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Personally I still think Solanke is one of the more overrated English youngsters to have come through in the last 5 seasons. Youth level and senior football is two totally different things, Solanke hasnt even done anything relative at Bournemouth and has only scored 1 PL goal his whole career playing for us, Liverpool and now Bournemouth. Even Klopp preferred keeping Origi ahead of him. How he has an England cap is beyond a joke as well in all fairness.

Think he is spot on to be perfectly honest. City will be the biggest test we have had this season I would say. I still think they are a better team than Liverpool, although defensive injuries at the minute are their shortcoming and after the loss today, the manner in which it happened too with VAR controversy etc, Pep will be furious. I have no doubt that they will come out and play at a very high level. We have to do the same, we have to be solid without the ball and the spaces between the lines need to be tight because as soon as De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling, Gundogan get into those spaces between defence and midfield, anything can happen.

Sell Kovacic? What are you smoking? His consistency and performances this season have been excellent. Barkley yes maybe but Kovacic wont be going anywhere anytime soon. 100%. Suggesting that is even more ludicrous. I watched Milinkovic-Savic play against Celtic in the Europa League, Lazio were at home, he was pretty pathetic I thought. I know how good he can be and is but still, Id keep Kovacic than sell him to buy Milinkovic Savic. 100%.

Think his experience and leadership has helped Palaces backline and also his individual performances this season have been good. Good to see hes getting regular minutes, we all know he didnt maybe play as often or as well in the last 2 seasons here as he could have but Palace suit him down to the ground.

Sheffield United have played well all season. They remind me of Conte's team here in a way and its not just to do with the 3 at the back. They dont have any real glaring obvious weaknesses and thats huge credit to Chris Wilder and the players who the majority of them were in the championship with then. Good to see John Fleck finding the PL reasonably easy after his career stalled for a while when he was the next big thing in Scotland with Rangers. VAR is a shambles too.

😂 Solskjaer was the second coming of Fergie last season and with no disrespect to Frank at all, they are now doing a FL v OGS thread? Fuck me their fickle fans. OGS was always a bad move for United, his career speaks for itself as a player maybe but as a manager, which he has been since 2008, he managed United reserves, Molde, Cardiff and Molde again before going to United.... when does that ever happen?

Its difficult because we do lack height in the team. It would definitely will help us seeing as we use a zonal set up more at set plays and that but even then its going to be near to impossible for Frank to get players that are 1) very good, 2) fit his system/style, 3) strong in the air and 4) tall. Sarri had the same issue and with thia current squad, it will still more than likely be the same. We have Kovacic, Kante, Mount and Jorginho in MF who are all under 5 ft 10 and arent exactly brilliant at attacking the ball in the air. Azpi and Emerson are in that bracket too with regards to height, although Azpi is better in the air than he gets credit for. Its tough because the organisation was improving but Ajax game shown its still an issue even with height or not. Rudigers return will help I feel he is very strong in the air and good at attacking set plays. The only things about Mourinho and Conte's teams here was you knew that we would have a lot of bigger players for set pieces offensively and defensively. Its almost a trait of any Mourinho and Conte team, strong in the air defensively, very big threats in the opposition boxes at set plays. Even physically there was a difference.

Notoriousoy known for tormenting our right side? Hes had maybe 2 good games a few seasons ago against us as Tomo said and thats it. Reece James and Willian basically just did the basics today defensively and doubled up on him and he struggled. Maybe a bit disrespectful to both of their performances as they did more than the basics in the full capacity of the game but still, I really cant remember the last time Zaha made a huge impact against us and he never ever looked at getting going today either. Still cant believe people think Zaha is a 80m player. Cant believe Palace believe that either. He basically alternates between a winger and a free role off striker and he has 0 goals this season. And Palace haven't exactly started poorly either.

It will never come to that. Youd be mad if youd think Paris would keep him for that long and risk that. They were going to be offering him a new deal but because of the wages hes currently on and what Neymar is on, its complicated. They will get over 275m for if they go to sell this upcoming summer, 100%.

No chance. Why would a club sell a player who cost almost 200m, whos eclipsed Neymar who cost 220m, as the main man of their team and is significantly younger.... if Mbappe goes for 200m Id be so surprised. They will have significantly undersold him.

He wont extent but he signed there for how many years? 5? 6? After his loan was done. Hes still got to the summer of 2022. If he goes next summer he will still cost someone over 275m easily. Hes only 20 or 21. Probably the best player of that age in the world. Multiple Ligue 1 winner, a world cup winner, arguably the next best footballer of the next decade and plays for a club who do.not need to sell for peanuts as they are Saudi backed. You do the maths. They wanted over the 220m euros they paid for Neymar and in a world where Real Madrid paid a sum that will make up to 130m in the next few seasons for Eden Hazard who had 1 year on his deal, it makes the fact people believe PSG will sell at this 215m figure even more laughable.

I still think Real Madrid or Barcelona are the only clubs that Kylian Mbappe will ever consider leaving PSG for. Even then, £215m is a bit low as well considering he cost PSG £158m and has continuously gotten better and is one of the best players of his generation. Anyway, I think any club (and that includes Barca and Real) who bid £215m will get laughed away by PSG anyway. He is going to cost someone very close to 300m minimum after this season. Why would Real try sign Salah and not just go for Mbappe, who Zidane has very much wanted since returning as well as the fact that the former Monaco owner has stated that Real is effectively Mbappes dream next move when he decides he doesnt want to play in Paris any longer? Liverpool as well I think, despite how good they are now, when Klopps cycle there finishes (also like City when Pep decides he wants to change teams which he seems to do every 3 or 4 seasons based on his career so far), they will lose a bit of their appeal to the top players. Or thats what I think anyway. Maybe not be relevant if they make the bid next summer as I imagine Klopp will still be there until he takes them as far as he can but in the long term, dont see Mbappe playing there. I will be surprised if Bayern dont try and make an approach for Klopp come the summer if they go for a short term appointment until then. I think if there is a set price yeah the PL clubs will match it but ultimately I still think Real and Barca are going to be his preferences.

Even then if we were better defensively than we were under the first 4 or 5 weeks or so that number would be even less. Progress has been made all over but we cant stop and be ecstatic with where we are still, we need to keep plugging away and continuously improve. Couple of top players in certain positions will give us a boost as well. Willian can be improved upon as can Giroud and Batshuayi, although everytime Batshuayi has come on for us he looked threatening compared to when he starts and also at CB. Realisiticlly I would say in the next 2 transfer windows the likes of Giroud, Alonso, Willian (50/50 as Lamps is very keen on him), Barkley and Pedro are all possibly at risk of being replaced/upgraded upon. Also a 2nd keeper will be a needs sooner rather than later as Caballero must be around 37 or 38 by now surely.

Think if he goes so he can play every week at the latter stage of his career it makes sense. Hes been a good servant here if I am honest, a top professional, as well as throughout his career with Barca so if he wants to go to play every week and its fine with the club, he will go with the clubs blessing. We are moving forward with younger guys and a younger manager. He will understand that having seen something similar at Barca with the likes of Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Deco etc all leaving around his age too. His experience, attitude, how he progress as a player from a young guy to a top top player as well as what hes won throughout his career, will definitely have helped or rubbed off on some of the younger guys here and I am sure when he goes a bad word wont be said.

Perhaps but saying imagine Lampard doing this or doing that doesnt mean anything because Conte was also like that to a degree at Juventus and won X amount of trophies because of it. Managers have different styles, man management techniques and whatever else no two managers are identical. Some can keep 11 players happy, some can barely keep 5 happy... If you read the quote its hardly as if hes said the players are shite or that, he said they played for Sassuolo and Cagliari before. They are now at Inter who are a much bigger club with higher expectations etc much like what Mount, Abraham and Tomori are experiencing here. Okay its never been publically said which can go both ways with players depending on how they are but if Inter go out, react and win there next game 3, 4 or 5-0 do you think they guys will be complaining about it then? Or the board might decide to free up funding for him although with the squad he has they can still get a CL space for next season easily. We all know he likes a moan and I can see why people would be worried perhaps but it might work for him, they might react, they might sign 3 or 4 new players.. who knows? Plus I would imagine getting beat 3-2 would of annoyed him more than anything to do with the squad, I am sure Inter have lost their last 4 away CL games.

Lets be honest the money hes on here Arsenal and Everton wont top it. Or if they did anyway, it would be a step down regardless so if he decided that was what he wanted to do it would show exactly the sort of person he is. His place last season was never a given and also this season its not. If he thinks he deserves to start every week because he got a new 5 year deal on big wages then he is horribly mistaken.

Tbf when you read the actual article the quotes about lack of winners, Barella and Sensi dont seem as bad as they do in that tweet. He is making excuses at Inter already which is a shame because he has made huge progress with them in a short space of time but perhaps they have reached a limit as to what he stated in another interview. I reckon they, like us, maybe need 2 or 3 players with more experience and higher ability in certain positions to push them on. He is just being a realist although in a very blunt way.

343 would be a good shout. Kepa Azpi/Zouma/Tomori James/Kante/Kovacic/Emerson Willian/Tammy/Pulisic Palace are doing well, this isnt an easy game and they'll be up for it. Hopefully we will be a bit more effective in keeping and recovering the ball than in the first half tonight.

Dominated the game? Lets be honest. It was a game of 2 halfs anybody could see that. Even with 11 men in the second half we started much better despite conceding that 4th goal (poor goal to concede). Again blown away, hugely inaccurate, I said in other posts how a draw was probably a fair result but again Onana made 3 or 4 saves, where other than that superb one from Batshuayi, we would of wanted the players to have done a lot better with those opportunities. Michy and Tammy particularly had a few decent chances. Where as I can remember only one chance where Kepa had to make a difficult save in the second half. I do agree on the point regarding giving this team time but there will be pressure on Frank and the squad to be up there and at least be competitive, we dont have the same luxuries as other clubs, weve sacked more successful, much bigger and better managers than Frank so I dont expect him to get any other sort of free passes bar this season if the transfer ban isnt removed . There is plenty talent here and we've known this for years but the expectation here will alway competing/winning trophies based on the clubs last 15 years. That wont change. Still a lot of work to be done with the team and 2 or 3 key additions in specific areas on the pitch wont hurt.

Another good 45 mins from him. Has a bit of everything.

Considering James played RB and is a RB I dont know what you mean on his weakside.... Anyway. The game. I've said it about plenty of other teams so its no different for us but if you concede 4 goals in under 60 minutes, you probably dont deserve to win the football match. Same could be said for Ajax looking back at it too. Draw is probably a fair result, they were good first half and we were good in the second. Sure we had a disallowed 5th and missed chances but like I said, a draw is fair. We cannot expect to outscore teams in games if we cannot defend better. We did excellently to get back to 4 all but on another day we wont score 4. Frank made a good change at HT and hopefully Masons injury isnt too bad although he wasnt great tonight. More VAR shit, starting to get sick of it, its becoming more of a talking point than the actual games themselves.

The goals theyve scored havent been anything spectacular and thats what worries me about us. Stupid fouls and a poor defensive set up from freekicks/set pieces. Every set piece most weeks I still feel we are going to concede from them. We were very lucky to get the penalty to bring it back to 1-1 as well I think, looked soft but cant complain about getting it as we needed it and need other goals to get back into it.

Unlucky there for Kepa I feel. Bad freekick to concede and as usual we end up conceding from it. Big turn around needed to get anything from this game.

Mounts final pass has been disappointing in 2 or 3 very decent half chances he has had to free his man. Think Ajax look as if they will score everytime they deliver from outwide or at set plays...

Zaha and Ake signings would be a waste of time and money I feel. If we want wingers and a central defender go for top quality. Simple as. Okay Zaha maybe be a better fit than Ake as hes at a higher level but hes hardly an outstanding player that will get much better. Hes at a age and level now where he will more than likely remain at a similar level for the next 2 or 3 seasons. Also doubt we will honestly get Sancho, so perhaps Mikel Oyarzabal is a worth while alternative.