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Eh? I'd agree he's a better player, but FAR SUPERIOR?

That's a Ba goal.

FFS!

Ronaldo is definitely having a wank right now

Get in. We need Villa to have something to play for on the last day.

His average position is right smack in the middle, we basically played with no right winger. Aye, offensively we were once again without shape or form. I think we'll see ihm more to the right when Siss is back in the team...

Both sides played some nice football in spells. Watford could be interesting with a bit of cash in the PL. Haven't seen much of Leicester but from the little I've seen form Watford basically parts of their last 3-4 games they do look decent on the ball as well as having scored the most in the Championship must count for something.

I'd take him any day of the week. Rami - MBiwa if Colo leaves? That's mouthwatering.

He probably won't rate him based on that as he's usually quite bad in derbies. I am still undecided on Courtois myself tbh, he organises well and has very good box presence but i find his shot stopping and reactions to be very poor. How weird I think the exact opposite of him From what I've seen me too. Shot stopping/reflexes is definitely his biggest strength. Must be something wrong with my eyes, when i watch him he looks very slow to get down to long shots..... Hard consistent problems with Ronaldo long rangers because of it. Any goalkeeper has problems with Ronaldo long rangers man.

Apparently they're trying to convince Mourinho to follow along.

He probably won't rate him based on that as he's usually quite bad in derbies. I am still undecided on Courtois myself tbh, he organises well and has very good box presence but i find his shot stopping and reactions to be very poor. How weird I think the exact opposite of him From what I've seen me too. Shot stopping/reflexes is definitely his biggest strength.

I rather see Zola and Watford in the PL tbf.

You do realise he was talking about CL when he mentioned Arsenal? In any case I think MBiwa will turn great and you can see that he's very good in possession, it's right now all about adapting he has apses in concentration and does misplace a bit too many balls. I understand your criticism but if you've seen him before and even for us we've seen glimpses of a ball playing defender. In any case I agree we shouldn't consider him as a DM, he is to be the replacement for Colo by what we've seen and I hope a pre-season with the team and some more english lessons will help him out. Have no doubt he'll be one of the best in the league in couple of years.

This is my fear. They get their pick before we do. Hopefully they chose wrong and we have a better group to choose from this summer. I'll bet you a tenner / bag of haribo that Alan Pardew is our manager when the new season starts. Yup, unfortunately this is my feeling. If he starts next season badly I can see him sacked by january, but I don't believe he'll be sacked.

I think Krul would be a coward decision, still a young lad and I don't see wy we'd give it to him. At the end if Colo leaves it'll end up being Cabayes whether we like it or no. I'd obviously rather give it to someone like Saylor and see if it's a magic potion that can keep him healthy

I honestly couldn't give you a name, it's as close to being an impossible job as you can get. Only Mourinho could step in and carry the results on, but I understand why they haven't done that. They're 8/1 not to finish in the top four next season and that tempts me. Careful, with that squad only a selling of Rooney and a injury to RvP will get them outside of the top 4, and even then I expect them to be challenging for the title. The players they have are only getting better which is scary. Welbeck, Nani, Valencia, Kagawa, Young can all play as offensive midfielders/wingers. It's quite a good depth considering they have RvP/Chicharito/Welbeck who can play up top. They'll be absolutely nowhere near the title imo, miles off. If Mourinho does go to Chelsea, it'll be like taking candy off a baby for him. Might be the case, but I'd like to see you put the money where mouth is. I for sure can't say I wouldn't have them as favourites if we went into the next season with only Moyes for SAF and Mourinho for Rafa. Obviously strengthening in the summer will decide a lot of the factors on who will be favourite, but as of now Man U has a better squad and more depth in my opinion.

I honestly couldn't give you a name, it's as close to being an impossible job as you can get. Only Mourinho could step in and carry the results on, but I understand why they haven't done that. They're 8/1 not to finish in the top four next season and that tempts me. Careful, with that squad only a selling of Rooney and a injury to RvP will get them outside of the top 4, and even then I expect them to be challenging for the title. The players they have are only getting better which is scary. Welbeck, Nani, Valencia, Kagawa, Young can all play as offensive midfielders/wingers. It's quite a good depth considering they have RvP/Chicharito/Welbeck who can play up top.

Won't if we're relegated and they stay up

Like we played well thanks to him last season? People forgetting the hoofing before Ben Arfa saved our season? Ben Arfa is one of our players TBF, he's allowed to win points for us. Did I say anything else? In my opinion a manager should be able to manage a team no matter players. He'll get better results from better players, but he should be able to adapt. Pardew hasn't shown any signs of that in either seasons here. As soon as our defence buckled last season we were sent into a free-fall until Man U game and then until Ben Arfa came back. Pardew hasn't shown once that he can be a successful manager under his tenure here as shown this season. I'd love to be proven wrong, but his fifty different excuses for every loss or points loss shows he's a fraud. When were we in 'free fall' last season, like? ?? Check out our fixtures. After our 13 game unbeaten run or how many games it now was, we only won one out of the next 8. 1 win in 8 is free fall? What position did we fall to? I'm not checking our results, because it's you that's brought it up. I'd expect you to back it up. Love the way you casually dismiss a 13 game unbeaten run. Inochi man read the original post before coming with such stupid comments. I said I criticized his ability to change as soon as the circumstances started changing. I'm not dismissing that beginning of the season, however is inability to adapt to the team gathering injuries and inability to beat teams except some individual brilliance was a big worry last season. As for me backing up for my arguments here we go, you tell if you find it acceptable: 5p out of 24p right after the unbeaten run, and then if you extend until Ben Arfa seriously got into the team it was 19p out of 51p. Now, is that acceptable? Is that not a free fall considering we picked up 24p out of 33p ? Stupid comments. I'm picking holes in your arguments again, man. It's easy to do, because you just wade right in without even thinking about what you're typing. 24 points out of 33 is nigh on league winning form, I really doubt we were going to be able to maintain that over a season. Especially with Pardew in charge, if you like? During our period of 'free fall', were we ever outside the top 8? You go on to say that he's never shown himself capable of being a successful manager here. Is 5th place not relatively successful for us? No, it wasn't pretty and, no, it obviously wasn't sustainable. But not successful? There are plenty of arguments against his abilities, so there's really no need to the revisionist history in your post. Picking holes in my arguments? You went on to type something without even looking at the original post, you once again proved that you try to ''win'' arguments on here rather than provide arguments and have a discussion. This isn't a race and I'm not trying to win an argument with you, because with the incompetence and douche approach you use it's impossible to argue. If you tried to have a decent discussion not only would the atmosphere be a lot better but also more pleasant for everyone else who aren't part of the discussion. Just to type it out a last time so you get it since you again disregarded from my main point which was that as soon as injuries started hitting he was incapable of maintaining some type of respected results and that had it not been for Ben Arfa we wouldn't have finished 5th, we could have easily slipped down the table even more, hence me calling it a freefall. I never expected us to maintain the same level, but I think the fact that we took 19p out of 51p shows that we just weren't good enough for big parts last season. 19p out of 51p is close to relegation form if you think about it. With that said I don't believe Pardew was successful last season, and I think for big parts the table didn't speak it's true words to our performances last season. I know many are happy to just look at results, but I am not, this is why I posted MY OPINION, not YOURS. I can easily see the other side of things, but I don't agree with it, I won't lynch someone for it though, or try to be all hot stuff on here btw. Like I said, it's MY opinion, not yours but I also understand your way of things as it's been proven time and time again by other posters on here that it's hard to maintain a discussion with you.

And in terms of free fall I was speaking of results and not table, have no idea what table positions we had last season btw.

Like we played well thanks to him last season? People forgetting the hoofing before Ben Arfa saved our season? Ben Arfa is one of our players TBF, he's allowed to win points for us. Did I say anything else? In my opinion a manager should be able to manage a team no matter players. He'll get better results from better players, but he should be able to adapt. Pardew hasn't shown any signs of that in either seasons here. As soon as our defence buckled last season we were sent into a free-fall until Man U game and then until Ben Arfa came back. Pardew hasn't shown once that he can be a successful manager under his tenure here as shown this season. I'd love to be proven wrong, but his fifty different excuses for every loss or points loss shows he's a fraud. When were we in 'free fall' last season, like? ?? Check out our fixtures. After our 13 game unbeaten run or how many games it now was, we only won one out of the next 8. 1 win in 8 is free fall? What position did we fall to? I'm not checking our results, because it's you that's brought it up. I'd expect you to back it up. Love the way you casually dismiss a 13 game unbeaten run. Inochi man read the original post before coming with such stupid comments. I said I criticized his ability to change as soon as the circumstances started changing. I'm not dismissing that beginning of the season, however is inability to adapt to the team gathering injuries and inability to beat teams except some individual brilliance was a big worry last season. As for me backing up for my arguments here we go, you tell if you find it acceptable: 5p out of 24p right after the unbeaten run, and then if you extend until Ben Arfa seriously got into the team it was 19p out of 51p. Now, is that acceptable? Is that not a free fall considering we picked up 24p out of 33p ?

Like we played well thanks to him last season? People forgetting the hoofing before Ben Arfa saved our season? Ben Arfa is one of our players TBF, he's allowed to win points for us. Did I say anything else? In my opinion a manager should be able to manage a team no matter players. He'll get better results from better players, but he should be able to adapt. Pardew hasn't shown any signs of that in either seasons here. As soon as our defence buckled last season we were sent into a free-fall until Man U game and then until Ben Arfa came back. Pardew hasn't shown once that he can be a successful manager under his tenure here as shown this season. I'd love to be proven wrong, but his fifty different excuses for every loss or points loss shows he's a fraud. When were we in 'free fall' last season, like? ?? Check out our fixtures. After our 13 game unbeaten run or how many games it now was, we only won one out of the next 8. We then won 4 out of the next 9 before Benny started playing and we won 6 straight.

Like we played well thanks to him last season? People forgetting the hoofing before Ben Arfa saved our season? Ben Arfa is one of our players TBF, he's allowed to win points for us. Did I say anything else? In my opinion a manager should be able to manage a team no matter players. He'll get better results from better players, but he should be able to adapt. Pardew hasn't shown any signs of that in either seasons here. As soon as our defence buckled last season we were sent into a free-fall until Man U game and then until Ben Arfa came back. Pardew hasn't shown once that he can be a successful manager under his tenure here as shown this season. I'd love to be proven wrong, but his fifty different excuses for every loss or points loss shows he's a fraud.