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Of course players take pay cuts… the point is Maddison still has 2 years left on his contract. Signing for us would just be leaving money on the table. Bamford was out of contract, Grealish only has one year left. Rashford is joining a better team with more chance of winning trophies and was...

Financially I think we’re more similar than not. All our business will have to be sensible in case of relegation. King can’t bankroll us like the Sunderland bloke.

Hard to know isn’t it I think people should temper expectations though- suspect our summer will look closer to Luton’s than Sunderland’s (IF we go up).

Wenger’s offside proposal is genuinely stupid Giving attackers a yard advantage on the defensive line will only encourage teams to sit deep.

Lets say we could pay him 100k a week (we can’t) Why would he agree to take an almost 50% wage cut to play for a team that will very likely be relegated anyway? If we go up and Spurs go down they would still be more likely to be a premier league team in 27/28 than we would.

Haji has been excellent at putting himself about in recent matches?

2nd half they shut down all the space he operates in Something seems to have clicked though, the turns and one touch passes were sublime first half. But it’s more over the last 3 games, 3 big goals. Showing all his abilities again and coming good at the right time.

He’s back, big time.

Stoke had an eye on the draw from the start of the second half, was always going to be hard to break them down. But we did.

Should’ve been more comfortable but I thought the general performance was encouraging, we showed we can dominate a game again.

Might need it soon enough

Lampard has tweaked it considerably, we’re more conservative now. Today will be interesting given we’re back at home and Stoke aren’t the strongest. To get 100 goals we’d need to rediscover our attacking fluidity.

We’d have to have secured the title as well before we start getting sentimental.

It’s far more than an off chance and whatever league we’re in next season we’ve moved past Jamie unfortunately.

Just seen Boro do this which would help

Think that is the most likely lineup Edit: hang on just realised Grimes isn't in there, no way that's happening!

It's not about resting players for the next game, some of them just looked tired from the start on Wednesday and we'll need to take the game to Stoke. Plus now we have such a deep squad we're talking about the likes of Esse, Torp, BTA etc. coming in, there isn't a drop off in quality.

Esse’s antics in dangerous areas would’ve been a recipe for disaster vs Boro or Sheff Utd

Watford will be the only real bunfight won’t it

Esse has an alternative career path in modelling I think