Kanji

Aye, it's not as if there's an actual, literal "transfer kitty" that sits in a padlocked safe inside Rafa's office. Money in the club is money in the club. It's really the club's own fault (from prior handlings) because they've drawn so much attention to the balance sheet that now people are programmed to obsess over this.

Club needs operating cash or club needs transfer funds from the Owner - pretty normal business, our own press / fans are obsessed with tracking this shit.

I had a newborn today. Probable consequence of a 3-1 defeat to Southampton last April. ffs James. Congrats dude. Heck of a way to announce that man

Imagine a front 6 of: Gayle up top, Bojan #10, Montero/Deulofeu and Ritchie on the wings, Cleverley and Shelvey central. #dream

If Hatem came back under Rafa this forum would break, servers would crash, and many of us would likely have newborns in 9 months.

Tielemans would be jizztastic

Comfortably more organised than Hull who we failed to beat in the league cup? Aye, Hull were organised like. We controlled the game but, like Blackburn, they limited our chances well. we were literally 1 Sels mistake away from winning that match, ffs. So Hull weren't organised and didn't limit our chances? They defended well the whole game, we were probably the better side and the conditions helped them I thought, but I don't think we looked comfortably more organised than them. Maybe I'm just not remembering it correctly, but I felt in the first half we looked in absolute complete control of the match, and looked the side far better organized and looked the likely winner but not exactly putting in killer ball or taking the chances (ie: our usual issues). But if i'm off the mark, I'm not going to waste space and argue over it

let's ban sky

Norwich fans think he's very inconsistent Wonder if Rafa + our coaching team could improve him (ala Clark)

Comfortably more organised than Hull who we failed to beat in the league cup? Aye, Hull were organised like. We controlled the game but, like Blackburn, they limited our chances well. we were literally 1 Sels mistake away from winning that match, ffs.

Absolutely fantastic article by Caulkin. Fill you with pride type of stuff - it's surely a test for Rafa to steer us back on course, but if there's anybody out there to do it and set us straight for the rest of the season and beyond, it's our manager.

Would love to see Robbie Brady join us too by the way, I think he's got a fantastic delivery from crosses and set pieces that Gayle would really thrive on.

Shouldn't loan or sell Mbemba at this point - we shouldn't be getting rid of any players unless we're upgrading them drastically to get us out of this division.

Just as Alonso is way better than Shelvey No shit man

Which is pretty bizarre given their defence of Pardew and his players when we were losing 3, 4 and 6-0 at home every other week. 'The players have got to take a look at themselves, Mick' every time. Both of these posts, so true. If you didn't know the score (for the most part) you'd think by listening to the radio commentary that we were losing the match. It's only adding the to highly emotive reactionary boo-hoo brigade.

Lucas Leiva a huff merchant - he's about 5,000x+ the player that Colback is.

He did, unless he wasn't credited for it due to some deflection or something.

We've won matches quite comfortably that Ando and radio commentary team have absolutely slated our own players for.

wtf

All posts I agree with so I'm not going to add much more to this to beat the point(s) to death, I'll add that we'll look far more comfortable again when Shelvey is back and hopefully well needed additions/replacements at left wing, #10, and CM to partner Shelvey.

Apart from grab shirts. and the tripping, clattering into someone for intentional fouls. If he had 10 passes to complete yesterday, 7 were backwards (delaying for seconds), 2 were sideways. 1 ahead of him. shockingly shit player.

I imagine those players have more hatred towards Pardew and co.

Was going to be my next question, if he was at the African Nations Cup...thx Joey

hope he gets hit by a bus

I believe we will still get promoted, but we'll need to get back to winning ways and derail Brighton a bit to win this league. I trust Rafa to get this done. And f*** Jack Colback.