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41 minutes ago, useless said:

Kemar Roofe being linked again.

Good player very intelligent. Surprised Leeds let him go especially with his off the ball movement. 

27 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Just my take on it. We're a professional football club that I assume have people working in every aspect of the game. We've known we needed a striker since August, so I would have thought we had made our due diligence and had deals set for January. We clearly didn't, or if we did we clearly didn't have a back up plan. 

Now our only "senior" striker is injured and we're starting matches without a striker, so I'd say we've done an awful job. Considering it may affect our survival in this league and it was important to get a new striker in early to settle as quickly as possible, I for one can't say I am impressed by how the club still by mid transfer window still haven't signed a striker. 

Agree 100% . I love the way Liverpool are being run currently. Minamino was done during Christmas week. 

Fernando Alonso went back to McLaren and look how that ended up. #Benteke past it. 

According to Doulas Luiz’s Instagram Wesley’s surgery has gone well so now the road to recovery begins.

One positive thing is that Wesley is young and started football relatively late compared to other 22 year olds so hopefully he should recover quite quickly. Naturally he will have to adjust his movements to protect his knee once he comes back. 

I genuinely dislike the transfer windows. We have suffered three major injury setbacks which has left us exposed. There was nothing wrong with the old system of the window closing in March (?) . Instead now we have to scramble around for players and inevitably we will have to get in stop gaps etc. And on top of that teams will know we’re desperate.

As for the Piatek links unfortunately we’re not attractive enough.  Even if we were top of the table we would struggle against the London clubs and the north western clubs. Pep vs Ancelotti vs Klopp vs Mourinho  vs Dean Smith. Then you have Manchester United, shit manager but it’s still Manchester United. The London clubs have that lure to them, witton v Knightsbridge / Saville Row etc. 
 

Don’t expect ‘marquee’ signings we’re going to have to get rough diamonds or old stagers to come in. 

13 minutes ago, wilko154 said:

 

 

That pass from Luiz.... Dirty!

Grealish and Maddison should both be starting for England. They will compliment each other and I don’t mean hairstyles too. Brilliant young English players. Pleasure to watch them do their thing.
 

In style of the old Brazilian 4-4-2 where they didn’t have wingers they can both play the number 10 role like Rivaldo and Ronaldinho used to with Dunga and Sampoa as the defensive midfielders it could work. England can use Henderson and whoever else and have Jack and Maddison ahead of them with the full backs providing the width. 

3 minutes ago, terrytini said:

Not this time.

Well, the Away goal counts, but not double.
Just as well in my view on this occasion...

Grammar

9 minutes ago, terrytini said:

Penalties if 0-0

I thought if it’s 0-0 after extra time away goals counts? Or has it been changed again.?

The Don. End of move along nothing else to say about him. 

9 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said:

Mate, people can get a different proportion of the blame depending on the severity of their mistake, even if each and every mistake needed to happen for the goal to occur. Its not just everyone is equally to blame and there is no way you can tell me everyone in that defence was equally to blame for conceding that goal. 

Hence why just blaming Luiz is pointless and unfair and its in essence  ‘scapegoating’ him when they still had to travel 40 yards to our goal. We win as a team and we lose as a team. Defensively Nakamba and Luiz were very good today. However its Good result though. Enjoy your night.

By jove we missed Wesley tonight. However the players deserve applause. Naturally I want us to control the ball better, but this Leicester team is one of the best. Defensively we were solid and limited their chances. Mings was sensational defensively Luiz and Nakamba closed so many paths and avenues, Nyland has improved massively and how good is Grealish. A few signings and we might just stay up. We look so much better when we fight for every ball.

0 - 0 and we go through to the final. 

1 minute ago, Laughable Chimp said:

Because he by far made the largest mistake in conceding us the goal. Neither Hause nor Mings made mistakes either, I don't call being outmuscled and outpaced defending mistakes as you don't really have a choice in that. And Konsa did not make a suicidal pass, saying otherwise is just complete revisionism. Luiz should've 100% been able to get it away safely despite the pass.

Hause wouldn’t have got outmuscled if his bod position was better, Mings should have known from that position Iheanacho was going to come towards him and possibly nicked the ball away.  Had Konsa hoofed like the other 455345 times previously we wouldn’t be having this conversation. 

7 minutes ago, lexicon said:

With that play?

Sorry not that one I meant from the game.

1 minute ago, Laughable Chimp said:

Yes they made good plays at times. Mentioning a good play doesn't suddenly mean they didn't make bad plays either. Or they didn't make more bad plays than good ones.

A scapegoat implies that they are being unfairly blamed for something. But in the case of Luiz, he very clearly and directly cost us a goal. How is that scapegoating?

He was given a suicidal pass from a free kick when it should have gone in to the channel for a fresh young lively youngster to chase and be a pest (Konsa) . Iheanacho outmuscled Hause and was too quick for Mings with the shot yet Luiz is the only being blamed. Yes he was partly at fault for not protecting the ball better initially but was everything that transpired after that his fault?
 

Defensively our team played well ,only on occasion did the 3rd best team in England have clear chances. When they did our brilliant young keeper saved us whilst making it look easy. 
 

The players in bold were directly involved with the play that led to their goal meaning they could have had an impact in stopping their goal.  You forgot Douglas Luiz’s tackles blocks and interceptions from the game. 

9 minutes ago, lexicon said:

But they didn't get a goal or assist with the play so therefore they must be terrible. Apparently. 

AEG did . 

9 minutes ago, lexicon said:

Did so much good tonight that won't be acknowledged by most who'll focus on the bad. Bust his arse and did a hell of a job shutting down their midfielders. 

In one passage Leicester could have had an easy attack but Nakamba and the other two scapegoats Luiz and AEG clamped their respective runners and Leicester had to go back and their crowd booed slightly with a huge groan too. 

13 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

Found Peter Ridsdale.

On to me...

1 minute ago, KentVillan said:

Wasn't intending to put words into your mouth - was just making observations off the back off your post.

Fair do’s I was just clearing up what I had originally said. 

Re FFP, the soundbites are from next season or the season after they (the premier league) might start to give out points deductions. I say go on a mad splurge now for survival with the added bonus the players will be ready for next season too where we can look at the mid table / upper mid table. 

3 hours ago, KentVillan said:

Beckham could beat the first man on a corner, though. And his free kicks were much better.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Jack's touch and dribbling skills are incredible, but there's still room for improvement with his final ball.

I've thought for a while that there's something of Zidane / Iniesta / Gascoigne about him. A hybrid number 10 / centre mid / winger who has all the dribbling skills and creativity of a traditional playmaker but has a good enough all-round game to drop deep and help in the transition. Like those players, he doesn't have lightning pace, so you don't always want him standing on the last man like a Sterling / Bale type player. He's more dangerous drifting around central midfield, where there's more space for him to turn into.

But I wouldn't place Grealish in the same bracket as any of these players yet. Still needs to show that he can do it consistently over several seasons of top flight football. I hope we don't weigh him down with unrealistic expectations.

I said his passing and shooting technique is like, and re Zidane I said his movement is reminiscent of. 
 

I don’t remember saying he is on the same level. It was about his technique and movement. As for his final ball he has created an awful lot of chances this season and has a good number of assists too. 

Much improved because he calmed down a bit when he had the ball. His movement was very positive. Positionally too he looked way better. 

When we signed him I thought wow.. when I saw him play I thought wow wtf have we done.

I think he will grab this opportunity and make the number 1 shirt his own. 

Ok. I might get heat but I'm going to put it out there. His passing and shooting technique is reminiscent of Beckham. His movement with the ball in the way he moves reminds me of Zidane, he glides on the pitch.