Andrew

Aye he fits us well, though I'm not sure exactly what role he plays in our current system. Haidara makes more sense through that lens. That said, we've been linked with a few players now who play as a number 10, which is a role that doesn't exist in our current system but our style will have to continue evolving as we mature into being one of the "top 6" or whatever it'll be once we crash the party. So it does make some sense that in games with a deeper opposition we'd move more to a 4231 with a more out and out attacking midfielder in the middle than our current 433.

With him their midfield is basically sorted for the next 7 or 8 years, Bellingham, Camavinga, Tchouameni & Valverde. Can see them going for Osimhen

Ben White came through the academy but Ashworth was technical director for the signing of all of them apart from Burn. Its a hell of a track record

Not sure the mrs would be up for it, but I can ask.

A little look at a couple of their forums suggests they aren't all that confident coming into this one. Main gripes seem to be central defence looking a but threadbare and that without Partey their midfield would be Xhaka, Odegaard and Jorginho and our midfield three would be so much faster and stronger that they'll just get overrun. I like both of those things.

No, he's unquestionably a good player but Bayern looking to shift him so soon when hes had a statistically decent season points to problems I don't want at our club, and he'd want a fortune in wages. Not interested in that kind of move. I want proven experience and leaders in the older players we sign, like Trippier.

Shes fighting for her life in the comments Loads of people pointing out that Leicesters ground has a "no under 2s" policy and she seems to think that that doesn't apply to away fans in one of them.

Dybala is a good player but I don't see it happening Moved on a free just last summer so he'll be on big wages at Roma 29 and has spent his whole top level career in Italy which doesn't often translate brilliantly to the PL Missed 15 games with injury this season alone (has consistently missed a lot of games the last few years) And primarily plays in a position that doesn't really exist in our team. Given that wages are our main stumbling block with regards to FFP in the coming summer I don't see us getting in "big names" who will be looking to get a payday.

Are you sure? Cause hes in all three from this week.

The tierney link keeps coming up doesnt it. Its the one im not enthused by tbh, hes had a lot of knee issues in the past and is mostly a sub for arsenal, don't really see why we are pursuing him so hard.

Agreed, as for that evolution of style I mentioned, I'd like us to get in a really good number 6 who can drop into the centre of defence and a left back at trippiers level so that we still have the 3 man defence when we are on attack but we're more able to swap which side we do the attacking from with overlaps on both sides.

We do have to evolve though, assuming we stay the course and are in the CL this season I am really fascinated to see how the summer plays out, you look at our starting 11 from this week and you'd say you find replacements for Murphy, Longstaff and probably Burn as a priority. But when you look at how we've played with them this season, you can't be sure anyone would some in and be actually better as part of this team, where do you go from this? Spend 70 million on someone for central midfield and in all likeliness you don't massively improve your league position compared to having Sean Longstaff there. The summer and next season are full of really weird, unexpected challenges for the club because we've done so ridiculously well this season, the playing staff and the style of play need to continue their evolution and thats going to make keeping the level of performance where we've seen it this season really difficult. Its going to be a test of Howes mettle, as well as the boards and the fans to not blink when its maybe not going as well.

Ah Rentons bloody deleted it the spoilsport!

They drew the match before man.

Mullets are really popular with kids out here for some reason, its fucking hilarious.

Isak would be a better option at left back than Cucurella has been

Aye he had Pope, Wilson & Trippier for a few weeks and it landed us in the worst form of our season, with those three particularly out of sorts during it.

Yeah, nah. You can have one account for this desperately unfunny bollocks.

Isak screaming at Willock after his first goal about that pass "WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THAT? FUCK SAKE MAN!"

Yeah the 76-83 one has always been my favourite

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/schecter-multivoice-6 Well into these, very much up my alley.

Was talksport the source of the £30m figure?

The threads 17 years old man, the board has been through a few iterations since then.

New Metallica albums out and they've been doing a run on Jimmy Kimmel to promote it. They still sound absolutely top class, Hetfields voice on this album is the bests its been in yonks (and I really like Hardwired) Mad that they're still as good as they are at 60.