Tomo

Whether we are staunch Frank in or staunch Frank outs tonight is irrelevant. We were shafted tonight by Anthony Overbo, simple as that.

Perks of being in Valencia of all places

Usually I accept decisions even out, but this is bullshit.

Thankgod I'm on a pub crawl tonight.

He makes Torres look like Drogba mentally. Has Barca gate really ruined him this badly?

Yeah I still think we will get a result despite this lineup, it won't be pretty though.

Imagine this lineup without RJ and one of Emerson/Marcos? Hopefully if it's going wrong Lampard will react quickly like he did at Arsenal.

That's probably worse than the front three, Tomori should have started this one.

I can usually see logic in a lineup even when I don't agree with it but what the hell is that?

Ive been travelling and I've been to 4 major cities and 3 rural areas since the Leicester game. Feels like an absolute generation ago since we last played.

Out of tonight's options, Callum would be best.

So basically the big two were covered by Coutinho and the £40m bracket players were covered by the ridiculous prices they got for Ibe etc. They may be able to sign players at the £40-50m territortry but I can't imagine given their recent patterns that they'll be able to afford Jadon without a big sale.

Do Liverpool have much money to spend gross? The only time they've really splashed out is when they've had the Coutinho money.

Because Sancho is a generational talent, he's not with us he'd be at a rival for the next 12 years. Its basically a Rooney 2004 situation all over again. Re the title i still think the core of our team will still be that little bit too young, as shown this season there's still a bit to learn from them and the manager, I personally think going from what we're seeing this season to challenging Liverpool and City is too big a jump in one go. However I don't disagree signs of progression will need to be shown, but that will be judged (atleast by me) based on what's being seen tactically rather than who is or isn't signed.

I still think next year is a year too early for a title challenge so if we have to take some short term hits to secure Sancho then fuck it.

If Sheffield United get a CL place then that eclipses Leicester's title in terms of scale of achievement for me. Atleast with Leicester you can point to Kante, Mahrez and Vardy, SHU don't even have any standout individuals apart from at a push Henderson. Would be an absolutely bonkers feat by Wilder.

Do City still get to play in this season's CL?

Said it before and will say it again, for all the critisism our board get (some legit, some not) they would look world class stood next to Woodward and co.

Even though De Jong and De Ligt cost a lot signings from so called weaker league's tend to be a bit cheaper more often than not because there's still the "it's a weaker league" stigma.

I don't believe he will make a career long decision based on six games. I think it's very possible we can convince him over United even if they get 4th over us (and vice versa), I'm a lot more worried about Real/Barca entering the fray as i don't fancy our chances of beating them to it even if we win the CL. Anyway atleast we've covered ourselves against the prospect of missing out on Jadon. Don't get him and we have the quality plan B here already, get him then Ziyech can play as a midfielder/#10, win win.

Who the hell is Lampard's nephew?

And if we get Sancho. 'I swear if we get him instead of (insert whoever Arsenal are linked with)'

Have my doubts but at this price it won't be a signing we're stuck with long term if goes wrong, will be able to recoup most of the fee. Hopefully he's signed prominently for CM/CAM, or in blunter English hopefully this signing isn't an indicator we've given up on Sancho. Little risk, high reward.

I don't think it will be either way. Let's be realistic whoever makes it out of us and United could well go out in the group stage next season, do you really think a 20 year old will decide his long term future based on 6 games? Real, Barca or Bayern entering the race will be 100 times more worrying than falling out of top four.

You can look at every victory any teams ever had like that if you pushed hard enough, they all rely on other teams being not good enough to some extent. If Arsenal kicked on from their invincibles we don't win back to back titles, possibly not even one, but they didn't so it doesn't matter. The reality is we done enough and Arsenal didn't, you bang on about them"fucking up" but we had ourselves enough of a buffer by going unbeaten until November. We fully deserved to finish top four and most season's we would have with that tally.