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Wonder if we still have an eye on DCL.

Brighton are going to score but too late.

LB is going to be the hardest position to recruit. Finding a good defender is fine, finding a flying full back is fine but you rarely find both. Need our scouting team to be on the ball. Tierney might be the best bet, if he can prove his fitness.

Oh wey, we can just have a cheerleader in the treatment room, who comes back every six weeks, takes a fortnight to get back up to speed, gives us 3 class games and then gets injured again. That's what CL clubs do. Pep and Klopp would have him out on his arse ASAP. We've no place for carrying mavericks.

Oh it's 100% bullshit, the term "on the beach". It's up there with "new manager bounce" and the idea that corners are really good goalscoring opportunities, when in reality, you hardly ever score from a corner.

Well he needs replacing by someone.

I'd like us to sign a new right winger, like Diaby etc.... Then sell ASM and replace him with someone like Barnes or even Harrison if they go down. ASM is unreliable. Class on his day, but unreliable.

Nope. Been sloppy. If they'd given 100% they wouldn't be getting beat.

We could be playing Brighton on the back of two defeats. Perfect IMO.

Don't care about Everton getting relegated either way. Don't and have never seen Brighton getting in the top 4. Alot of football is timing. We played Everton at a good time. We might play Leicester and Brighton at good times too.

Don't see us beating Brighton at home mind.

Everton playing well. Brighton not got going.

Is there a reason why nobody is linked with Caicedo?

I would love Rice but ultimately it makes zero sense to spend 100m on one player, where we are right now. That's close to the same money we paid for Botman, Bruno, Tripper and Burn combined. When we are down to a case where we need 1/2 special players to complete our team, fine, let's go get a player like Rice. Realistically, we are 2 seasons away from that situation. I know it feels like a Rice or Bellingham are available now but there will be a new wonder kid/special talent on the horizon in 2 years time. We need to hold our nerve and not lose focus. I want a squad of around 13/14 elite players, right now I make it: Trippier Botman Bruno Isak Joelinton Wilson (just about) By my reckoning, we can get 3 this summer and some players with potential.

Another reason why Targett should get a game is because he can take some corner duties off Trippier. They have gone stale again.

We managed to sign Isak finishing 11th. We are golden man.

For about a month, then when we started signing worldies and we saw our Europa League group, you'd soon perk up.

You get his point though. If we don't get 6 points from these fixtures, we don't really have an argument to say we deserve top 4. Once the dust has settled, we could reflect on a 5th place finish as a success, albeit slightly tainted. I actually said that I'd fancy us to win the Europa league, so there is that.

Could be Nottingham Forests day this.

I don't think any team besides Arsenal and City could deal with our first 10 minutes from yesterday. We do that against Brighton and Leicester we give ourselves a great chance. Let alone Leeds and Chelsea.

Don't see us beating Leicester at home mind.

Sam has a big problem. They need a win, they can't sit back but if they come after us, we will smash them on the break.

This was their line up against City. We've no excuse.

I wouldn't worry, its the same ones can't keep a cool head when a result goes against us. It's the same ones who said Emery was clearly a better manager than Howe because we lost at Villa Park. It was our 4th loss of the season. We've all been to the Eddie Howe thread, where the same faces had written him off. Don't use the term bedwetters,that really annoys em.

Surely by this logic KaKa is also allowed to react how he wishes?