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Yes signing Marquinhos would be great in terms of his ability but this is also the player Tuchel played as a DMF a lot.... would like to sign Verratti if possible but I doubt it will come off.

Lewandowski would be unreal. But no way we get him. Surely not

By watching the games. Dont start with this you spent about half a season defending someone who couldn’t control a football or score in a barrell full of fannies, so this is a bit bold from you 😂 Although I would say, ironically, without Mount we are probably similar to how we look without playing Werner under Tuchel in recent times.

2 games? Over the course of a season? Really? When he’s played over 50 games. When he was very good v Real Madrid in both legs which was our best performance arguably with Tuchel? No? Maybe but you’d think he was a league 1 player by the surprise he was even in the running for POTY and the general response on him when the results don’t go our way is baffling and ridiculously naive 75% of the time. I mean did anyone expect him not to be? Really?

Well I suppose all the fans who voted him POTY are wrong then? When hes probably been our most vital player under Tuchel... if you like him or not, the difference with him and without is huge.

Oh please. That was the same for Demba Ba, Loic Remy, Danny Drinkwater among many others. Then all these guys were not of the required level and it showed. If he didn't play for us in the academy/u23s years ago it would be a non starter. I mean even Ziyech, Havertz, Werner have all struggled its not as easy as he will be better cause we have better players than Leeds

Jesus. He will be thrown to the wolfs first time he misses/plays bad. Decent player for Leeds, not good enough for us.

Jesus. 22 year old who isn’t consistent gets slaughtered after a team loss. Yet again, insufferable reading some of the absolute pish against some of our players by the usuals who say fuck all when hes doing well and only ever seem to care when this team is losing games so they can bitch about certain players. “Ridiculous choice for POTY”, ok..... Yes there are other players who could have got it, maybe so, but isnt that the same with POTY every season more or less? Theres usually 2/3 players people think aye he could get it. Mendy and Silva maybe can be up there no doubt, 100% but Silva hasn’t not exactly had some bad games/moments plus people tend to forget how bad our defence was with Frank where Silva played and made high profile mistakes/bad games. Mendy or Mount would of been my shout and luckily nobody had said about Werner being POTY in which I think I would delete my account if I had seen anyone put it...

Obviously nobody wanted to be finishing only fourth this season but in January that didn't even look possible with Frank so lets not hide behind the truth. Getting fourth whilst stated at the beginning of the season originally would be an underachievement, we got there and got to 2 finals so to say its not an improvement on last season would be lying also. We have improved considerably under Tuchel. This was always going to be tough to gauge an actual achievement this season because of the unrealistically low expectations with Frank in all fairness, 4th last season was seen as a major achievement despite finishing 3rd the season before with 80-85% of the same squad. Not to mention being like 12 points clear of United IIRC last season by December time and they end up leapfrogging us. But getting this group to two major finals on top of getting to 4th either way, considering the dysfunctional team with no real structure when under Frank, its a clear sign of progress. Yes its not enough for some people and ultimately I still think the players have a lot of blame for not winning the FA cup, plus today and the Arsenal games also showing the fact this squad/team still needs more and can do much more also. The summer be interesting but the majority of what I have seen with Tuche so far, there is clear signs there and an opportunity with some additions that we can likely be the closest challenges to City next season (my personal opinion if we stick with 343 and add say 3 top top players we will be very close).

Its not a huge issue but surely someones got to see the danger there no? More so Werner considering he ran right past him. No idea who lost him originally but abysmal and avoidable either way

Aye but does he not think he should maybe try follow him no? Considering the ball rolled into him. Its not rocket science surely. Abysmal goal by all accounts

Seen some of the highlights. If we do sign another attack next season we will do better. If not, we are fucked. Also, wtf was Timo doing at the corner for Traore’s goal, I get its not his man but he just watches him run past him basically.

But they still went in right? Another 15 goals for us would of helped this season. Be it from Tammy, from Kovacic, from CHO, whoever. Those extra sort of goals would of been appreciated considering out striker went on two barren tuns stretching probably close to 30-35 games in all comps.

Never watched it but we got CL so cant complain too much.

They wouldn’t count as corners then would they?

Shut their academy down though a few years back didnt go down well but implemented a B team IIRC. Some good players there. The way they kick games off is unique also go check it out if you get a chance 😂

Theres no way to even justify Southgate taking more than 3. Walker can play RCB perhaps aye in a 3 but even with 26 players, it would be beyond stupid to take more than 3. Hard decisions to take though for sure.

The intensity was the main difference. Seems as if the cup final result fired the boys up.

Fair enough re Kepa. Still for the saves Mendy has made and his performances this season I think he could have saved it. But still won the game so all in all cant complain too bad. Still think the pass out from Reece a few days after making a pass from same sort of area (albeit much more ambitious) was a bigger concern.

🤣 I suppose we have Tierney at LCB most of the time but if one if Robertson were to say get injured get injured would just put Tierney at LWB. Baffled by 3 LBs still lol. Defending isnt our problem scoring goals is.

Great news. Nathan Patterson and David Turnbull as well in which is good also. 3 LBs tho is dodgy. I am a bit shocked that Ryan Gauld didnt get a call up. Kevin Nisbitt also good to have him in. All in all good choices

Theres being “fan boys” then theres just pointing out the oblivious double standards when he does something or doesn’t do something its 10 x worse. Whatever way anyone feels about Kepa fair enough but its not just him, its been in the past with a lot of players. It seems to be a routine that every few years its player X, Y or Z and if it were warranted a lot its fine but this season especially not so much. Aye he is not good enough to he our number 1 granted, clear to see nobody disputing it and for 70m, huge wages being on the bench isn’t exactly good for the club or for his career if hes ambitious which yous think mist of these pro footballers should be but if he was in goal tonight and we conceded the exact same goal what do you think the forums reaction would of been? I am curious to think if you do or don’t think a huge majority of people would of said he should of saved it? In fact I am almost certain folk would be saying he should of saved it. Which is why I don’t think its unfair to say Mendy could of done better with the goal tonight either, no? Because on the countless viewings of the goal I have seen I don’t think its entirely implausible that if he is down a bit quicker he keeps it out, very easily. Not an obvious howler and he’s a big bloke but some of the saves hes made in the CL etc you’d of thought he could save that no? Watch Kepa under Sarri and see his distribution. All I am saying. Best thing about him bar his dodgy/bold refusing to be subbed in a cup final moment 😂 Mendys improved a lot and thankfully as well because its a big way of Tuchels teams playing out but to say Kepa’s distribution is overrated now is just well suppose as stated above usual. Granted distribution doesn’t mean anything as hes not good enough as a big clubs number 1 GK... Big part of the improvement in Mendy’s distribution is definitely down to coaching but also the options we have now building out too under Tuchel. We always have the 3 CBs which attracts teams up to press and eventually they try to then we always have the numerical advantage with Jorginho/Kovacic tending to drop in to those deeper central areas also which creates the options to play out. Similar with Sarri we always had good movement and rotations to get the ball out, which is one thing I liked about watching us with him although in attack we needed different players to suit his style more.

Aye thats true valid points. Suppose we will see tomorrow.

Id still think just win it, get a convincing performance. Dont want to be losing a game prior to another cup final. Gather momentum and winning breeds confidence.

Have to disagree on that. Whilst Mendy has improved his distribution a lot after initially looking a bit iffy at times under pressure earlier in the season, the only thing Kepa has that is better than Mendy is probably his distribution. Still think that was a big reason why we signed him in the first place, in La Liga he was a decent GK but his composure and distribution with the ball was very good and obviously Sarri being Sarri that helps his football. Suppose no point being good at distribution if your not as good at saving things. I dont think the defence v Arsenal or both games Leicester really looked any different. Honestly. I mean we could have played Hilario in net for all 3 games and it wouldn’t have made a difference in regards to how the defence looked for me, I just think we are well drilled as a back 3/5. We didn’t concede many big chances in either games. Mendy obviously more commanding but we were solid again bar one stupid collection of mistakes and a shot maybe if hes down quicker he saves. No clean sheet again is frustrating.