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43 goals to overtake Roger Hunt for 2nd place all time. You'd think that'd doable now - not a chance at catching Rushie though

Would we notice the difference?

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Jesus lads, this thread has gone

No backsies

Isak isn't gettable unless he's got that much discussed release clause - that's been blindingly obvious for ages. Makes absolute sense at £75m. At £125m+ not so much

Bald Dutch f***er could have rotated some of the letters more

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Didn't West Ham - whilst reigning Conference League Champions - go to Villa and start up "Champions of Europe, you'll never sing that". Ummmm, lads.....

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That's a w***ing euphemism, right?

Would be interested to see his heat map against someone genuinely playing wing-back. My hunch is they'd be more similar than comparing with someone playing as a more conventional RB (which I think we're fine with and encourage him to do)

Yup. Thought it was a conversation worth having but some people's (not yours TBF) reaction to daring to mention it have been absolutely

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And again, I absolutely don't accept that the fringe players couldn't have been used a bit more off the bench without affecting results, so that the ones he trusts to start big games could have been fresher. Who knows what else happens then. These players were (Chiesa aside) good enough for Jurgen to use more and they didn't suddenly become rubbish. Maybe they genuinely couldn't be trusted in Arne's system, but that would blow my mind . . . . I'm gonna re-emphasise the point that I've had a blast with 99% of this season, it's way better than I thought it would be with a new manager who I think is great. However I agree with Maldini's post above - I'm banging on about this 'cos the point blank "nothing different could have been done" posts absolutely baffle me.

I feel we're going in circles here - the conversation started about WHY we suddenly didn't have it in our legs.

Quadruple definitely not - but the League Cup was winnable and who knows what would have happened if we'd just got past PSG, which we were bloody close to doing.

Winning the league will put a massive grin on my face. There'll also be a bit of me wondering whether it could have been even better - which isn't really gonna detract from any of it, especially not when I'm up for the parade

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I'll ignore the snide-as-f*** second half of the question and answer it seriously Firstly, Slot looks like a great manager - but this is the one thing I'm not sure of with him. Think I've covered all this in previous posts - but to reiterate: I'm puzzled why he hasn't made more use of players who've proved that they're good enough to play decent minutes for our first team. It's not like his system is that different to Jurgen's and they were good enough for him - so there's got to be another reason that I'm just not getting. When he joined it was said that he hardly rotated at Feyernoord. I don't think you can get away with that long term in the PL 'cos it's a much tougher league and expectations are higher at a club like ours. I think it's a discussion well worth having - 'cos the effects have manifested clearly in the last month in both the CL and League Cup final and I can't help think "what might have been" in both. it's not mattered in the PL as we were quick out of the blocks and none of our challengers managed to put a run together.. Hopefully he'll get players he trusts more in the summer so it won't be an issue next season. Throwing it back to you - why do you think he's not played the fringe players as much as he could have?

Think the only thing we agree on is the last paragraph The struggling the second half of the season is pretty obviously because the core 13-14 players he's using aren't in top condition 'cos they've been overused. A bunch of us have been calling that out as a potential problem since last year and unfortunately now it is. The players we're talking about here: Elliott, Quansah, Bradley (who was underused before he started getting injured), Endo and to an extent Chiesa and Tsimikas would have all been perfectly capable of *at least* doing 15-20 mins from the bench in more games than they have been, without affecting very much at all. I still think we'll win the league but you wonder how differently other things may have gone with less fatigue involved.

Strewth!