How tall is he? He seemed shorter than a lot of Citeh's players at set pieces when I was watching the game last week .
Officially 5”11 but I’d be surprised if he was taller than 5“10.
Never mind that quality...feel the width.
I think the issue is not so much his height....he's not a giant, but his strength means he gets up well. It's more a lack of experience....not knowing when to go, when to hold the line, and when to drop. Put him in a situation where there's a direct threat, and he absolutely eats up the ground, and makes clean instinctive, and outrageous tackles/interceptions. Hence the very modern up at the half way line sort of centre half...and that's before even discussing him on the ball. He's so good on the ball I think he could play in a front line.
Said this before, but he's the best centre half we've had since prime Des.
Has Ryan Yates just kept us up? Hopefully we can all unite in celebrating this.
Murillo has been an outstanding value signing, and will only get better if we can keep him which is doubtful. CHO has also been fantastic value, and Sels has been an immensely important signing. When you look at those 3 and Elanga, who was also good value and should improve, some of our recruitment is good. Or is that just the law of averages because we sign so many.
HOly Shit, Forest will be the death of me. We were terrible today. Only helped by how terrible The Undead were.
They could have been out of sight by half time. We were messy, disjointed and very very nervous.
CHO bailed us out fabulously. Having said that Murillo was MOM. Montiel needs to go back into the bin if Williams is only slightly buggered.
All I can say is A MASSIVE PHEW!!!!!!!!!!
Chicago: Exhausted.
I'm sure that he's a nice lad, but I don't like him at all. Still.
One of the reasons our away form this season has been so poor compared to other teams in trouble is that we hadn't played Sheffield Undead or Burnley.
Appears to be the case today - we simply encountered a worse side than us. That said, those games are still easy to fuck up in, well, if you're Forest anyway.
Perhaps we should take that as a positive.
With CHO on the left wing, we need a left footed left back (Toff or Tavares) with Aina on the right.
Nico deserved to play so it made sense to have him and Aina but OA with Montiel doesn't make sense.
Murillo Man of the Match by a mile today, kept us in it single handedly in first half.
If he goes I hope there really is a bidding war between Real Madrid, Barca, PSG, Arsenal as some seem to be suggesting is going to happen. Harry Maguire still being the most expensive defender in the world is a real joke.
I'm alive.
Tales to tell on Monday..
Happy fuck off United day.
Jim’s aliiiiiivvvveee!
Oh and yes. Happy Donny was wrong day everyone!!!
Chicago: Onwards and Upwards.
