banduan Can definitely imagine him having saved us a couple of points round Christmas when we went off the rails.

On the other hand he's incredibly young and it's a bit silly to think he wouldn't have made a few errors in defence. I'd love to be corrected on that when he actually gets to play.

    Burnwinter Good goal against poor/inexperienced defending and feeds into a nice narrative about his return after a season-ending injury, but he's been put on quite the pedestal now. A lot of hype and expectation to live up to. I expect this thread to be a rollercoaster next season.

      It's not a given that Timber is now a permacrock like Tomi. If so you should replace him in the summer.

      Timber will face some recurring injuries once he’s back in the match day squad which is normal for someone who has been out for a year. Hopefully he pushes past them

        Mirth

        The good news is he’ll have pre-season to really ease back in and get his body used to football.

          6 days later

          I’d Timber is on the bench and we are fit, one of Vieira, Nketiah or ESR will be joining Nelson VIP

            kiwior held down the fort manfully, but it really feels like a settled timber would've done bits in this team from that LB position. he's so good on the ball, I think arteta was banking on him having an alexander-arnold type of impact on our build up play

            Qwiss would make sense to leave a defender out.

            Arteta can never have too many defenders.

            18 days later

            I liked his little cameo. I think he will break some ankles and unbalance teams that try to press us next season. slot him in at LB and use tomi as his utility back up.

              Rival fans say we've had no injuries this season but this guy would have been a game changer. Watch him raise our game next season.

                Gurgen if he'd started the season, played 3 months and then gotten injured everyone would have realised what a big loss he was. We missed out on the title by 2 points, he was definitely worth that.

                  Claudius

                  100 percent. Show some damn intent. Hate players who come on and pussy foot about. Timber looks like he has something about him.

                  Gurgen Absolutely, I think he was essential for the progress of this team and so cruel that he missed the entire season.