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The Fox

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Player of the Season vote is sort of in. Cazorla #3, Coquelin #2 and, presumably, Alexis at #1.

I voted for Monreal personally. Probably the only guy who performed at consistently good level for nearly the entire season.

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Somewhat amusingly, it appears that Thomas Vermaelen will have to give his Champions League medal back, seeing as UEFA have now realised that he played the same number of minutes in the competition this season as I did.

Less amusingly, that also means that Barcelona don't have to give us that £3 million we thought we were getting if they won it.

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toythatkills

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Player of the Season vote is sort of in. Cazorla #3, Coquelin #2 and, presumably, Alexis at #1.

I voted for Monreal personally. Probably the only guy who performed at consistently good level for nearly the entire season.

Coquelin and Alexis seem like fair shouts, to me.

Alexis basically carried the team on his own for the first half of the season, and our consistency in the second half can be traced back almost 100% to Coquelin. Over the course of the entire season maybe both had patches of being not as influential or sometimes played for the wrong team entirely, but I think if you wanted to look at two players, without whom we wouldn't be in the Champion's League next season, those are the two.

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Those two are the standouts for sure but Monreal has improved hugely this season, has supplanted Gibbs as first-choice left-back and has become a very solidly reliable player. I've been very impressed with the way that he's kicked on & he deserves a lot of credit. We've got 4 very good players in the full-back positions now.

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Somewhat amusingly, it appears that Thomas Vermaelen will have to give his Champions League medal back, seeing as UEFA have now realised that he played the same number of minutes in the competition this season as I did.

Less amusingly, that also means that Barcelona don't have to give us that £3 million we thought we were getting if they won it.

Which is bullshit, because rotation.

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JDubYes

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Yeah, I definitely should've played more than that.

As far as Vermaelen goes, I think he was injured all year (played 65 minutes in all competitions, none of which were in the CL), so it's actually pretty much fair enough. Depending on what's actually in the paperwork, obviously.

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Yeah, I definitely should've played more than that.

As far as Vermaelen goes, I think he was injured all year (played 65 minutes in all competitions, none of which were in the CL), so it's actually pretty much fair enough. Depending on what's actually in the paperwork, obviously.

ah, fuck...

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The Fox

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Coquelin and Alexis seem like fair shouts, to me.

Alexis basically carried the team on his own for the first half of the season, and our consistency in the second half can be traced back almost 100% to Coquelin. Over the course of the entire season maybe both had patches of being not as influential or sometimes played for the wrong team entirely, but I think if you wanted to look at two players, without whom we wouldn't be in the Champion's League next season, those are the two.

Agree on the first bit but, ignoring my opinions on Coq as a player, it's far too simplistic IMO to attribute the post-Christmas improvements to any one player. Coquelin came into the side and did a lot better than anyone was expecting, but we also saw Giroud, Koscielny and Ozil come back to fitness after long injuries, Mertesacker regain his form, the emergence of Bellerin, and most importantly, a change from the 4-1-4-1 shape back to the more familiar 4-2-3-1. Coquelin's displays were a factor but they were not the factor, and I'd argue that the formation change once Ozil came back was far more significant.

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toythatkills

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I agree with that, yeah, but I'd also put things like the change in formation and Mertesacker's form down to Coquelin too. Obviously it's a link we can never hope to prove but I'm sure it's a factor. In the case of Mertesacker, Ospina would have helped too.

Next season's shirt is revealed next Monday. That doesn't give us very long for leaks and terrible XXXXXL fakes, I haven't seen any yet.

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BlinkyBear

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That's the third kit isn't it? Not the away.

Haven't seen/heard of anything else. We've alternated yellow and blue for away kits each year for a few years now, assume Puma is following suit. Rumour was that we'd be having a gold 3rd 'cup' kit.

And if it's not the away kit/a test kit, the knock off factories are producing a LOT of them for sale. They must be getting their info from somewhere.

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The Fox

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Jackson Martinez done according to the Portuguese press and being widely reported over here.

I thought this didn't sound right at the time and sure enough, it seems like he's about to join Milan.

I don't think a poacher who's excellent from crosses really suits our game so I'm glad we're looking elsewhere tbh.

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I thought this didn't sound right at the time and sure enough, it seems like he's about to join Milan.

I don't think a poacher who's excellent from crosses really suits our game so I'm glad we're looking elsewhere tbh.

Also, 35m for a 29 year old is madness.

;-)

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