Ric Flair

Yeah very much like Bournemouth, Brentford and Brighton you can see the progression and it does seem to be inevitable.

Man City play with two up front, or at least Alvarez just behind Haaland

This pleased me as much as Ricardo's goal. The difference in intensity of Daka compared to what wr got with Iheanacho leading the press or closing down is night and day. It's given our way of playing a huge boost.

We are going to need 10+ new players this summer. Ndidi is likely going unless we've learnt absolutely nothing in regard to our wage structure, Barkley going to Luton shows he's not about the money but wants to play. We are going to need to utilise the free transfer market massively.

Pains me to say it but Cov's recruitment model is pretty decent. Watched their game yesterday after my mate raved about him and that Victor Torp already looks a bargain at less than £2m.

You could say the same about Harry Winks.

Should we have not taken risks that created our 2nd goal then? In which case we're 1 nil up and playing the football you think we should play at that point which is to get it forward and out of harms way as soon as possible, which then means its coming back our way even quicker. You can't be the buyer and the seller.

I actually thought we were better just before that, the games vs Bournemouth Spurs and was it Newcastle who we hammered, then got shafted away at Anfield before winning 9 on the spin. A few of those we were very mediocre but then other games utterly ruthless.

Cannot see him leaving Cannon and Iheanacho off the bench. In fact it's going to be pretty interesting what he does from next weekend onwards. I do think Cannon's at risk of falling down the pecking order despite his future being the least up in the air and if it is then what was the point in paying quite a sizeable fee for him. I really think he needed to be given much more game time to prove he could step up, but he's got such incredible competition around him.

Luton don't play with 3 CM's so he's essentially in a double pivot but both of them cover a lot of ground. I think next season for us we're going to have to set up slightly differently or off the ball anyway, so someone who can play deeper or as an 8 is the perfect combo.

I think he will, I don't see us letting him go on loan again if we come back up. Either someone pays £12m + or we keep him. Very good pals with Hermansen an'all.

I know, but for example when Vestergaard is back, we'll have Stolarczyk, 3 defenders on the bench from Coady, Nelson, Doyle and Souttar, 3 midfielders from Hamza, Akgün, McAteer, Alves and 2 of Vardy, Cannon, Iheanacho. We've such a ridiculous squad but unavailability has enabled plenty of academy players to be included this season, one advantage of our injuries 😂

With Vestergaard and Souttar likely available for Tuesday and Iheanacho expected back imminently, sub spots taken up by academy players is going to be less likely. Hope he gets a chance.

Yeah I think you're right, probably would have come on instead of Stephy.

Really pleasing to see him make the bench yesterday. Hopefully on there for Tuesday too and gets a chance to come on. Will set him up nicely to score the winner at Elland Road in a few weeks.

It's not that I don't have faith we'll win the league, I'm just not anticipating Leeds and Southampton not to get very close to / over 100 points. We know what we have to do.

Yes but I'd want at least 102 points going in to that final game, so 2 points a game gets us to 105 and we won't be caught.

If he does, would it not have been better to do so when he's finally scored in back to back games and been very influential in changing both games? It's fair enough having the obligation to buy issue to consider, I can't fathom out why its so wildly different to Fatawu's though. Maybe the £7-5/8m fee compared to Fatawu's meant at the time we weren't concerned. And finally, you can tell Yunus is desperate to make a career here and the contrast to Praet's future here is vastly different. I get there's little sentiment in football and we can't try and hold the club to account on poor transfer business and then be annoyed if they've decided it's too much of a risk with Yunus but it's a shame.

It's very interesting to see the difference in human psyche. The football we play is risk taking in the sense that in order to at times draw teams on to us, a error like yesterday and its basically a free goal which is so clear to see it cannot be denied. Yet in another circumstance or style of play such as constant fast octane football, you keep pushing up pitch, get it turned over through a similarly poor scuffed pass and 10 seconds later its in the back of our net. Is the anger still the same? Is the mistake worse or less? It's only natural to be very anxious in games where we take risks at the back, especially in tight games I'm guilty of panicking and wanting the fcuker cleared by any means possible. But as Balague said on our pod, that's the heart ruling the head. If we leather it up pitch then the philosophy and lack of composure means we don't do what we've done for 90% of this season which has carefully and relentlessly dismantled teams. We will be attempting to evolve, attempting to get better, to even iron out the very few catastrophic errors such as yesterday's (there's been very few that have led to goals) but it's imperative we do and Enzo knows that. If we go up, that stuff gets punished far more and we will be pressed more in to mistakes too. Although that also brings it's openings for us to wreak havoc on teams too as we move through the lines. Risk reward football is often forgotten by some, this is an example. It's understandable but you have to reflect and understand, otherwise what you're asking for will never satisfy you as it doesn't exist.

And yet Hermansen was so close to keeping it out (would have been ridiculous)

Leeds on paper look like they have such a piss easy final 15 games, bar us and Southampton. But their nemesis all season has been the games where teams make it absolutely horrible. I think they'll get to near 100 points so we will need to average 2 points per game to get comfortably over the line.

Ticks all the boxes. Tall, relatively strong and quick. Very good on the ball. He'd be an ideal 8 in Enzo's way of playing.

Would actually rather Ross Barkley

6 shots all game is very disappointing, but the fact we still won is far more important. Our fans have a huge part to play their next week, get behind the team and don't let up. Get these 6 points in the bank and go to Leeds and show them who's top of the league. I want revenge.

McAteer missed a horrible horrible sitter to put the game put of sight at Hillsborough, if he plays then he owes us.