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Yep. All pretty sh*t to be honest how the areas changing but that's life. It'll be a worrying time for a few of the decent boozers that are left if we're out of the area for three years too.

I do feel sympathy for people like Claude but seeing the divisions in the crowd yesterday, Arsenal as a whole really can do one. The fear of change and acceptance of (as the host said) just being 'there' without pushing to win really isn't very endearing at all. I suppose it's just a case that those who want change are always going to be more vocal than those who are happy with the status quo. Claude nails it, that they're scared of change. Personally I'd always gamble that the unknown could be better, rather than sticking with being consistent also-rans.

Bazoer is a very obvious player for us to be linked with. Looks decent but there's so much promising youth in our ranks that you wonder where our priorities lie.

I think there's a slight difference there.

Enjoy it. Your boys have been the best team over the course of the season and it's a once in a lifetime thing for a place like Leicester.

I think supporters are just more clued up on the realities of football finance these days and want to see the club that they invest time and money into being as competitive as they can be with their resources. It's also about being ambitious and wanting to see your team field the best 11 players as possible. For some that includes Willian, for others there might be better alternatives.

I like Forster. He's a good keeper and seems like a decent bloke too but I think the level of ambition of this club should be such that we should be looking to acquire and keep the best young players in the world, not sell them. He's also another player in his late-20s that we'd be bringing in which goes against a lot of what we were doing just a couple of years ago. This club seems confused about what it wants to actually do; one season it's all about reducing the age of the squad and signing young players, now it seems like we're signing players approaching their 30s to win now. It seems almost rudderless.

It looks a bit like Pato's just lazier....so I'd say it's a genuine Pato 2016.

That's probably a popular view in some parts and I absolutely agree that relying solely on stats is pointless. Stats are a tool and should be used accordingly. Willian works hard but does he actually influence games? Does he influence a game to the point where he is worth £50 million or is irreplaceable? I'd say no.

If he wants to leave and we get a massive fee then it probably makes sense. Make no mistake though, this would be the first time under Roman Abramovich that this club has sold a player who would be part of the first team and has the potential to be the best in the world. Robben might be comparable but he was very much in and out of the team and suffering from injury niggles in his last season, so it wasn't such a massive loss (at the time). We don't have enough players with the potential to be the best in the world that we can just cash-in but this is where the club probably is at the moment. If I was an outsider I'd suggest Roman's short-termist view was finally coming home to roost.

Mason Mount will be lucky to make it here my opinion. Tidy player but I don't see much to suggest he'd break through. Tomori has stepped up a lot and is an interesting one. Could go either way in my opinion. Completely disagree with what you've said about DaSilva apart from the size stuff. He's almost Verratti-height which could pose some problems but positionally he's fantastic. He's tasked with doing so much in that team that maybe he gets caught out once or twice but I'd put that down to players not doing their jobs and moving across to help him. Bear in mind the lad has been playing above his age for a while now and despite having three youth cup wins is still eligible next year. Agree that he could play anywhere on the left and in the middle (reminds me of Alaba a bit in that regard) which is an indication of how mature he is for his age.

It's more to do with a lack of class and 'nouveau riche', plus there used to be a noticeable amount of Burberry and Stone Island at the Bridge but that's the same at every London club. Now everyone seems to be sporting Barbour.

Chelsea's new thing for signing players who used to be good like Falcao and Pato reminds me of the days when we'd sign George Weah....except the Weah-bear was still pretty decent. Hopefully this is just talk to get other teams conned into interested in buying him.

The problem is that he's never been a very productive player. His assists stat in the league is low this year, but it has been each of his three seasons here whilst his key pass stat is relatively unchanged. Also how many of those key passes are set-pieces? Willian has taken a lot of corners and if you look at the Newcastle game for example, he has three key passes to his name but two of those appear to be corners. Doesn't that skew that statistic slightly? He's good at this, he works hard. Is that really worth passing up £50 million when we have players like Pedro and Cuadrado who can do that too? We sold Ramires for half that when he was fairly exceptional in that regard. I don't think we can ignore output though and selling Hazard when he's a proven matchwinner and could regain form ahead of Willian who is a role player seems a little unambitious on our part. Considering Conte could watch all the film on Cuadrado in the time it would take to watch the Captain America trilogy back-to-back with piss breaks, I think he may well have had a look. But I think the lack of available film also tells it's own tale. Cuadrado had 300ish poor minutes with us. I wouldn't write a young player off in that time so I'm not going to write him off either, especially when the coach likes him, he fits the system and he's looked good for Juve.

I really don't see us staying 4231 so we don't need a number 10. A midfield three of Matic, Fabregas and Nainggolan with Loftus-Cheek and hopefully Nat Chalobah and Lewis Baker backing them up could be brilliant. If we didn't own Cuadrado I probably wouldn't be pushing for us to sign him, but the fact that we do and that Conte really rates him....I just want to see how he turns out under a coach with that type of faith in him.