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People on here can be told a thousand times why these highly paid players will not leave and they still don't get it.

Football being football , managers average about eight months in a job , Soumare might think he can outlast Maresca and this will have been discussed between him and his agent. Praet has outlasted Rodgers and he and Vestergaard are back in the fold. Unlike them Soumare has got plenty of time.

I have apologised, see above.

My mistake, he had spent nine months at M.C. in 2020. Callum would know him from that.

Maresca was only at Man.City for twelve months so most of their academy players are unlikely to have been influenced much by him , Callum Doyle not at all , till now.

It looks like Bouba will spend the next couple of years picking up 6 or 7 million for doing very little. Few clubs will match his salary , either because they can't afford it or it will break their own salary regime. If we subsidise his pay , we can loan him . I can see the Thais baulking at paying out millions for two years for a player who will then be valueless. He could join the ground maintenance gang I suppose.

Our record of selling unwanted players , bar those who are obviously attractive like Maddison and Barnes , suggests that Enzo will have a number of idle players , that is not good. He must find a way of using the players he doesn't fancy at the moment because we don't want anymore Rodgers -Vestergaard situations. Team togertheness will be vital this season.

All this will be noted by any prospective buyer of course , so along with his very high pay , he is unsellable. Not really worth discussing anymore.

A week is a long time in football , don't bet your house on it.

Confidence on here is one defeat away from fracturing , two in a row and it usually crumbles completely. The long view is not for this forum. The players are far more sanguine about defeat , its football , it happens , you bounce back.

Montrez - moi l'argent mon ami ou débarrassez - vous.

Assume you all think Nelson is not good enough then, even for the Championship. The grass is not greener as we have found out so many, many times.

Marasca will almost certainly rotate his midfield , so nobody. Long season , so the entire first team squad is likely to get plenty of minutes. He needs to keep the squad onside , so nobody is sidelined and everybody contributes.

As before , he goes when somebody offers him the same money. People still not getting that.

I don't know however too many ex Man.City graduates who are 25 and regulars for PL clubs , so where they end up , who knows?

The long list of kids who make it to Man. City's match day squad is er.....Foden. Regularly start with no British , let alone English players at all. Foden and Grealish rarely start together. PEPs favourite British player is the old man at RB although Stones seems back in favour now. It must be the hardest club for a kid to break through.

According to some on here , they both are. However judging footballers is not a strong point around here.

KDH does what it says on the tin and yes, not always successfully. His attitude is though generally first rate and Klopp is a fan and I can see why.

If he is a candidate for Championship player of the year, of course he could play for Liverpool. He is not a star player but an excellent work horse and every team needs those.

New toy syndrome , it will pass.

Its not over until the fat hack has spoken - apparently.

That should be 20:35 so only 12 years to wait. Be 32 by then , in his prime.

Oh, I think we can get by for another week or so. It will happen eventually. Yawn....!!

Don't see Tim as a principal striker myself but he might surprise me.

Pochettino has probably not given it a thought. They have so many players.