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Exciting! Can someone check hotels nearby?

What players would you play in a back four tomorrow?

Spot on.

More than Mane went to Bayern for.

Translation: 'He's the Portuguese Shane Long'

It's a short career.

Posted on a forum.

Wasn't Bednarek signed as a backup at the time? Says a lot.

You're absolutely spot on. It is galling to hear that from the top of the club, especially given clubs like Brighton have shown positivity and creativity striving to thrive in the PL, rather than just surviving. The condescending, negative tone of Martin is worrying. It shows a lack of ambition and drive that may well then spread throughout the club.

The anxiety and fear of gameday is back, sans any form of hope.

There's just been a weak and brittle feeling to Ralph's teams since he's been here, interrupted by some brilliant patches where it has all clicked. I'm sad that those patches seem to be anomalies, rather than indicators for what could become our permanent mentality. As it is, we are vulnerable and passive, and we need something to change.

Potentially season ending, that.

That we're even requesting this of Ralph is a damning indictment.

Our policy used to be to only sign players that would improve the first team. Oh how I long for those days. It is criminal that Valery, Bednarek and Stephens are all considered starters for us, still. No progress.

Fuck, Ralph and his players were saying that for the previous 10 games prior to the summer break. How many times will we fail to respond?

It would be a baptism of fire, agreed.

All of our centre backs would against Kane and Son, to be fair.

Lewin's made of glass, isn't he?

You're pretty lazy and useless then, aren't you, if you don't earn enough to do that? 'If' is a loser's term.

Still a Tory though

Isn't it true that Broja didn't enjoy his time here and that relations soured in 2022?

I've always pondered about Bednarek. When we signed him, was he viewed as back up? What did we pay again for him, £5m? I wonder if we ever considered him to be a first choice centre back when we bought him... Salisu is still learning the ropes. He is very young and clearly has talent, but is prone to errors and nervous performances. I'm not worried about him, I think he has bags of potential. I think we need more potency up top. One thing I feel we really miss is someone that can make runs in and around the pocket between the striker and midfield. Currently we look very pedestrian, relying on runs from our fullbacks. When they're cancelled out by the opposition having rigid positioning, it leaves us looking inept and toothless. I do wonder how we can go about fixing this. I do feel sorry for Arma.

There's a tall player for Leicester who needs game time... he was good for Denmark in the last international competition, too...

This was about us not being able to break down a team that, for the most part, sat behind the ball and closed us down. Sound familiar? Teams have us sussed.

I'm not nervous as we are complete underdogs. This time, though, we're underdogs with a real bite. Reckon we could do them if luck is on our side.