Lewis Hall

Liverpool, not a bad pick long term, but you're not going to buy them before Arsenal.

And who wants to bring in a Newcastle defender right now? If you've got Lewis Hall, like me, you can absolutely start him this week, but I wouldn't be buying him.

So you get the point.

You can sit there and say, well, Brighton's not an easy fixture.

He's getting the Defcon points every other start.

Lewis Hall, same thing.

And Jacquet, we mentioned there.

Once again, Defcon every other start.

Tarkowski and Everton have kind of struggled a wee bit more recently, so I don't like him as much.

He obviously started the season really strongly.

And you have Lewis Hall.

kind of maybe unexpectedly did well again the weekend Newcastle keeping that clean sheet but it was against Crystal Palace so maybe not a huge surprise but he's just been great I was having a wee look at Jacquet this morning actually because he's a similar price to the other Defcon guys if Liverpool could just tighten up a wee bit at the back I would be a lot more interested and I think at the moment looking at this table you don't pay the money for Van Dijk over Jacquet he's doing quite well for Defcon as well but Yeah, it's a usual suspect for me.

the problem is I think you look at it and you say Alex Ferguson is best Guardiola Guardiola Marino is best they couldn't come into this team and fix it so it takes time and that's where the club has been left by bad decisions right from the top all the way to the football club that's where the club has been left and it's going to take an enormous amount of work to fix it

I'll tell you what I would say, the one person I think, and it's mad to me because if you said to, if I said to you now, we can buy Lewis Hall for £25 million, we'd both do it because it's a great, great bargain.

Unai Emery probably cost you £25 million to get out of Villa.

But four years ago, he went into Villa after Gerrard and they were in a right mess.

Great in attack, but I still think vulnerable at the back.

Aston Villa there and Newcastle for those that own Lewis Hall.

I'd be selling you Newcastle assets despite a good win at Palace.

And I'd be looking at Aston Villa going, yeah, I'm more interested in the attack than the defence.

He wanted older players at centre-back.

and he noted that the rest of the squad was pretty young so quite an interesting approach there but he was quite happy and obviously they got the clean sheet so basically Newcastle centre-backs you can't touch them now because there's four of them and any two of them can play in any given game week so if you want a Newcastle defender it is very much Lewis Hall at left back.

Delage has been good but again we'll have competition from the likes of Lewis Hall is definitely the standout there.

There was Defcon for Gabriel.

There was a question about Mr. Gabriel later.

spend it, isn't it, Andy? Because if you look at the Andre Santos one, 50 million, I mean, I was reserved on making judgment on that and I agree it's an early stage in his career and he's 22, but it's difficult to see why that was the choice made right now.

Yep, and the left back, I said it right from the start, you know, fans got excited, Lewis Hall or someone else, And then when nobody comes in, straight away you're like, whoa.

And then when Luke Shaw's injured, it just compounds it.

I still think the centre forward as well.

I'm not sure exactly how much.

I believe in...

the region of a few million to get him and so that I think is a consideration amidst all this as well and I don't think I think he did pretty well in Newcastle in terms of getting a good salary his assistant Jason Tindall as well so I think there's a financial consideration in all this as well as obviously the potential cost of dismissing Michael Carrick so In a world where United are withdrawing from going from a left-back, ironically Lewis Hall at Newcastle was obviously top of their list, or a striker, then changing managers in this way, or head coaches rather, comes at a cost.

I'm fascinated to see where that goes and whether that's part of the discussions as to why we haven't had a definitive answer at this moment.

So Gabrielle's owned by about 22%, but I think a lot of those are inactive, honestly.

Lewis Hall, he's owned by 20%, and Esri Kansa also owned by about 20%.

And then looking at the midfielders, we've got Morgan Rogers owned by 50% of teams, Pascal Gross by 46% of teams, Ryan Cherky owned by 39% of teams, Cole Palmer, 28% of teams, and Bruno Fernandes, owned by 25% of teams.

But I think this one is kind of similar into the case of Gabrielle, where a lot of people had him game week one.

But I don't I just don't want that mess.

So Gavardial, that would actually be a sell for me.

Moving on to Lewis Hall, who is owned by about 20% of teams currently.

I think a lot of people have soured on him.

Has any of them had a good 90 minutes and controlled a game?

But again, could be a coaching issue, right? If we had signed, I don't know, Danny Welbeck and Lewis Hall, would it really have been that different? I don't think so.

No, we still would be in turbulence, but we'd probably have more points on the board.

We were playing Aiden Heaven at left-back and, yeah, Dalot at left-back.

I'll tell you what, Dalot had a lot of the ball in good positions yesterday.

And, yeah, that 60 million that we bought land with... could have been better spent on Lewis Hall because you know at least you're competitive to maybe get fifth and bank another hundred million next season an example Ed's mentioned

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