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He might as well have came over and personally insulted every single fan's mother, as make the selection of Curtis Good in that side. Abysmal stuff today that i thought was far below Rafa as both a person and a coach. Up there with the disgusting cup efforts under Pardew.

Wanker.

Alsoran's thankfully out of contract in June. Anita is too.

https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/article/has-football-developed-an-unhealthy-obsession-with-grief

At least he will add goal threat, with his 1 goal in 47 for Swansea and 0 in 8 at Championship level.

Karanka has done a good job at Boro, but fuck me they are dull to watch.

He's worse than dogshit.

We're getting mugged to bits at £5 million. Take him on loan ffs, don't sign the fucker.

Tight cunts.

He's one of the worst players I can remember seeing in the top flight in recent years. Probably make him a fucking superstar down here mind.

Modou Barrow. Fuck me. Would rather stick with Sammy.

Pochettino is not decent?

He's not sticking around much longer, I'm pritt-y sure about that.

Oh fuck

Going to Palace. Pushes Schlupp into the wing for them, and probably Townsend closer to the exit.

Looks like PvA is on the way oot.

The average is actually somewhere around 18-20 for teams at this stage going back the last few seasons. Although sometimes there is one cut adrift at the bottom, which isn't the case this year. So only slightly lower than usual this time, but it does give Leicester more of a cushion from the bottom 3 than might have been the case.

I did the same thing. It's matchday 22, we were on 21 points too last season at this point and in 18th place funnily enough.

They're 5 points above the relegation places and have been saving their stronger players for the Champions League until recently. To say they're battling relegation simply isn't true at this stage. They could have bought exactly the right one or two players and probably not improved/consolidated imo. The criticism comes because they set a rod for their own backs and now people expect those same players to retain a proportion of the form they had last season, but also to bring in new players who'll do it for them. Their signings weren't wow signings, but neither were Mahrez and Kante, Leicester made them. Aside from that, Slimani's their top scorer as well btw, he's just better than 1 in 3, which isn't bad considering it's a new league/the team's underperforming. I get what people are saying like, I just think it's canny unreasonable. They're only 5 points clear because of how bad the bottom 3 have been this season. It's pretty extreme to have 3 sides sitting on 15-16 points at this stage, 4 until Swansea pulled off that win yesterday. They're having a very poor season, and no matter how much of a rod they've made for their own back with last season's overachievement, when you spend £50 million on attacking talent the expectations and ambitions change IMO. If they pull up to upper mid-table that would be about right.

Almost certainly. That's not the point though.

I wasn't talking about Sammy, but the insinuation made. The lack of progress in the transfer market, and the strong rumours of Ashley's interference, is a worrying trend going forward. To ignore it, with Ashley's track record, is flat out stupid. Personally I'd be very surprised if Rafa isn't miffed that we haven't brought anybody in.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/exclusive-sammy-ameobi-says-returning-12489602 Worrying that it's mentioned he's around because we've missed out on transfer targets.

It's really not ridiculous to expect that although last season was a phenomenal achievement, and expecting them to repeat it is absurd, it's also the case that they should be expected to be better than fighting relegation. Slimani was nearly double our record transfer. Expectations change when you drop £50 million on attackers.

Just because he's a kid doesn't mean he'd not be offered that kind of money by Prem teams. If you're signing a player for £10 million+ then it's expected he'd be an important signing for the club and that's the going rate, regardless of the fact he's 19. Sunderland would have definitely dished out something around that to Wickham when they signed him for a similar fee.

Leipzig are newly promoted, and although they're clearly not your standard newly promoted side, I doubt Burke expected them to be keeping pace with Bayern at the top. He joined an ambitious (although minging) club who are focused around buying and developing young players. It's just unfortunate he found himself out of the team because they've been putting in title form from week 1