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We wouldn’t be fucked with Rice. Thats a bit overdramatic. I would say he’s a good player but his price will likely be inflated heavily. He’s improved other facets of his game, physically would offer something we don’t have in MF also as well as being a combative player who’s developed leadership skills at West Ham. Yes he’s not a player who is going to control a game but he would still be a decent signing if the fee isn’t incredibly high (ie £80m and above and theres only one club getting the best deal and it would be WHU). And again with Kante’s injury troubles/aging, Rice could do some of the things he would do. Any club dealing with us, never mind a London rival such as West Ham, will expect big money with Todd Boehly’s approach of excessively firing dollar bills at clubs like he’s in a strip club 😂 but this will be the same for a lot of players we go for now - regardless of their nationality. I suppose though any MF player who isn’t Enzo Fernandez is going to be treated as a downgrade despite the fact nobody outside of Portugal and Argentina even cared about Enzo Fernandez prior to the WC.

Yeah Mounts going to end up playing more centrally in midfield. He's not a wide player. Pulisic, Ziyech and maybe even CHO gonna be on the chopping block I think. I mean it would he stupid to assume any of them will stay after we signed a near £90m wide player on a 8.5 year deal. Sterling wont be going anywhere either.

Big issue with that team, there is no way GP is going to go back to a back 3 after playing a 433 for a good while now. Would imagine thats his preferred system. Plus that MF would be brutal on the ball, Jorginho and Kovacic are much much smoother on the ball and better at progressing it than Kante and Caicedo. Kante can do enough but Caicedo is also more in the mould of a ball winner than someone who’s going to go out and put his foot on the ball, controlling games. Plus where are the goals coming from? Felix and Mudryk are also not exactly players with hige goal records. Neither is Havertz? or have I missed something and they’ve been banging lots of goals in all season?

Still think Ziyechs profile is harder to replace though. A wide playmaker of sorts. Granted hasn't done it for us often enough but decent right sided players who are left footed are hard to find. Yet alone someone with his track record in Holland/the CL is capable of scoring and making foals. Has been a huge disappointment on that front for us.

Hopefully this signing spells the end of Pulisic or Ziyech here. Preferably Pulisic. Surprised he came here giving how he seemed so desperate for Arsenal but he’s here now so lets see how he gets on.

Yeah Gvardiol moves dead in the water. You don’t sign a similar age and profile of player on a 7.5 year deal. To go and spend 100m on the same type of player.

Still a lot of work to do. Win will keep the wolves at bay for now, but we have to play much better and quickly.

Doubtful. If Mudryk comes we have to sell/unregister players for PL squad now. So unless we sell we wont be buying anyone else likely unless their u21s but very doubtful.

Why has the club put a post out with Mudryks insta handle despite the fact he isn’t signed? Wow. Idiotic to say least.

Hmm. Not sure what to expect. Mudryk is a good player but the fee is ridiculous. I am still convinced if Arsenal match the bid he’s going to go there. These clubs will start rubbing their hands together now to Boehly and co get it right “how much can we get off these”….

Embarrassing. No way he comes here, he has been hinting at moving to Arsenal for almost 6 months straight. We are seriously seriously stupid wasting our time on a player who’s made it abundantly clear he will only go to Arsenal. Good player too but overpriced. Todd Boehlys scatter gun shoots again.

Erik ten Haag showing what a good manager can do. No doubt, that United squad is worse than ours and made up of several players from different managerial spells but all things considered hes done excellently. Bits of good coaching/management, removing bad influences, instilling discipline/standards and even adding more aggressive players like Casemiro, Martinez and Malacia. We should be very worried if United get a top CF next season. Did not think they’d of had a chance to leapfrog us this season - expected EtH to need more time to do it but clearly not.

He cant walk away for 10 years. He’s swore in due to terms Roman put in the contract for the sale. Which is fucking frightening because the guy is a grade A clown.

Realistically, he was only “craving” to join us as: 1) he was adamant to leave Benfica after winning the WC 2) we were the only club who had indicated to the player, his camp and club we were willing to pay his release clause. I mean he changed his tune pretty quickly after Todd Boehly and co fumbled the deal souring any chance of doing it this month. Look at his celebration the other game - does that look like somebody who was “craving” to join us or somebody upset he didn’t get a move he was desperate for? No, it doesn’t 😂 Come the summer lets see how keen he or some of the other elite level guys will be to join us when every other big club is willing to put their money where their mouth is. This window was our only chance to get him, 100%, wait and see he will go anywhere but here now.

Wow. Well lets see. I mean why do any young English players play abroad? To develop…. I suppose the same statement re why aren't any/other English teams being interested in said player or players who are up and coming/promising/good can be said of Marcus Edwards at Sporting Lisbon who is a pretty good player, Fikayo Tomori at AC Milan, Tammy Abraham at Roma, even guys like Etienne Green at Saint-Etienne and Stephy Mavididi in France too? Who are maybe not at the top tier but are also making pretty decent names for themselves at a reasonable level? Or do all good English/British players have to be linked to every top English club to be considered good? Good god.

I don’t think we will attract anybody who is top class though particularly with GP as manager. For instance with Kante, I think if we didn't have Conte as manager and had a lesser known/average coach in it would of been a different story. Plus again, we were the only ones willing to pay Leicesters asking price apparently. Arsenal toiled as they were interested. Maybe we will get some top players in but I am doubtful, more so than ever, just seems to be a real mess on and off the park. For example, its not like Enzo Fernandez is going to come here in the summer, is it? Yes there may be some good buy’s available perhaps but lets not pretend that there won’t be other big clubs in for players, particularly now for midfield players ie. City, Liverpool and Real Madrid and again, the hardest position to buy players, upfront. We’re probably gonna have to make some smart buys this summer because we will be out of the running for the top top players I’d think. Particularly if Newcastle manage to keep their performances up and finish in Europe their project will also be interesting and seen as a springboard for a lot of young/semi established players trying to make the next step also. It’ll certainly be interesting and whilst the clu had some pulling power whilst in the EL and with no European football under Roman, I think it will be different with Todd Boehly in all honesty. I would of thought Nkunku would of been signing here under the impression we’d be playing CL football. Thats my thoughts on it anyway.

The spell with Tuchel wasn’t quite as low as this for me personally because there was a lot going on ie. the circumstances in the background. In December the Lukaku interview, the Ukraine-Russia Roman-Putin stuff, the uncertainty around the club if it would be seized etc. With Potter there is nothing obvious in the background that may affect morale, performances etc. He‘s just as much to blame as anybody else is. The squads good enough to be in the top 4/6 right now - but we aren’t. Nobody’s improving. Nobody's played consistently. In my opinion it looks like the new owners just want to breed mediocrity at the moment if they decide to keep backing Potter and don’t make a change. They’ve already shown mediocrity also, look at their ability/lack of ability in the transfer market.

Its not unlucky, its a red card every day of the week. Who cares how slow he may or may not have been going, he’s basically slide tackling the guys upper shin/below the knee area. Its out of control. His studs are showing. The balls gone. Its extremely dangerous. How is it even up for debate?

You never answered any of the questions though. Good managers develop players and the team. For example, and this is just ones off top of my head recently and over past seasons: Rashford with EtH, Bernardo Silva with Pep, Son with Conte, Odegaard with Arteta…. Etc etc. Who has GP developed or improved? A man whos renowned for developing players? Name me one from his spell here? May be short but there hasn’t been anyone who has really set the world alight or even improved considerably. The only one who I think could of actually been considered would of been Kepa. And that says it all considering the last 2 games. And when was the last time we comfortably beat a good team under him? Probably was the AC Milan games… in October…. months ago.

The guys played in Portugal, Spain and all over internationally, he knows its a red card as soon as he makes the challenge late. Even Stevie Wonder would of seen that as a red card. I mean look how high he was and the force. Unlucky? I am beginning to worry for some of you.

A lot of excuse’s there mate. Lets be frank. If you insist on a lot of that then heres another way to look at it. Tell me one player who has improved considerably under Potter? His reputation is specifically meant to be built around developing players and coaching teams. Who has come on and is playing good consistently he’s came in? Or is it not his fault and all 25 of our squad are inconsistent? A big bulk of this squad won the CL, CWC & Super Cup in the last 2 years so cut the shit squad nonsense. Lacking in areas, yes, but hardly shit. Not as good as City & Liverpool maybe but definitely as good as United, Spurs, Arsenals squad. And then, barring the AC Milan games, who were the last half decent team we dispatched comfortably? You’ll be scratching your head for a while tryna answer those mate because I think we’ve lost or drawn to most top teams we’ve played under him so far. Also, the 2 AC Milan games were in October for fuck sake. Would be may as well saying about us beating Fulham 3-0 under Rafa in 2013. It would be about as relevant as using those 2 games which were Potter’s 3rd & 4th matches in charge IIRC - and most new managers get that first couple wins from the new manager bounce regardless - so it is absolutely stupid to use that as a barometer because it was that long ago and things started going downhill pretty fucking quickly after we played Brentford 2 weeks later. But yeah 2 games v AC Milan wow he’s done a fantastic job…..

So hypothetically, lets just say keep GP to the end of the season meaning that it will all but confirm we have no chance of salvaging the second half of season? All but sealing our fate of finishing outside the top 6 and having no European football? Yeah great how we gonna make any progress next year with no CL or European football? I don’t think people understand, if we finish outside the top 8, we aren’t signing any top players in the summer. Nada. Zilch. Because they will all go somewhere else for the CL/to compete for trophies. Its like the first half of the AVB season all again. But worse.

Some nice touches in the game but an absolute brainfart moment. I mean honestly, what was he thinking? I get trying to win the ball back but jesus christ, you don’t need to be that clever to know that you cannot tackle like that in any European league. Now he has 3 PL games to sit out and we’re back to square 1.

100% It doesnt matter what walk of life your from or sport or business etc your in, leaders are developed and if the guy at the top of the food chain doesn’t inspire/lead well then its ultimately not going to work. Is it any wonder why guys like Azpi, Jorginho, Kante etc all of a sudden developed huge leadership qualities under Conte and Tuchel? No, its not, because both managers had huge personalities and were leaders themselves. They clearly had an influence. I don’t see Potter having a positive influence on anybody. The football under Tuchel wasn't quite as bad compared to this. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t necessarily this bad. For me, its only because Potter played good football at Brighton that it always seems to be used as the stick to beat TT’s difficult spell here with.

Simeone leaving Atletico in the summer apparently - whats the bet we get him.