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You're right, I get it Difference is Pardew/Ashley had absolutely no intention of growing anything. I'm just saying I want us to be strong before we have a proper pop at it. If we're not then it'll rebound

Finishing 6th could be a bit of a poisoned chalice tbh. We'd be playing an extra 10-12 games a season, Thursday/Sunday for long periods of the season. That would mean more games, more players, bigger wage bill. Given we're already looking at being reined in by FFP then adding all of that into the equation would suggest it would fall flat on it's face, we don't currently have the academy to pad the squad out in enough games. Slowly slowly, next 2 or 3 years. Let's build it first before we go big. It'll start with getting the sponsorship deals in first, then we can have a proper go.

Dopey fuckers need to understand that people are allowed to support/oppose and condone/condemn whatever they like. Like saying if you've ever bought a T-shirt from Primark then you definitely support child labour in Bangladesh. There isn't a Sunderland fan making the rules up of how humans are allowed to think Got no problem with highlighting atrocities that are going on, it's abhorrent tbh, but them suddenly finding their moral compasses and unexpected interest in Yemen is very conveniently timed.

Just basic, alpha male shit. He was the 'man' in the CM of Liverpool and he's never changed from club to club and role to role. He's a fucking arsehole imo.

Can someone cancel Souness please

Need Jomboy to dissect the handshake like

1). Forest looking like a completely different team here 2). Colback's not starting

Wonder if the media will come out and say the familiar "Man U fans and their unrealistic expectations" trope/shite if it goes downhill?

I'd have buried the entire mic through his fucking eyeball and lodged it deep into his skull if that thick cunt said that to me.

Neville absolutely foaming

I think it's the manner of the defeats that'll have them quaking. Brighton rocked up, played an aggressive 3 at the back, took them on and completely played them off the park. They out-footballed them. Then Brentford show up and bully them. They throw it in the box and outfight them playing neat, smart football and batter them within half an hour. These are 2 teams who've recently been promoted and have got themselves on a fairly equal footing footballing-wise within a few seasons. All this despite Man U spending about half a billion on the squad. There are massive, massive inherent problems at that club and it's not just confined to the boardroom either, it's also in that dressing room, those players couldn't give a single fuck.

Liverpool next match too. What the fuck are Liverpool going to do to this lot?

Didn't watch it today but it sounds like we have just ground out a very decent point away to a very good Brighton team. I'd have settled for it before the game and we've now got 4 from 2 games with 2 clean sheets, it sets us up for the difficult games against City and Liverpool.

Dyche is going to have a hell of a job to keep this Everton side up, they're stinking

Remember the graphs they pulled out showing how wealthy they were going to be?

Be all them filthy Durham mags marra

Keep Knockaert quite and we'll be ok

They're utter pigshit. Forest would wipe the floor with this lot. There's literally nothing there in that squad, fucking shite

Just invert the Saudi shirt

But he's such a nice bloke though...

Need to dip into the market now to mitigate this. Needn't be a worldie but we now need cover in another position, not seen too much of Anderson but it's a hell of a risk to rely on him to come in and perform. I've got high hopes for him but him being one injury away from starting is canny scary, they'll need to react to this and get another body in

I'd take a dull as fuck 0-0 right now

I'd agree with that but I think it's inevitable that at some point we're going to get injuries and suspensions. We're going to have to dip into the squad to replace some of the first XI and that's when we'll see a dip in performance and results. That 5th came about mainly because we had a regular supply of goals from Ba in the first 20 games and Cisse took over for the run in. We don't have, or look like, we've go that this season. We need more goals, they might come before September or in January, but they're not there right now. That's the immediate priority and thankfully the club knows it.

9th as we stand currently. We're still 2 or 3 players short of 6th or 7th - which is fine. Not going to spit the dummy if the players we need don't arrive this summer but the priorities are glaringly obvious and the Maddison bids suggest substantial cash is still there to get 1 or 2 of them. We're in a very good position here and we're almost a very good team, it'll 100% happen, it's 'when' not 'if'

Like asking Ian Huntley to babysit for you