Andy

In the league Lewis appeared against: Fulham (A) Chelsea (A) In the league Manquillo appeared against: Southampton (A) West Ham (A) Spurs (H) Brighton (H) Anderson featured in all of those games apart from Spurs at home.

More than 3.5x the league appearances of both of them combined last season

Has always felt that way to me, despite people questioning me saying it earlier in the thread. Never seemed realistic to me that he'd be available for £50m and wouldn't be attracting the absolute elite clubs; there are very few midfields in Europe he doesn't start in. Would love to be wrong though.

Because we've already briefed journalists that the budget is limited this summer. The pressure is then applied to Leicester on both sides if we are Maddison's preferred destination.

Applying pressure to Leicester I reckon.

Had to double check this wasn't a Chippa wind up when I saw it on twitter. Would be a great signing, if he's available at this price every club who needs a midfielder should be in for him.

Right up there as being one of the players I've never seen

Can't stand the likes of City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs and Chelsea in Europe and actively want them to lose, but it's hard not to get behind a club like West Ham; they're similar in stature to us, similar fanbases... Pleased for them tbh.

Because I suspect it will be the case with the majority of links this summer, and he's already been linked with Man Utd, Madrid and various other top clubs over the past few weeks. Will get excited when we have something more concrete personally, can't remember Marca being that reliable a source in recent years.

Almost certainly his agent throwing our name around, as will be the case with 99% of links this summer, but we'll see.

Certainly looks like he's got something this lad, will be an honour to see him warming the bench of Dunfermline next season.

Well one of them managed it this season.

Everton will be down next season. You can only swirl around the drain for so long, as we know ourselves. Sad to see Leicester go to be honest.

Players are clearly on holiday as well like.

Listening to Gary Birtles commentary you'd think he was Pele, not the absolutely dog shite striker that he was.

Yeah, and Liverpool are certainly capable of spanking Southampton, so we're going to need it I reckon

His pressing was outstanding. He's so much better when he's on the left hand side of the pitch.

His set pieces were good, but his defending was even better. Monster performance from him.

Almiron costing us there, absolutely unmissable chance.

This Leicester side is one of the most gutless teams I've ever seen. Not sure I'd want to sign any of their players, Maddison included.

Both outcomes to this season are fine are as far as I'm concerned... While Champions League football feels more "exciting" and will help attract better players, we'd almost certainly be an also-ran, and I can't help but feel Europa League may actually be better in a way, in that we would actually be one of the favourites to win it.

I did feel at the time that Howe got this sub wrong, made sense at 1-1 but at 2-1 it always felt like a risk, I think Anderson on and possibly Joelinton going to the left would've made more sense. I guess he was anticipating Leeds leaving gaps but it never really happened.

Only if you hadn't read the context of the previous posts you were replying to.

Yeah and the post of mine that you quoted wasn't in response to you, it was in response to other posts in this thread, so I'm not really sure what your point is

There's a stark difference between being critical of the performance and labelling the group of players "pathetic" and "bottlers", or individual players who've carried us to this position (ie. Trippier) as being "fucking dogshit". You can be constructive without throwing your toys out of the pram.