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Anticlimatic set of semi finals. Feel really bad for Ajax fans. This team will be teared apart in the summer.

You'd hope all of the good players with ambition would smack in a transfer request if Rafa left. They'd easily get better deals elsewhere anyway.

Imagine if he performed as he has the second half of this and last season for an entire season! Second half of this season he's not only showed to us again that he can score, but some of the stuff he's been pulling off has been incredible. That shuffle inside Liverpools 6 yard box f.ex I was sitting in my chair giggling like a little girl. He seems stronger and faster than he's ever been. Not sure if it's just clouded perception due to feeling better about him than during the first half of the season, or if he's simply improve massively the last year not only technically but also mentally and physically? We'd be stupid to let him go in the summer. If we can get 2nd half season Ayoze over a full season, £25m or whatever is talked about is not enough to replace never mind improve on him.

I want to punch their web developer on the mouth. Hard.

Sounds like your friend needs a precision strike to the esophagus

Pipe dream and all that, but seems like a player you'd willingly pay that kind of fee for as his value will likely double or maybe even triple in the next 2-4 years.

Isn't he linked with much bigger clubs already? Like that time we were linked with Nicolò Zaniolo Wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. 19 years old, 13 goals in 22 league appearances in his first season. Being touted as "the next" Joao Pinto/Rui Costa/Cronaldo depending on whom you ask. Probably way out of our league and budget.

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Rafa Silva is 25 years old and this is the first season he's performed well. Smells like a dud for whomever that would sign him. Not sure how much he would cost (assume a lot? )as I'm not that bothered following football in general these days (thanks Mike), but that João Felix looks really good and is only 19.

Give over. He’s been class in plenty of big games. I've watched very little of him and City so that might be. In this game he looks like Damien Duff when he played for us. No guts to take on a player, misplaces passes, no effort to make offensive runs.

Starting to understand why Sane didn't get to go to the WC. Not a big game player at all. No effort, sloppy passing, no dribbling.

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Agreed. That being said, I think we would have been relegated if we had Muto instead of Perez, Elliott instead of Dubravka or whomever would have deputized for Hayden during the second half of the season. We would probably have been fine with Fernandez or Clarke in place of Schar though, but that shouldn't be an argument for not praising Schar for his performance this season.

1. Perez 2. Rondon 3. Schar 4.Dubs 5. Hayden Honorable mention of Longstaff for the games he played, but too few to consider him.

Both him and Yedlin are 25. There's a reason why Yedlin has been playing for Seattle, Spurs, Sunderland and us while Manquillo has played for Real Madrid youth team, Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, Marseille, Sunderland and us. He's a good footballer with a lot of potential. It's his mentality that is the problem. Hopefully Rafa can program him and we should have a cracking RWB.

Fabinho with a dirty dive for their free kick that led to the third. TAA with the assist for the second when he should have been sent off. gj FA.

For being the "big, duel strong" part of the back 3, Lascelles haven't really done himself proud today. Awful game.

Might not bother watching UFC tonight

Great entertainment the last 10 minutes

Went stiff there when the back of his head smashed to the ground.

Can someone explain how TAA didn't get a card even though we scored? Wish Atsu and the players had protested harder to the ref. Feel like he let it slide just because we scored.

People dreaming of a fluid attacking newcastle under Benitez is doing just that - dreaming. We know what kind of play style he prefers. More quality will help make it look nicer but the fundamentals will still be there. Just look how he approached the championship season. Just because you like the blokedoesnt mean he will start playing entertaining football. It will always remain calculated, cautious and effective

Good shout. He had one absolutely ridiculous good performance against....spurs? Assisted pretty good as a make-shift full back a couple of times but other than that failed to impress.