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Poor Rolando for not being Alan Shearer.

Freeing up funds for a move for Slimani..

Smash It! - Richard keys presents his shots of the week.

Bilbao can suck a dick! I wouldn't take any pleasure in seeing him play for a club of their lowly stature Lowly stature lol, bigger than us by almost any measure.

Why would he want the club sold? Apart from cutting loose the 'hassle', I don't see why he should. An empty stadium next to SD hoardings is another thing entirely, though.

Not willing to carry the rest of the team on it?

It's a shame we don't have the strength in our team to carry him a bit, a prolonged period starting next to Merino might be what he needs, he's just in and out so much through suspension or cantgiveashititis.

When I open Chrome, it now comes up with a list of links to news it thinks I'll be interested in which I find fairly handy all in all. Only problem is, every single Ryder article is supplemented with a thumbnail picture of his f***ing mug. I don't think there's a way of blocking specific news websites. There is, modify your hosts file. It's quite straight forward, I use it to block a lot of the advertising/tracking sites. Google it you'll be sorted in 10 minutes or so. Just make a copy first.

All depends on whether Ashley is willing to budgie on his asking price.

7 in the first poll, 7 in the second. If Rafa goes or we are taken over it would push it either way.

Surely he's got to give 3-5-2 a go when Lascelles is back. Gives the 3 man centre mid position that Shelvey needs, makes the most of Yedlin and Manquillo.

Only let an outfield player be in goal for the penalty, and make the penalty takers wear blindfolds. Football's meant to be entertainment after all

If the buyers are haggling over £250m-£300m, logic states they won't be splurging vast sums a la Man City come January. As investors, all purchases are likely to follow a similar model to Ashley, where players can potentially grow their value, or could increase the club's value through on-field results. Don't get me wrong I think anything is probably better than Ashley, but I'm not that convinced an investment firm or conglomerate is going to catapult our club up to the Champions League places any time soon.

He doesn't want to sell, though. Just an overture to try to appease fans again, just like every stunt he's pulled in the last 10 years. The fact that someone actually came in and done some due diligence wasn't expected I'd imagine. I'll believe it when I see it, until then why bother getting hopes up.

I've seen about 2 episodes of Dream Team on Sky1, but I remember one of them there was this angry Scottish manager chap that the board told he had to lose all the games for some reason, but some of the players revolted and tried to win and got suspended, reminds me us right now

That is what you get when you appoint a snake salesman. gets me every time

Tonight has been very good for us.

I won't disagree, but if it's him or Perez or Diame, I think his net contribution would be more than either of those two. I guess with 2 very pacey wingers either side he may get some more space to operate too.

Yep, I've said a few times that for lack of any better options we could do worse than stick him in the No. 10 position. At least we'll keep his set piece delivery in the team.

Ritchie is irreplaceable. His assists, particularly from set pieces, are what's keeping us out of the relegation zone. Ritchie has to start every game, whether that's as a right winger or not is another matter though.

They both have autism, and it's generally good to know that.

WTF I've just moved to Brixton, f*** off Mike. When he kicks on your front door, how you gonna come? With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun? I cannot read this in any other way than one big euphemism.

Well, according to Rafa, he's only got 1/3 of the capability to kick the ball forward. Kinda roughly translates to only being able to score with tackles/shins etc. I suppose.

Waiting to see if he's in the starting lineup before I stick a few quid on us.