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Luis Enrique would be good to have, lets show ambition and go and get him, big name in football a great player in 90s can help get some big names here by using the clubs size that has grown and his reputation. But i will be honest I only want Puel gone if the player bust ups are true, falling out with 1-2 players happens but having 4-5 is a disgrace.

Redmond is overrated by some of the fan base and Southgate. Redmond has potential and is still raw, he has shown some good moments but hes been more frustrating, I look forward to seeing him in a better system next season and playing as a winger all year. I think Gabba is the best signing we have made, I would love to see a attack of Austin Jay Rod and Gabba rotation, with 2/3 starting most weeks. Boufal can be good but just needs to adapt, same applies to Hojberg. Peid and Caceres have not played enough to see if they have been good, however both done okay so far. Keepers - All are designed to be back ups, so cant really say miss on them.

Puel deserves the sack for not playing players like Jay Rod Classie and Caceres more and upsetting the players with the system, not his league finish and cup final appearance. Jay Rod is showing flashes of his former self and I feel a full season this year of regular football would of set him up well for next season to bang in 12-15 goals as part of a regular rotation with Austin and Gabba, he has 5 goals in the prem and could of easily IMO had 8-10 goals if he had more playing time. Classie I feel this year in the games he has played been better than last season, JWP has been getting game time when he has had some poor games, Stephens is overrated for me by many on this website, he's a good CB but not someone I want starting regularly for a team whos aim is to finish 7th-9th each season and would like to have seen him rotated more with Caceres, makes me laugh if he thinks you shouldnt mix the defence up but its fine to drop inform attacking players. Players reaction on Sunday on the lap of appreciation will be the real sign for me and if the rumours are true, if the rumours are not true then I think he will be kept for one more season should we win on Sunday and finish 8th.

I have been a Puel out guy and for me he should only be sacked if the fall outs with Bertrand Long Tadic Jay Rod and Remond is true and we want to keep most of them.

If he can learn to mark players better during game I would agree as his man loses him too easy, I would prefer he was 3rd choice and have VVD and Yoshi in front of him or ideally we sign a even better CB and put Yoshi back to 3rd choice and have Stephens 4th choice. He has done well and I am no way dissing him but if we want to finish top 8 and push for 7th he should not be the starter, if we are happy to settle for midtable (10th-13th) then yes keep him as a starter.

Jay Rod again proved yesterday he has flashes of his old self with another good finish. This season we just needed a bit more creativeness and better defending, personally I would sell Long and keep the rest, I would however also look at Tadic and Boufal, one of them will have to go and Boufal is new and Puels boy so I think Tadic may leave this summer.

Puel has to go, we have goals in the team with Gabba and Austin, Jay Rod and Long can also pop up with a few but do not get a lot of game time. Really he needs to play Caceres to see if his marking is better then Yoshi and Stephens, both CBs have played well at times but both can not mark for **** and the 2nd goal with a better CB is avoided. Puels rotation policy means strikers do not get a good run in the team, example recently is he should never had taken Gabba off vs Hull as i think if he stayed on with Long we could of won that game.

I think the board are to blame for the decline as well, we can not keep selling our best players and replacing them with less quality or not at all as per Fonte sell in Jan. However despite the board selling the best players we should still be able to finish 7th or 8th at worse with the cup final, but Puel is making mistakes because I think he is feeling the pressure. I would love for us to get Silva from Hull if he can't keep them up, he came in and has them playing great football and organised, if he had been there 5-6 games earlier they probably would be on the same amount of points of us.

I must have watched a different game but Jay Rod looked sharp vs Bmouth. I would start Caceres over Stephens, he will get bullied hard this game and hes still not doing anything to show me he is developing into a premier league CB. Forster Cedric Yoshi Caceres Bertrand JWP Clasie Jay Rod Tadic Redmond Long Subs to come on Sims, Boufal and PEH.

I must have watched a different game but Jay Rod looked sharp vs Bmouth. I would start Caceres over Stephens, he will get bullied hard this game and hes still not doing anything to show Forster Cedric Yoshi Caceres Bertrand JWP Clasie Jay Rod Tadic Redmond Long Subs to come on Sims, Boufal and PEH.

Jay Rod should of stayed on longer, McQueen is not good enough at LW/RW so that sub is so uninspiring for a home team trying to attack to get the win. I hope we get the win vs Palace because if we lose that we will get dragged into this relegation battle between the whole bottom half of the table. Romeu and Yoshida played well and for me it wasnt a pen but I will need to see MOTD. I want to see Caceres and Yoshi at CB vs Palace along with Long Tadic Boufal and Redmond as the attacking 4, with Jay Rod and Sims coming off the bench.

Sorry but we are all deluded if we think JWP and Redmond are international quality at this moment, shows how awful the England team is, 90s up until 2006 neither would of been anywhere need the side.

Release or transfer. Clasie Long or Jay Rod, personally I would sell Long as hes a bit older and Jay Rod can play LW better, but both players have done this club proud, will be sad to see one go. Martina - I think Puels man Peid will get more playing time, but Martina is a solid back up so will be sad to see him go. Isgrove - release he's clearly not good enough. Loan out. Stephens - Can not mark but does well at tackling heading and trying to play football from the back, I think he has potential to be a solid back up and be a 10-15 game McQueen - Despite what some people think the lad is 22 and needs to be more consistent to play for a top 10 premier league side. Reed - Same as McQueen hes 22 and needs to be more consistent. Lewis - Lad needs to play league one at least to get some experience in goal in some tough games. Potential sell would be Austin, however before his injury he was decent and worked well in Puels system once he adapted back to a 4231 type of formation, I think him having or Gabba as the leading man with Tadic Boufal Redmond behind them, then having Jay Rod or Long come off the bench and the other one who does not start would give us great depth, then you can throw Sims in as well for league cup games and when injuries and suspensions come in. Force sell would be Van Dijk as I think someone like City or Utd will come in with a 40-45 mill bid which we will accept.

Romeu and Bertrand have been the most consistent all season, has to be one of them two. Youngster wise at the moment I would go Sims as McQueen is 22 and Stephens is 23 and you should be 21 or under to win young player of the year IMO, when you think about it maybe the latter two are not good enough to ever be starters as I would expect better from them at this age, maybe a loan deal for both of them to a championship club next season would benefit them massively.

I trust Willow, SportsMania and the paid for add ons will be fine, I think the free ones will be the ones they shut down and they will be searching for there own product first, so I am sure they will be finding the skysports and bt streams on free ad ons first.

It was a great moment, so loud with scarves and flags waving.

Everton showed more ambition than us by saying they would keep the best players and buy more, rather than sell and reinvest, so I can not blame him for leaving, he is still the best Manager we have ever had along with WGS. You cant tell me if you was a manager of a club fighting for 7th and 6th that you wouldnt want a team who is currently 6th to win the cup to help increase the chances of 7th place being a EL spot.

I think we have to start Stephens unless Caceres does get a closed door friendly or a u23 game under his belt first and has really impressed in training. Agree I do not fancy either Yoshi or Stephens vs Zlatan, but if Bertrand and Cedric can stop some crosses along with Romeu and Davis then hopefully that eliminates some pressure, we will need who ever is starting up top to really cut them open, I feel Jay Rod Gabbiadini and Long two of them should start along with Tadic if Boufal is deffo out or only fit enough for the bench.

Can someone confirm that if i get the coach from the Stadium I can park my car at the stadium, or will the stadium not have parking available because of the coaches ?

I have a friend who went to all the league cup home games and is not a member, he went because the tickets were cheaper as like me he has a few kids, there is loads of reasons why people do not go to more than 3-4 games a season, with money being the main factor. I am lucky I have been to 7 games as a member and got my tickets for me and eldest son, but me and him can only make one away game and 1/2 top 5/6 team home games because it becomes so expensive compared to watching say Sunderland and WBA. I have looked on the site and I would say we have sold at least 28,750 maybe 29,000, leaving around 2,000 left, I assume the mental prices for top tier is putting some off.

Not having a CB yet can still cost us in the league standings and prevent a thrashing at Wembley, yesterdays win now means we only need 8-10 points from 13 games to stay up so I do not think we will go down, but I would like to see us finish close to the top 8 as that is where we have been the last 3-4 years. if Les addressed the CB situation in Jan I would feel more confident of a win at Wembley and finish top 10. But if we do finish top 10 and win or give a very good account of ourselves at wembley and we see development in Stephens then yes it would be a good season for Les and us.

Its very tough now on the attacking front. Forster Cedric Yoshi VVD Bertrand Davis Romeu Boufal Gabbiadini Tadic. However replace Gabbiadini with Austin for certain games and same applies to Tadic and Boufal with Jay Rod Long and Redmond, sadly the love for Redmond will ensure players like Jay Rod and Long who deserve more playing time wont.

I blame Puel for some defeats and I think Les is to blame for not giving him the best tools, I think we need a motivator who loves and understands the club if we draw or lose to Sunderland and then lose the final, that man is Nigel.

McQueen is not good enough either, sorry but he is overrated by some fans on here.

The premier league finishing will be crap this year so I really hope we win the league cup and we see Stephens develop into a good CB, otherwise its a BS season by not having a strong 11 that can compete with the top 7/8. We really did not need another Striker unless Austin is still 2-3 weeks away and Jay Rod has a knock keeping him out for the same sort of time, but what it means now is Sims wont get much playing time as Jay Rod and Long will now along with Tadic and Boufal be used outwide of the attack with Austin, Redmond ( FFS) or Gabbiadini down the middle, I would rather we signed a top CB and kept the current bunch until the summer.