The Woolster

April 18, 2019

52 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

I mean, I'm exaggerating as Brewster has only been back from injury for a short time now but I honestly think that if he hadn't had the injury he would have a lot of hype around him right now. He's really, really good. Definitely way better than Woodburn, who's stagnated pretty badly and had his loan at Sheffield United end go completely wrong.

But yeah, I'm overstating things I suppose. Probably comes from my underrating Rashford, who is actually a very good player but one I just have an automatic dislike for.

Woodburn is only 6 months older than Brewster, has made 11 first team appearances for us, scoring 1 goal, and 10 caps for Wales, scoring 2 goals. Brewster was top scorer at the U17 World Cup, which was a great achievement, but Woodburn has achieved way more. That's not to put Brewster down, he's very talented, and maybe he'll end up the better player, but the evidence, and I'd say the eye test too, says Woodburn is better now.

April 18, 2019

25 minutes ago, El Diego said:

Wouldn’t you rather just keep Mig? He seemed happy to stay in his last interview?

Haven't seen any interview with him, but if he's happy to stay I'm fine with that, I've said many times he's not actually that bad a keeper

April 18, 2019

Yeah, Glatzel has had an extra year at the U18 level, Brewster may well have been banging in as many goals if he'd been with the U18s last season. Brewster also has that pace which Glatzel probably doesn't, which may give an advantage in terms of breaking into 1st team football at an earlier age. They'd probably compliment each other quite well in the same team

Woodburn is the one though. David Silva type role for me

April 18, 2019

24 minutes ago, The Woolster said:

Woolster's wishlist

Lozano - from what I have seen of him, which isn't loads I must admit, Lozano would be a perfect fit for the way we play, goals, pressing, workrate, determination etc.

Back-up keeper - I think that Adrian at West Ham and McCarthy at Southampton are 2 good, Premier League standard keepers who are sat on the bench at their clubs. They may want to leave to play games, but I'm sure they'd rather be on our bench than at their current clubs

Back-up left back - No fucking idea. I'd go for a seasoned pro who could perhaps also cover at right back, like a full back version of Klavan.

Wildcard - This time last year I was touting Son who was down to the last year of his contract. Well this year, Eriksen is down to the last year, and as yet doesn't look like extending. Would he cost a shit load? Yes. Is it likely to happen? No. But fuck it, its a wishlist.

In case of confusion, only 1 of those two keepers would be fine, I'm not saying we get both

April 18, 2019

I'm not usually one for hot-takes, but here's one, Glatzel is potentially better than Brewster...

I'm not fully on this yet, but I have been so impressed by Glatzel and looking forward to see how he does with the U23s.

April 18, 2019

On 06/04/2019 at 22:21, John102 said:

I prefer Larouci to Lewis.

Lewis seems to be massively overrated, possibly on the back of Gerrards comments.

I've liked what I've seen of Larouci. Only recently started playing a LB too I think.

April 18, 2019

Woolster's wishlist

Lozano - from what I have seen of him, which isn't loads I must admit, Lozano would be a perfect fit for the way we play, goals, pressing, workrate, determination etc.

Back-up keeper - I think that Adrian at West Ham and McCarthy at Southampton are 2 good, Premier League standard keepers who are sat on the bench at their clubs. They may want to leave to play games, but I'm sure they'd rather be on our bench than at their current clubs

Back-up left back - No fucking idea. I'd go for a seasoned pro who could perhaps also cover at right back, like a full back version of Klavan.

Wildcard - This time last year I was touting Son who was down to the last year of his contract. Well this year, Eriksen is down to the last year, and as yet doesn't look like extending. Would he cost a shit load? Yes. Is it likely to happen? No. But fuck it, its a wishlist.

April 17, 2019

On 15/04/2019 at 14:37, Ne Moe Imya said:

Oh, and I think Brewster will 100% be ready to get significant minutes next season. I'm not saying he should be Firmino's primary backup or anything but I'd be quite surprised if he was healthy all year and didn't get 1000 minutes or so. He's going to be a really, really good player; just to take one example, he's probably not far at all off Rashford's level even now.

Brewtser is no where near Rashford's level right now.

Brewster probably isn't even better than Ben Woodburn right now.

April 16, 2019

18 minutes ago, Aventus said:

But there's a full army between them and winterfell, seems like its going to be difficult to overtake them.

The dead need to to take lost of breaks...

April 16, 2019

1 hour ago, Paulie Dangerously said:

@Aventus the Arya weapon looks like some sort of gun or detachable spear head

And the wildboyz have horses

April 14, 2019

32 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

aRdja just flashed up on the telly.

I watched on delay and just saw him. Told the kids and they asked how I know him, decided to tell them from going to the match rather than telling them I make friends on the internet...

April 4, 2019

Not sure of the amount of times I've said to people who try to add up net transfer spending to show that we haven't spent much that they are not including costs such as agent fees which can be significant, so I'm going to try and pre-empt that with the figures published for 1st Feb 2019 to 31st Jan 2019, showing that we spent £44m, £17m more than the next highest team.

Reckon a big chunk of that is Coutinho

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6885975/Liverpool-paid-staggering-44million-agents-year.html