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Conor McNamara on 5 live bigging up firming work rate and tenacity Firmino

Sakho! You don't know that as it depends on the individuals involved....

Well I'm sold....once he's not using the same estate agent as Zidane

Lallana has yet to earn my love............

Lallana has overall been disappointing since he joined given price and expectation. I noticed last season he seemed to be a bit lightweight on ball and needed to do some strength work....hopefully he has worked on it over summer

Haha - wonder are we paying outr guy 60k a week too?

Thinking with my heart I always have hope we can win the league every year until it is a mathematically impossibility However I was thinking With my head above and I put us 5th for two main reasons: 1. Bren under huge pressure and new coaching team take time to bed in especially when the pressure comes. Other teams management & coaches all far more settled. 2. While we have strengthened our squad I don't believe for first 11 is a whole lot stronger considering we have lost Gerrard and Sterling. I'd much rather a smaller squad and take a risk with injuries etc quality not quantity.

My top 6 is: Chelsea Arsenal Man city Mancs Us Spurs I think Chelsea will win because of Mourinhno. Arsenal for 2nd with the likes of ozil, Ramsey and Carzola in midfield and Walcott / sanchis upfront. Carzola looked brilliant in centre mid last season linking things together.

F**k me is that right?! I'd no idea and it is a sobering fact.

Cheers - yeah we paid a couple of quid for Yesil from what I recall Good - did it just for you

Maybe this is where Ljinders will come in - he has a profile of being a specialist 1:1 coaching and his title is 1st team developement coach. Ibe has the raw materials so as pointed out above could be a serious player.

Cheers Maldini - is that a different Sinclair? Anybody in that squad you rate? Apart from Canos, yesil cost us a million any hope for him?

Maybe City came back and offered him another 30k per week?

Cheers - still nowt about it on offal.....you'd swear this match didn't matter.

Cheers - who do you recommend keeping an eye on?

I'm gong to this on Sunday in Dublin - anybody know what kind of team are coming over? Possible Benteke debut;)!! Couldnt see anything on the official site Cheers

What's that? Roughly a 600% pay rise - he will miss us!! Can I be the latest to suggest to move this to General Footy

Would be good to get a couple of mill for Lambert plus saving on his wages of 2 million a year

I'd reckon we'd just about fill a 60k stadium with exception of 2/3 games a season

Haha....in my eyes, as a supporter, it is a bad thing (IF that is FSG's plan). I want to see all money invested in such a way, that it will make us more competitive on the pitch.

Well that depends who the 'we' are. Fans yes but maybe FSG themselves want to use the profit generated on higher revenue to pay for the new stand, reduce debt, pay themselves a divided. If over the next 5 years they build a better revenue generation model (Tv, new stand etc) which they have been, they can sell the club at a huge f**k off profit simply by keeping us competitive on the playing front...4/5 in the PL etc. but not killing themselves.

Remember Bren on last summer's US tour: During an interview he said something like... I can categorically state that we will not be signing Mario Balotelli....!! So probably for the best.

Any quotes about this? Would be interesting to hear Bren's thoughts.....

Am I missing something here but where is the approximate £40 million from Sterling?

Tackles won seems abit low doesn't it compared to others? Bit of a worry for a defensive midfielder. Is there a % of tackles won figure on that website?