Gomez: “Whatever’s Meant to Be Will Be”

“The fans pay their hard-earned money to come and watch us and they’re entitled to show their frustration, in the same way they cheer us.”

“Fundamentally, the supporters want to see us give it all, but that is on the ball trying to play progressive football, trying to be intense, but also off the ball, put a foot in, try and win a tackle.”

“That’s just what is expected of us and being passive in any sense is not what I know and no one wants to see. It is just trying to just implement that, day in, day out, but it’s not easy at the same time.”

“You can’t undermine that. This place comes with a lot of expectation and pressure and that takes time to understand and really get a full picture of.”

“We have to just do our best to rally around each other and try to get the boys’ heads in the right direction.”There’s frustrations and there’s been plenty of voices and discussions and meetings from different people – staff, players. Black and white thing now we need Champions League football, that’s the objective we get that.“

“We dust ourselves off and we go again and just go into the [next] year and have a good start.” The versatile defender has made just six Premier League starts this season and has battled injuries the past couple of years. I’d totally understand it if he made the decision to move on, but I’d probably prefer to keep him. Just from those comments above, he *gets* it. With so much potential turnover this season, I’m not sure what paltry transfer fee we can get for him is worth giving up the leadership and experience that such a longtime member of the squad brings.