S-Clarke

As I said, delusions. Oh dear.

Yes, fair point, but how they've done it just feels a bit weird. Like they have serious delusions. The comments about money to spend are dim though, no doubt about that. They'll probably go out there and spend lots of money on ''names'' in the summer and Alpine and co will get all upset because we're not signing their targets, but come the end they'll have struggled. I think with ourselves, we had a sustainable plan and we were in a little bit of the **** at the time.

No one is saying Elia or Djuricic are better - they need to go as well. But Tadic is better, there's a lot more to come from him next year. We already saw his quality, we're still waiting for the others.

I think you've come to the wrong forum.

Swindon being torn a new one by Preston. Currently PNE 3 - 0 Swindon, just before HT.

Also, are West Ham being incredibly ambitious and forward-thinking, or utterly, utterly stupid? They came out and have obviously said Sam has gone, but they then said the next manager will have ''sizable transfer funds to spend''. 2 problems with that. 1) - You've just told the entire world and their agents that you have money to spend. Congratulations 2) - You've just pretty much said to most of your squad that you will be replaced/are not good enough. Good motivation 3) - You don't have a manager, so who is going to get in early to sign all these players you want?. Good timing. They've tried to get Klopp, Bentiez but look likley to end up with someone who has never managed in England - Bilic. Some people may see what the owners are doing as ambitious, but I see it as utter stupidity. They're simply gambling with the PL position of that club. Let's flip a coin and see what happens...

I'd love that. They'll probably try for Klopp, get rejected, and end up going for 'Big Sam'. That would be a laugh, and another 'meltdown'.

He's had 10 too many chances already for me, It's time to cut our losses and stop living on this cloud that ''gaston may come good!!''. He won't, he's just been relegated from the PL. He isn't a PL player, and that's the biggest proof you can get. Not a bad player, but simply isn't PL. We shouldn't waste our time trying to ''see'' if he can do something, we've already wasted 3 seasons with that. Let's put his wages into someone who will actually contribute.

I don't think anyone can have any complaints, what we have done this season is the thing of fantasy based on our pre-season tbh. I didn't believe we'd struggle, as Sunderland, Villa, Hull, QPR, Burnley etc were in the league with us, but I thought we'd dip a little and was expecting that, but to do better than last season on every front is truly unreal. A lot of credit has to go to every single person at the club, and most notably the manager for putting his idea's across and getting this team to link so quickly. Next season will be a different situation completely, as there will be real expectation (And potentially more games with Europe). We need to ensure we continue to push on from here and not stand still, we're still the 'best of the rest', but I think we're ready to join the 'best' lot now.

BREAKING: Emergency meeting called at Anfield tonight. I understand Rodgers will be sacked. More online soon.

Proud that we maintained that over the season, the defense has really been the basis of our season. Outstanding organisation and a great shield in Morgan and Wanyama, but there will likely be 1 or 2 big voids to fill in that group for next season. So I hope we focus on working out how to score a fair few more goals as well..!

I think the case of the table doesn't lie is true, come the end. But I don't ever remembering a team outside of the Top 6 finishing with a larger GD than the two above (and by some distance). That, to me, shows how close we are to getting ourselves into that consistent Top 6 level.

I would expect this to be sorted positively, based on the noises I've heard from respected people and posters. Hopefully once the dust has settled on that, he can get his mind back on his game again - as he's seriously drifted over the last 3 months.

All I will say is that if we keep knocking away at the top 6 and top 4, we will eventually get there one day, but it requires a hell of a lot of patience and some massive luck along the way. It is somewhat disheartening when you hear that we spent longer in the Top 4 this season than the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool (who were never in the top 4) and they're both above us. But still, a good position for the club to grow. We mustn't let the tail end of the season blur our season thoughts, as generally, taking everything into account, what we have done is truly amazing tbh. Who'd have thought we'd better every single stat from last season?

Because that's the sensible thing to do. Snapshot an entire season over a few games.

I hope not. Will be one of the first shipped out I'd have thought, get as much as we can for him, but expect to make a huge loss.

To be honest, I didn't really notice him.

Bit disappointing to see us finishing below that rabble, especially with our GD.

Duncan got the exact word i was going to put - anti-climax, that's how it felt towards the end. In fact, most of the game felt a bit like that, a bit of huff and puff but not any real quality or massive intent to score a goal. It played out like an end of season game and I was a bit surprised. But for Djuricic - read Gaston. Looks good, but ultimately isn't suited to PL football. Too lightweight, I'd like us to steer well clear of him and Elia. I thought Pelle had a nightmare, but Long played well in the support role - but he just isn't a consistent enough finisher, we do need another of those in our side for sure. Lots to be pleased about this season, and it should be a much more relaxed end of season as opposed to last year. Let's hope we get some news on contracts in the next week or so and then sit back and see if we make Europe or not. But today - bit of a damp ending really, very anti-climatic.

He's priced himself out of a move to anyone other than a mega-power. 100k + p/'w, we will never pay a player that.

Pretty confident with Clyne, I think they're just waiting until the season is done and dusted before committing on that one, seeing as he's still involved in the first team (was slightly different for Jay). K,billy hasn't been wrong yet, and he said with pretty strong certainty ''Clyne staying''.

Fixed.

Just seen this. He didn't need to do that, so fair play to him. It makes a difference seeing comments like this from Jose and Jay, compared to last seasons ''my head is in Liverpool'' and ''let me sign this Liverpool shirt for you'' cock-fest. Look forward to see him running riot with Mane next season - it could be epic.

Jeremy seems to be the 'mouth piece' for club leaks from what I've seen over the years. Would fully expect what he says to be true, I think all in our hearts we are gearing up for him to stay...but in our heads we know that he's already given us that ''1 more season'. I have confidence that his replacement will be of high quality - well, it has to be! Interesting word on Toby - I thought the agreed fee was more around the figure of 6/7.5m - so maybe we're offering a little more $$ to push Madrid's hand slightly? I would imagine we've got the transfer fees for Elia, Djuricic and Toby budgeted for - so in the likely event we don't make either of the wide men permanent signings, we could dip into those budgets to boost our chances of getting Toby.

Amazing. It's things like this which make you wonder if Markus is looking down..