Dinho lad

It's all collapsing on us - Rafa gone by Christmas.

Sigurdsson?

Ronaldo did? I think he got 40 odd goals in one season but it was in all competitions. Not sure. I was under the impression that your first post was just a joke. Erm, nah. What's Suarez's goalscoring ratio, btw? You don't think Ronaldo (who actually scored 23, 42, and 26 goals in England) or Messi (who regularly pisses all over the best English teams) wouldn't score as many goals in the Premier League? You can't be serious? Ronaldo has scored 40 or 50 odd goals consistently in La Liga, no? His stats are certainly better in Spain. Messi? Didn't he "struggle" for goals against English clubs before the last few years? Also, are you not capable of disagreeing with someone without sounding like a total twat? I sound like a twat? You're the only one I can see name-calling. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I wasn't being a twat any way. I honestly did think that you were joking, mainly because the idea that Ronaldo and Messi couldn't score 260 goals in the Premier League is based on literally nothing at all, I assumed that it could only possibly be a joke. Well, that wasn't my blimming point, champ.

Ronaldo did? I think he got 40 odd goals in one season but it was in all competitions. Not sure. I was under the impression that your first post was just a joke. Erm, nah. What's Suarez's goalscoring ratio, btw? You don't think Ronaldo (who actually scored 23, 42, and 26 goals in England) or Messi (who regularly pisses all over the best English teams) wouldn't score as many goals in the Premier League? You can't be serious? Ronaldo has scored 40 or 50 odd goals consistently in La Liga, no? His stats are certainly better in Spain. Messi? Didn't he "struggle" for goals against English clubs before the last few years? Also, are you not capable of disagreeing with someone without sounding like a total twat?

Ronaldo did? I think he got 40 odd goals in one season but it was in all competitions. Not sure. I was under the impression that your first post was just a joke. Erm, nah. What's Suarez's goalscoring ratio, btw?

Ronaldo did? I think he got 40 odd goals in one season but it was in all competitions. Not sure.

Ronaldo and Messi probably wouldn't score as many goals in the PL.

3-0.

The fuck Gary Lineker was thinking when asked him if he thought he deserved a shot at the bigger jobs?!

Hertha to win and over 2.5 goals - price boost.

On 188Bet it's 5.30.

Do you still stand by this, out of interest? It was a bit of an inflammatory remark, but I stand by the crux of what I meant. Stats are obviously very useful when they're analysed correctly and used in conjunction with a knowledge of the game, but raw stats on their own are generally worthless without any knowledge for the non-quantifiable circumstances (e.g. your own opinion of a player/partnership/team regardless of the stats, how a player will lift the team/crowd, and then there's form/confidence and who the opposition is etc) Beyond that I think stats tend be used very heavily by managers who are overly defensive and use stats on their own to play percentage football. It's how you end up with situations where flair players who can win matches single-handedly are dropped in favour of inferior players because their stats aren't up to scratch. Good managers with knowledge beyond stats use them well, Rafa, Mourinho for example. Others such as Pardew, Allardyce, and Pulis, use them as gospel, because that's the majority of what they have to offer - percentages. Agree.

Do you still stand by this, out of interest?

I bet eveytime he hears the Champions League tune, this fucker starts thinking : "Yeah, yeaaaaaah..... this was made for me!".

Carragher wasn't particular quick or that good on the ball, was he?

I work for an agency that provides physiotherapy service and one of the physios on our books, who used to work in professional football, e-mailed me this: “I was on a course with some of their physios last year and they were scathing about some of the foreign players, who they said were only there for the money!” Nothing new, but there you go!

No risk free offer from the bastards?

"Effective unit" is Rafa's speciality - how exactly isPochettino and even Puel better than Rafa at doing this??

I've been saying it for ages: Mourinho is a cunt.

Perfect time for his innovational and man management skills to shine.

three losses in a row now - he loves those runs of straight losses, doesn't he?

Whoever makes the team function more.

Delighted for the big fucker.