Zero

Even Fergie is a better option. I am serious. Jonas finally surpassed Williamson to be my weakest link in starting eleven and must be dropped asap.

Oh wait, just curious, would there be "a right sub" if there's no "a wrong starting lineup"?

Jonas deserve nothing higher than 5.

I honestly think rushing Obertan straight back from injury isn't a good idea. Marveaux is definitely his fault, although I did suspect it may be related to his injury records. Anyway we have to risk them today because we fucking need the 3 pts.

As a side note, I hope that's the end of Jonas. Pretty sad for me to say this as I am the first "defender" for him since arrival. He is finished. He can run, he can't pass. He has no football ability left. Another Smith.

I actually think he should be credited for the subs. All 3 subs are correct.

We get closer to score though.

I dun care what style we play today. A win is all.

HBA rarely bombing down the line during counter attack though. He will go through centre.

We need to sign a few more players to make football sense.

It is arguable to say Taylor is a better footballer than Carroll. The latter earn us big money though.

Excellent Draw

Ba. He got no fucking right to say these bullshits out. Look at what he did since Cisse arrived. Those fucking mid circle long shots, the summer saga, immediately ask agent to issue public threats for just one game on the bench, etc. Fuck off man. We paid such a huge cost changing our style to please you and you now publicly hits out the manager? L Cabaye is another case. He has the right to complain because he has been promised and it wasn't fulfilled. And I can see him staying if we change our playstyle.

The question now would be would Cabaye stay if Pardew's sacked?

You should hope this is a good finale and never see him playing again.

That's y I said we should sell this cunt during the summer

Same. What did he do?

Krul Debuchy Douglas Colo Santon Tiote Cabaye Sissokho HBA Cisse Ba Ba then, who isn't a left winger by default. Tiote is next if he couldn't back to what he should be.

Enrique was a better defender, and better going forward. Santon is OK but, like a lot of right footed player who cut in from the left, flatters to deceive. Enrique is a great one-on-one defender but a very poor zonal defender. This is the reason why Rodgers refuse to play him as left back, and why he isn't call up to national team, even before the emergence of Alba. Anyway, not going to argue anymore here, just want to point out Santon shouldn't be accused of lack of attacking threat because the one in front of him is a defensive winger who also couldn't cross on the left.

Because he doesn't have the option to lay off to the left winger to put in a cross. His only choice is to cut in. Wullie, the same applies if both Jonas and Santon are left-footed. Their only choice would be just keep on crossing from the left.

Every manager has those. For Pardew, it seems to be Jonas. I agree. But what I mean is Ashley and Llambias probably had an agenda to sell Nolan and Barton even before the sales of Carroll, and the sacking of CH was just the beginning of the clear up. On the other hand, Jonas is a more complicated problem. You need to consider Colo's reaction as well. I am all for dropping him from the starting 11 but selling Jonas might have negative effects on Colo, which we can't bear the consequence at this moment.

Santon's lack of left foot cross isn't a problem. The problem is we don't have a left winger who can put in a cross from the left. Although I agree he may be even more productive to link up with HBA on the right, Santon is a very good left back already, even better than Enrique. To replace Enrique with just 5m is a great business, nevermind a bargain.

I would say at that moment we just need one more striker but Best has been doing a good enough job. Our initial expectation for last season was just a respectable mid table position and we proved to have a squad better than that (still over achieving for a 5th though). I do understand the feeling of "there is always a weakest link within the first 11".

Lahm, Maldini.

Errr, well, not the summer we got Cabaye and Ba. I would agree the other though.