They made about £70m in player sales. We've had to just give ours away

I've backed Farke all season, i like him, he deserves all the backing he's had, we were in a mess at the start of last season big time and he sorted it out and i thought he dealt with the last off season very well, but, i do tend to agree here and i now have reservations on him should we get promoted..  however, if we romp to promotion in these next 6 he most definitely deserves a shot. If we some how ending up going up via Wembley, of course we'd be massively celebrating but i'd almost certainly get shut, he should have had top 2 with this squad comfortably. 

It's also on him why we didn't replace Meslier earlier... which if we had, we would have been 6 to 9 points clear imo and almost home and hosed by now...    

Yeah Tanaka's form has dropped off hasn't it.. which is a worry given Rothwell is out for a week or two.. and it also looks like Ampadu will have to go to CB now Struijk is likley out for the rest of the season....  (what is it with him and the end of the season injuries).. 

To be honest I don`t think Struijk has been consistent enough this season and has either been out of position or has played silly balls putting the defence under pressure.
I agree Ampadu will probably move in to the back 4 and hopefully Wober will get more minutes to enable Ampadu to move into midfield later in the game.

Big downside to losing Strujik is a lack of threat on set pieces nobody comes close to his ability in the air in the team. Be interesting to see if Bamford plays Tuesday... i suspect we will see him from the bench. 

I’d prefer to see him start and see how long we get out of him. If I remember rightly, we were struggling at this stage last season when Bamford was called up, coincidentally against Boro. We scored 4 goals and looked a different team. Bamford got injured again and that was that. Bamford  at least tries running in behind teams, it stretches them and opens the game up. Piroe never runs in behind and always wants it to feet, so easy to defend against and it congests play. Would Farke be brave enough to start Bamford ? His track record would say no, but how desperate would he have to get before he changes tack ? I hope we get a slice of luck tonight or a few players perform better than of late, and then it’s a massive boost with a home game on Saturday.