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Yeh what was the context of the Mourihno quotes the other day?! Why was he chatting about us?

No one will convince me there isn't a top class player in there. Still no way near the levels he was but he was still very effective tonight.

We are gonna be a madness with better players

Phenomenal!

Dunno why I thought he was 26.

Pukki. Seems to be criminally underrated despite him scoring consistently for Norwich in both season he's been in the PL. Clearly a very, very good striker. Great movement, great finisher, hard worker and still young. No idea why more team aren't sniffing around him.

Can understand why people might feel this way, but after seeing Schär and even Krafth transformed I'd be content with on on form Tarkowski at the heart of the defence.

Schär, Tarkovski, Burn and a money signing would be incredible depth wise for centre halves. Think people forget building a squad is more important than building a first team.

Mad thing we could actually be a decent window away from being in the mix going by current form.

One of the best things about this club at the moment. Love the player/fan interactions angle they take too, just adds another layer to it all.

So uneccessarily aggressive Yeh, I'm aware of his disciplinary problems but he's got the type of fight in him that I like in a player. He'll do well at a big club at some point.

Would love us to take a punt on Morelos. Love a player who's tapped.

I think he's going to struggle in a team that is going transitioning to a posession based game. Perhaps a move to a right where he won't be cutting into traffic and being able to whip more balls in?

Like this version of Shelvey and he did well tonight tbf, but he's in an absolutely key position and improving on him ought to be a high priority.

Aye that's exactly my read on it too. Won't even be able to get a decent manager in after they've binned off Lampard either.

FFP would surely fuck Everton if they go down?

Amazing what 1 bad game can lead to. Not sure this discussion ever exists if he played like normally does.

Aye, don't completely disagree with that all tbf, but Dubs also spends a fair bit of time out and the alternative to him is Darlow who we know seems to have a negative impact on the team, whereas we've ground out brilllaint results without Wilson.

Not 5th (no particular order) but slightly lower importance than the first 3 because I think improving in those 3 positions makes the biggest difference to us as a team. Improving on Wilson seems slightly less of a priority than improving on Murphy/Fraser/Almiron, Shelvey and imo Dubs. GK is an underrated position and can have the biggest influences on the defence as we've seen ourselves with the clear difference Dubs makes when he plays over Darlow, improving on that seems to make sense to me, whereas injuries aside, Wilson will always bang the goals in given the chances. Edit: I do want a striker.

RW, GK and CDM are my 3 priority positions. CD and ST after that assuming Targett signs.

"football hipsters"

Rui Costa and Guti are criminally underrated. Which reminds me, Guti he held his own in a team full of Galacticos that didn't really achieve much and yet Zidane of all people manages to pull plaudits for being one of the worlds greatest and yet someone like Iniesta never gets into that conversation, and I don't understand why. Zidane was obviousuly an amazing player and deserves to be in the conversation of greats, but not near the very top like he always is. *tin hat firmly on*

Would be fucking delighted with a £90m spend tbh

Poor mistake but he shouldn't have needed to be defending in that area of the pitch in the first place vs 10 men. Poor play all round from us.

The intensity that they played with. They pressed all game and stopped us getting a foothold in the game. We had a few players who played poorly who were rightly replaced but for the main part the majority of our players weren't exactly Bruce era levels poor were they, we just couldn't settle and get into any real rhythm, that was because of hoe they played from what I saw.