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Poor old Fry's dimwitted fingerprints are all over this place - the repeated insults, the constant references to CL football being totally unrealistic, clownishly pie in the sky and utterly shortsighted, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. But yeh it's easy to miss

Spurs supposedly.

Agree. It's not just Leicester, though their achievement dwarfs everything else. Look at us the season before or even this season - we've been not a million miles away from the top four, even though our first XI is not a vintage one and we've endured some very sticky form. Or better still look at West Ham. Meanwhile the top sides -with the exception of Chelsea in the first half of the 2014/15 season, Spurs this season and the odd City battering- have looked bang average most weeks, even when winning. It will be interesting to see what happens next season - whether the trends we've seen over of the past couple of seasons continue or whether the top sides tool up, return stronger and nip all this in the bud. Whether a team plans for top 4, let alone plans to win the league is thus neither here or there. The real question is whether the gap between the top 4 and the top half has compressed to the point where teams can realistically challenge for top 4 (which may justify a change in approach). That comes back to Leicester: they didn't go on a lucky cup run; they outperformed every other team for 38 games. Time will tell.

Leicester’s response to the naysayers is like Sachin Tendulkar in his pomp contemptuously swatting a ball away for four. Or something like that

I've dealt with these questions in the past -yet you continue to flail, evade and deflect- all because you made a tit out of yourself a while back. May be ill respond when you've actually addressed my points. In the meantime, I'll watch you work yourself into a rage as you seemingly trail the issue into every other thread. CABAYE, CABAYE, CABAYE!!!!!!!

Alas if our net spend had been in line with the league average, we might have had a bit more quality in the side and squad than we currently do -and been knocking on the door for top 4 this season.

Congrats Leicester. And to think aiming for top 4 marks you out as a deluded, m**g f**kwit on here.

Lamella and Dembele should get bans. Rose seemed to go off with a hammy. And Toby looked pretty bad.

Fantastic game.

How about Dier?

Hope the authorities have a look at Dembele

For all his critics and compared with Clasie, Wanyama played the best ball of the half when he released Tadic for our second.

#misguidedmissile

Who said they were all pro-remain? And what does senior business leaders in the City even mean? I assume you mean financial services and a motley crew of hedgies. The financial sector in special pleading against EU regulation that's attempting rightly if imperfectly to address market failures of the past decade, whodathunk it? What a stunning insight there.

Think you're overstating things. Even if Koeman decides to see out his contract, he has every incentive to do a good job if he is gunning for a bigger and better move. Look at the fate of some other mangers; memories tend to be short: a decent CV can be blotted by a period of recent underperformance. Whether a given manager is here or not won't really affect the club's planning for the long-term - Koeman probably doesn't has much direct say in these areas anyway. Even if Koeman is committed to the long-term, it doesn't necessarily mean he will act in a long-term way. The pressures on managers to perform -regardless of their contract length- virtually guarantee that they won't be looking beyond the next transfer window or two. Koeman admitted as much. Ultimately, the market for managers is not the same as the market for players. We don't need to worry about a manager going on a free. Having a manager enter the last year of a contract is not ideal -though that's why organisations have succession plans; but it just doesn't have the same financial consequences.

Does he play perfect passes? He can work space on the wing to beat a man, link up with the fullback and deliver a decent cross, though that might a function of all the crosses we put in as a team as he also puts in a lot of awful balls. But by and large, he's struggled when he's been played more centrally and be a true playmaker or string-puller. His goals (x2 vs Villa, x2 vs Norwich down to 10 men, x1 pen vs Sunderland, x1 as a sub vs Watford; x1 as a sub vs West Brom when we were already two up) suggest to me that he's been OK when we've been on top; but has gone hiding in plenty of other games, especially when we needed some real quality.

Not sure he's been playing that great of late, more like two games. Think he's generally had a poor season - hence Koeman being quite outspoken about his form. His stats are very decent but heavily padded by being the proverbial flat-track bully. At our level, all creative players are going to be inconsistent and streaky; that notwithstanding, I still feel it's an area we can improve on.

Dont know who crumbled most - the Spurs team or the WHL crowd. Awful support.

Don't underestimate Romeu's passing. Saw him him ping some lovely first time balls on Saturday, including one where his back was turned, he spun and in the same motion found someone in his peripheral vision.

Clasie box to box? Perhaps he has that in the locker but hasn't shown it whatsoever so far. I've seen Romeu drive with and without the ball far more often. His problem is his mobility in recovery and against counters.

That's not how RK saw it yesterday or on other occasions this season. Are Romeu and Clasie a viable pairing?

Where do people stand on the Romeu vs Clasie debate? Thought Romeu played well yesterday and has arguably been unlucky not to start more games. Going forward and assuming Wanyama leaves, can we rely on a Romeu or Clasie partnership, bearing both will have a full season under their belts? If not, what kind of CM would complement each?

And where up on the list of factors would you put it, Johnneh.

How old did you say you were again, pal? 58? Very odd indeed- you're like a cross between josef fritzl and kevin the teenager.