Tomo

Because he's the closest thing to a sitter/deep playmaker we have on the rooster tonight, as hilarious as that is.

Yep, if physicality was the be all and end all Mou would still be the best manager in the world.

For a back three to work long term it needs a concerted fullback there for balance purposes.

Mendy in goal gives us a lot of leeway aswell.

Conte didn't get "found out" until he started sulking and half arsing the job. We were second going into the second half of the season, all be it miles behind City.

Who's the other two?

Through all the hysteria I haven't realised City have signed no one yet. Are they fucking Pep over and refusing to kick on aswell?

If he was a free transfer like Turnbull he'd be third choice (at best) already.

Who says their weaker? They'll probably still finish top four again but as we saw with Arsenal for years and what we see with Tottenham, the mentality to win medals is either there or it isn't. I won't be confident if we have a title race with City as I feel their experience in them will see them through, it's highly unlikely both City and Liverpool will be so poor to allow this to happen but I'd be mega confident if we end up in one with United.

Have they sacked Ole?

Okay

We did sign players that summer and if that didn't drill home the message that we shouldn't sign for the sake of signing then nothing will. Thankfully we seemed to have learned/Tuchel is doing it differently to Conte.

We may aswell have signed no one in 2009 (Sturridge barely played and Zhirkov was useless) and we went from 3rd to 1st.

And one of those reasons was because Rashford naturally grew from a 10-13 goal a season forward to a 20 plus goal a season forward. Don't get me wrong this is far from my ideal but I have a lot of faith in this squad (I seem to recall you do to as that was the main reason you wanted Lampard out) and most importantly manager. We're second from his arrival and won the UCL without requiring any real rub of the green.

Okay but on the same token, why are so many people banking on Sancho coming in and smashing it straight away? Speaking strictly for next season I bet Kai scores more.

I love how people are so closed minded to the prospect of our attacking signings improving in their second season but (going by the mass sucking off of United cause of their "great business") also seem convinced Sancho who is signed from the same league is going to smash it straight away.

The comparisions with the Conte window I find the most amusing, that summer we literally did what people want us to do now (spend for spending sake).

You're changing the subject now. You say we can't afford to "stand still" (not long after we brought half a new team and one of the world's best managers but I digress) then surely by that logic we would have won the league last season.

If the league was won in the market we would have pissed the league last season.

Problem is, can we motivate to perform his best in these type of games if he knows he likely won't be rewarded by playing the big ones? I agree with the idea in theory but in reality Tuchel is dealing with a human aswell a player.

Ole is still at the wheel though.

He didn't have the slightest bit of a right to moan. However that said I don't disagree he's a good guy and hopefully he can find a good club for himself this summer.

The comparisions with Conte's summer is bizzare. So far they literally couldn't be any different.

If that's the case then why are people banging on about Haaland being the answer to all our prayers instead of a creative midfielder/wingback?

How you win a UCL should be factored too. Robbie was a written in the stars job (old guard on last legs and his good karma from his career ending injury) while under Tuchel we went pretty much the entire knockout round without relying on any real rub of the green going our way, even Barca 2011 were a better Bendtner first touch from going home in the R016.