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I think we still need a few experienced heads around. A blend of youth and experience will see us through.

 

True, you can't win anything with kids.

 

Yes we certainly do need a blend of experience and youth in the team. The blend we utilised this season was about as great as Gin and Coke or an Orange Milkshake though. We need to make certain that we bring the correct experience in as I'm not sure we have it on the books if the last couple of years are a bench mark.

 

NZ, I'm not sure if you meant physios, or psychics. If the psychics had been any good, they'd have seen this coming...

 

Nothing on Elyounoussi’s Instagram, he’s staying

 

I really don’t want to offer any praise at the final whistle, but tbh it feels like Walcott and Prowse should at least be afforded a proper goodbye.

 

I did mean psychics, keeping it light. And yep, I want them all about as they’re obviously just charlatans the lot of ‘em.

 

Knowing he’s leaving I say thanks Theo for putting in a shift the last few weeks. We needed his attitude and ethic in players who are half his age to stay up and he couldn’t do more than set an example.

 

Different friend with a different rumour this time apparently coming from someone who knows someone who works at the nursery JWP’s child goes to. Saying that Ward-Prowse had been up in London for meetings this week. No idea what club that would be with but my friend thinks it could have been West Ham.

Feel like I keep getting tenuous links at the moment

 

Hopefully it's Arsenal, Would be ****e for JWP to go to WestHam.

Arsenal do need a Xhaka replacement after all.

 

Why would West Ham be ****?

 

Because Arsenal would be better?

 

For him definitely. West Ham would be better for the club as they should be getting a rather large fee for Rice so we could potentially drive the price up a bit

 

True, didn’t think of that. The appreciative fan in me would prefer Arsenal for him.

 

Arsenal is where I hope Lavia goes, if he must. He'd be a really lovely fit in that side with their style - and Arteta is the right sort of coach for him.

 

JWP is not good enough for Arsenal.

 

But he's a great!

 

It's all relative.

Lallana, Schneiderlin, Lambert, and Fonte were all 'greats' for us, and yet fairly underwhelming for the next Prem team they joined.

JWP is a hard one to call. Either he's been the best player in a bad squad, or it's his ineffectiveness as a star player that has contributed to our demise. Both have seemed true at different times. How he performs for his next team will tell us a lot.

 

Sulemana started to show what a danger he can be if utilised in the right way yesterday. His passing and vision isn't good enough yet for the Premier League, so he has been kind of wasted/lost-looking up until now, playing on the wing. However, used as a pure pace merchant, through the middle, against a high defensive line, he looks the business.

If he goes, then presumably we will at least make our money back, so it wasn't exactly a failure. Definitely feels like he could become a big player in the future though, at the highest level, so I feel we'll come to regret not keeping him.

Having said that, with Wilcox coming in, there are a number of Man City youngsters ready for a loan move to the Championship, who look to be similar in type to Sulemana, but with the benefit of having come through the City Academy. These three in particular will make a name for themselves somewhere next season;

Oscar Bobb
Carlos Borges
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