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FA Cup

Now - Fulham - Palace
17:15 - Brighton - Forest

Sunday

13:30 - PNE - Villa
16:30 - Bournemouth - Man City

Premier League

Tuesday

19:45 - Arsenal - Fulham
19:45 - Wolves - West Ham
20:00 - Forest - Man U

Wednesday (all 19:45 kick offs)

Bournemouth - Ipswich
Brighton - Villa
Man City - Leicester
Newcastle - Brentford
Southampton - Palace

Thursday

20:00 - Chelsea - Spurs

Who will be our new vice captain now that Trent is leaving? Salah, Robbo, Macca, Konate, Ali? Any others?

football is back baby

Big game to really set the standard for the run in. And a big level of vengeance after we bottled the game at Goodison.

Sounds to me that Gravy is a doubt and not sure on Trent but every one else ok. For me Endo has to start.

Alisson

Quansah
Konate
Virgil
Robbo

Endo
Macca
Szobo

Salah
Jota
Gakpo

Let’s hope Gakpo starts, we’ve missed him. Maybe Diaz is back at #9 but tbh with jota & Nunez both being so crap it doesn’t really matter. However Gakpo on the wing is important.

Didn't know where to post this.

Anyway the latest episode was pretty good:


View: https://youtu.be/Alfy5o0aBgY

Carra is absolutely spot on about Foden.
Neville actually thinks Foden is on the same level as Bellingham 🤣

The internationals bore me tears so in the interest of talking about anything bar national teams.

Let’s say we do manage to hang onto our lead and win the title this season.

Where do you rank this title winning team amongst our other title winning or even other teams since the switch to the EPL?

There is a lot of talk about us winning the worst league in ever but I don’t see it that way at all.

Utd routinely won titles with low to mid 80 points totals.

I think this win would be right up just below Chelsea’s Jose’s debut win, Arsenals invincible and Utd’s treble.

So. Where are we.

2 weeks til we next play. Fun game. Title says it all. 3 players out, 3 players in. No other rules (out from say the most played 15/16 players). Assumes no other departures e.g. Trent, VVD, Mo and a sense of realism on incomings.


I think i'm going:

Out:
- Jota
- Tsimikas
- Nunez

In:
- Alvarez
- Zubimendi (or Baleba - but that might be least realistic)
- Kerkez


May come back later and revise but just trying to get things up & running on this boring break

I was going to reply to the transfer thread but figured why not create a new one.

RE: rotation, Slot should've rotated a bit more but I think the whole rotation thing has been a little bit overstated. The only players we're really talking about are Endo and Elliot.

Up front, Gakpo and Diaz have been well rotated. Unfortunately for us Gakpo got an injury at the wrong time. Nunez has had loads of chances and been shit in 90% of them. Jota, sick note as per usual. Chiesa spent what few minutes he got earlier in the season looking like he was running in boots made of cement.

In the midfield, Jones has had opportunities when fit and has been hit and miss. Elliot has been used very sparingly but unfortunately in the limited minutes he had earlier in the season, didn't impress. Endo absolutely should've been used more, no question and that points of a level of stubbornness and inflexibility.

In defence, Bradley looked pretty iffy at the start of the season. Ditto Quansah (who the jury is still out on). Gomez, unlucky with his injury yet again. Robertson and Tsimikas have been rotated reasonably I would say - neither option is super reliable.

So the reality is that the squad isn't as good / deep as some began to believe it was earlier in the season and once again, we can trace that back to the summer. Many thought we'd buy a defender in the summer, we didn't. Many thought or should I say desperately hoped that we'd buy an attacker in the summer, we didn't. We spent all summer trying to replace Endo and didn't. We're now seeing the very real consequences of some of those decisions.

Klopp and co laid a very decent foundation for the incoming manager but no doubt they were some pretty big shoes to fill. Given that I thought we'd collapse after Klopp left, can't really complain too much about how things gone.

There are points of concern - e.g. Fark's small time mentality observation, the weird contract stand-offs etc - but if we're all honest, we knew the squad needed work. We just have to hope that this summer the club will show the right level of ambition.

I take it it’s all around the world then as in even our South American players will be going. And no doubt wanting rest when they get back.

Just wondering how it will affect the starting line up against Everton who probably have nobody apart from their keeper playing