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Again, does he though? Rodri is one of the best game readers and DMs in Europe. I’m not putting down Ando but that’s a very high bar.

A win and a draw more than them doesn’t seem crazy mind. Not that it’s reliable to back us to get any particular wins at the moment. But I do expect an improvement.

I’m not sure how often these players are ‘clearly not coming’ and how often it’s just us being pessimistic and happen to be right.

If Dirk Kuyt falls through we can look at him.

He’s at that level?

I want a new CM maybe, but I would lean towards a more creative one, possibly left footed. I'd rather not have to replace Tonali as well.

Well not sure how that stacks up with him covering loads of ground and breaking up multiple attacks a game. It's not a duel or interception if you just get to the ball before an opponent or cover the ground they want to run into.

For me it's a really significant problem if Tonali goes. We either need to transition to a style that dominates the ball or we will need someone with his ability to break up attacks. Otherwise we're taking the only real legs out of our midfield. I don't think we realise how much work he gets through.

I’m not sure what rebuild really means. Is it more than a normal summer window where you try to add some quality players to your squad? The first team back 4 and midfield is essentially locked down unless Tino goes. LW similar, Elanga and one other for RW. Biggest questions would be GK and striker I guess, but it’s not massive numbers is it?

Before January but I never expect much in Jan windows anyway. What did you mean by needing to change though? Just to do better than before? I agree with that but surely that would need to happen even if we changed Howe?

In what way? We've just appointed new people to the major executive jobs.

I mean, I think if we sell both our RBs it’s safe to assume we’ll sign one

Boooooo.

Outrageous slander against Selhurst and SE London, but you’re right about the view. It’s dire.

Kinda but an away game in London is never a given.

We don’t really need a non-attacking CM unless we’re selling Tonali. Which I hope we aren’t.

Don’t think we’ve had a single game where it looked like the players didn’t give a fuck TBH.

Key signing and the start of really feeling like a proper club again. Great player if maybe some questions over general lifestyle. Means we have some RBs on the shortlist or close to coming hopefully.

Wish we were starting with a home game but massive if we go there and win. Not easy though.

Aye, main reason to buy training gear is that it’s not sponsored. Most of the stuff I play football in is training wear from random clubs. Nice and clean. But good to have more money obvs.

I actually never minded it when we used to draw all the time. Can see why Howe thought it wasn’t accumulating enough points reliably though.

Returned from calf strain last night, did alreet. Not sure how that affects seeding.

I’m just looking forward to having competent (I hope) staff in the relevant exec roles and time for some sort of planning to have taken place.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to help touts. Just saying if someone needed to guarantee a ticket. Bad form I know.

TBH just buying dodgy tickets from resellers is probably a solid option if you only want to go to a few matches and you want certainty. Not that much more expensive since you don’t need a membership and if you choose less glamorous games. And not that I endorse the trade, but I would consider if I didn’t want to go to so many games. Also refreshing the site in the day/hours before kick off sometimes pays off as well, as people decide they can’t go. But obviously you can’t plan in that case.