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80 points won't see us promoted tbh. Play-off perhaps but we need 90+ to go up automatically. 18x5=? NNNGGGHHH!!!1!11

80 points won't see us promoted tbh. Play-off perhaps but we need 90+ to go up automatically.

If we're top and clear and playing well then I'd like to think that everyone would want to be part of it and stay on til May. Can't say for certain Jonas and Coloccini would stay, particularly if Maradona stops picking them for Argentina, but that's a chance we have to take. Pleased with how it's going so far but we can't get complacent.

Even Sunderland fans are putting us down to win on their coupons every week now.

who the fuck we gonna lose 5 games to in this shit? We're going to slip up from time to time. I reckon 100 points is achievable this season. I've said all along we should piss this league and I've seen nothing that should frighten us.

40 games left. Win 25 of them and draw 10 means we should romp this poxy league comfortably. We'll still need a complete overhaul next summer though.

2-1 win. We'll go behind but come back to win it late on.

That's a fucking great result that. Well chuffed.

Nearly got them a point tbf. They play to their strengths and won't roll over for anyone. I think they'll do ok this season, especially at home.

'Rare' mistake from Cech there....

That Giggs goal means he's kept up his record of scoring in every Premier League season since football began in 1992.

Aye, I think so. He didn't really know what to say after that. Difference was that Shearer's was accidental...

Skirge, it's the middle of September.

I'm sure there's another thread on this.

I'd agree with that. Money alone won't win games of football - players will. The money has to be spent well on players that will get results. I reckon they'll finish 4th this season and then spend another fortune to break the top 2. In 5 years time they'll have won the league imo. They're putting their money where their mouth is and part of me wants them to be successful - if only to drop the sickening scouse cunts out of the CL/top 4.

Just like shagging a prossie. You get your win but no-one's actually impressed with you. Money talks. They're stupidly rich and when they win something some people will, rightly, say they've bought it. But most clubs that have been successful over the years have spent a shit load. It's a canny rule of thumb - the more you spend on good players, the more you win. Doesn't always work out like that obviously but generally speaking... Yep. Ambition + financial clout = [/potentialcanofworms] no can of worms there tbh. Just common sense. There's a limited number of pots to win each year and subsequently some big names are going to win precisely fuck all. Some big teams spending a fortune will end up with nowt. They can't all win something.

Just like shagging a prossie. You get your win but no-one's actually impressed with you. Money talks. They're stupidly rich and when they win something some people will, rightly, say they've bought it. But most clubs that have been successful over the years have spent a shit load. It's a canny rule of thumb - the more you spend on good players, the more you win. Doesn't always work out like that obviously but generally speaking...

The money side of things is irrelevant. They've got so much money behind them it doesn't even matter how much he's going to cost. The fact they took him from under United's nose was the important thing - it sends out a signal. They're shitting money and this is only the start of it tbh. They'll win the League soon enough.

The standard of the teams is garbage tbh. I reckon we're even worse than last year but we're now winning games because the opposition are so bad. It's fucking great in so far as we can play absolute dogshit and still win but I'm under no illusions as to what would happen if this squad were to get promoted and not strengthen. We're still awful and yet still a cut above the dross in here.

Go Go Gadget-neck..........................

At poker maybe... Certainly not football.

Last time I saw 5 Bellies he was drinking pints of white wine in Seaham Harbour about 11 years ago. Dark days... He's as skinny as a rake now. Known just as 'Jimmy' then?

Last time I saw 5 Bellies he was drinking pints of white wine in Seaham Harbour about 11 years ago. Dark days...

I'm not going to start second-guessing him now tbh. Nothing he's done here for the last 18 month has made any sort of sense. He's got pretty much every footballing decision wrong and he's hired people who are/were totally unsuitable for the job. I honestly think he's just making it up as he goes along and doesn't look further than the next week. He's got no idea whatsoever how the sport works or how to run a football club. Arrogant in the extreme in as much as he never thought we could go down and had no idea how to turn it round and rectify things. Haven't got a scrap of sympathy for him but I don't believe he thought he'd be in this situation when he bought us 2 years ago. He's just fucked up and can't seem to realise that if he just spent a bit of money at key times then all of this could have been avoided soooo easily.

I think they'll appeal and end up paying a massive fine instead. UEFA just wanted to flex their muscles a bit and they'll drop the punishment down a bit.