JohnLennon

Bigger, but not better. There's been clubs in the past like Newcastle and Leeds who thought their club was too big to go down but in reality their playing squad was absolute shite.

When you give a player a new contract it doesn't always mean you think he will eventually make the first team. Sometimes they'll be a realistic chance of making money from selling them instead of releasing them on a free.

Let's be fair, thats from one angle and i dont even think he looks out of shape there. There's less to aim at if you're a bit wider anyway

Stupid website saying it'll be the first time we have played them there since 1994. Just discounting every other time we been there in friendlies then

I'm a big fan of the way Arsene Wenger has conducted himself in the last few years, and have nothing but respect for him as a manager but - My god i forgot what a sore loser he can be, and how literally anything that goes against him he contends. Likewise anything contentious that goes for him favourably he either agrees with or "didnt see". Great manager but ****ing hell Arsene, show a bit of decorum at this age.

For what it's worth i'm sorry for Puel, i'll be the first to say we should get Benitez

First 25k Premier League attendance in years

Is there any job he hasnt been linked with on here? Barry for Glenfield will be linking him to the assistant manager role at the Beamount Leys Asda next.

I wouldnt disagree with any of what you have said. I just think we have a bunch of players who were never keen on him from the off. I think initially they warmed to him, but at the first sign of things not being exactly their liking they have completely given up on him and us. Maybe that is just football now. Even Mourinho couldn't stop it from happening at Chelsea. Player power is something more associated with bigger clubs than ourselves but i suppose thats what one Premier League medals does to these egos.

If Puel gets the sack now, he will have been sacked from with a 8th place and 9th place finish with two clubs who have spent most of the last decade outside the Premier League.

I did have a bottle but after watching him play this season i had to drink it all

I think give him the summer to at least have a go at recruiting players he thinks can play his style of football. It is no secret that the vast majority of our title winning side were not possession based, quality footballers who could win games that way. We've never been good at playing that way in my lifetime. I only need to look back and shiver at the days when Sousa tried getting players like Wellens and King to play the ball in triangles whilst getting beat 6-1 by Portsmouth. That isn't to say things cant change. But if he is given the sorts of figures that are being rumoured then patience wont last long (not that it ever does with most of you lot).

You know, people say that we should be pleased to be 8th and acknowledge that we haven't been in this position since the O'Neill days (bar we all know when). But the biggest gripe i have is how painfully average and lets face it, borderline shit, you can be to be mid table in this league. In the follow up season to winning the league we played so awful for the majority of it and were about 2 wins away from 8th in the end. That just highlighted how terrible this division is from 6th onwards. So, no i wont hear that we should appreciate this position because with the team we have we SHOULD be performing better. Journalists and pundits will be happy that everyone now knows their place again after our title win, but i'm not happy to sit there week after week accepting that we should build a team of promising youngsters, only for them to pass the ball sideways into mid table until they are poached by the "top sides" and we start all over again until we eventually cant and get relegated. Our title win didn't give hope to opportunity, it killed opportunity for a lifetime.