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I like this idea. Imagine all the headers he’d win just sitting in front of the central defenders. We could even ask him to do a man marking job on someone like Bernardo Silva

I mean if we can spend £800m over three years as that video posted yesterday suggested, then by all means what the hell

I would fancy our chances if with 17/18 games to go we had three top quality signings in the first 11 ready go, but I just can’t see it. Ideally we’d have to win at least half of those remaining games to survive and need new bodies in straightaway to improve the quality of the team and give everyone another lift.

Spending £25 million on him is exactly the type of signing that has me worried that we will panic and waste the money we are allowed to spend under FFP. Don’t get me wrong, he is a top player and will improve the team, but that outlay on a fee and the obviously high wage level is not something we should be doing for a 32 year old defender

I’d rather have Jonathan David over Martial. It doesn’t matter as either wouldn’t come here in the current state that we are in

I just don’t see why we can’t play a 4-3-3 with Hayden, Shelvey and Wilock being drilled to understand how to defend and attack as a three. Stick Joelinton on the right and keep ASM on the left and ask the guy to start to track back with some actual urgency. That could have got us through to January with some sort of structure before we can replace the centre of the pitch

All Leicester have done today is wait for us to give them goals and that’s the worry

True. I think we have decent today and and don’t deserve to be 2-0. But that’s the problem as we always seem to give goals away without carrying any great threat

Brentford were always going to fine after the start they made. It would take a monumental balls up for them to go down

I really don’t think that central defensive positions are our number one priority. Obviously we need more quality there, but there are more pressing areas that we should be focusing on especially when you think Tarkowski will cost us quite a large sum without really improving the first 11 drastically. Spend the money on other areas of the pitch first and see how we go

I’d take Lingaard and Tarkowski, but we badly need someone to push Wilson and someone else to slot into CM

I think we can do it

Yeah I’m still baffled by how stupid Clark was

I’m not so sure - but I would have liked Clark to at least let him try

I would take Wilson off soonish, he’s isolated and we don’t know how to use him in this situation

I’m nervous as the whole season could come down to what happens tonight. I just hope we play well and can find a way to get the points

For me, the best thing Rafa brought to the team was stability no matter how “defensive” some people make it out to be - we were genuinely organised. I used to turn on the tv for those tough away games and know that we weren’t going to get hammered. Granted, we may have been sitting deep, but you knew there was a plan at least in place and that was something we lacked the last two years.

I’m 34 and was dreaming of a trophy before I’m 40. I don’t know why 40 years old is significant, I was just being realistic when takeover happened and giving the new guys five years to turn things around. Relegation would be a set back for sure and I’m clinging to any hope that we can still turn this whole thing around

It could very well be too late by then…

I have made my peace with us going down at the start of the season with the previous regime. Anything other than that will be a welcome surprise. Obviously this time next week is crucial in the grand scheme of things. We need a win from somewhere just to change the mentality. Hopefully we can win on Tuesday as that can be a catalyst for the weekend. But if we take 4 points from the next two, that won’t be the end of the world

I thought he was good today and don’t get the hate. He broke up play quite well in the first half and made a few runs to carry the ball in the last minutes. By all means he made a few poor decisions and touches, but he contributed far more than Shelvey and a lot of others in the team today

I thought he did alright and made a lot of effective forward runs as well as the defensive recovery runs you’d expect from a player with a good engine. I think he needs to play in a three with Hayden sitting and Shelvey alongside him. The only issue with that is I think we need Almiron in the side for his work rate and that means Joelinton drops and we lose his physical presence

Are we thinking after 30 November that sponsorship deals will be announced then with a full assessment undertaken when we submit the FFP accounting?

I always believed that there was a player in there and I think he can turn his career around with us as Saturday has shown. The problem with the £40m price tag is that you’d expect the player coming in would be the main man, but he’s not going to be that person and will still be having those dips and periods of shit

The bare minimum for a team in our position is to try and be as fit as you can. The fine margins between winning and losing can be simply down to pressing the opposition more frequently or making that lung busting run to steal a game at the end of the 90 minutes. It’s criminal how the Steve’s couldn’t see this and it’s actually still baffles me at how unfit our lads have been this year