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Aye, wish Wijnaldum had taken the shot on right at the end instead of trying to pass it through.

He wasn't perfect, doesn't mean he didn't do a lot right, played very well overall.

It's a busy night of match fixing for Mike Dean tonight.

Aye, maybe got lost in the confirmation of him signing but according to Sky he's created 24 chances in 16 appearances this season. While Anita, Colback and Tiote have created 15 chances in their combined 44 appearances this season. Shelvey's been shit this season as well, so what does that make those three?

Aye, Berahino tomorrow and then see if we can get a winger or left back on Thursday

Hope someone asks him to stop doing that fucking goggles celebration.

Maybe his leg was in real pain and he thought he might be injured? Impact injuries wear off, just because he went on the keep playing doesn't mean he wasn't in a lot of pain at first. The tackle was quite bad after all.

Despite being shit this season and playing only 16 games Shelvey has created nearly twice as many chances as Anita, Colback and Tiote combined (those three have played 44 games combined)

Saivet can play either apparently but is comfortable as the defensive midfielder sitting in front of the defence.

Seven years since he scored against us at home, so bound to score tonight now I've pointed that out

Very Giggs that like. He has been shit and lazy in general for Swansea for a while now, ever since he decided he didn't want to be there. Still I think that was the 93rd minute of the first game he'd played in a while so likely knackered.

Looks tired after his trip down here like.

Absolutely, its not an outrageous fee at all these days. Mind to be fair its much easier to break your transfer record if you're a club like Bournemouth or West Brom, who no doubt still haven't come close to spending more on one player than we did in 1996

why do we care about the fee? Still can't get an answer on this. In general it shows how he's valued within football Don't care about the fee on this one personally. Because I don't think its a crazy fee considering the market and it looks like we still plan to spend more regardless. But in general fees absolutely do matter to some degree and I can never understand the argument that they're totally irrelevant.

Assuming that isn't a hollywood pass back to the keeper its an improvement on what we have

Would have been class if the third bloke was bald as well

Also nice to sign a couple of players who actually have a real desire to be here. Assuming reports in the press are true anyway (with both saying they didn't want to go to Palace or West Brom and wanted to come here instead) Still not a fan of Townsend like, but perhaps if he gets the move he wants he can make a new start and do well, same goes for Shelvey

Different situations like, loaning players out of course you want them to play ever game, and Ashley was in a position to enforce that with his shares in Rangers. Can't see us offering that kind of assurance to a player we bring in though (with Ashley being very bonus orientated this would be completely against that philosophy) let alone a free transfer.

Fucking hell, Mick Lowes is so thick.

A lot of shots and possession no doubt, though the majority of those shots were hopeful long range efforts that never looked like troubling our goal. I'm not denying you's had much the better of the game and a few clear cut chances. Just you made it sound like Krul had to make great save after great save, think he made 2-3 really good saves. Probably half of those shots on target never even reached Krul. Definitely very one sided in possession but you really didn't break us down enough, I've seen more one sided matches to be honest.

To be fair IF the new midfield works well and we signed a good striker and center back (which he's assuming) then the squad would look a hell of a lot better. That doesn't mean McClaren could get it into a European spot of course.

Shelvey basically has no defense. Those who think Shelvey and Saivet could make a good partnership and bring us better results need to realize this hugely depends on how many goals we can score because now the protection for our back four is non existent. Compared to the brick wall that is Colback & Anita? You will realize a paper is better than an air very soon. Saivet plays defensive midfield and from the little I saw is very capable of sitting in front of the defence and protecting it.

i know were awful but i still think that is massively risk odds to offer Skybet were offering Mitrovic first and 2-0 at 135/1 That's huge. I might get on that I wish I had now, they've dropped it to 110/1. Same for Perez first and 2-0. BetVictor are still doing 125/1 on Mitrovic and 2-0 though.

We won't turn that down like, we aren't completely insane.

i know were awful but i still think that is massively risk odds to offer Skybet were offering Mitrovic first and 2-0 at 135/1