Recent content by John O'Kane

The narrative is not quite as simple as that. He was less homesick, it was more that he was an isolated kid. He wasn’t allowed to train with the other players whilst his transfer was being investigated. Can hardly blame the kid for wanting out of Chelsea in that situation. Be a lonely existence...

Why haven’t we just bought all the best players, but also not paying too much for them? Don’t understand why all these boss players aren’t dying to come to us over teams in the champions league.

I've wanted us to get him since his breakthrough, and to be honest, I always assumed he'd be on the radar of teams above us. That no one else seems to be in for him could be read as an alarm bell, or just an opportunity we need to take. His ceiling is very high, he's young, and at the very least...

Nice to see that despite an upturn in fortunes on the pitch, new ownership and an amazing new stadium to move into, we are still massively outperforming our bed-wetting xG.

Yeah, mate. Social media manager with a football hobby

Or for large stretches of multiple seasons?

Doucoure told him

Ah that makes more sense then. No way he's getting that

Yeah, strange one that he asked for a delay and then Besiktas just cancelled the transfer. Makes you think he has somewhere lined up, ready to sign. Might be pragmatic signing on a free for us though, given his versatility.

Kyle Walker-Peters back in the mix?

That and he's bang average.

Largely agree with this but with the caveat that he was great at Atalanta, he looked the real deal. If it was just him playing poorly at United, then I'd swerve. But so many are underperforming which leans me towards the whole club being in disarray. Perhaps just too many square pegs in round...

Good to see Mark Lawrenson is keeping himself busy.

Is this a different Sean Longstaff we are talking about? Wild shout this. Definition of bang average.

I'm not sure the league position is massively relevant given when Moyes came in. If Moyes had been there from the start we'd be in 8th given his projected points.