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Why is he leaving the champions for a mid table team? Surely Spurs could quite comfortably persuade him otherwise.

Quality not quantity. DM and winger / creative is all that's required. We don't need to buy 10 million pound "bodies" any more. That's what the youth system is for.

Lille manager Christophe Galtier just resigned. Just won the league against PSG as well. Probably a good shout for Spurs.

Said it before on here. Entire Fabio Silva signing was a way to "reward" Mendes and get Porto out of financial difficulty. Close family friend is Portuguese and huge Benfica fan. All the other teams were complaining about the Porto deal because it was grossly over valued.

Anyone else having nightmares of Mcginn absolutely snapping Grealish in half, then running away calling him a f***ING diving c*** whilst shaking his fist at a prone Grealish lying on the floor?

Reports they are closing in on Bruno Lage as the next manager. A lot of negativity online about the appointment. Is he that bad?

Quick thanks to West Brom for giving us their academy, which we have obviously improved further. Maybe we should send them a FA youth Cup medal?

I genuinely believe and hope we will be going for quality not quantity. We are now seeing youth players come in to supplement the numbers. Tuanzebe in for CB and RB cover. Engels out. Guilbert back For LB cover 40 million + holding midfielder 40 million + winger / attacker Sanson will be like a new signing once bedded in and a pre season.

Just to give my two pence worth. Rightly or wrongly, taking the knee, is now associated with politics and BLM. To some that is not a good thing. Sky Sports, BT sport etc blasted BLM and the knee over every match for months, the 2 things are now intrinsinctly associated. Tyrone and many on here are frustrated because he believes those booing are bigots etc. I think all Villa fans, even those booing agree that an equal society is required. It would be good if the players could come up with another symbol, or act to show their desire for equal opportunity etc. One that's not been associated with BLM, but one that's associated with equal oppuntunity across the board and disassociated from politics.

Can anyone with knowledge of youth football tell me how the teams match up? Are Liverpool favourites? 2 evenly matched teams?

Be careful what you wish for. Older managers, who've been with clubs a long time tend to leave a chasm within the squad. Whoever takes over will have a MASSIVE job. The whole squad is signed, been trained for years and ordered to play a specific way. I personally make them amongst the favourites for relegation next year.

Fosun already said they are pulling back spending. If we truly want the player, we will get the player.

Also 2/3 that went down comfortably promoted and Bournemouth in the playoffs. Parachute payments and FFP starting to have a massive impact on quality and ability to compete. You'd make the 3 that have gone down this season very strong favourites to go back up.

Dean Smith, pretty clearly stated we got him in early due to finances, but it gives him chance to settle and expect to see the best of him next season. He was a 30m player with lots of clubs interested. I genuinely believe we will see the best of him next season.

The agent knows, at some point he's going to make a good 10-15 million off Jack. With Covid finances and his injury this season, he won't get maximum amount. If Jack has a good euros, stays injury free and plays how we know he can next season, expect him to be touted absolutely everywhere.

West brom, Norwich etc their best hope is to become a lower mid table PL club like Palace. If they go up next year, then a full season with Big Sam in charge would probably keep them up. Like us, if they can stay up just once they can reinvest in quality and stabilise.

Their core group of academy players is every bit as good as ours. We've turned the tide, but they've still got a good core of players. Expect a very close game in the FA youth Cup.

Yeah. Leicester about to get the Soumare for about 25m. A couple of years ago I would have thought 40,45m for a player of his age, athleticism and quality.

Possible a NSWE post but, realistically how much may they invest this summer? What are the possibilities? Purslow made it clear with Sanson that if there's good business to be had, the the owners will always back them. Theoretically with whole season of Covid, TV rebates, couple of big clubs maybe not getting into the CL there's every chance of some absolute steals. Clubs will definitely be balancing the books. 100m could buy you 150-200m of players.

Believe it or not, I believe JWP at that fee is too old for our structure. A 60million fee and a 5 year contract would take him to 31, therefore no resale value. We are not commercially mature to be signing players for 60 million, plus 100k+ wages with no resale value.

So? We've won the league 7 times, FA Cup 7 (I think) and the EL. Doesn't mean it's an insult that we aren't in the champions league.

Been getting pelters on twitter, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Arsenal are historically an average, upper mid table club. They got lucky with a generational manager and team and are now back in, what is probably their correct place? They are a business being ran accordingly. They can't compare to Man U and Liverpool. Man City and Chelsea are affectively play toys for rich people. What do they expect?

Fans clamouring for Sterling and the like clearly don't understand the sustainable concept. Sterling is nearly 27. We would pay 50 million, high wages with limited resale value. Commercially, we do not generate enough to throw away 50 - 80 million on 1 player. We need to treat players like assets. Spending 37m on Watkins is fine, because he's worth 40 to 50 now and young. We can get a contract out of him and sell for more than we paid. That's sustainable. We are slowly building towards the Leicester model (with a better youth system). Expect only players 25 or under with high potential resale value. 1 star player to be sold if there's a crazy offer.

Leicester have basically sold their best players, except Vardy. Its just not noticed because their recruitment is good. They sell 1 very good player for a very high fee each year chillwell, mahrez, Maguire, even drinkwater and reinvest in younger players like tielemans, Fofana, Justin etc. Our fans need to be realistic and understand that eventually a Grealish, mcginn, Konsa etc will be sold for a ridiculous sum then have confidence in the recruitment to replace with a younger alternative.

Anywhere near "best of the rest" is a very successful season. Maybe even sneak a europa league place.