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It was absolutely our standard 4222

Seemed to work ok

Best cb we've had since VvD, absolutely incredible.

I could see Leeds, Newcastle, Watford/Norwich going. Burnley are low on points but they have 3 games in hand on Leeds and 5 in hand on the team in 17th. If they get a couple of good results in that they are very competitive. One of Watford or Norwich could scrape something together too with a bit of luck, they are not that far from Leeds. Leeds might completely implode if these injuries continue to mount up.

Draw would be good. Would quite like to see leeds go down too tbh.

Buendia scores a good header, good corner from Digne but pretty poor defending.

I think he's fine as a back up keeper, he is not fit to be a starter in a prem side but as a back up he is decent. Also, top sides like united like having English back ups as it helps towards home grown squad quota, likely the reason they are using Heaton too. Finally regarding the picking him up for free thing, still not sure if he has signed a new contract or not. A number of reliable sources said it was done and the club for some reason didn't bother to announce it or Jack Stephens. If he does only have 6 months left then yeah, it wouldn't be appealing.

I think he was immense a couple of years ago, you fall away very fast as a goalkeeper though when you begin to decline, especially with age.

Yeah both have been dreadful this season, not great last either.

McCarthy + £25m for Henderson. They get a decent second choice keeper, home grown quota, cash, etc. We get a huge upgrade. One of those deals fans suggest but could never happen though.

Sa and Ramsdale proving everyone wrong. The summer they were called poor signings by many (including me) and now they are killing it.

Be pretty ideal as one of our 10's from what I've seen. Plays very well centrally and out wide.

Dunno tbh. Blue check mark, 87K followers, and is followed by Simon Peach means he probably isn't a total chancer but that's all I could ascertain. Also has "fulham" in his bio so that might help.

Yes please!

I think hard work, pressures, interceptions, and putting in tackles is the best part of JWPs game. Before Ralph turned up he was a right mid or more attacking player and he was much worse at it as he doesn't have the pace or trickery to beat his man.

The January window thread is being used to discuss all prem business and not just ours as we are having a very quiet window, happens reasonably often

Shout out from burger King, you'll never sing that

John Mcginn is decidedly not a 10. I don't, I just think a lot of their players are overrated as people didn't notice how much Grealish carried them. They are a mid table side who people think is European level for absolutely no reason.

We shall see. I think KWP was not ready to start, Ralph said as much I think. Maybe we prefer a wingback system with Perraud too, as we also played it at spurs. I will be very surprised if we don't see the 4222 come out again pretty soon, could be wrong though.

Lukaku had a stupid interview, was punished by being dropped by the team, but he apologised and is now starting again. I don't think he'll be gotten rid of just yet.

Same, by a mile. JWP is better than him in basically every way and Romeu is much better defensively, so I really don't know where he would fit into our pairing. If we played a midfield 3 I guess he could start but we don't so he doesn't.

The reason is we don't have a right back fit so we swapped to a system that requires a right wing back because Tella can fit in there. We had one win, one draw, and one loss since trying 3 at the back, not sure it's time to say our old system is dead and this one has replaced it. We will occassionally play 3atb when the situation demands it but 4222 is a good working system and will likely continue to be used.

Why take them by surprise? If it worked once against them why not try again? Also if we had a formation that worked against all the top sides all the time everyone would play it. It worked against City and United already this season, that's what we should play.

Wildly overrated player. Wouldn't get anywhere near our starting 11 let alone uniteds.