sadoldgit

I know what you mean, but improbable as it sounds, it was true!

Apart from something just smaller than the Great Wall of China appearing along the Mexican border.

on.

Cant see a player coming to the end of his career and with a giant sized ego not going to a club playing CL football next season. He also has an Osvaldo type character. Still, on the plus side he has been accused of stamping on Lovren's head so he cant be all bad.

ard

Don't see this at all. Selling any player has no bearing on how the club view European ambitions. You just might as well say that the club aren't properly serious about staying in the Premiership if they sell Mane.

lava

True legend. Lawrie Mac was right, happy to pay just to see him play. I remember a match at Selhurst Park where he picked up the ball in his own penalty area beat two players when most would have punted it away, ran the length of the pitch and put a shot just past the far post. I remember thinking that moment was worth paying to see on its own.

I would quite happily lend them a tenner. They have done a tremendous job with this club and if people are going to say why didn't you do what Leicester did I would say why didn't Chelsea, United, City etc. do what Leicester did.

Do you think that he would have not wanted to lift the World Cup without "quality" ?

explosion

Perhaps it was just for some after hours shooting practice?

Or more accurately, toddlers with guns. Not sure that they would do much damage with a Farley's Rusk.

You only need to read the meltdowns on here when we lose to know that it is win first, win pretty second. High pressing and possession is all well and good if you score goals. Playing on the counter is all well and good as long as you score goals. No matter what system you play, as Cruyff said, you need to score one more than the opposition. Do that frequently and you will keep the fans happy. And remember, for all of the beautiful "Total Football" they didn't managed to win anything in the 70s.

But it is not that simple. If players indicate that they are not going to resign, we either sell them in their final year of contract or let the contract run down and lose them for nothing. As we have seen with several of our players in the last couple of seasons, many of them would rather go to "bigger" clubs than stay and try and make us a "big" club. We can tell clubs to do one but it is more about what the players' aspirations are.

And this is the thing. Leicester had players this year who managed a level of consistency through the season that they hadn't before. City, Arsenal, United and Chelsea all struggled to find that level despite having stronger squads on paper. You put together the strongest squad you can at the start of the season and you work hard to get the best out of them. Pelle, Mane, Tadic and I should add Wanyama all had patches of poor form. Not just a question of making poor decisions, but as Ron would say "not playing out of their level." Lighthouse pointed out quite rightly that many other clubs also had players who were not performing as they can. That is what winning and losing is all about - getting the best out of what you have. The margin between the two is very fine. Spuds nearly made it three before Chelsea equalised. If that third one went in everything changes. If Pelle, Tadic, Mane and Wanyama had found this level of form a few weeks back we would probably be looking at European football again next season. If the players that Lighthouse mentioned had all performed more consistently we probably wouldn't be talking about Leicester today. None of this means that we have a poor squad or that we don't have enough quality.

Not in the context it was said. Don't you think we have a decent squad on paper? Would you have thought at the start of the season we would all be raving about Vardy, Mahrez, Kante and Drinkwater?

Doesn't make it wrong though does it?

I think there is plenty of quality in the squad but our problem has been consistency. If Pelle, Tadic and Mane had played to their potential more frequently we would have more points.

MotD put together a montage of the bad fouls last night and despite Chelsea's habit of making a meal of any physical contact, it was pretty damming.

Following your own logic cheating with a "hotel stick insect" would be okay as long as said stick insect wasn't family.

How many times did he play for Wales though? I seem to remember he was always "injured."

This.

They were lucky to finish the match with 11 men still on the pitch. Several could have been sent off. North London Classless Yobbos.