Leo No.8

Yeah that took it from potentially tight to pretty much ours. Hasn’t looked close ever since - before that weekend they were chatting about being 2 points behind after whatever fixtures were coming up. Instead it was 10/11. That was an absolute gut punch for them. West Ham fans were absolutely superb for the silence yesterday as well so they are right in the good books!

Best 3 keepers in my lifetime Ali, Schmeichel and Buffon. Obviously seen most of Ali and maybe because of that (and I’m biased) I would say I have never seen a better goalkeeper. He doesn’t have a weakness in his game, does everything to an incredibly high standard.

Tsimikas makes sense to be the one to sell but Robbo has been an absolute shambles this season, so the question has to be asked. He has had one of the steepest drop offs I can remember from any top player. You don’t want your backup coming on and creating panic.

I’d like Frimpong as he can play RB and RW and he’s really f*cking fast too. It’s a difficult one with Bradley as you want him to be first choice but he has a poor injury history so we need high quality cover. I think that’s a solution.

The Bergval Incident was a long film to be fair.

By the time Bowen came to shoot, the two issues he found himself faced with were firstly he literally had no goal to shoot at, and secondly the temperature had dropped several degrees due to being in such a f*cking big shadow. Needed a long sleeve shirt after.

Will Chiesa stay after so little playing time?

Konate is excellent the vast majority of the time, but he has an absolute shocker like Fulham now and then.

Be amazing to do it at Anfield.

I think we need a creative player like that, don’t like Dom at 10 against a low block. I like Cunha but could see how £25m for him would be a very tempting option. He defo fits our profile (young, up and coming and under priced).

We’ve slaughtered birds in Europe We’re never gonna stop From Guineafowl to Turkeys We’ve killed the f*cking lot Hob braised and served with gravy In meals and on your roast We are bold at slaughters And we come from Liverpool Allez allez allez

I heard of him when I hit a putt short of the hole playing golf and one of the guys shouted ‘Douglas Bader’. Because it had ‘no legs’. In the same round when we were looking for my ball he found it and shouted ‘Van Gogh’. For ‘one ‘ere’. Comedian that fella was.

I’d pretty much echo everything above in relation to Jones. Not athletic or fast enough to reach the highest tier, can’t pin down what role he plays best in midfield, not a kid anymore at 24. Probably now as good as he will be. But does good things technically and worth retaining as a backup. If you want to be a top club in Europe neither starts, but it’s also about the squad makeup. Ideally you want current top players backed up by potentially future top players (like TAA/Bradley). If we think those two have reached their peak you could make a case for cashing in on them and replacing.

Fowler was a brilliant finisher. One interesting thing about that video though is how bad a lot of the goalkeeping is in comparison to today.

PSG are another City, cheated the system - but part of me wants them to win it because they were so good against us. Our whole season will be a huge success if and when we win the league, but those intense PSG games derailed us for a bit. We still haven’t fully recovered. My partners brothers are Villa fans and great lads, so although I always want other English teams to fail in Europe normally, I’d be happy for them.