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I don’t know where this thought has ever come from that Stephens could do a job in midfield. It’s an absolute nonsense.

This suggestion will never cease to baffle me, but yet it keeps cropping up.

We clearly haven’t been asking the right questions!

Seen Kraft mentioned a few times on here, whether it’s just speculation but charges against him for solicitation have today been dropped.

Insight like Weston McKennie the guy that signed for Juventus isn’t good enough for us?

Yes, he’s better than both of them when on form.

So because Pickford is rubbish we have to accept McCarthy being rubbish?

"One of the options"

Unfortunately he would still be an upgrade

Patricio, Pope, Leno, Martinez, Lloris, Schmeichel, De Gea and Henderson are all very good goalkeepers.

That game slipped my mind to be fair. He cost us points at Arsenal home and away, Newcastle, West Ham and Man City.

He’s a number two, should be backup, but we’ve got ourselves into a mess where he starts every week. Only really good game I remember him having in the last year we lost anyway.

I can see what Ralph is trying to do with the high line, but to try and implement it in a short pre-season is madness. We really need Salisu to be the business, Stephens and Bednarek really aren’t good enough. Romeu is abysmal, so slow and an accident waiting to happen with the challenges he puts in, the early one on Hojbjerg where he got booked was ridiculous. If we could afford to we really need a top class goalkeeper as McCarthy is a constant accident waiting to happen.

Romeu showed today how limited he is in midfield, he should be a squad player at best, not a regular starter. I would've taken him off and put Smallbone central when Djenepo came on.

Yeah, the rest as you’d expect.

Smallbone

Why? He isn’t good enough

Someone like Loftus-Cheek on loan wouldn’t surprise me

Burnley will be Saturday night.

No

Think you’re reading too much into that, Semmens doesn’t pick the team.

Has he ever properly affected a game from the start for us? Even his best moment was as a sub.

We're not going to spend 20 million plus on a player we don't need. We probably won't spend that on a player we do need.

Nothing on this occasion i'm afraid.