Teasy

NO again he didn't have a decent game overall, I just said that defensively he was decent, so maybe Rafa is putting him in there because of that. Because he made 33% of the entire teams tackles and he knows Shelvey will make about one and likely get sent off for it. Personally I'd play someone else because I think Diame's shite and normally he looks lazy as fuck and doesn't do much of anything.

Just Teasy talking bollocks and bigging up Diame. Supposedly he had a good game defensively when Watford humped us. But you can't manage any reasonable come back. Again I said he was decent defensively. Care to argue against him making more tackles then anyone else in our side? The entire team made 12 successful tackles, Diame made 4 of them. Stop talking bollocks yourself, grow up a bit and make an actual point if you disagree. Just Teasy talking bollocks and bigging up Diame. Supposedly he had a good game defensively when Watford humped us. Dear me. Again he made far more tackles than anyone else in our side, how is that not decent defensively?, certainly comparatively. Fuck me this place is completely crackers, say one thing and you get such pointless bollocks thrown back at you that it can actually end up making you look like a cheer leader for a player you don't even rate. Honestly this place isn't worth is like I'm off to watch the match and hope we don't get humped

Fucking awful post. Aye Diame made 4 times as many successful tackles as anyone outside of our defence and twice as many as any one of our defenders. But its "fucking awful" to suggest he was decent defensively in that game You'd have thought I'd said Diame was a really good player considering some of the absolute shite I've had in reply. I didn't and I don't like him as a player either, he was just decent at one particular aspect of the game in comparison to the rest of our team in one game. Having looked at the stats they back up my opinion and I'm saying maybe that's why Benitez is playing him in this game ahead of Shelvey.

Played well?, who said that Discussions don't tend to go well when you just imagine what people are saying instead of reading their posts like. I said he was decent defensively, not that he played well overall and one person being decent defensively isn't necessarily going to stop the opposition dominating.

Yes I watched the fucking match and I disagree with you. Watford dominated because the midfield two were Diame and Shelvey, Diame himself made some good tackles in midfield, Shelvey wandered around a lot.

No he wasn't and no he didn't. We got turned over 3 nil at home and barely had a kick in the middle of the park. Yes he was and yes he did. easy this arguing stuff like. Seriously, opinions and all that, he won the ball in midfield quite a few times against Watford as far as I remember. Certainly what nobody can argue with is that Shelvey is horrible defensively. I mean I'd still rather he starts and we just go for it, just thinking of why Rafa might think differently.

To be fair Diame was decent defensively last time he started, while Shelvey either jumps in with ridiculous tackles that nearly get him sent off or lets the opposition walk past him as he ambles back. Think Benitez will want Shelvey for second half if all goes to plan and we've defended well first half. As far as Manquillo, he's at right back there, which is his natural position (?) so hopefully he isn't hopeless there like he is at left back. Yedlin has been shocking defensively in his last few games.

Murphy has been showing good improvement so would be a bad idea to take him out now IMO. Especially when the alternative is another player who, despite the hype, has shown very little in competitive matches. Unless Rafa thinks he needs a rest with 4 games in two weeks I suppose.

Wasn't that based on a article from the 22nd of November?

The difference being Rafa is having a go at the club, Pardew was sticking up for it. Its completely different, and comes from a man that actually knows what hes talking about. Don't really care tbh, i don't want to hear excuses regardless of what the reasons are. It's bullshit at the end of the day, we all know Ashley is a c*** of the highest order so what point are you making. Also you know damn well if anyone else said that they'd get lambasted, regardless if they are having a go at the club or not. The reason we lambasted other managers was because they were actually making EXCUSES to mask their own shitness. Rafa is just saying what we all already know - not excuses but reasons, legitimate reasons. I don't really see what's wrong with that? For a few weeks we were punching above our weight because of Rafa's world class managerial ability and now we're performing at our actual level. Also because we had a full side out, with a full side and a class manager we were ok. But lose a few of our best players and no matter how good the manager is he can't mask the shocking lack of quality.

The difference being Rafa is having a go at the club, Pardew was sticking up for it. Its completely different, and comes from a man that actually knows what hes talking about. Don't really care tbh, i don't want to hear excuses regardless of what the reasons are. It's bullshit at the end of the day, we all know Ashley is a cunt of the highest order so what point are you making. Also you know damn well if anyone else said that they'd get lambasted, regardless if they are having a go at the club or not. Anyone saying we should have spent money but refused to which has put us in the shit situation we're in now would get lambasted?

At fault for the first two goals, seem to remember he was easily out jumped for Manures equaliser as well. The lads ok going forward but he can't defend, can't even manage to be in the right back position the majority of the time.

Not saying I believe Jim White, but could be he wants £350m with no clauses all up front and this is £360m with clauses/some delayed payments. Nah in reality of course Jim Whites made it up.

His update will probably be that things are still progressing and the exciting bit will be reporting what the geordie dentist bloke said days ago, nowt said on TalkSport is ever exciting.

Of course, nobody's going to buy the club unless they have free reign to negotiate various deals to increase revenue.

Along with the insistence that 'THEY KNOW NOTHING MAN' about every single journalist that has ever existed anywhere ever. To be fair they seemed to know nothing about any offer at all yesterday morning. Now not only do they know specifics like clauses but some apparently even know the motivation behind each clause. All from a deal that's behind a none disclosure agreement. I think its fair to say the vast majority are talking shite/speculating and claiming it as fact.

Its a shite point though. The club has a hell of a lot more hanging over it than a dodgy fucking boiler

Except they've done a thorough survey and this is nothing at all like buying a house. Sky also know nothing about the specifics of why any such clause may be in a contract that's been submitted under a none disclosure agreement.

Is anyone mentioning exclusivity being potentially agreed soon or is this all just what ifs?

Didn't PCP Capital bid for Liverpool, have it rejected and make a second bid? Interested to know what the amounts were if that's true.

Pahahahahh You ok lad? He's either a mackem or fucked in the head mate, ignore him.

The whole Liverpool conspiracy thing is just silly. At the moment they'll be spending a five figure sum to pay a legal firm to look at our books. That would be one hell of an elaborate ploy. I suppose some will claim we don't really know they're doing due diligence ect, well if they weren't I'd think at least one person would say they aren't,

Would be good, show Mahrez up

Any new owner has to apply to the Premier League so they can do their "fit and proper person test". I mean Ashley passed it so it mustn't take much to be eligible but I think it does still take a bit of time and apparently numerous new potential owners of clubs have failed it and not been allowed to take over (must be right evil cunts if they failed and Ashley passed like).

This isn't a transfer window and PCP/Stavely don't owe us anything. They'll take their time to make sure this is the right club to buy. If its true that they want this done with time to plan for the January transfer window then I'd think that they'll have to apply to the Premier League by the end of this month at the latest.