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the kids 20 for crickey's sake, some of the goals he has scored, and general play at times are more than "good" for a 20 year old. Yeah he has good and bad days etc, but he's 20, he's going to, and i agree he might be a bit tired etc and in need of a rest, but even today vs Spurs, that one moment where he just skipped by a player and got a shot off, so unlucky for that to not be a goal, great bit of skill. tbh, he's way better on balance than i thought he would be when he first broke in to the team. I would love to see Ramsey and Gallagher as our number 8s if im honest, but the highest praise i can give Ramsey, is of our current midfield 3 (Luiz, McGinn, Ramsey), he is the only one of them i wouldnt replace (and thats even accounting for his slight fluctuations in form due probably, to his age), i think with a quality 6, and another quality 8 alongside him, he would really shine.

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dude, completely different scenario, Smith had 3 years, multiple windows and literally hundreds of millions of pounds spent. Can never decide if ur on the wind up or serious tho....

Yeah, after that 5 game loss under Smith, we were in real trouble.

not great ofc....but get Chrisene in for some time as we play out the season. (assuming we dont weirdly get dragged in to the relegation battle....)

ye, we basically need to go big and spunk 200m on top players..... obivously we can fund prob 100m of this by selling quite a few players (hopefully), but it needs to be done if we want to progress, this squad isnt good enough, and i would be shocked if Gerrard doesnt see it also.

i just hope it goes something like..... "Couts mate i have 200m to spend in the summer and i want you to be the first 33m of it, we will bring in some top players to play with you Couts.....yeaaaaah course!".

completely agree with this. We need a whole new spine imo, we need a CD, a no.6, prob a no.8, Coutinho and a striker in the summer.......

tbf, we were really, really good for about 80% of that Spurs game, we played some lovely football, anyone who says we didnt are either lying or didnt watch the game. BUT: 1) We cant create that many chances and not take them, and expect or deserve to get anything out of the game. 2) Our defence is s***, we prob need 1 x DC in the summer, and shock horror we need a proper DM. 3) We need to sell Ings & Watkins in the summer, and get someone in who actually suits what we are trying to do, and ensure they are able to finish some bloomin chances, watching Watkins and Ings look like a Benny Hill type duo up front was something to behold. Honestly, if you did watch todays game, if that's Gerrard ball im all in, we played some lovely stuff, but it also showed how poor we are defensively, and how we lack any type of clinical edge, we could have scored 4 goals today with more clinical finishing. This team needs a big overhaul, i think we need 1 central defender, a number 6, probably a number 8, Coutinho and a striker as minimum, basically a whole new spine.

shocking display. Chambers should get the nod, tbh Konsa should never have replaced Chambers in the first place.

wouldnt be surprised if they got 4.

lol what was Konsa doing there, in no-mans land. Although who was covering.....i dunno.

Konsa, Watkins & Ings........ like pulling teeth.

classic Villa. We need 15 chances for 0 goals. They need 2 chances for 2 goals. Konsa m8.......

On the PNE forum......prob true lol.

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Now if thats Gerrard ball, i cant get on board with that. But i think we need a few new players, some who can defend, and some who can finish......

i agree we have been great. But it means nothing when you concede stupid goals and cant score even one of over 9000 chances.

its mind boggling that we have 55m+ worth of strikers on the field, and they couldnt finish even one of those chances. They both need selling in the summer and we need to bring someone in who can.

thats the best i have seen us play in a long time. But once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot by conceding early goals, and we dont take our numerous chances. So good this half, yet so poor.

we do, because we cant score for toffee.

we have played very well...but... You cant concede goals like we do...all the time!, then not take any of the numerous chances we have had, strikers simply not good enough.

we need 2 new strikers, Watkins and Ings need to be bagged off tbh.

Coutinho really needs to be our first purchase this summer (along with 4-5 others following).