ErwinK1961

Got to give the media guys kudos, they are fantastic. They've made the best of a bad situation and have got people second guessing - which is the best they could hope for. Just wish the football side were just as good.

He had three injuries last season. Also has missed 31 games over the last 3 seasons with Celtic due to injury. Sounds injury prone to me - pop it into your FM algorithm and see if it generates an injury prone trait.

Would rather have Callum McGregor

£15m?! F***ing hell. Though that would work out at £58k p/w, not £90-95k.

Stuart Taylor didn’t set the world alight either, yet is our third choice goalkeeper. Again, no idea what relevance you’re trying to make by bringing Spurs’ 3rd choice goalkeeper into it.

Not sure why you've bought Gazzaniga into this, or what point you're trying to make to be honest.

Can't see it - played half decent for a few months and now Spurs, Liverpool etc now want him? No chance. He's finally earned himself a number 1 shirt, if he wants to chuck that away to be a number 2 somewhere else then good luck to him.

What article?

Good deal for Burnley that. Thought Bryan was very good every time I’ve seen him

Seeing as they survived most of the season without Mendy, I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't that that fussed about pursuing Bertrand. It's Spurs that I worry about, if Rose left.

Yup - sure I read an article somewhere when he joined where he said he'd like to go back there before the end of his career.

Pickford had a mare of a season at Everton.... yet managed to win Fans, Players and Young Players of the year...

It doesn't half hit home how average a squad we have, when it's written down in front of you.

Top work, thanks Batman. On the face of it, at least they acknowledge mistakes were made. Good to see they are looking to improve communication/connection with fans and also the need to act quickly, but don't enjoy this continued blaming of the VVD situation for our poor season. Obviously though it could just be a lot of hot air, let's wait and see what happens. Though Ralph asking us to judge them on reacting to their mistakes next season is asking for a lot of (un-earnt) trust, especially when they'll be asking me to part with the best of £700 in a few weeks time...

Do you really think Emery is realistic for us? Maybe after Koeman, but surely not now.

Regardless of promotion?

Wouldn’t be unhappy at all if we appointed Hughes longer term, he deserves it. However, main pro point on Hughes for me is the continuity it would bring having a manager installed from the get go, ahead of pre season / transfers etc. So if there was a ‘better option’ out there and you could guarantee that they would be in place from say 1st June to be well ahead of the game, then I’d be ok with that too. Problem is, there’s no way our board can be that proactive, as they demonstrated in the last two summers. Also the telegraph article from the other day said no-one else was under consideration at this stage, so if they aren’t going with Hughes it’s going to be another long summer.

I'm saying we replace the likes of Boufal et al, who cost a great deal and delivered feck all! Hopefully the money recouped from that and possibly some player sales we don't want (Bertrand / Cedric), the leftovers from the VVD cash and some money from Gao / TV money will be enough to conduct some surgery. But as you say, and as mentioned in my original post, I'm not keen on Les / Ross spending it.

I don’t know, I’m not a director of football at a Premier League football club. But when you factor in the money spent on Carillo, Redmond, Hoedt and Boufal (c. £60m), we are still no closer to replacing them whatsoever. Our best CB this season has been a young Polish lad we picked up for £5m - there is good value and quality out there, if you look in the right places. The recruitment team need to up there game in the summer.

Do what we should have done over the last 18 months - replace Mane, Pelle, Fonte and Van Dijk. Properly. Replace Bunsen and Beaker, as well as Ross Wilson. Can chuck Dave Watson in there as well, don’t think anyone has improved under his tutelage and his hairs sh*t.

This.

I've got the best solution for both teams... We beat Swansea - move to 36 points (after losing to City on last day) Swansea then beat Stoke on last day - move to 36 points Huddersfield lose to City and Chelsea, then only get a draw with Arsenal last day - move to 36 points, but with a largely inferior goal difference and go down So Carlos, if you're reading this... make it happen

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy.

Shake hands on a point before hand? Would give them 100 - everyone's happy...

City just toying with West Ham - if they weren't trying to take the p*ss in the final third, they'd have 7-8 by now. Hoping Pep decides to give them all the day off for good behaviour when they play us.