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Andy Robertson

You just wrote, “if we win the Champions League”

We’re not going to be in Europe next season. We are going to be very bloated with any more signings.

England gets 7 European spots at the start of the season. It’s almost certain to be 8 based on co-efficient and with Arsenal & City bring in the League Cup Final that means the Europa & Conference spots are as follows.

FA Cup: Europa
6th: Europa
7th: Europa
8th: Conference

If a top 8 team wins the FA Cup the Conference League spot would drop to 9th. It’s not implausible we finish 9th or even 8th. It would also drop to 9th in the unlikely event Villa finish 6-8 and win the Europa League. Palace & Forest the same but that seems even more unlikely.
 
Wouldn’t have been surprised at Souza going out on loan for the rest of the season even before this development. A 19yo described as a “raw talent” with zero experience playing in Europe and you think he’s ready for first team football in the PL?
Funny thing is.....if he had signed for Brighton he'd probably be tearing it up within 2 months and we'd be thinking 'who's this guy!'
 
Funny thing is.....if he had signed for Brighton he'd probably be tearing it up within 2 months and we'd be thinking 'who's this guy!'

What gets missed with Brighton, Brentford etc is that for every player they go on and sell for 20x what they paid there are half a dozen that go on loan every season of play U23’s and get released on a free. Our fans will still be moaning about Kota Takei in 20 years if he doesn’t become a club legend though.
 
I think it was Mourinho who said he tried to build his team with as many captains as possible. The days of Terry, Carvalho, Lampard, Drogba (I'm sure there were more) all in one team certainly brought a level of authority and success.

Maybe we an add one more in the spine of the team.
Dennis Wise in that side too.
 
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