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Still think Kovacic is absolutely brilliant. Doesn’t seem to get talked about enough.

McAtee combines sublime and awful touches almost equally. Weird player.

Are we sure that Villa losing is best?

Does Simone just sign people because they're dirty?

Quickest deal ever made

Surely he’s on the grill at the end of the season?

Who signed this off?

I haven’t been watching spurs much but the squad doesn’t seem ‘that’ far off on paper, if a better approach could be applied and a few weaknesses shored up. Guess you could say that about most average sides, but it’s true. Sometimes when I see the lineup on paper I literally can’t imagine how it functions on the pitch. But I’m no manager obviously.

I expected us to sit back more after half time, but it wasn't really in the plan I guess. TBF we started the second half quite well IIRC, just the underlying tactical situation hadn't really changed enough.

No. And if either phrase it like that we need to remind them what a CL squad looks like. Like someone said, Villa signing 3 top attackers in one January should be instructive.

As long as the one comes at the end when the game's done.

WTF?

Yep. The pessimism is due to losing against Villa, it’s literally the only thing that’s gone wrong for weeks. We’re still in an incredible position and should do it.

We don’t know I guess. Right now I’d prefer Villa to lose, but at the end of the season we don’t really know who’ll be where.

Huh?

Solanke was a really baffling signing.

Means very little. We had a hard game where others didn’t. We just need to keep picking up points and we’ll finish top 5.

Don’t be silly.

Hmm, I’d hope not because they were always pretty likely to go up.

Spurs name some absolutely crazy lineups at times.

The obvious answer would be nowhere.

Sad I don’t need to buy a new shirt but happy to continue my life-long love affair with Les Bleus.

I mean, our transfers were basically perfect before Mitchell even game in, so adding his expertise to what we already have should result in something very good. Especially if we get CL, which we will.

I don’t think they can make them all permanent. It’s a temporary gamble to get in the CL.

I thought it was really bad. I wonder if weak refs rely on some sort of briefing that Newcastle are physical and expect them to make more contact etc.