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We have to register Hall. Players under 21 have to have done at least 2 years with the club if I remember correctly. So pretty much only Alex Murphy can come in without being part of the 25 since Hall, Hernes, Sanusi, Shahar, Minteh and Harrison all got bought in within the last year.

On what planet are you taking some of those kids but not Harrison?

nor should you be. Howe has said twice in the last month that he isn’t anymore.

Well played Sean.

Let’s not forget we’d still be playing Burn at left back if Lascelles hadn’t got injured.

Is this continued Longstaff, Murphy right hand side done solely to annoy us? Like he was forced to finally play Burn in his proper position so had to find something new? What the fuck is the rationale for it otherwise?

Shit team selection. Shit performance. Standard away from home stuff.

It’s not him.

by my count our side yesterday was 3 inches shorter overall. Drop Joelinton in for Wilson in a more usual side and it would about the same.

Arsenals starting 11 is usually the back 4 who are biggish lads but not huge. Saliba is the tallest at 6”4 and Ben White is an inch taller than Tino. Other than that they have generally had Rice and Havertz offering physical size. Partey recently has added to that. It’s not something we can’t match. Tino plus two centre backs, Joelinton and Isak leaves us only one “big” player lighter. Longstaff, Gordon and Bruno are all 6 foot whilst Hall’s aerial win percentage is very impressive. The reason Arsenal score so many from set pieces is their delivery and organisation. They use one of their “big” players to take half of their set pieces in Rice and they use another one to just be a pest on the keeper in White. So really they are only attacking set pieces with 4 “big” players. interesting to see what they do with Timber- he’ll likely slot in at left back ahead of Tomayasu or Kiwior and he’s only 5”10, same height as Hall.

He’s 32 and falling apart. He has 1 year left on his deal and we aren’t going to give him a new one at 33. If the club and Wilson have any sense, he’ll go to Saudi on a fat 2 year deal where we can make 10-15m while he still has value. ideally you’d keep him as a squad player but Wilson is unlikely to want that given it will impact his ability to negotiate a good deal a year later. We’re also not in a position with FFP to let him go for a free next year and then have to replace him. Far better to sell him this summer and use the money towards replacement.

It could just be that he played better today because Burnley are absolutely dogshit right? a bit like how everyone thought we were so much better when he came in to the side for Tonali at start of the season but reality was we were just playing Brentford, Sheff U and Burnley instead of Man City, Liverpool and Brighton (we were beating Liverpool and only 1 down against Brighton when he came in).

he had 1 bad game away to Brighton when the whole side was dreadful.

Isn’t the issue that we don’t have enough top quality hotel space in the city so we can’t hold anything big like European finals or NFL games? might be a total myth but sure that got bandied around a lotS

Let’s hope not. A summer of him conditioning the shoulder far better than him going away with England with zero chance of playing a minute.