Hafi’s one of a kind.

United do look good tbf, in a similar bracket to us right now. Plenty of reasons to be cautiously optimistic.

Solskjaer's really surprise me I have to admit. Was too RDM initially for my taste, success based more on not being a prickly Portuguese guy than what he was bringing to the table on merit, but this season's he's shown more than enough tactically to be taken seriously. I was a doubter & have been proven wrong.

Obviously football can change very quickly, but next season could easily see the return of a PL 'big 4' opposed to a six. Arsenal & Spurs have a lot of catching up to do.

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I’m still not convinced by Ole, I thought he would be sacked by the end of the season back in December. But he’s turned things around. Signing Bruno, Pogba’s return and Greenwood’s emergence has really helped him.

If we bring in Sancho and Grealish this summer, which I expect us to, I think we’ll be fighting with Chelsea for third next season. I think the rest will find it hard to compete with the attacking talent of those two teams.

City should be a lot closer to Liverpool next year, I think both of them will have too much for Chelsea and United.

Hard to predict the rest. Especially Tottenham and Arsenal.

Will depend on whether they keep Auba, and if not how they replace him. But yeah I could see them surprising people, I like Arteta.

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We don’t need to raise significant revenue through player sales to afford both.

I think they’ll fix the defence in the summer and be much better for it, and be a lot closer to Liverpool. Their attack is ridiculous, but they’ve been leaking too many silly goals due to the back four and not being able to ease Rodri in as Fernandinho’s been playing cb.

Watching Spurs right now I think we can safely rule them out even as a wildcard while Mourinho's there, it's just not working.

Feel for Expressions, gone from champagne to alcopops football

I do think Spurs will be better next season. It’s been a perfect storm of shiiiiit this season. I don’t think it’s possible for them to be this bad all year next year.

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Yeah they need quite a bit of work to be back up where they were. I’d be surprised if they get enough done in the market and become a real threat to the top sides, but I do think they’ll be better next year. They’ve really underperformed this season.

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Yeah definitely. Scraping a top four spot will be their aim, and the ceiling of this group of players. But I think that’s beyond them.

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comment by Rueduciel (U22417)
posted 6 hours, 4 minutes ago
comment by Superb (U6486)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
Mourinho had everything to do with De Bruyne leaving.
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No he didn't, Roberto De Matteo sold De bruyne before Mourinho came to Chelsea
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No RDM did not sell KDB.

He was loaned to Werder Bremen, came back, Mourinho couldn't see what he had in front of him and De Bryune was sold to Wolfsburg in 2014!

The finished one fully responsible for the mismanagement you yet another young player!

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comment by Rueduciel (U22417)
posted 5 hours, 37 minutes ago
Chelsea sold Kevin De Bruyne to Werder Bremen in July 2012
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Clueless - must be Wahl!!!

That’s the difficulty, what Mourinho wants, and needs, don’t usually align with how Spurs do business.

They’ve been linked with Hojbjerg, could be a decent signing. A solid a dependable midfielder, by all accounts.

I’m not sure what they can do with the defence that will radically improve it. They need more work on the training ground to get Mourinho’s methods drilled into them, which should help. But a lot of their problems are the amount of individual errors their defenders seem to make.

Gonna be hard to rebuild that team in Mourinho’s image. And that where the problems will come when he has his inevitable tantrum.

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posted 5 hours, 34 minutes ago
Oh wait, the Werder bremen transfer was only a loan. I am sorry, I didn't realise that.
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Should have read all 80 odd comments first I suppose!

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Problem is if I was thinking of players that would improve them that they could afford - Tagliafico and Max Aarons as full backs, Tonali as a DM, and Ake as CB...

Would Mourinho want them, and would those players want to play for Spurs?
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That would be a very productive, and realistic, transfer window for Pochettino. Not sure about Mourinho.

I'm fairly certain he'll target DM in the summer but he won't be interested in Tonali, not enough experience & not his type of DM anyway - William Carvalho or Danilo Pereira perhaps? Not many out there that fit his mould & Spurs' budget.

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