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Preferably both in my opinion.
His consistency is like his fitness. Inconsistent.
I won't be shocked if both go. We can't keep hold of unreliable players, if we had brought in a good midfielder in the summer we might be looking at a very different league table. All hypothetical of course but I'd say it would have made a difference.
Razor sharp 19, razor sharp.
If we win 6 of our remaining 8 League matches we are on a 90-point finish. Win all 8 and it's 96.
That's with winning a League Cup, reaching (at least) the Champion's League quarters and (at least) the FA Cup semi-final. We're bloody good. I honestly don't know if it's easy to quantify how many more points we can realistically wring out of a season anymore via the transfer market.
We should of course always aim to improve (and we will) but I think we'll stick to steady turnover rather than drastically changing the DNA over the course of one Summer. Ox (pecking order, development plateau) and Milner (age, losing legs) to move on in the Summer and have a young/fit/healthy talent come in seems right.
Imagine Touchy Feely or Nkunku or whoever in this Summer (for Ox+Milner out) then Bellingham/alternative in next Summer while someone departs and Hendo gradually gets his minutes managed a little seems more like our way of doing things.
To potentially have Ox+Milner+Keita all depart at once just seems a touch drastic for me, especially as Keita has something to offer. Injury-prone players aren't a problem, it's when you have a lot of them that compounds the issue.
Ox is a liability in midfield now, his only use as a squad player now is as a forward, but we have 5 who are all better there than him
If officials could stop being biased and making decisions even Dermot (Refs association company man) Gallagher can't defend in any, way, shape or form to give City a 6 point swing they shouldn't have, we wouldn't need to win al 8 remaining league games and had City been chasing, they have likely dropped more points already as they did in 19-20, so we'd probably only have to win another 3 or 4
Broadcasters, pundits and commentators aren't doing nearly enough or putting nearly enough regular and relentless pressure on the ref association to clean up their act and to desist from their 'Anyone but Liverpool' 1990's Ferguson instilled bias
"If Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden, i'd close the curtains”
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