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Problem is he looks soooooo slow... Really worried about this, can he cut the Prem or is he another brother of the same name...

P.S. After years of putting up with Cashley, Pardle and Charver, the whole of this board is stuck in moan/depresssion mode even though there are reasons to be cheerful!

Haidara and colo are useless Mbemba, sissoko and Wijnaldum are ace Steve Mc made the wrong substitutions Every body hates Ginger jack, even though he had a decent game

Can we not invent some rumours about an aggressive, tall, ball playing centre back???

Yes, the passing game we played was nice to see and we have players capable of doing so. makes a huge difference when you have two centre backs who are capable of passing and dribbling (go on Mbemba!) the ball out of defense. Been mentioned a couple of times that our CBs went wide, the full backs pushed up to the halfway and our DMs dropped to receive... the proper way to play football! not just a long punt up the field hoping that the 50% chance goes our way, knowing that our centre forward has no chance against two large lumps (Bless him - Cisse), like our previous incumbents/incompetents used to play...

It is obvious that the left side of our defense was suspect yesterday and at fault (in part) for both goals. i am not sure whether it is ring rust for Colo or not but he just wasn't up to standard and got beaten on a couple of one on ones which he normally excells at. haidara was awful defending crosses coming in from his flank yesterday, he reminded me of a certain mr simpson who used to back off and give wingers space...

As somebody said above, he keeps us ticking over with short no nonsense passing. I would also agree that he, in reality, is no Pirlo, but we know what he does and he does it week in week out, therefore giving a sense of security and consistency in a position that in time will get an updgrade. He gives 110% which for me is decent enough, his ability is what it is and until we sign an upgrade give the lad a break...FFS!

A bit daft to be honest, but liked the fact he was desperate to impress. Held the ball up well a couple of times and showed he has some strength. Time will tell...

Played well I thought, made some of his characteristic player beating power runs. Faded in second half. Good to see he seems interested.

Main Negatives for me were Colo and Haidara, Colo was way off he pace and doesn´t look like a prem defender, haidara was good going forward but his defensive work was really bad. Other negatives were Mclaren´s substitutions, they just didn´t work and he should have been looking to hold Southampton further back by introducing pace (Aaarons/Perez), Tiote killed our formation as both he and colback tend to sit, De Jong is still not the right pace for me, he was nowhre near the play the whole game. Positives were Mbemba (after goal), Anita, sissoko and wijnaldum. I would rather see aarons but Obertans got the assist so fair enough.

Colo was very poor today I thought. Chancel had no chance against pelle for that first goal tbh, specially after haidara failed again to block the cross...

Thought haidara was cack today. Defensively he let just about everything through, really was amatuer. Ok going forward but is really crap in defense...

My major complaint is anita and colback together in the middle, should only be one of them at most. Will be happy to be proven wrong.

My team today would be (don´t think Steve will be as attacking): ------------------------Krul--------------------- Janmaat------Mbemba------Taylor-----Haidara ------------Wijnaldum----Colback------------- --Sissoko---------perez------------aarons--- ----------------------NITROvic------------------

I am actually quite positive about the new season, my reasons being: -No charver or slimeball to rub me up the wrong way, before, during and after games -New manager who seems like he is actually speaking the truth, and has a reasonable grasp of the english language -We haven´t sold any of our top players -Signings look good (could do with 1 or 2 more? -Management team helping manager all look positive and non-nepotistic!

Village, what other cannel is it on in spain? I will be looking to watch it aswell... Does Yomvi show it?

The football we want to play, bringing it our from the back, suits Collo to a T, he is calm and collected when bringing the bal out and has the vision to pick out the correct pass. If mbemba, judging by the 20 mins we saw, is as good on the ball as we think, then all of a sudden we have a team capable of stoking the ball about and controlling games better. Colo is still a good player I think, just has had a season where even he probably saw that evrything, team, tactics and future all looked back, perhaps everyone is entitled to a bad one now and again. We have taylor for when we come up against monster centre forwards, so there is some tactical fall back

P.S. Forgot, I don't like his half hearted challenges (when he even attempts them) Just back up for the bench then...

I actually don't mind Obertan, he seems to try in games and occasionally conjures up some decent play, his pace scares defenders thus forcing them a little deeper so his influence on games, albeit indirect, is an advantage. In fairness, he should only be a bench player or competition for ayoze or aarons. Give him a chance, you never know?

I agree, he's solid, probably a level above Willo because he can pass the ball reasonably well. He is a good back up centre half or left back, we shouldn't be complaining. He is still only young so with experience will improve.

Quite amazing that he has most of the media duped aswell... He will be found out soon enough

Get him on from the start, only way to get his match fitness up to scratch, boy looks like he is well up for it aswell. Strikers generally don't have stinkers and he can't honetly be worse than Riviere

I would have thought (southampton game the exception) that willo will be behind Mbemba colo dummet taylor in that order...

As far as i can see steve has the following palyers in his favoured 4231 system: ---------------------------Krul/Darlow/Fat---------------------------------- Janmaat/??----taylor/Mbemba-----Colo/Dummet-----Haidara/Dummet -------------------Tiote/Anita-----Colback/Wijnadlum----------------------- Sissoko/Perez-----------Wijnal/Dejong---------------aarons/Cabella ------------------------Mitrovic/cisse The rest are pretty pish poor so no need to include...

Looks like we can say goodbye to signing another centre back in this window with Colo siging for another year. If taylor and colo can both stay fit, with dummet adding some pressure I am sure Mclaren cab find a decent pairing between Mbemba and one of those.