3 Stacks

8 minutes ago, Kevin D said:

Keep him.

 

I’d give him an extra year on the deal to protect his value and allows both us and him to reassess after next year.

 

I think his decline in the second half of the year is because he’s been playing with an injury and trying to manage that. I’d stop that, going forward. 
 

When he starts I wouldn’t have him playing 90 minutes very often, take him off penalties and use him from the bench if someone else is in better form.

 

He’s still a reliable source of goals and assists, so I wouldn’t be cutting our nose off to spite our face.

He wouldn't accept that and it's not a good use of 400k per week.

2 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

Who are you relying on to actually take the chances though. Especially if your plan is champions league football. 

 

Jota never fit and can you put money on any of the rest to guarantee you goals?

 

It's a lot of goals and assists to lose without a top quality replacement. The system can only do so much when the players can't finish. Admittedly if the system means we stop conceding first it might go a fair way to stopping that. 

 

Obviously depends who we sign aswell. 

I think we have to see who we'd sign and what the combinations of players we can put on the pitch are. With Mané-Firmino-Salah, you just knew it made sense.

It's going to be way harder with Diaz and Nunez and their finishing, among other things is obviously a problem but the mindset if they're there has to be that it's a fresh start next season. 

That could have been Romero's 3rd.

5 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

Slot won't have much say on it. It will likely be sorted before he even properly starts work. Edwards will have sounded out his age and if he's off will likely have spoken to the Saudis about a fee. It won't be close to last year's fee and I suspect rather than make them wait and drag it out for a extra 10ml or so we will agree a deal quickly so it's not a issue for Slot and we can start bringing players in. 

 

 

The worry will be if Summerville type is viewed as a replacement and not a squad player because there no guarantee he will score enough goals. We have lost plenty of goals in the drop off from Mane to Diaz and Nunez league total is in Bobby range so another drop off from Salah to another 10-12 goal winger is massive

If the system is good, you probably don't need someone who scores a million goals. You can spread the goals around. City before Haaland, Arsenal now.

2 minutes ago, waddy78 said:

Tell you what we've been saying (as of afcon) that Salah form is shocking but Son at Tottenham has fallen off a cliff without Kane.

Son has 24 goals+assists. That's pretty much around what he does every season.

The Arsenal thing is simple in terms of the squad; the front 4, including Odegaard, are all technically very good and work hard, and then the rest of the side is just big and nasty.

1 minute ago, Captain Howdy said:

Sobering viewing this. Arsenal are light years ahead of us in all departments.

No one's ever light years ahead of anyone in football.

Arsenal are just a different proposition. Big, pragmatic and nasty.

This game is like a prime Mourinho team playing against some naive bambi.

Deserved goal for Spurs.

Edit: not gonna count

Salah's a great player but he's not one of the best of all time. He doesn't get to try to big dick Jurgen Klopp when he's playing like garbage. This isn't Messi or Ronaldo.

I mean, it's absolutely clear that the best thing would be moving on. Even just putting aside whether he is declining or not, you have to factor in whether he will respect a guy like Arne Slot. Salah has a far bigger status in the game than Slot does. That's just a bad dynamic right there.

He played pretty well. Showed his ability.

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

And endorsement of 3 Stacks rams the message home 

It was before Covid the last time you were right about literally anything, buddy.

6 minutes ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Fuck off we can have any opinion we like you tart.

 

Unlike you I can be objective unless I’m in the ground. I don’t have to worship the ground these people walk on.

 

Nunez? Shows how mush you fucking know.

Maybe your best post ever.

2 minutes ago, halewood pete said:

That last one slipped in by mistake!

Do you have thousands of meme's saved to your computer? They're all fucking shite, by the way.

Just now, Smell The Glove said:

Were haha? Have you chucked me out?

Your registration to the forum was in the past, hence the use of the past tense, genius.

4 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

I've seen a lot of Barcelona. My entire in laws support Real Madrid or Barcelona.

Tell them to join, they'd probably be better additions to the forum than you were.

10 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

Never in a million years would Enrique take Salah. Unless the owner forced him on him but Enrique would almost certainly quit.

How would you know this? Would it be because you watch other European Leagues intently?

Was under the impression that was something to be made fun of?

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

Exactly this. 

 

To be honest, and I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I've never liked him. The obsession with personal records has shades of Ronaldo attitude about it. Obviously a great player in his peak but we're well past that now, and he isn't earning a fraction of his wages. To publicly turn on the guy who took you from a fucking no mark winger at Roma he can get in the fucking bin. If this ensures he fucks off in the summer, then good. He can take his self absorbed arse and fuck off to PSG or Saudi Arabia. None of the big European clubs would touch him with a barge pole. 

There were years where he and Trent melded into the collective perfectly, while also being match-winners and difference-makers.

Somewhere down the line, it became a little too much about them.

2 minutes ago, Smell The Glove said:

Have you seen anybody up and coming in all the leagues you watch we should try and get?

Yeah, your mom. She has tremendous physical qualities.

Best Mo in the league might be Morgan Rogers.

The best thread on this forum @Captain Turdseye. Asking the difficult,  poignant and provocative questions. 

There's an even ballsier one asking a similar question of Salah, but no one has the gumption for that one.

There's a universe where our recent striker signings would have been Nkunku as the big signing and Jackson as the 30m one, instead of Nunez as the big signing and Gakpo as the 30m one, and I would have defended that to the death.

3 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

Everton ending the season on a high. Great.

Their play has deserved it this season.