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Tomori at 50 million euros is a good deal. He was the best player against us at Milan. Bowen for 60 million quid is a bit steep for me i think.

Yep, 30 million or thereabout is a pretty good deal

Spain looked really high quality and full of confidence yesterday. Wasn´t really a position where you could say they were weak, maybe Morata up front but he puts them away for Spain...

I think Tripps is defending well, but he (southgate tbf) is actually to blame for the lack of attacking intent down the left; When a right sided defender plays on the left he controls the ball mostly with his right foot which means his body position is more likely to be facing towards his own goal/own half of the pitch and hence the passes are more than likely backwards or sidewards instead of forward. Also the overlaps with the wingers are voided when he has to double back on to his right foot to put crosses in... Isn´t Tripps´fault but it means we are pretty rank attacking down the left!!

Guehi was our best player closely followed by saka and walker. The rest were all 5 or 6 out of tens. The team doesn't have any structure, it is painful watching them try to pass it out from the back when we have a keeper who cannot kick better than a five year old. So so bad. Southgate is absolutely clueless, although he did finally realise trent is not a midfielder. What a difference when someone comes on and knows where to run and recieve and pressure etc... OUCH

TAA looks like a rabbit in the headlights. Scared stiff, no movement, no running... mind could say that about another 5 or six players

Poor show by Southgate. TAA should not be in the middle. Bellingham dropping back next to Rice and Gordon on wing would give us another dimension... Too fucking boring and cautious to change anything.

Bellingham in middle with Rice (TAA out), foden at 10 and gordon on the wing. Rest the same as before

Didn't like trent in midfield, seems a bit lost. Didn't like harry Kane when out of possession, both wingers and jude were zipping around trying to pressure and kane was always walking, really annoying. On the ball was fine... Defence really unsure trying to pass the ball out. In general we look scarednto play fast zipping passes, everything had to be super secure and we seemed predictable. 6/10 performance for me

WUM Alert!

There was a decent article in the times this morning about City´s case against preferred party sponsers, and also Villa thinking about sueing them also. I thought Samuel´s final take on how to solve it was quite decent: There could be a compromise in arbitration this week. Win some, lose some. Yet it remains strange that everyone thinks the alternative to protectionism is a free-for-all. It’s not. It’s a spending cap. Not linked to income, not anchored to the worst club in the league. One figure for all. And no loans. If the number is £400million on wages and transfer fees, then 20 clubs can spend it, but the owner can’t loan it. If the club only generate £100million, a further £300million can be added, but only as a gift. An owner can’t ask for it back if he leaves. Straightforward. Easily regulated. You’ve either generated the money, or you’ve been given the money, but when you’ve spent that money, if you choose to spend the money, you’re done. And if Guardiola is your manager you’ll quite possibly win the league; and if he isn’t, you probably won’t. But, either way, the sky won’t fall in.

I wish we knew a bit more about how much we can spend, all of the conjecture on here is based upon us having miserly sums for outlay... Even a couple of solid bids for wilson, miggy and longstaff would help us create a better picture of what we might be capable of buying.

Yep, Barca badly need to sell (a decent few) to keep within financial allowances, bit similar to what is going on over here...

I think a pre-season with eddie would let him know exactly what is expected. If he is up to it, then we have a new and dangerous winger on our hands, hard worker and fast presser a la Gordon!!! Would save us a wedge on buying somebody, fingers crossed he is up to it.

Right wing Right centre back Reserve goalie Back up striker Anything else would make it a mega window!!

It would kill me if we sold Minteh to Liverpool and he became the next big thing. We really do need to have a close look at him in pre-season before deciding. If Slot rates him so highly that he wants him in his Liverpool squad it is telling us what great potential he has. WE NEED A RIGHT WINGER... Why let him go???

I would like the brazilian kid from Atalanta, very good presser and defensive holder but can also play a bit (used to be a 10). Would free up Bruno amd we could go to a more attacking 4231 or something similar. Would prefer to see bruno further up the pitch this season.

How on earth is Luke shaw in there? he hasn´t played a game for a couple of months...

Tripps should be nowhere near if it is on form...

Out of the above, a ball playing keeper, right winger and striker are our top big money targets this summer. This is assuming we get Tosin and/or Kelly...

Exactly what we do not need and what we already have here

Only thing he lacks is real pace. He isn't slow but you can see he struggles to keep up with the quicker wingers

Tripps, longstaff and kraft were championship at best tonight. Too many chances squandered and far too loose in midfield on transitions. Really dissapointing apart from Gordon, who made wan bissaka look very ordinary.

I still think we need to sell Wilson for 20M or thereabouts and spend a bit on a second striker. Isak can´t play the whole season himself, he needs a quality back-up, or even partner to mix things up up front. We need reliability up front and not such injury prone back up...

I didn´t think manu were so bad against arsenal yesterday, they put up a lot of fight but just didn´t have the quality up front and in the middle. If Fernandes; Rashford and any defender (what they are saying) is back then it will be a tough game. Would bring big Joe back into the fold for at least the first sixty mins, then replace with anderson. Rest of team sort of picks itself (murphy or barnes??)