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  1. nick76
    Have you seen him play for Spurs? It’s back to his Chelsea days, no thank you. He doesn’t seem to be suited to PL football.
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    Don’t know where they film but really chants include players chants/songs about McGinn, Bailey, Diaby, Martinez, Luiz, Ramsey, along with general chants about Villa so there is definitely some wrong about the mics. Of course the atmosphere could be improved and several groups are trying to improve that but being a season ticket holder I can hear the significant difference between being there compared to the few games I’ve missed and listened on tv.
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    While I think there is a high chance of Arsenal winning I don’t think it’s ‘no chance’. Arsenal will drop points before the end of the season and probably in unlikely places and I wouldn’t put it past Emery to tactically out think Arteta. Our propensity to concede goals goes against that probability but if we perform as we know we can then anything is possible.
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    It’s probably more the effort they are going to have to expend in this second half might take it out of them although they’ll have two more days rest than us.
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    That’s what she said
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    All the salary sites suggest he’s on a base of around £60k per week.
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    Yeah with so few weeks left of the season, I’d rather they just get 100% fit and ready for next season rather than any thoughts this season.
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    Definitely a tv problem imo. To me it feels about the same, we had that period, then it notched down a bit under Gerrard but it’s definitely back now since Emery came in.
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    This is part I don’t get, why only post the majority posts when we have a negative result or a rival has a positive result. We are in a very commanding 5th spot which looks like it will get CL placing. Emery has done incredibly well given we keep getting key injuries at key times so to be looking at 4th/5th and later stages of Europe is incredible. Eighteen months ago with almost the same team Gerrard had us defeated and looking at fighting relegation. Do I want more? Of course but complaining and saying they are being realistic given where we are and have come from over the last few years is anything but being realistic. We want more but it’s going to take time, if we end up 5th then it will have been an incredible season, I mean we are already on 60 points after 32 games, when was the last time that happened?
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    They're not just going to lose all 5 of these matches. It’s a tough group of games. It would be glorious if they get five or less points but they’ll deserve fourth place if they manage to get twelve points. You look at those fixtures and you just can’t even get a range because they are a bit Jekyll and Hyde from game to game and even within games. Pessimist in me says they should beat Newcastle and Chelsea, could snatch a draw in the derby against Arsenal, they have a very strong record at home against City so could win and assume away loss at Liverpool so that would be 10 points. Optimist in me says, Newcastle at home will win, derby against Chelsea draw, Arsenal draw, City win with KDB and their usual end of season run, and Liverpool draw so 3 points. edit: I realised afterwards the pessimist and optimist on the Liverpool game conflict but I was trying to be reasonable on the total points
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    I wouldn’t answer the phone, he’s not for sale. We should only sell if Emery wants to sell him as he has another player that can replace him. We shouldn’t be on the back foot in selling players. We have a squad full of players that have various high prices and if Emery wants to sell one to buy a number of others then focus on selling them and rule out all others for sale. I think there are a group of our players that aren’t for sale including Ollie, Luiz, Torres, Martinez as well as a few others. It still leaves a number of players that can command very good fees.
  12. nick76
    Damn you
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    We are literally the equivalent of 4 wins ahead of them and they have only seven games left
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    They’re 11 points behind us with only 21 points left available to them and a poor GD. Essentially they need to get 12 more points than us in 7 games as we will get in 6 games
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    It’s also the reason we are fourth and not title challengers because just like Man Utd threw a winning lead away against Chelsea and Spurs conceding late goal to Everton, we can do that.
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    I’m highly disappointed with the 9 minutes of insanity yesterday but I’m generally quite calm about it. IMO we’ll comfortably get fourth or fifth, England will get the extra CL spot and so we’ll have CL next year. Yeah there is a small probability we don’t get CL but the overwhelming percentage is that we will. People may disagree agree with me but at this stage I’m not worried. Hopefully my feelings on the matter will be the same in a few weeks time. Just feels like people are trying to conjure up heartache for themselves as they have done since the turn of the new year. Yes we haven’t played as well as the first half the season but neither has Spurs or Man Utd or the teams below them and nothing is indicating anything will change plus we have a massive points cushion.
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    Our Man Utd game away but I agree with your point generally
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    But it is delusional…mathematically we can still win the league but it’s probably 0.01% or less. Thinking that or putting argument or comment around it is delusional as is Man Utd.
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    They are conceding over 20 chances per game, have the highest shots against since the new year. They now have most of their defence out. Their target is more to keep hold of sixth place because Newcastle and West Ham are very close to them. They are more likely to be eighth than a close sixth behind us.
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    We can also still win the league then! Mathematically it’s possible but it’s also very very unlikely as well.
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    Man Utd literally have to win 4 of their 8 games to get to the same points total we have now (60 points) and they’d still be below us on goal difference. They start the first of those games against Liverpool tomo…most of their defenders are out injured and they have only won two of their last six league games. Man Utd may not even get 60 points this season and that’s before us talking about any points we get additionally in our last six games which certainly won’t be zero. We won’t be dropping to 6th.
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    I think it’s because you’re expecting us to be City or Liverpool at the moment mate. We aren’t at that level and neither are Spurs hence why we never quite get there this season. With the extra bits you keep saying and we’d be up there with the three teams. We’ve done exceptionally well to be where we are. The next step is competing with those teams if we ever can but that’s going to take more of something whatever that is. Three points is all that matters tomorrow and any great performance would be a bonus. Spurs can have their great performance but lose or pick up draws for all I care.
  24. nick76
    Can’t agree that Spurs are playing better than us. Yes they are better on the eye but underneath that they have been worse than us. They are what I call a ‘highlights clip team’ where if you only see the highlights you go “wow” but you look under the bonnet over 90 minutes and there are some serious flaws and they certainly have no Plan B if Plan A isn’t working. Why people thinking we are a lot worse is our stinker of a game against them, which it was but doesn’t negate the rest of it. xG is the worse stat in recent times to raise its head, as somebody said if Duran had headed Konsa’s cross instead of it going straight in the xG on that would’ve been huge compared to xG Konsa actually got and Wolves xG is primarily for Ait-Nouri’s chance. That all doesn’t mean Wolves were better than us, I thought it was fairly comfortable for us overall.
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    Yes, agree. Obviously puts us in a position where clubs can potentially low-ball offers and see if we cave. That being said though, the way he words that bit about Ramsey's fee ('it would be around fifty million') made me wonder a bit if there has been some concrete discussion with interested parties. Maybe not, but found it interesting that he chose to venture a guess around a specific number. I don’t think we are in that position where we have to sell by the 30th June to be compliant. We wouldn’t have brought Rogers in January if it meant a few months later we’d be in the position detailed above.
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