Pata

Europa League First time ever.

HJK.

Close but not quite there.

Spudil.

You know rightly how EPL clubs feel about the League Cup. The most important thing about the game tonight was getting Jonny Evans some match practice for the weekend. Could've been your best bet to get back to Europe like.

Fucking hilarious this. :lol:

Di Maria is world class ffs.

NUFCVines have uploaded it on Twitter. Been taken down I wanna see! Maybe the club don't want us to? I just watched it like a minute ago.

Dzeko and Negredo>Giroud. Aguero also scored 17 goals in 22 apps. Giroud is a good player but you really think he's good enough to be the main man when they are competing against Man City and Chelsea for the title?

Thinking the same. Maybe a bit too thin Colo reference.

Lovren should just fuck off back to Argentina.

Slim, Santoon () and LFEE, legends!

Well done!

We lose our momentum every single time Anita gets taken off. He's not a flashy forward so doesn't get recognized as a "match-winner", but he's every bit a match winner when on the pitch due to his exceptional technical ability and reading of the game. The guy just "knows" football. We don't have too many of them in our squad let alone our first team. Where was he in the first half then?

Bossed.

Benny has had halves like this too. Hope Cabella can bounce back (if not hauled off).

Fuck off Tiote

Anita spotted.

Samaras is IMO underrated now. Haven't seen him in Scotland but based on the Greece games he's a big guy with a good technique and he's not really a bad signing for WBA on free.

Without sounding all NUFC, over 4 years I bet Liverpool pay Balotelli £20-25m more than the other two get. He'll be on about £100k a week more at least. That's before sign-on fees etc. Great signing for Liverpool imo by the way but that's a simplistic way of putting things. I know but it's still amazing price. They were running out of options and getting a top class striker at this point of summer for £16m is great business. I was just responding to hakka's post that they should've looked elsewhere when there really aren't many options left when the season has already started/starting soon.

None of the top tier strikers were interested. I know I would rather take a punt on Balotelli for that price than Shane Long or Ross McCormack.

I just feel totally numb about club football in general. The World Cup was brilliant but now it's back to the money talks football. Hard to get excited when an outstanding season means we'll finish 5th-7th. Just looking at what happened to Southampton makes me sick (they weren't blame free either to be honest). Good season playing nice football and they just get scavenged by the 'big' clubs. Hard to believe it was little over ten years ago that SBR signed Bellamy and Robert and we were at the top of the table in December and would've had a real go at the title without the injuries. It's just not gonna happen anymore. Getting Pardew sacked would obviously be brilliant but the excitement just isn't there when 4th or 5th place is the best we can hope for even after he is gone. Praying that things would change but it's just not going to happen. Fucking ridiculous that we don't even take the one possible bright spot seriously. Would fucking love a good cup run.

Have to say I thought he looked terrible in the World Cup. The amount of times he stupidly gave the ball away was embarrassing. He had one good season and the odd good game but he's generally been found out and he's in a position that can easily be replaced. I'd sell for anything more than 5 million! Why 5 million? Might as well be 50k. Brilliant timing to sell one of our most important players. There has to be a replacement lined up and ready to sign a deal if this goes through.