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Nunez has a bit of the Diego Forlans about him, if under a new manager things dont change it might just be best to accept it won't work for him here. A shame.

This. The amount of chances we give up plus the big chances we miss, criminal.

The way he has been speaking recently really makes me think he will never go back to club football.

Bellingham seems more of a Lampard than a Gerrard based on these two legs. Cherry on top in midfield rather than the guy who runs the game.

Ancelloti trying to shithouse his way through this tie. Everyone behind the ball after taking an early lead. Pure mid. 2000s Benitez & Mourinho. Awful tactics so early on.

Both games going to extra time with atleast 12 goals across both games would be nice tonight.

Enjoyed this.

24 hours later, I feel much better. Was really devastated yesterday but I think we win all our remaining games now and I don't see the other 2 doing that. We've got our dropped points out of the way, City and Arsenal still have theirs to come.

Think even one of the Bayern senior follks came out today and said would be improbable getting Xabi this summer. Seems like he's decided to stay at Leverkusen for atleast one more season and taking his chances on the jobs he wants being available again (Madrid most likely will as Ancelloti only signed a two year deal). Its probably the most logical thing from his career development perspective, one more season in a top league with added Champions league football, as disappointing as it is.

That article details the relationship between Edwards, Hughs and Howe which is very interesting considering the amount of business we did with them. Do agree with the continuity point made above as well, good to get someone in that knows the club intimately well with all the other change going on.

Hope this doesn't turn out to be a case of a guy coming back and trying to prove all the positive press around him (which I think he's been very smart at cultivating with his media contacts) and trying to be "too clever" e.g. selling Van Dijk and Salah because of 'age' and trying to run everything by numbers. I think where it worked with him and Klopp early on is they were both strong enough to say no to each other. Sense was that Edwards (and then Ward) left because Klopps word was becoming increasingly more final and influence of the DoF was reducing. The worry would be that Edwards is trying to come back with even more of a say and that dynamic goes too far to the side of the DoF.

Let’s hope his form improves. I would feel much more comfortable defensively with Gomez there rather than Robertson. He just hasn’t looked right for a while, understandable since the injury but even pre-injury it wasn’t classic Robbo.

Really surprised at how many minutes he's getting back to back right now (I'm sure not always by choice with the injuries we have!) but to keep playing at the level he has with not much rest is great.

One thing that always amazes me is our wages, understand we have an incentive based structure but we must have a lot of players on a minimum of a 100k pw base if we are breaking 300 million in wages every season, even in seasons we haven't won anything. We have a higher wage bill than United and Chelsea and significantly higher than Arsenal, and have done for a few years now I think.

Robertson is having a shocker