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Longstaff being out (and how much we have felt it) shows why we're so keen on Mctominay imo.

Yeah, we’d need one more point. if Liverpool lose to Leicester their max points total is 68. if we beat Leeds we’ll be on 68.

You can only see that after it’s slowed down at a certain angle tbf, which I think is the point he’s making. It isn’t a clear and obvious error.

he may be on the bench but he doesn't start. ASM bench too.

isak and wilson start, murphy on the right, isak on the left.

sounds like Middlesbrough with us.

agree on all of that. Don't think we'd be anyones 'whipping boys', just meant more thats how we'd be seeded in line with the example given. Lets get there first though, long way off yet as you say.

definitely. we'll be seeded as said 'whipping boys'.

I’d swap joelinton for asm, personally.

he's ex man utd and his son is current man utd so probably that!

no way he'll play two left footed centre backs. It'll be Lascelles, and rightly so th

Not a chance. They're talking about £150m for a 30 year old Harry Kane this summer. Haaland (if there' not a clause) will be a £200m player all day long.

we will bring in another right sided centre half i think, and it will be a younger player signed for a hell of a lot more money. They'll also have ambitions for him to be better than Schar. Not sure what's harsh about it.

we won't get another 'Schar', he was a ridiculous bargain and it very likely won't happen again.

it's no harsher than it is on the other two who have also been really good. we need to upgrade on all 3 in time to go where we want to go, it really is as simple as that.

i mean a combination of things to be fair, Schar has been great, he's improved immensely under Howe but he's 31 and we'll need to upgrade him soon enough, and we'll be unlikely to get what we need with another Schar type signing.

This is a great post I think, exactly the same applies to us as you. We need more bruno's, botman's and isaks and not more longstaff's, schar's and burn's (as good as they have been).

watched a lot of him have you?

London is black and white. It’s totally mad, we’re everywhere! Not seen anything like this before

yep

Agreed, it's so important that we get that left hand side partnership back, it helps burn no end as well. We look significantly weaker with ASM on the left and Burn at LB imo.

do the losers of this tie drop to the europa conference?

How is Rafa seemingly not an option for Southampton or Leeds?

bastard, sorry man!

class mate, congrats.