I dare say if I was parachuted into a completely alien industry I'd still manage to pick up something from pure exposure. Like, I don't have a degree in chemistry, but I'd still rate...

Bit of a dirge IMO.

Yep, jinxed it.

Missed the first ten minutes so maybe things were going the other way, but things have been good so far, and City lethargic. Definitely something to be had here.

I don't mind Bellegarde starting tbh. Surprised to see so much negativity around him - or am I just suffering from a case of Alan-was-right-all-along-itis still? Munetsi though. Come on.

Late to the party, but I just think a lot of the stuff about growing the game across the world rings hollow as long as there’s such an imbalance between the regional federations. 209 teams that take part in FIFA competitions, 6 federations, therefore each one should be ~35 teams. And then...