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Yeah, Puke says one year extension.

Triggering a short extension is just standard isn’t it? We were never going to just let him run his deal down to nothing.

I guess we wouldn’t have to overspend to get Guehi now, he’ll be significantly cheaper.

Auto ban IMO.

Hall should be good at them as well, in theory. Obvs it’s not just about the kicker.

Aye, I don’t understand the Tonali set piece thing, maybe he has another role at set pieces which means he’s not considered for taking them.

If you just base it on what Luke Edwards writes.

Find this whole debate childish and pointless. Football is a team game anyway, impossible to choose who the individual best player is unless there's an all-time great like Messi around. People posting in support of Vini as if he's been persecuted or something. Ridiculous all round.

If we buy someone for that money it's because we think we can afford it. Like I keep saying, if we buy a player now and sell a big player in the summer, I don't see what has improved. FWIW I can't see us buying Mbeumo now.

Never made sense to me, people talking about him like he’s Bruce.

In fact we’re ahead because we’ve already qualified for the champions league.

Yeah, you have to remove them one by one, on Apple anyway.

There’s no point in buying Mbuemo now if we have to sell Bruno or Isak in the summer.

Yep I’ve seen, I agree we give the ball away a lot. But I think we have mostly decent players. Like I’ve said before, our squad is a combination of Championship and Champions League. The problem is right now we always have a couple of error-prone players in the team and the others have low confidence.

His defensive headers aren’t great either TBF.

Mostly we do, we just have to put out a side with a couple of glaring weak links at the moment.

Definitely the worst feature of our play (errors and giving up possession), compounds everything else as well.

Well we just employed a director of football and a performance director, and it sounds like we’re doing work on stats as well. Would expect further improvements of the technical staff.

Teams have creative midfielders like Maddison and the false Bruno, they don't usually play in that central number 10 role as we might traditionally think of it.

He wouldn’t play ahead of any of those except Longstaff. I think he’s a decent player though.

I’m not sure Barkley would get a game for us but for the squad he’d be decent.

Where would you play him though? FWIW I’m sure the management don’t see him as negatively as the fans do.

I'm sure he knows there needs to be adjustments, he's not stupid. But they're still really our only viable 3 for starting in midfield, it's just a question of getting them to play better or changing the shape. The three of them will still play.

Gusto was/is good but I thought Barnes should have had at least 2 or 3 more attacking free kicks as well.

It's not snobbery, I'm not saying we're too good for it. I'm just saying it's not as big a prize as the others, that's just an assessment of the value of each trophy. I guess I'm also so used to getting knocked out of cups that they don't play a huge part in my thinking.