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Well, all that discussion was for nothing. 

3 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Well, if every player on your team thinks you are the best (and this was a Brighton side far better, and full of better players than Wolves) it is a direct reflection of your talent. 

 

Look, if you think Cucurella is better than Ait-Nouri, that's really cool.

3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Other than the team who they play for, the players they play with and their fans, nobody.

 

Great, so nothing about suitability as a signing, or talent, which is what we were discussing. Awesome. 

7 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Ah, it looked like when you said "People found out he wasn't a good footballer" it meant you already knew that. 

Ait Nouri will do very well to become any club's player of the year - personally I don't think he is at that level which is why I made the comparison. I guess we will need to wait for him to move to see if he is any good.

 

I mean, who cares about being some team's Player of the year. 

8 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Why did you have to wait until Cucurella got to Chelsea (after playing constantly in some very good technical sides and coming through the Masia) to find that out but you already know that is not the case with Ait Nouri?

I had no real opinion on Cucurella until he went to Chelsea. Im not sure I ever commented on his ability level at all. If you have enough of a recollection of his time in La Liga and Brighton and you can compare that with Ait-Nouri at the present time, that is awesome for you. 

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Cucurella played three full seasons in La Liga before moving to Brighton and being their Player of the Year when he was 23.

Cucurella got to Chelsea and people found out that he wasnt actually a good footballer. Ait-Nouri might not become a top player, but if so, it wont be because of the talent. 

Ait-Nouri is the obvious target for me in that position, if we're looking at that. And he's good enough technically where you could play him with Robertson, even, and then at some point replace him. A bit how like we could maybe play Trent and Bradley at the same time.

Will be a tough game. I don't think we can keep the same team and beat them. Would keep one of Salah or Nunez on the bench, but drop Gakpo or Jota for one of them. Would also bring in Macca, Szobo and Konate.

He was basically a 7/10, which is on average his level.

23 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Code today after Salah benched and we win

 

 

 

His favourite team scored an equalizer in stoppage team, so not all bad.

6 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

He's quite easily the most talented player we have. He's in his prime. Any new manager can mould him into whatever position they see fit, he's that good. It honestly blows my mind that people think that this talent should be fucked off.

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18 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

You’d imagine Macca will be back for Wednesday. I’d certainly stick with that front three. 

Unless you want Macca to cover Trent on the right (you don't), you have to start either Szoboszlai or Elliott. 

I also don't think the same front 3 will start.

Though I would say we played decent, this is the sort of game that underlines why we have the squad we have.

We scored 3 from an xG of about 1. Nunez and Salah are the ones who create the majority of our chances and it showed they weren't there, but we played the players who are most likely to score from nothing, and they basically did.

4 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Some of the half-time comments on here were excruciating. Fulham have beaten Arsenal at home and got the most home wins outside of the top 6. Yet we've controlled the match bar 1 usual brain-dead passage of play. 

 

Oh, and the away fans were great, from the outset. 

Genuinely, fans that watch every game of a team sometimes give the least accurate analysis.

Were obviously going to win this relatively comfortably with the way people reacted at the 11.

2 minutes ago, Elite said:

Except we didn't. We lost the FA Cup game and got battered in Europe which were two games that really mattered. Losing big games against teams you are better than is weak mentality.

 

I judge mentality based on winning in the big games, not coming from behind against shite.

We weren't a top, top team in the first place. The only reason we are near 1st is because of mentality and all the results we ripped away.

3 minutes ago, Elite said:

Key word. That mentality went to shit when it truly mattered.

 

Unless we win every game...

If we'd kept winning games all season like we had for the first 3/4's of it, it would have been one of the greatest shows of mentality in the history of the club.

8 minutes ago, Elite said:

You really can't believe that one moment swung the entire season into disarray? As I said, if we were good enough we'd have recovered from it. If it wasn't the Quansah fuck up, it would have been something else. Weak mentality as a team.

Yes and no. It's clearly the turning point, but we were likely not good enough to win it either.

The team had shown tremendous mentality, though, that wasn't the issue.

11 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

We were controlling nothing. Once again a team was letting us have the ball for us to do nothing with it.

We haven't played badly.

2 minutes ago, LFC 6 Times said:

Season completely swung on Quansah’s misplaced pass against Manc cunts. Fuck football.

Gee, who said this at the time?

2 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

We didn't play well. Gakpo, Jota Gravenberch and Elliott were 3 max out of 10.

We're playing a decent team, away from home, whilst being in crap form. We were controlling it fairly well and had scored, before the players shat on themselves.

We didn't even play badly but some of these players are just stupid. 

Jota's been crap.

Endo's the worst player on the pitch.

First time in a while where we don't look like conceding on every opposition attack and someone also gives us a moment of quality.