Reddish-Blue

Its really up to the players, by the time United come to the bridge in April, we will either be in the top 4 race or well out of it. Liverpool have a decent run up until Everton away and then a tricky run-in for the last 4 games.

I thought we already had that issue with Palmer being in and out of the side? Reece has missed a few, same with Fofana playing like 10 games. Will be a great experience for Hato and probably Gusto (assuming Reece/Josh play RB as needed).

Maybe the fear is, that if Josh does go (on loan), he may not come back as there are plenty of clubs keen on young homegrown CB's. I also think Josh would benefit from having a Cahill/JT type CB next to him, that bit of experience would be crucial for a young CB learning his trade.

Wouldn't that all have been avoided if any of the defenders tried to clear the ball inside the box? And what was Trev doing at the back with his arm up claiming for offside or handball? This is no different to experienced Tosin getting subbed on against Sunderland and then proceeding to let their striker back him all the way into the box and lay off a pass for them to score the goal and win the game at the Bridge. What happened to good old fashioned defending in the box, clear your lines or push it out for a corner, don't let them walk the ball over the line.

I don't see them selling Chalobah as they will need CB's (particularly with Fofana's injuries and Colwill will be returning from a bad injury). Whether Colwill, Fofana, Chalobah and Sarr is enough next season...

Ex-City boys: Tosin Lavia Gittens Sancho Palmer Delap Apart from Palmer, all the players are pretty average.

In terms of talent Santos and Sarr have every chance of joining the successful list. The bigger problem is, all the failed wingers and then midfield with the two glass boys in Lavia and Essugo offering nothing. We apparently signed two players to give Caicedo a breather and yet neither of them have been seen for most of the season 😆 At least the new manager knows Santos so he's got a chance to earn a midfield rotation spot!

There's no guarantee that he would succeed in the PL as a midfielder. Brighton tried to get him on the cheap and develop him but that failed and he went to Strasbourg to develop.

Even if Kane wanted to return to England, he wouldn't come here. It would probably be United or City (considering Kompany would be on their shortlist of managers post Pep).

Feel like Arsenal haven't been in great form recently but they always turn up against us. The only way we were beating them was if prime Cech, JT, Lamps and Drogba were available for the tie. 😆

I don't support the new ownership group but it was a cup game (which we were likely to lose after the first leg result). If anyone actually thought that we were going to the Emirates and scoring 2 goals without reply....those days are long gone. Also seeing some of the fouls Arsenal were allowed to get away with without any yellow cards.....probably best that Reece got a night off.

As if Hall would come back here just to be the squad LB.

That won't matter if he decides to move for regular playing time. Was hoping we would have sorted out a solid loan for Josh this season rather than watch him ride the bench.

I don't see Neves coming here, seems United bound.

The dortmund director confirmed that we have a recall clause for Anselmino in January...

This has nothing to do with a shop window. He's only being "recalled" because we don't have fit CB's. Fofana is a walking injury every other game, Badi can't stay fit and Tosin is injured. We are down to Chalobah and Josh.

Imagine if he did come back into the team and put in a decent shift, would just prove that our defense is actually nowhere near top 6 quality other than Cucurella, Colwill (excluding Reece as he played more midfield than defense).

Maybe a finance issue in terms of European competitions next season Guessing the club thought they could get him for a reasonable fee (40 mil) but Rennes want 60 million.

Even with a decent fee, they would have to get a replacement in pretty quickly.

Looked like Maresca wasn't keen on him after the CWC. We also had to sell Veiga as for some reason he didn't get along with Maresca.

Yeh I don't see him getting sold but if we're still floating around that 6th spot next season, it wouldn't surprise me if he started looking around. There's a market for nearly every player, just depends if the fee is reasonable or not.

Definitely one of the better young talents in Europe. Wonder why Arsenal, Bayern are keen on getting him if he's not "impressive".

It just sounds like the board didn't want to keep Maresca for that long but they gave him time due to the club world cup win. Maybe similar to Di Matteo staying after the UCL win

I doubt Cucurella would turn down the chance to go to City and compete for titles/trophies. The interesting part would be, whats a reasonable fee for him? City may try to offer "youngsters" as part of the deal as Shields can't resist a City player.

Anyone could have taken Semenyo but no one else put a bid in for him. Liverpool were on a massive spending spree last summer, not sure why they went hard for Isak when Semenyo was keen and there for the taking. As for City, I would expect two of those names listed to be moved on in the next window.