How we play seems to be about smothering the other team, which is fine if we are playing a team like Real Madrid, but against teams that don’t commit many forward it’s ultimately ineffective. Playing a plodder like Merino at 8 is simply not going to work, I’ve said for ages we should sell him…he doesn’t offer us anything

If we sign someone like Eze, we need to be playing them alongside Nwaneri in front of Rice or Zubimendi (preferably Rice as Zubimendi looks like a totally pointless signing as well). There’s no point saying we need to change the way we play, we need the right players playing in order to facilitate this