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I'd welcome him back with open arms next season but sadly I can't see it happening. Thank goodness, I don't think I could stand losing to the fishy few (and probably finishing below them) next season

Before now I'd have prioritised staying up over the Cup. Since we're basically going down anyway, it has to be his strongest team.

Strange because we could only afford those players in the first place because we sold Lallana, Shaw, Chambers and Lovren. Were the board wrong to sell those players? Would we be better off now had we refused to sell and instead not signed the players you listed? Should we have stuck with Wigley because Redknapp obviously wasn't the right man for us? What about Hughes? If he loses the last 4 games and ends up with 1 point from a possible 24, does that by default mean Pellegrino was a good manager and shouldn't have been sacked? What if Pellegrino had done a Ranieri and won the League? Would it still have been wrong to sack Puel?

IMO Leave Gabbi - Don't think he is happy here. Austin - Big wages Boufal - Will go back to France probably Forster - Someone bottom half of the Prem will take him. Lemina - Back to Italy JWP - Wouldn't be that surprised if someone like Spurs tried to get him as an English squad player. Bertrand - Probably Liverpool Tadic - No way he's staying, had enough here. Carrillo - Bye then Maybe Hoedt - Doesn't exactly scream 'too good for the Championship' Yoshida - Might be happy with regular football. Cedric - Can't see many takers in England, possibly Spain or Portugal. Redmond - Would be half decent in that League Hojberg Romeu Stay Long, Davis, Stephens - Nobody will want him in the Prem. McCarthy - Decent Championship 'keeper

Wages will dictate most of our first team leaving and Austin is one of our highest earners.

If only Leicester had a decent creative midfielder and a goal scoring forward, they wouldn’t be playing like this.

On the flip side, Barbara Bush was bowled out for 92.

You said we can't claim the moral high ground, well we can. Every government is hypocritical and I'm not disputing that May/Cameron are any different but we have the moral high ground over Putin/Assad. No, it's not about Trumps love of Syrian children. It's about stopping Russia from thinking they can prop up brutal regimes who are willing to use chemical weapons on civilians, be it in Syria or anywhere else.

I hate this, "we're just as bad as them," argument. We aren't using chemical weapons against our own civilians in our own streets. Neither are we giving military support to a government which is. With regards to that story, I'm much more inclined to believe our government was simply incompetent in accurately moderating the sales of these chemicals, by a third party, rather than maliciously selling chemical weapon ingredients to a dictator. Also, journalists who criticise our government don't keep dying in tragic accidents/suicides/heart attacks.

It was the right decision to allow him to move on and nothing has changed. The fact that he is having an average season at West Brom (I’d be against him getting double figures in the league) doesn’t really scream ‘the one that got away’. I’d have sold him, Austin and Long in summer and brought in two better (in Austin’s case read ‘fitter’) strikers. We didn’t and now we are where we are. In reality I don’t think any realistic targets we could have signed up front would have done much under MoPe,. So poor has been the football, I reckon Kane would be struggling for goals in this team.

Watch most of them leave when we get relegated and miraculously perform much better elsewhere.

You talk as if people were wrong for wanting more than boring, sideways, risk-adverse, possession football at home to teams like Bompey, Hull, Stoke and Hapoel Be'er F**king Sheva. Puel's teams were invariably set out for a 0-0 and, to his credit, he regularly delivered on half of that score line, if not the other.

Yes, those two players who disappeared for 6 months when it was cold were apparently the be all and end all of Premier League football. Our problems over the last 2 seasons have largely come from how we play as a team, not who is up front. Pelle would make no difference to Puel or MoPe's teams at all. He would just stand there looking board, getting naff all service. It's not as if we've been putting pinpoint crosses into the 6 yard box and the strikers have been shanking them into the car park. We've just played badly and Pelle would look little better (dare I say it) than Carrillo this season. Mané would improve us, as he would 99% of teams in Europe. Everyone apart from Liverpool manages to make do without him, so it's hardly an excuse.

Apart from both games against Chelsea, Arsenal and Man Utd, plus our trip to City, and Spurs at home. Apart from those 8 games, I agree.

What, like Bednarek and Stephens, or are you hoping for a few players who are even worse?

The football under Puel was stagnant, boring and ultimately didn't produce results. Our football at St Mary's was particularly poor. We put 3 crap teams to the sword but in the other 16 games we failed to score more than one goal and scored a grand total of 3 goals from open play. 3 goals from open play in 16 home games. That's how slow, ponderous, turgid and lacking in intensity we were under Puel.

Here we go again. Leicester not really in very good form. A bit like Chelsea... and Arsenal... and West Ham. Same team for me but with Austin or Gabbi in for Long.

Clasie would be better as he has actually been away the whole season but I agree in principal.

Well, that's a 'must not lose' team if ever I saw one.

Travelers do tend to say that though, in their minds they can do no wrong and seemingly couldn't give the tiniest sh*t about others outside of their community. We had problems recently with them in Crawley, last year they broke through a school gate, cutting a padlock to get in, and set up camp on the sports field. When interviewed, one of them said they'd done nothing wrong and had every right to be there.

Not a chance, I know a few Latvians and some of them despise Russia. The Russian population now is only about 1/4 I believe, nowhere near enough to push for some sort of unification. The large majority of them prefer being in the EU and the opportunities for work and travel within the EU. As far as I'm aware, Latvia also lacks the concentrations of ethnic Russians that Ukraine has in the Crimea and Donbass regions.

Or we're in a daft situation where he's our only other available CB and don't really have much choice in the matter.

Thoughts on Sané's disallowed goal? Looked a fairly obvious mistake to me as it was Milner who played it back.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is far more potential in Tadic, Redmond, Jay Rod, Gabbi and Sims than either Puel or MoPe have managed to extract. Even Long is capable of 7/8 goals a season instead of just 2.

Last few meaningless matches? We only scored more than one goal in 3 home games all season.