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I've watched one or two when there's not been much else to look at, but they really are dire. Tons more better stuff out there now. That ManU fan (Wyky's crush was it?) who does the weird face at the start was decent and she did quite a few bits on Nufc but her stuff sounds a bit repititve now. I give these a listen to occasionally, American coverage is generally less obssessed with ManU/Liverpool etc.

And typically anytime you'd felt like this over the years the natural instinct is always 'oh but this is Nufc, an almighty screw up is probably right around the corner'. Not anymore. Cant wait to see what we do in the summer. Despite how incredible this season will have been regardless of where we finish in the league, I think the realization is there that some change is needed to keep moving forward. It will also have been 2 year then since we've signed a first team player. Time to make waves. Going by the media mind all we've got to look forward to is who we sell Isak to.

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People can talk about the Saudi owners, players like Isak and Bruno etc all they like, but the biggest factor by far in the clubs transformation on and off the pitch is Eddie Howe. No doubt.

Good find this but have you exhausted all the Youtube content and are now scrolling years back?

A common thing many of the post match analysts/pod casts etc picked up was on how this was different from the Leceister, Wigan etc. cup wins in recent years. Lineker was talking about it I think on his pod with Shearer; this was confident domination of the top team in the country having already done the same to the second best team over two legs. An altogether different feeling. Not a one off fluke (although of course you wouldnt begrudge the fans fully enjoying those, we certainly would have) but a prelude, a beginning. Aye I respect his honesty but when he was talking about us winning duels and going long over their heads Liverpool fans must have been thinking the other manager has found you out what the hell did you do about it in turn?

Tonali, a completely ridiculous athlete by the way, doing this after running himself ragged for 90 minutes:

Bruno gave it a go didnt he in the end leading upto their goal? My God how stupid and unnecessary was that attempted turn. Find it difficult to be angry at any player right now but was seething at the time and you coudn't help but think ah here we go we're self destructing again. Henry on the CBS coverage was furious Made a point of mentioning it to Trippier and Howe too.

Yeah we definitely have the upper hand in trying to keep him this summer. Just need to be careful. I expect we'll be in the CL running till the end but dont expect it to be straight forward. We were incredible on Sunday but we've been inconsistent against mid table sides this season and those are the types of games we need to win now. It's very competitive this year as well and you'd expect the likes of City and Chelsea to string together a few wins and stay in the race. I think we'll need to be at our best and the energy that we rely on to get the results is not guaranteed week in week out as we've seen with the limited squad. Back to Isak, some of the analysis post game (and after the Arsenal semi too actually) trying to figure out why he seems to cause so much bother to the likes of Van Dijk and Saliba/Gabriel who seem to be so comfortable against anyone else. It's because he's got almost no weaknesses for defenders to base their split second decision on in moments when they need to either back off and try to run him to the side or go in for the tackle. Go in for the tackle and there's every chance he'll beat you and maybe another one of your teammates, back off and he'll run at you happily while being able to shoot from anywhere around the box, will also find a cracking pass to his wingers on either side 8 times out of 10. If anyone comes in with 250M we should be telling them to go shove it up their arse. I hope that's the message Yasir left with. You could buy 3 top quality forwards and have little chance of them being this impactful. Any considerations like oh we could rebuild the whole squad with 200M incoming needs to be the absolute last resort.

Jota and Diaz actually used to be very decent for them. They're both only 28 as well. Just shows you regular freshening up of the squad is necessary even if you're doing well. Very few players can keep being successful in the same role year after year.

Even if the worst happens and Isak leaves you'd expect it wouldnt be less than 150M or so which would allow us to strengthen the whole forward line. It shouldnt come to that though hopefully. The final showed what we know but its underlined it to the world again, Isak is priceless. He was relatively quite in terms of touches the whole game but get's one chance and boom, history changing goal. Howe also mentioned in one of the post game interviews, his work off the ball, his movement causes so much trouble and is the starting point of our team press. But that goal instinct, the ability to strike and turn games in seconds; there's maybe only a handful of footballers around the globe that can match it. We've got to do everything possible to keep him. He's easily the biggest asset we've had since Shearer and he could be even more pivotal to the club long term if we keep progressing at this rate. All the noise seems to be about us being able to add to the squad this summer, hopefully that's actually true this year because that would signal the likelihood of regular CL football and more silverwave challenges for the likes of Isak to stay for.

I've been saying (and wishing) for a cup win at the end of what is essentially phase 1 of this project. It's clear this period is coming to an end and players like Trippier, Schar, Wilson, Longstaff and many others will either leave or have limited roles in the future. This cup win is the perfect culmination to what they've done over the last 3.5 years and they deserve to go down as club legends. Upto the club now to back Eddie and bring in the resources for phase 2. A CL finish obviously will be a massive help. We need to channel the euphoria into one big push for a top 5 finish. You can be sure Howe will be on it once everyone has had the chance to celebrate and rest.