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If only richy dcl and Pickford were our best players...all 3 have been hugely disappointing this season...pickford perhaps a little bit less than the other 2 but can easily be replaced as he is nowhere as good as he thinks he is...honestly if any of those players wouldnt have been here this season, not sure how much worst we would be in the league...
Seriously?

Without Richy and Pickford this season, we would be 20th right now. Absolutely no question of that IMHO.

You could even argue that Pickford would easily perform better and more consistently if he didn't have a largely poor set of defenders in front of him, and that Richy would produce more goals and assists if there was a functioning midfield working alongside him.

As others have said, we won't get better by selling all our best players. Our approach this summer should be to wave goodbye to the OOC lads, then look to shift the likes of Gomes, Mina, Keane and anyone else at the top end of the pay scale who has not contributed (in comparison to their wages). Then we should invest in mostly younger players on lower wages, and look for one commanding CB and one commanding CM to knit it all together.
 
As crazy as it may sound at the moment I think our best chance is for Leeds to be dragged back into it. Their next 4 games

Palace (a)
City (h)
Arsenal (a)
Chelsea (h)

If we can muster up 4 points somehow in that time

We could be level with a game in hand and it would whack some pressure on them

Equally Villa are FAR from out of it. It might not seem it but their fixtures are

Norwich
Burnley
Liverpool
Palace
Burnley
City

That's an ugly run in too
I’m praying they can beat Burnley twice
 
As crazy as it may sound at the moment I think our best chance is for Leeds to be dragged back into it. Their next 4 games

Palace (a)
City (h)
Arsenal (a)
Chelsea (h)

If we can muster up 4 points somehow in that time

We could be level with a game in hand and it would whack some pressure on them

Equally Villa are FAR from out of it. It might not seem it but their fixtures are

Norwich
Burnley
Liverpool
Palace
Burnley
City

That's an ugly run in too

It's absolutely probable that Leeds will lose the latter three of those games. The question is how they will react to the pressure? Will they knuckle down at Palace and get a result or will they crumble due to it being a "must-win" fixture?

A Leeds loss at Palace would help us. In a big way.
 
As crazy as it may sound at the moment I think our best chance is for Leeds to be dragged back into it. Their next 4 games

Palace (a)
City (h)
Arsenal (a)
Chelsea (h)

If we can muster up 4 points somehow in that time

We could be level with a game in hand and it would whack some pressure on them

Equally Villa are FAR from out of it. It might not seem it but their fixtures are

Norwich
Burnley
Liverpool
Palace
Burnley
City

That's an ugly run in too
Absolutely agree, been thinking about this myself. If Burnley win today and Leeds lose, I’m not giving up hope because they’re there to be caught looking at those remaining fixtures.

I’d much rather Burnley just get battered though.
 

End of the day it’s all If Buts and Maybes. We are quite capable of going on a 4-5 game winning streak we have done it before, we are just as capable to lose EVERY game we got left and no point getting stressed over it till it happens. A lot of football to be played yet
 
We need to somehow win three games (Chelsea/Leicester/Watford/Brentford/palace are all winnable)…do that and I’d be surprised if it’s not enough to finish ahead of Burnley or Leeds
 
As crazy as it may sound at the moment I think our best chance is for Leeds to be dragged back into it. Their next 4 games

Palace (a)
City (h)
Arsenal (a)
Chelsea (h)

If we can muster up 4 points somehow in that time

We could be level with a game in hand and it would whack some pressure on them

Equally Villa are FAR from out of it. It might not seem it but their fixtures are

Norwich
Burnley
Liverpool
Palace
Burnley
City

That's an ugly run in too
Think Leeds could be dragged back in, but Villa are in the clear. They just need one win, if that.
 
Understand what you mean, but why is it not all over now with us safe then?

We are 1 point clear with a game in hand - if they win and we lose tomorrow, they will be 2 points ahead with one more played. So similar position to us now.

coz i’m a paranoid wreck and think the worst with this relegation stuff
 


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