Tomo

When Ross plays with Mount (in a 4-3-3) he doesn't seem to play as advanced as he does when he's the most attacking midfielder, which seems to suit him a lot more. Aside from that little purple patch under Sarri i can't think of a single performance of his playing with 2 of Kova, Jorgi, Kante that he's impressed me, he overthinks things and doesn't seem to be able to handle the pressure of having to be the main guy for end product from midfield.

So out of curiosity, would you have let him walk?

So is your scenario Callum was one of the star men of the most dominant academy team since the Busby babes, had Bayern (well renowned for their penny pinching) willing to spend £35m after two first team starts. He passed all the tests at youth level and all things considered has done well with the step up to the first team. There's never any guarentee with any players but he's done and shown enough to take that chance on, not only that, like I said 120k really really isn't that much for a player of his talent, a standard squad player signing would be commanding in or around that these days, case in point Drinkwater.

Probably not half as bad as if we let him go because he "wanted too much" only to see him furfil his potential at Bayern or worse a top six rival.

He has elite potential and was subject to a £35m bid from Bayern Munich, that type of stuff (not to mention our insistence we learned from the De Bruyne situation) was always going to give him leverage. Infact the fact Bayern would have paid him that if we didn't took all our leverage away full stop. Take a look at Jude Bellingham for example, one season at Birmingham he's commanding £50m and 100k a week (alleged price United are paying). This they have to clean boots and earn the pay rise narrative is nice and romantic and all but just simply not realistic to the state of play in 2020. If we want to keep elite prospects we have to pay up or someone else will do it for us.

Hudson Odoi is on 120k a week basic, it really isn't that big a deal all things considered.

For the Bayern game I'd be inclined to agree but for Villa I'm confident if he's playing more deeper he will have another good game.

Conte aswell, he wouldn't have let us leave our box in the cup game against Liverpool.

In all honesty I thought he was poor against Liverpool despite that great goal but the complete opposite today. He needs to start showing it a lot more often but he will be in the side against Villa (even if Kova returns) and rightly so.

It could inadvertedly benefit us in the run in with him more fresh.

If Kante walks back in the side now it would be outrageous.

Was I the only one that felt a little bit sad for Carlo when they zoomed to the bench? Shame this isn't Jose or Conte then I'd be pissing myself.

Hopefully soon if he says yes to my proposal

Fwiw I wasn't really refering to you more the ones who call him things like Lampard's nephew.

What i dont get is why do people keep falling for it with Jose? I know a lot of us did (me included) but at that point we only really had minimul (certainly compared to now) evidence he may be well past his best. However when he was appointed Spurs manager a lot of Spurs fans were adamant he was going to change, he didn't for the club he made his name at or his supposed dream job but was defiently going to for them It would be like us appointing Wenger and the majority of the forum going to extreme lengths to convince ourselves he's learned from those last 7 years at Arsenal.

Anyone seen the Spurs lineup? They're playing a back 3/5 with two centre backs at wingback, it's frustrating enough watching defensive fullbacks at wingback let alone natural CBs! And to think there were some who actually we're up for a Jose mark three.

I'm worried about him now, expectations have now become far too high. Soon as he hits as bad run of form the impatient crew who have systematically blasted Mason and Tammy will make this thread a toxic place quicker than you can say coronovirus.

Also I wonder what Mourinho will think when Ancelotti gets a magnificent welcome on Sunday. There must be a part of him that realises that would have also been him on every single return if he kept his mouth shut.

Interesting. Under such circumstances I thought we (or any club) would atleast have a say on whether we went there. On another note, penny for Victor Moses thoughts.

I wonder what we will do if we pull another Munich miracle and draw Atlanta (they play their home CL games in the San Siro). Surely at its current state of play they can't ask us to take our players into a high risk zone? Maybe a stadium change similar to Besiktas playing us in Germany that time?

In all honesty i thought Ross was incredibly frustrating Vs Liverpool even by his standards, even his goal came about after he failed to spot that a simple pass would have put Pedro through on goal.

He scored a goal at youth level where he went through about five players with outstanding close control. His goal this season away to Norwich is the type of touch and control to get past the defender we became accustomed to from Hazard. Yes he had a slump in the winter and yes he needs to become a bit more consistent but let's not pretend he never has nor is capable of scoring aestheically pleasing goals.

That's going to look so strange

Im sorry but I had no qualms with his sacking (especially after those horror United games), some of his tactics in the second season were terrible and I didn't feel he was the right man to lead the rebuild we needed going forward (he's more a squeeze the last juice of an experienced squad type of guy, in hindsight the best thing for us and him would have been Mou left in summer 07 and he took over then). We could defend pretty well still but going forward that season was as bad as I've ever seen us. However I will always appreciate the double and the way he conducted himself even at the most trying times (compare his behaviour in adversity to Conte and it's night and day) so for that reason I will always wish him well and welcome him back with open arms.

Although we would get bantered hard given the chant we have for him it would be hilarious if he went to Spurs.