January

[Ragatino]

Maybe Miley should be the no 6.

Botman is class, and Burn is important.

Speaking of Botman, should we sell him? Hes clearly not capable of playing more that two games in a row. Hes extremely injury prone.

Issues with serious injury is that the person/player take all the weight off the leg and the other leg, reset of the body takes up load. That leads to other injuries bizarrely.

The guy's rehabilitation is taking a lot longer than expected. However, I don't think it's a sell the player situation unless there is replacement of equal quality ready to come in.

That's a tough ask. He's a world class defender when fit, as proven before his injury as we had the 2nd best defence in the league. He was a rock!

However, get your point. No point in having an sicknote on the payroll.

[Cannylad]

What we need is another Yohan Cabaye type player in the middle, none of the present midfielders can match his drives forward and slotted passes through the opposing defense. Very difficult to find his like these days.

[Ragatino]

What we need is another Yohan Cabaye type player in the middle, none of the present midfielders can match his drives forward and slotted passes through the opposing defense. Very difficult to find his like these days.

Aye, exactly. with the runners and athletes in the team/squad what is needed is a player who can play the line splitting passes.

Gordon showed that he like Bruno, Tonali (last season) & Thiaw have those passes in their locker. Gordon's pass was through to Elanga who made a run, probably the only joined up run from midfield to attack in something approaching top class this season.

The pass only works if the winger makes the run outside to in. That pass resulted in a red card as Elanga was taken out by the last man.

The players have proven they can play. It's mostly psychological, like losing leads and conceding late in games.

This is not a quality, physical or technical thing it's all mental.

That is why I find it so odd considering how mental toughness has been the key characteristic of this Eddie Howe NUFC squad.