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And what of Gardos? Is he still hanging around.

Should have sold him in the summer when he was hot property. Now he's just another disgruntled player who's probably been stirring it amongst his team mates.

Urrrgh no thanks.A sick note of epic proportions.

Why would we need loans ?

That's not the way it should happen in a well run club...which we claim to be apparently. Players don't like the manager ? Then they either adapt to his system or are sold or loaned out. It's isn't a WI meeting on the Common.

C'est toi Claude?

Too late,he'd already completely turned the match in Utd's favour as per usual. All clubs suffering a loss after a wrong refereeing decision, later corrected on appeal, in the first, let's say 30 minutes, should be awarded a point because the match has been wrongly skewed against them. Won't happen of course.

Really? Do the players now decide how the club play football and who does what? What we need is to weed out the troublemakers and sell them to Shanghai or something for vast sums.

Strange that this sort of letter wasn't being sent to the Echo when we were winning games a couple of weeks back. So fickle. We just don't have the players to be anything but mediocre, that's true but most just won't seem to admit it as such.

Fuchs, Mahrez, Kanté, Schmeichel and Vardy would all probably find a place in a Top 6 side. When you have goalscorers going at the rate that Vardy and Mahrez did last season it make all the difference. We have VvD and Forster as top flight players now, the rest are pretty so so. There's no axe or base as there was before. When you buy a young guy from Bayern for 12 million there's a reason for that, especially when they replace him wirth a 30 million £ portuguese kid.

Doubt it, he's a winger and has gone seriously backwards of late.

Who knows but he's suspended for the next match anyway.

Must be an old list, Cana is pretty crap and Brandao has been banished to somewhere in the 3rd world because he's a bit of a felon. Kazri was transferred to Sunderland last winter, the errors are endless.

From what I can recall everybody looks fitter and more of a threat going forward in Pochettino sides. It's the way they are, play till you drop and then play some more style.

Forster won't be dropped and we all know that.

Long is a waste of space who's either offside or committing petty fouls when doesn't need to be. Apart from that the front 3 was the same as against Bournemouth...who was complaining then? Davis is a better player than Reed, Clasie was injured and Romeu took back his usual place as he should. So this comes down to Hojbjerg and JwP doesn't it ?

I've seen this a few times and without being 100% certain I'd say that Redmond does pull Delle's arm a bit again when he is inside the box.

But all that has nothing to do with rotation, it's about systems. Derry is vehement in his criticism of Puel because of rotation obsession which obvioulsy isn't correct.

And I quote: "Last night the manager messed up big time. His rotation obsession with three games coming up provided a compromise team against" etc The formation is as maybe but basically we don't have a good enough squad to be any better than we actually are.

I really don't understand these "rotation" criticisms. Who wasn't on the field last night that is better than any of the players who were. Forster..Number 1 keeper. Cedric,Fonte,VvD,Bernard..usual back 4. Davis, Romeu our two best midfielders, maybe JwP is questionable but is Hojberg really any better? Clasie being injured. Then we have JRod, Redmond and Boufal...who else is there really? Offside and serial fouler Long? Questionable.

We're 8th in the PL and we have a mid-table side, you know one composed of mid-table players. There's nothing to be changed in that by sacking Puel. If we want a top 6 side then we need to get some more top 6 players and pay them Top 6 salaries. It really is basic. We need a better AM, a better DM and a top notch striker, when we've got all of that we'll see about Puel's future.

Which is exactly as I said it would be. The day of 4ft 6 squirts like Ball and Scholes in DM is long gone. What they lacked in stature was made up with aggressivity which would today ensure they'd see red after 10 or 15 minutes.

No Hojberg then, thought he was supposed to be the bee's bolleaux.

Chelsea spent over 130million last summer.When we can do that perhaps we'll have "better coaching" as well. Top 6 are also buying players they don't really need again, keeps them off the market and boosts prices to levels they only can afford.

Well I thought what we've seen in this last round of games is that the top 6 have rebecome the top 6. For a season or so the hierarchy wobbled a bit as lesser clubs found gems from elsewhere with their improved budgets. Then the top sides just moved up a gear, changed the "standard" fee for a middling top player to north of 30 million instead of a bit less than 20 million, boosted the base salary to over 5 million a year and the operation was achieved.