Simon bristol

Ive generally been against pearson, mainly due to the poor defensive record, but whoever came in would have had to tread water until summer 23 when the rest of the big contracts are due to expire. This time next year will be a big reset for the club and that will probably include the manager too - if we were to finish 12 th with scott conway, the new keeper and benarous when hes back all making good contributions, and with the big contracts all being gone you would have to say thats a good outcome?

All about opinions, but with real and athletico in spain its always hard to predict where they will finish. i stand by my comments that there are a hierarchy of the great clubs in the world, and barca is one of them.

Exactly. We all like new season optimism, but top half would be a good season for us. Theres 4 new signings of which 3 havent played in the championship before, no money and our best accomplishment is getting palmer and cod off the wage bill!

Barca arent a spent force, once messi iniesta and xavi left with busquets and pique also winding down it was always an impossible job to replace them. But pedri ansu and gavi are the next generation, and will only get better and there are others too. They will be in the top 3 in la liga and in the champions league again. They have made some decent signings this summer but still have a lot of poor players on big salaries still on the books, kinda like us! personal feelings aside re lewandowski, there are a handful of the really top clubs in the world. By any standards barcelona is one of them, lewandowski wanting to give that a try before he retires is reasonable, the same if it was real madrid, juventus, man u or liverpool.

Barca is my second team so i try to keep updated on what’s happening there. That 3/1 rules appears to have ended once the tv and merch deals were confirmed, so thats not a concern anymore. what is a concern is that as soon as the debt position is eased they are going out and signing a albeit great 33 year old striker for 50 million or so, and raphinna from leeds for around 60 with kounde from seville still to come in. Wages are starting to come down, dembele was renewed for significantly less than he was on, but this all seems like spending the neymar money all over again and thats what ruined them last time… and they still want to take out another billion to upgrade the noucamp, which despite it being iconic is really starting to look grotty!!! The museum and visitors facilities are great but the toilets for ordinary fans havent been touched in 40 years!

Whats happening??

We came across A front 3 that clicked last season, they will probably score a lot next season if they all play every game… which is only a slight problem with semenyo being injured and martin being another year older.

Fair enough, ok, weve got established championship players whose speciality today is missing chances and over hitting crosses and passes, and pack has been the best player on the pitch, and we have no money to spend to improve it. Im sorry you are offended by the deranged nature of the comment

Missed a bit of the second half due to working at the same time, but this isnt very impressive…. Theres a lack of goal threat and quality, though the lovely louise makes the world a better place!

Have to agree, looks really accomplished, pace was never his game and his game management and passing is really good.

Just been reading through this,,,, if i was a hibs fan i would be getting extremely twitchy…. They dont have a lot of money im sure,,, 130000 for them to spend on an unproven 16 year old is a huge amount,,, the club is basically paying 130000 to enable the mcallister family to relocate. Now the lad might be the second coming of messi, but if hes not, that is probably all their transfer budget spent on a 16 year old youth prospect

The quality with the final pass is really poor from england, it wont take much for austria to get a decent clear chance in the last 10 minutes, and if they do equalise england only have themselves to blame

Will have to wait and see, but james and williams only played together a few times didnt they, and one of those they were brutally exposed.

Based on last season i wouldnt trust king/ james/ williams to be more than the equivalent of one fully fit member if the squad. At this point massengo is still a doubt too. I think we know scott will play every game in there, if anything happens to him there is a massive problem

I had assumed pring was on the vyner/ moore bus last season? I suspect he wont be getting much game time unless dasilva is out or sold

Quite even so far, city edging possession, not much cutting edge at the moment, cheltenham had a chance, decent save by bentley. Some lively tackles going in!

I just paid to watch,,,, current footage is fleming running a training session, is that the actual footage? Just got switched over to the game

I like massengo but im not seeing a host of clubs from around the world get into a bidding war for him at this point.

As well as being a great player, hes the perfect signing to bring goodwill and positivy back to united, after the greenwood issues plus the way the whole place is run, he will lift some of the gloom

I tend to agree, would be happy to be proved wrong though!

Hes had a good career, but last year was a let down for him and us. I think it would be unwise to count on king for much more than about 5 appearances, and we all know williams and james have had their issues too. If/ when massengo goes we are going to be struggling for numbers a bit.

That rb is shocking, and devines set pieces were pretty bad too as others have mentioned

Yes!!!

I wonder what the cost of this trip is to the club, and whether its worth the expense?! Hopefully it sets us up nicely for the new season!

Its the hope that kills us, but we finished 17th last season and brought in 3 players, only 1 of which has played in the championship before. We have no money and are looking for free transfers from lower leagues,, i cant really see how there will be much improvement in the new season…. Would love to be proved wrong though!