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We don't have anyone sat on our bench who we can sell for £60m.

British defenders are usually pretty good tbf, the ones who have gone over there have done pretty well. Kelly's main weakness is in the air, that won't be much of a factor over there unless he's just shit positionally.

Pretty sure it has.

He could at least have come up with a figure which was somewhat believable.

Did you miss the part about them selling Jhon Duran? He was a key player for them, if they sold him, obviously they would have to replace him.

Makes the decision not to rotate players even more frustrating if that's the case.

Villa had to sell Duran for £60m+ to be able to make the signings. Would you want us to sell Isak?

Since summer was always going to be when we were more likely to do our spending, I imagine we will.

Definitely still a very tough 90 mins to get through, and if they were playing anybody else you would never write them off. Still a tougher ask for them than us though, so if we go 100% we should go through.

Yes, like I said it was a very canny bit of business getting him on a free. Fans can rate him on the back of 3 starts or whatever it was for us, but our recruitment team's judgemnent has proved spot on.

Honestly if we can't defend a 2-0 lead at home then we don't deserve to go through. As I'm saying this, Arsenal have just scored a 5th against Man City. But fuck em, they are using up all their goals today, we are keeping ours back for Wednesday.

Yes but that is based on a handful of performances. Just not enough games to write anyone off IMO.

Thank God we've already got a 2 goal lead from the away leg. It's Arsenal so it's going to be a tough game, but I expect us to raise our levels accordingly, and we'll get through after a tough examination. 2-2 at FT.

Sort of agree like.

We need to get rid of this idea that he was ever a liability tbh. He's just got us £15-20m worth of pure PSR profit. He was a fantastic signing and fans need to start giving our recruitment team some props.

Now we've got a fucking Lewis Scally to worry about if this wasn't already a big enough game.

I normally would want Arsenal to lose this, but realistically we've got more chance of catching City. Although we'll probably not catch either.

That's because once they stopped buying European players everyone in Europe lost interest. We have no idea if there's even much appetite for football in China, if there is, I would think their domestic league will probably do fine on it's own terms. Saudi league is different because we know there is a massive market for football and they can probably throw money at it for long enough to grow the standard of their homegrown players and coaching to a point where it's self sufficient. It might not replace UEFA leagues for popularity, but it might grow it's own fanbase in a few years.

It did just a bit like.

They did push us to the edge of PSR but we avoided relegation and got CL football on the back of it at the end of the day.

That's my take on it as well. Risky I agree, but at least we do have a proper RB as cover so might be better getting some money in if Tripps wants the move.

Fuck all.

Up to this point I have always been pretty confident we'll finish ahead of Forest and Bournemouth, I was more bothered about Chelsea and Villa. Now I'm revising that opinion, but we should get Europe in one form or another. Might see a couple of big stars moving if we don't make CL though.

This is the thing which I don't get about not changing a winning team. He will be forced into it anyway when Joelinton inevitably gets banned. Isn't it better to do it on your own terms and swap him out once in a while just to freshen things up, and keep the likes of Miley match sharp?

That's how I saw it as well. We looked well off the pace.