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The teeny weeny flaw in all of that is that. Newcastle have an even worse injury list at the moment and the players they have injured are better than the players we have injured. Our problems are up front, where we don’t have injuries.

Actually, I thought that amongst the mediocrity, there were some real positives. Maguire was outstanding and Shaw looked good - the defence is much better with him in it. On the negative side, I thought Bruno was poor again against a better team, Garnacho is little more than a decent prospect...

Bad result, no doubt. Ten Hag has one job now and that is to prevent this tail spin turning into an irrecoverable nose dive. We have a lot of tough fixtures ahead of us. Forget the UCL, we’ve no chance of winning it. The league is the important thing and if we lose on Saturday, lose to Everton...

Not all bad today. Onana played a blinder and kept it down to 3, so maybe he really is coming good? Couldn’t really blame Maguire for any of the goals and the effort was clearly there. They are Champions of Europe and the treble holders, so it was always going to be tough. Because, let’s face...

Early in his career at Utd. New league, new team, new Country etc. I think any player should be given half a season before a judgement is made. Maybe he won’t work out, but having spent what we have on him, RTH won’t be changing him anytime soon, so like every single other player on the books...

It’s very early days for him. The history of football is littered with goalkeepers who started off atrociously but ended up as great goalkeepers. That said, I thought that DDG was a great goalkeeper. He saved us more times than I care to remember during his time and whilst he had a few ‘off...

A ‘100 day review’ on a deal as complex as this doesn’t sound unreasonable. I take it as a positive. It means that we are dealing with serious people who want to formulate an effective and deliverable plan. Above all, it means that a bit of stability is on the horizon. It is no coincidence that...