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Updated seeding position. 

4 minutes ago, Amed said:

With 3 other teams in the Europa League - what’s likely hood of our game’s in this being televised as well? Do they usually show all Thursday games on BT? 

Yeah we’ll be on TV always. They’ve got 8 channels, but we’ll be one of the first 3 you’d imagine. 
 

So if this result stays the same, we’re just a Juventus expulsion away from being seeded. 

My wife is a massive Inter fan, and as a result I am too. We’ve flown to Milan to watch it with her friends and family. 
 

I also absolutely despise Man City. 
 

So yeah, I’ll be watching and cheering on Inter. 
 

But I do think Man City will win. 

There’s an international break next week, so I would expect Tielemans will have decided his next club by Wednesday latest. That will then probably start a domino affect, as we’ll know whether we have the extra budget saved on a midfielder to go after our top tier targets in other positions or not. 
 

That’s my guess, anyway!

2 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

That's not same as majority of crap people fall for, for the gazillion players we've been linked to this calendar year

You’re changing the goal posts now though, you said the Athletic don’t do transfer speculation, but this proves they do. In fact, they only tend to get involved when there’s genuine interest, which backs up that we actually are in for Tielemans. 
 

Anyway, I’m not here for an argument, I hope there is legs in it, as I think he’d be a great signing. 

5 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

If you go on his Twitter there's barely any player transfer speculation the last week, actually none

This was six days ago, and that transfer hasn’t been confirmed yet. 

9 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Evans is not reliable on transfers. The Athletic doesn't really get involved in transfer speculation 

David Ornstein is basically the transfer expert, and works for them. 

Spanner in the works? Genuine interest, or a final push from the agent to get a bit more out of us? 

4 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

Anyone else still really like the look of that Lee Kang In?!

Absolutely. I’d rather sign him than Pote, to be honest, especially considering the differences in value. He got another assist yesterday, to end the season with 6 goals and assists in the league. 
 

Only question mark is the military service, but that’s a worry for another year!

If we signed Torres and Tielemans, that leaves us with a lot of quality and depth through the spine of the team:

DC: Mings, Carlos, Konsa and Torres

MC: Kamara, Luiz, McGinn, Ramsey, Dendoncker and Tielemans

Still not sure about the Torres signing as it means realistically Tyrone dropping out of the first XI, and I’m not sure I’m ready for that yet. But the passing range of Torres and Diego Carlos would be incredible, with Kamara just in front. 
 

I do wonder whether we’ll also see Mings at left back in games we’re looking to be more defensive in, and play a narrow back four, similar to how FC Andorra do. I know that Unai’s a fan of how they play! 

3 minutes ago, duke313 said:

Their ECL spot would go to Bologna surely?

You have to finish at least 7th(/8th if a team above you is banned) to qualify via the league for the Conference League. 

There’s still a very good chance that Juventus are banned from Europe, which would mean that Fiorentina would come in to the competition, unless they win in the final against West Ham, which would mean no Italian team. 

Big yes for Tielemans from me. Really good footballer, and gets stuck in, too. If it's the option of him or Guendouzi, I'm 100% going for Tielemans, and that would even be if they were the same price, on a free it's a no brainer.

In other news, Tammy had an horrific knee injury tonight, a suspected ACL. Poor guy, but would rule out any move from us.

Anyone but Bilbao and we’re grand. 

Everton have proved that FFP doesn’t exist. 

German Cup Final this evening. If Leipzig win, then Frankfurt are in the Conference League, if Frankfurt win then Leverkusen are in the Conference League. I think it’s fair to say that we’d rather Frankfurt in the competition, so let’s hope Leipzig win!

He’ll be first choice next season, and rightly so. Konsa will either be right back or rotation. Konsa has been really good this year, but doesn’t have the range of passing that Diego does, and Diego is also more imposing in the air (plus a lovely cheeky 3cm taller). 

I’ve been told by my brother-in-law that there’s a very good chance that Juventus are banned from Europe for three seasons. So that would likely leave Torino (who have to play Inter final game of the season), Fiorentina (unless they beat West Ham in the final), Monza (tough Atalanta away game) or even Bologna. 
 

Which ever German side qualify will probably be ranked with us as favourites you’d have thought. But there are some really tough fixtures in that unseeded part of the draw! I really wouldn’t want to have to go to Besiktas for a result! 
 

But bring it the **** on!

That’ll teach me for bowing out of the tournament. Well played lads. 

Well that went well. Not sure there’s much point in having a 14 minute match if you’re going to allow a team to waste 4/5 minutes, mind. Still, we never looked like scoring. 

This is why those of us who don’t want to sign him are against the signing. Pass completion, successful take-ons, and shot creating actions are just really poor. You take his goals away, and he’s an average player. 

It’s really not the sort of signing we should be making to progress. Lange’s suggestions for Sarr and Barnes says it all. Inclined to believe we’ve outgrown him. 

I like Asensio, but we can't be giving out those kind of wages at this stage of our project. £125k per week should be our maximum, in all reality, £150k for a really special player.