DanWM

I think the answer in hindsight is that we should have changed the side for Southampton.

The front line needed the shake up last summer. I know there was talk about giving Slot time to have a look at his players, but the data lads could have told him that Nunez is crap.

Who knows what's going on in South America. Sure they'll find a way to run Mac Allister, the tiredest man of all time, for another 180 minutes.

I was more annoyed about the ref pulling it back at that point tbh. Ended the game when we had an attacking throw in. They were good at staying down to break up our momentum, wish we did more of that.

They're only friendlies though aren't they? Should be a nice break for everyone, regardless of the travel. If we had Everton on Wednesday I would be feeling wobbly.

These are lessons for Slot for next season. You can't just run the same side in every competition in this league. It's a fine balance to strike in terms of rhythm Vs legs. All easy to say with hindsight, but thinking about games like Southampton at home, you've got to give the midfield a break.

Don't think that's a thing any more? Pretty sure they just give a certain amount of medals and the club give them out. He showed so much more today than Nunez has done in ages. Just the way he checked back to stay onside for the goal, no way you ever see Nunez do that.

I'm coming round to the idea of playing Jones right back today and just telling him to have a go at doing his best Trent impression.

I wonder if Gordon could do a decent job of the Diaz role when we've played him up front. I'd be surprised if we went in for him again tbh, but you never know about clauses in there if they don't get champions league. Think we should just sign 2019 Mane really if anyone could sort that please? Nice one.

I wonder if we might still be looking at Gordon. He signed a contract but you never know what kind of clauses could be written into it.

You can pronounce it Hoolian, which has the added bonus of letting everyone within earshot know that you're Very Clever. Hoolian Albareth

And they came in after Duran was already done to Saudi, so there was no way they were selling both.

Alvarez would have been sound. You see from these things that the running joke about 'monitoring' does actually involve a lot of testing the water/ plate spinning. Seems like we were definitely in for Kvara in January, but might have come in too late to sort the Nunez to Saudi deal.

We've all been burned, the transfer window thread has lost all the joy of watching jarg YouTube compilations and saying some player we'd never heard of before would be perfect for us. That being said, we did manage to sign Mac Allister, Dom and Gravenberch for about £100m combined in amongst all our grumbling, and they're about to win us the league. Fans of other teams (arsenal) must think we're mad for complaining about our transfer strategy.

I'm waiting til summer to get wound up about our inevitable low-balling, just gonna get mildly excited about maybe signing kerkez for now. He looks the business and has also had a haircut. Hope that part was from a relayed message from Slot. Tell him he'll have to get rid of that daft barnet if he wants a move.