I wonder how much of this Timber at LB was the original plan for Timber or Mikel reacting to Zinchenko's injury.

His first game was at RB iirc so obviously Mikel isn't opposed to playing him there. Curious because if we've pivoted to having Timber at LB long term that means we now need another RB as backup to White (so we are not reliant on Tomiyasu's fitness).

Interestingly, as BillyCarpenter pointed out on Twitter, Vieira fingered a 3-4-3 Diamond when he and ESR came on. Probably an evolution of when we tried to throw people forwards on the Man U game we lost last season. Tierney and White seem uniquely qualified on our squad to do such a thing, to be honest; both have played significant minutes at their side's CB, while also being good enough as traditional fullbacks to help nullify the threats from the wings and even bring things forwards as an extra threat.

Nkunku's out for a good while apparently. Wonder if Chelsea could be tempted into buying Balogun XD

Sociedad want KT on loan

still think we shouldn't let him go, he's our best LB that's actually a left back and gives us significant choices on tactical flexibility

lemmy.world is too unstable, have to get another username on another instance

Now that Raya is done, definitely interesting how it plays out and what Mikel has up his sleeves, I'm quite worry about if it'll create tension which we do not need.

Love receiving offers from Poverty FC for our players when they didn't even flop. Imagine the gall, club asks player to demand termination so they can get him for free.

pretty low tier vague links for us to Ansu Fati apparently. Don't we have enough injury prone players tho lol