James

You can only motivate players if they want to listen

The big thing is that no one is man enough to tell Ashley that the 54 million was spent very poorly. He is probably being told by Charnley that the players are all great the manager is great, everything is great.

In defence of Janmaat he is actually injured at the moment but playing regardless. So loss of form is understandable

He does have one recent saving grace which is that he wanted to sign Dele Alli long before others were interested but Charnley wouldn't pay the asking price. But otherwise the rest are shit or not rocket science to sign.

I know he was, the point is that the opposition can just walk right through our midfield, hence "missing"

The midfield is so bad that we are actually missing Colback!

While I don't doubt his quality Perez has never looked effective on the wing. Also it is pretty common for new managers coming in to utilise players in their so called best position either to: 1. Work out for themselves which positions need fixing 2. Demonstrate to those with the purse strings where the money requires urgent investment.

Exactly. McClaren should have done his homework before leaving our best player on the bench in favour of one of our worst. Perez best position in the opening game was taken up by Wijnaldum, who also has the same best position, albeit different types of players. The £15m new signing was always getting in ahead of Perez first game and Perez has shown both his worth and character in shifting Wijnaldum from that position. Obertan is a red herring.

Can't see what McClaren has said wrong there. He has acknowledged Perez's importance but believes he can get even better so is challenging him to do so.

I wonder if the club will be prepared to invest more in players from the lower leagues after what happened with Dele Alli

I have had enough of Sissoko. He should be the best of all our players, but he only turns up when he feels like it, e.g. Against the big clubs or if he is due a France call up. His attitude stinks and it seeps through to others. Krul Janmaat Mbemba Dummett Mbabu Wijnaldum Colback De Jong Thauvin Mitrovic Perez

Anita is shit. We have an appalling record when he starts, he doesn't dictate play, he doesn't put in a good defensive shift and he loses every midfield duel ever. He lost to Dan Gosling today FFS.

Got Mbabu for that

Alex Ferguson today's timekeeper?

Even the best miss the odd chance

Although he didn't deserve a red and was unfortunate to be in the position he was, if the club have been looking to strip his captaincy, this is their big chance.

Going to have TV off for 48 hours so there is no chance of seeing Allardyce's smug face.

Better be from the referee. Are there any rules about slagging off the referees in private email communications? Because McClaren could send us all an email slagging off the ref and the FA wouldn't be able to do him for it.

Santon's situation was so strange, went from absolute nailed on certainty at left back to being forced out really quickly I think thaT it was a board decision with Santon to force him out because we had three left backs.

Won't believe until we see thread title.

I have more confidence of us playing well against Man Utd and Chelsea than against Watford and Norwich as a number of our players give zero fucks about the club any more and will only turn up for the TV and Champions League scouts. This is not McClarens fault, I think that generally as a club we are fucked.

The club wouldn't have paid his wages (covered by insurance) so I'm sure the medical fees could have been easily paid. More likely this is to be an issue of how he was treated as a person.

How can we expect the players to play for the club after the way it treated Jonas? The captain's apparent best mate as well. Why would Colo give a shit about the club after all of this?

Didn't think we even needed to register u21s

I see we are being linked with Victor Valdes until the end of the season, Holland paying for it.