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Yeah, and he bloody well had to score the winner against us as well. Typical. Just thought....Morgan's shot in the 90th min at Anfield, came off the bar and bounced on the line....that was the difference between 6th and 7th! Small margins.

It's a good read, but if you go back to our pre-season threads I'm sure they'd be a bit of a laugh as well! Hindsight is a wonderful thing! But one thing I will say, is that I never quite understood why people tipped us for relegation. I mean, just look at who was in the league with us.....Sunderland, Villa, Burnley, WBA, Hull, QPR. What made us so bad? and so much worse than that rabble? We lost 4 or 5 players, but replaced them all. Whilst still keeping hold of Morgan, Wanyama, Fonte, Clyne - those 4 right there were never going to be in a relegation battle. It was just the easy pundit line to use, people who don't really know a great deal but jump on the band wagon (Hi Savage.)

I don't want us to be complacent. If we do lose Toby, I fully expect us to sign a first choice top level CB to replace him. Yoshida will continue as 3rd CB. I think we should get the most we can to be honest, sentiment in football is all well and good...but we shouldn't just sell him for a small price just so he gets his move. We hold the cards, if someone wants him, they pay us exactly what we want.

But Gazzaniga still has 1/2 years left on his contract.

Was going to say - this means for sure that we'll see 2 keepers IMO. That just leaves Paulo as the U21 GK. (unless you count will britt) Not surprised by the list, really. Sinclair for example was never going to make it here. He was sent back from Hibs because he was a bit pants! Will be interesting to see where they end up. I hope Jos gets himself a good club back in his hometown to bring down his career, good pro.

And if last summers signings hadn't already gone badly enough.... Meanwhile, 20-year-old Reds forward Divock Origi, on loan at Lille, has had the dubious honour of being named in Ligue 1's worst team of the season by French daily sports newspaper L'Equipe.

But it won't stop our old friend Charlie trying to position himself so he's ready to spring into action.

Ah good, Saint Charlie is back on form as Meltdown v2 begins.

People keep mentioning Theo, but who will pay his 100k p/w + exactly?

Lol @ Spurs fans. Showing their lack of football knowledge as per usual. ''Am I the on,y one top hat things ward-Prowse Is the better player in their side and I'd prefer him. He looks to be an outstanding prospect who is delivering now that he is fit again''

He's pretty much shouting to Wenger ''Come and sign me''.

I wonder if his previous club, Strasbourg, have any sort of sell on %?

Who knows, the standard in these qualifiers are pretty poor. Not sure on how the seeding works, but Hull as an example got drawn against Trenčín in the first round, and Lokeren in the play off (they lost to them on away goals). Spurs got through by beating AEL Limassol

What are fans lapping up exactly? He gave us a great season when he could have easily sulked and not given a ****, but he was top draw. He will get a move this summer and I think we will all wish him the best as he's given us 7 fantastic years. It might not be done as quick as some expect though, there may be a bit of a midfielder merry-go round this summer. Pogba, Khedira, Vidal, Toure, Iklily Gudigudon (sp) all likely on the move.

At least that rules out Spurs. And actually, looking a bit more into it, that's totally not what he said - ''not quite what he said actually. He said he would only leave for a champs league team'' .......but at least it STILL rules out Spurs.

Potentially two ties. One 2 legged third round qualifier, which is at the end of July, and if we get through that then another 2 legged play off (Mid-august) to see who gets into the Group stages. The 2 legged play off is contested against the winners from the third round and the teams kicked out of the CL qualifiers.

Talking about Harry, fair play to Shearer last night on MOTD who said....''Redknapp needs to take the blame for QPR's relegation as well, people are forgetting him''.

I thought we were going to have another ''Let's be avin' you...'' moment then.

Congratulations Norwich. Shame it wasn't much of a contest in the end. Boro didn't really turn up.

What's Davvy Klassen like? Saw us linked on a random football rumours forum, no substance to it what so ever other than the fact he's dutch, players in holland and is an AMC.

Boro look beaten out there.

Pretty impressive I'd have thought, given how often we churn out players and improve players such as Morgan, Clyne etc.

Shouldn't you be more worried about who Cook is going to sign for you guys? 200k for Wallace was pretty poor.

This sounds to me as if Madrid will now need Toby. MIRANDA SET FOR EXIT Atletico Madrid defender Miranda is set to leave the club this summer, according to AS.

He may have, but he's quite clearly a player on a quick slide to obscurity. Failed here, at Bremen, at Juve.