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Those videos of the Everton fans harassing their players, embarrassing. Really disgusting fan base in general.

That post match footage of Goodison park is beautiful

To be fair that was part of the point I was making. Neither of those players are out and out weak links, I think Longstaff is very under rated by our fans.

The Trossard thing just feels like he’s looked for the earliest excuse to ‘fall out’ with the club and chuck a tranfer request in after a good WC showing, he knows there will be takers now.

Not signing a player doesn’t necessarily mean the squad is standing still, playing this same starting 11 at this point in the season under the amazing circumstances we find ourselves in is not a negative and obviously we need more depth in quality to alleviate the stress on fitness but I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary now we are out of the FA cup. Jan is just difficult I think, if this were the summer I’m sure we’d both be talking about which player we should sign and where they’d play.. bedding in players mid season isn’t easy. You’re talking about enhancing momentum, there’s no guarantee a player we sign hits the ground running and dropping ‘weak links’ like Longstaff or Burn for whoever may come in might actually be a step back until new players gel. Of course if the right opportunity for the right player arises then we’ll pull the trigger. All I’m saying is if there are no big starting 11 signings I’d completely understand the approach from management, I think we’ll see a prospect or two come in for sure though.

Im not disagreeing that signing a player wouldn’t give us a little extra boost, but the question is do we NEED to take a risk and dent our FFP now instead of the summer? It’s not as simple as more good players = better result. And the comparison to last Jan is a pointless argument, the circumstances being entirely opposite. We had no choice a year ago.

So the accusations were false? Will anything happen to the accusers?

Some of the posts in here

Stupid thing to do. He’s young, famous and polluted with money so mistakes will be made.. hopefully he learns from it.

To be fair Diame for a spell under Rafa was immense, remember he was moved back into a ball winning midfielder and the ball would just seem to stick to him. He’d come out on top of every 50/50

Harmony can obviously be maintained while signing players, however it may narrow down the options we can look at because the wage structure for the kind of players people are expecting now is on the lower end. We can’t go signing 18/19 year olds on 150k a week because footballers have fragile egos and it would be a risk to the dressing room, I actually think where we are right now could make things tricky (although it does open up more options) because bringing in new first teamers and dropping a player that has played well enough that we are 3rd in the league has a good chance that it doesn’t go down to well. Competition is good yes but these players seem a tight group and I think management will be very careful about who they replace especially in January. As always there’s a balance to be had and fortunately for us the management have shown that they know what they are doing so any move they make we can all have faith in.

Stone cold vs the rock title match at St James

Didn’t they lose a final against City like 10 years ago? Did they not make a big deal of that? Seem to remember them trying to rub it in our faces even after they lost.

Won’t be 150k if it’s true we’ve approached which I doubt we have, step to far at this stage considering the other clubs interested. Another club might well offer him 150k or more.

If tomorrow isn’t to early to start him

Harsh to judge him as shit from what we’ve seen, I think there’s potentially a player there but if there is it’ll happen at his next club

I reckon he starts the next game that the opposition won’t spend 80%+ of the game in a low block

Lack of other options

Confidence shattered after a poor early run here and doesn’t have the mentality to get himself right, I usually hate people saying this but this club isn’t for him.

Tbf they knew that before tonight’s game

We played a weak side and it didn’t pay off, we could have done without the extra fa cup schedule anyway. Disappointing but far from a disaster.

Problem is the wrong word, but it will probably change the initial planned timeline of things drastically. Europa league we could get away with a bit more but to put up a serious CL campaign and sustain PL form even with 3/4 more players from here will be a real challenge. For the people saying ‘to good of an opportunity to miss CL, spend now and grab it’. Never that straightforward, I don’t think we’ll stray to far from our original layout for January.. the summer however.

I’m expecting if we dip into the foreign markets it will be for a young prospect, any first teamers we sign will already be in the PL imo. Summer will be different.

Can only blame ourselves for not taking the chances, Leeds were lucky but did well to frustrate us and make it as difficult as it could be

Think we score before this is over