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I think he'd burnt his bridges, but club also wanted the money, it was a big fee for someone who refused to sign a new contract.

He didnt want to sign a new contract, not sure it was about money tbh.

Possibly, but we spent another £50m in January, and now have a bloated squad which = higher wage bill...

Cant see Tino going anywhere, might not even be fit for the start of the season. ABK, Salisu, Lavia and Adams will probably leave. JWP maybe.

I dont think money was the issue though tbf, the money was there to buy a striker, it just didn't happen because we couldn't get it over the line (Ramos / Gakpo). Larios transfer was irrelevent

5 at the back doesnt work with this squad. None of the CB's want to play LB or RB, and when the full backs start higher up the pitch they just get lost and marked. They're better off starting deeper and driving into that space for me. 5 at the back, also kills our midfield, and we give up a huge amount of possession to the opposition. Teams that are successful playing 5 at the back are hugely well drilled and absolutely nailed that system, we aren't going to do that. Look at the issues Spurs are having, they have the same issue playing 3 at the back, in that they give up huge amounts of possession to the opposition, despite having better players than the majority of teams in the league.

I don't mind him as a squad player, or when we play the bigger teams away from home, but you know you need 3 more attacking players on the pitch than him. For me, I see him as the "Steven Davis" role, but he's not as good. The more frustrating thing is his passing isn't great, so even when we do get in decent areas he gives the ball away which is infuriating. It is a predicament about how far this club has fallen in quality, that he's starting for us, but I'm also not sure there are many other better options, especially it certain games. He's pretty reliable.

Struggling to care too much right now tbh, as I've all but given up, but if we have any chance at all, this is a must win A very annoying 17:30 kick off, means it takes up your evening as well. We have about 400 first team players and about 5 that are good enough for this league. Back to basics, try and stick out our best XI players, and give ourselves a chance to get a result. Possibly go with any of Djenepo, Walcott, Elyounoussi, either Armstrong, or Orsic alongside Adams and Sulemena. They're all pretty shite. Macca / Caballero KWP ABK Salisu Perraud JWP Lavia Alcaraz SArmstrong Adams Sulemena

Probably fair, but I put them there because: Orsic - we bought him and haven't played, he's been at the club for nearly 2 months cos contributed nothing, we needed him to come in and help keep us up. That's not necessarily on his quality, and he's clearly a decent player, but how have we got ourselves into the position of him having zero effect on the run of games he's been here for. Paul - we need goals, he doesn't look like scoring any and doesn't really fit the system we play (high press intensity etc) But could put them in too early to tell section, as they've not done anything wrong.

Good Signing: DCC £7m - Good player, clearly got a bit of an attitude on him, done ok when he's played for a pretty low fee Lavia £11m - Absolute class act, looks like he's been playing at this level for years and should bring in a decent fee in the summer. ABK £10m - Good player, despite being a bit injury prone Bree 750k - very cheap, teachers pet, advance replacement of KWP, and shouild be decent in the Championship. Not Prem standard Bad Signing: Bazunu £12.3m - Rubbish - might be good in the future but not what we neededAribo £6m - Absolute rubbishOrsic £5m - Came with good pedigree, experienced international, somehow we've bought someone who doesnt fit the system / clubPaul Onuachu £16m - panic buy, looks a bit lost in the premier league, and carries very little goal threat, no better than Adams Jurys Out / too early to tell: Alcaraz - Looks decent but not played much and wasn't the answer at the time Larios £6m -Cheap, could be good in the future, signed as backup and clearly talented Edozie £7m - Cheap, might be good at some point, but probably was never really bought for this season. Sulemana £22m - panic buy, goodplayer in there but not what we needed in January. Mara £13.5m - Brought in as 4th choice striker and one for the future. Not what we needed In isolation they're not horrendous IMO, but it's the whole thing thats a shambles, We already had a poor squad, and probably only Lavia has come in and cemented his place in the first team. I can't believe we spent the best part of £50m on Onuachu and Sulemena, and we still don't loook like creating or scoring any goals. When we lost all the experienced players in the squad in the summer, (Forster, Redmond, Stephens, Romeu, Long, and toa certain extent Bednarek), we know we had to bring in a few players with some proven prem quality, not gambling on 13 players who may or may not have been useful. We needed a keeper who is solid and can save shots, a striker who was going to go and score 10-15 goals this season, and a CM to replace Romeu, young players are always inconsistent. Some of the players above will be assets next season in the Championship, because unfortunately, they are currently nowhere near good enough to be playing regularly in the premier league. However we will still need some experienced players next season regardless.

The point being it also lifts everyone else, and pushes the opponent back because we have a goal threat. This season, teams have just pushed up against us and suffocated us, and eventually scored. We always had a threat on the break because one pass and Ings and Broja could be through on goal. We've now got Sulemena who doesn't look particularly comfortable playing up front, and Onuachu who, lets be honest, doesn't look close to scoring any goals in this league. He might do a job off the ball, but he's no more of a goal threat than Adams, and doesn't offer us anything in the press. We've got a very large squad of players, with them fitting different systems, but not particularly the one that we play, and a keeper / defence who give goals away for fun. It's been a mess of a season, last summers window, hiring a bloke who the fans could see from the first moment didn't fit the club or the players in the slightest, and waiting too long to accept their error and get rid of him. And then not having signings lined up for the start of Jan when they should have been through the door. We got exactly what we deserve this season, lets be honest.

At least we might win a game.

I disagree. There is no doubt that that hasn’t helped, but Bazunu doesn’t ever save anything, if we had Forster for example there this season, he’d have made the odd save that he shouldn’t, look at how many games we’ve lost by 1 goal. I think a more solid experienced keeper would have improved our defence too. Unfortunately Bazunu has been a disaster for us this season,

Yup. We wanted him, he didn’t want to come. Fair enough,

Awful, but how Bednarek has made himself that small stood in front of him I’ve no idea. Still absolutely awful from Bazunu though.

Gareth Southgate

This video is a half decent watch to give you some background, I'm assuming you're planning on producing something similar without the match at the end...

IPTV

Anyone know of any tickets going ?

Would guess tomorrow morning as not heard anything....though surely they'll be travelling up tomorrow...

Same starting XI for me. only argument would be KWP in for AMN, and possibly Salisu in for Bednarek, Bednarek did well last week though… Assuming we stick with 4222, and I see no reason why not, then Armstrong and Elyounoussi the best options in the 10s.

From what I've been told moving forward, I'd expect Elyounoussi, Walcott and S Armstrong to play as the 10s in a 4222 system. They know all the triggers and pressing in that system. Once Edozie, Orisic etc learn to play the system & learn the pressing triggers then we will see more of them in a few weeks. The others are just more reliable atm in a 4222. Was no surprise to see us go back to the playbooks 4222 last weekend, and would expect more of it.

I think it gets moved back to the Saturday, due to them playing on the following Tuesday. Not 100% sure though. It's an absolute shambles really. 4 games have been moved, and 3 of them might get moved again.

And city game might get moved back to Sat 8th…

That was because they’d had a bust up the day before the palace game, and Jones agreed to do what the players and Selles wanted and went to a back 4 for those 3 games. This was the first win in the league. Jones listened…and the players thought they’d turned a corner.