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Yeah agreed he's been okay, just saying he's had to cover all over today, so doesn't appear as steady as normal

He's having to do too much today in my opinion, seems like he's playing everywhere.

One silver lining, they're nearly as poo as us, but their wage bill will be significantly larger. A rebuild should be much more straightforward for us. They have a lot of expensive dross.

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Yeah defo. Ugbo just hasn't stepped up at all, and I personally can't see that happening now. He's had plenty of game time to get into the swing of things. If anything he's getting worse. Hopefully a few goals can reinvigorate him, but can't see a few goals happening for him.

Not sure. Attacking full backs are very effective in the right system. But for us in the short term, he might do well further up the field, as such as system does usually require 2 good defensive midfielders. But Man U might not be happy if we play him out of position.

He's 18 and playing in the championship, plenty of time to improve on the defensive side of things. He is very good for his age in my opinion.

Agreed, he's got some serious potential. He is very very good for his age

I love him too. Who is he?

Nice to see we've learnt our lesson

Does anyone know how this will work with the stadium please? Is the "business" that holds the stadium classed as a separate business and if so is that business also under administration? Basically what I'm asking is what are the chances he will hang onto the ground.

Yeah true, no idea what we would do if he got injured. I guess it's a similar situation with France and mbappe, they look completely lost when he's not playing. As their team is built around him. We do have amazing depth in central attacking positions, maybe we could try the no striker system if that happened (If I remember right spain and Barcelona have done it a few times) But yeah in all seriousness that would be a major blow, let's hope that doesn't happen

Kane is a top top striker. Alot of counties don't even have 1 top class striker. Germany, Spain, Brazil or Italy for example. Strangely the only country I can think of that has 2 top rated strikers are Sweden, with Isak and Gyokeres.

Agreed. I think alot of international managers for a long time have fallen into the trap of trying to get all of their best players in. I do think at tournaments the whole squad needs to be used, the top managers do this. In the last Euros spain used every player in their squad, Southgate had a fair few that didn't play a minute. And other tha were lucky to get the last 10 mins. So, just because they don't start doesn't mean they don't have a role to play. Southgate ran a few players into the ground in the last few tournaments by hardly making any subs, Walker in the last euros springs to mind, he was exhausted by the final. Which is even stranger when England have amazing depth at right back. Those great players that miss out can play in their proper positions when needed. Or even fill in for someone in an okay position for them for 30 mins or so. But unfortunately for them they just don't start when everyone is available. An interesting fact I heard whilst watching the French match yesterday. Coman has over 60 caps for France and he's never played a full 90 mins in any of them lol.

Yeah that's what I think too. To be fair there is Rodgers, Palmer, Foden and Bellingham all after that role. But for me Bellingham should be the man there. The big issue I had with Southgate is he didn't use his subs well / at all. So there should be plenty of game time for the others, but Bellingham is too good in my opinion for the others to dislodge.