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Wouldn't be surprised if Rafa sold him in January, Swansea or Hull with £15M would do it. With him being so known for rotation, It's weird he has hardly used him all season...

Aye, a feisty no 10 in the bellamy mould would be perfect! Both Diame and Perez are very temperamental, perez only showing rare glimpses nowadays

OOps!! Looks like a kid, lucky barsteward!

Wonder what the problem is? Match fitness? Lightweight, needs adjustment to pace, aggression of champship? Can't be worse than Dummet FFS!

I thought he was only 22 or 23, might be mistaken, if so, he needs to sort his life out and get a yearly greggs subscription or something, lightweight !!!

Agree, the change would force teams to think about the threat and would allow us to play different approaches when needed through the game (long or passing). Still think it's a mentality thing when we play at St james, the team seems to be very anxious at home. Probably more fault of the support; seems like we get on their backs far too quickly and the atmosphere is much worse than what is offered from our away support (only going on others opinions, haven't been to SJP this season).

My couple of points: Ritchie has been huffing and puffing all season, we need some competition and he needs dropped. Diame and Perez have also been crap in the no10 position all season bar a couple of games, we desperately lack a bit of cunning in this position. Gouffran is what he is, he is bang average but gives 100% every game, we can't expect more from him. We miss not having a replacement for Shelvey and will suffer from it, I would liken this situation to any Barcelona team of the last few years (tin hat); take messi out and the level drops drastically... Apply the same principal to a much more inferior team.... Conclusion: Buy a No.10, winger, creative midfielder and a guaranteed goalscorer (if gayle got injured?) ASAP!!!

The only thing that he lacks is Build, when he gets to 25 and his body changes he will be some keeper. Really do enjoy watching this lad, will be hard for blob and krul to displace him on this form...

Now just need Mo to persuade Ben Arfa that we all still love him loads and want to see him in the shirt again sometime soon...

Must have: Prem League "guaranteed" striker, no10, defensive midfielder who can play, left back Would be great: Creative midfielder (competition for Jonj), winger and 3rd striker (sell Mitro)

Aye for 15M I would also snap his hand off. We have now waited for over a year and we are all still waiting for him to show us what all the fuss was about. At the moment he looks like standard championship striker, in the prem he was gash, can't remember a striker missing so many sitters or at least that's what comes to mind. I also don't buy all that Stevie T heart thumping I'm a Geordie look at my attitude type of boll***s, he still isn't performing on the pitch. Yes, mr partisan Belgrade, he is just a performing bear at the moment, in fact the novelty is wearing thin!!!

P.S. last couple of games have been unlucky: Pennas, sendings off and offside?

Going back to the 442 argument and the incorrect thought that we aren't scoring enough, my thoughts are that we are playing a system that will serve us very well when we go up a level when back in the prem. We wob't dominate possession so much and will appreciate the extra man in midfield. I also think that with the marauding (ahem!...dummet!) full backs we are quite set up to attack??? It is hard to score goals when teams "park the bus" it's irrelevant if you play 442, 351, or whatever, they still have nine men defending.... I personally think the system is great and it's the first time I have seen us genuinely well organised and hard to break down, with some better quality in the final third we would whop teams every game. I also don't see that many prem sides playing 442, as the game is much more about control and not losing.

We have dropped back 20-30 yards whereas in first half hour we were well up the pitch. Don't like sitting on leads like this, let's get another goal and up the pace. Also have to say that Leeds were asleep for a good while.

Forestieri has been very impressive, think he would be an improvement on either or diame or ayoze

Can we buy Roofe from leeds? Solely for the chance to sing: the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!!!

That's an away team, keeping solid and structured before the flair and creativity. fair play to rafa. For all the colback haters, his experience will serve us well in a cualdron atmosphere, there is a slight risk in hayden for this type of game (although do believe it's overhyped - Leeds have nothing else to look forward to tbh...)

Wor lasses lookin' geet canny!

When hayden is fit why would we want to move mbemba. I thought he's looked great in defence for us at times, give him a break...

Ayoze away from home is not what I expect Rafa will do, expect Diame with more ariel threat and power instead of Ayoze's trickery and guile.

Honestly don't think any of our lot will want to abandon ship, great team spirit, we'll be back in the prem in six months time and Rafa will have us competing in a couple of years time.

need a goal to finish this, would be typical nufc to allow them a lucky one via set piece or something

Speaking with a mate yesterday, who is a manu supporter, and he pointed out something which holds ground; when we lined up against Fulham he thought we had a team of midgets, that we would get bullied easily (in this division), he also chipped in that teams will be playing for set pieces against us becasyue we don't have any big players bar Lascelles. Had to give him credence to be fair. Let's change Ayoze for Diame and get shelvey in the middle aswell...

-------------------------sels------------------------------- Janmaat------Lascelles-----Mbemba----------Anita ---------------Shelvey-------Hyaden------------------- Aarons----------------Diame------------------Ritchie ----------------------Gayle------------------------------

No way should Anita be anywhere near the first XI unless it's as a right back. Agree 100% on Anita