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Fucking Birtles, sounds like he wants to off himself

Long is always 100% nailed on to score against us

Standing with his hands in his knees in the closing stage rather than making any attempt to pick up runners into the box on both occasions for the goals. That's not good enough and no amount of crisp long passes make up for that. At least he's finding some form in the run though Said this last game when he had a stormer, let a ball run past him then stopped as they broke and nearly scored.

I love the hive-mind thing that seems to happen at a seemingly innocuous point of the season when twitter and the media suddenly start realising he's shit. They got beat off Chelsea, hardly news given they've been shit since he's come in but somehow this is their moment. I can remember ours finally being when that stat about wins in the calendar year was floated around, then suddenly the press realised he was as shit as the fans had been saying.

Had an absolute stormer obviously, but still watched the ball run a few inches past him then stopped running for Sanchez's near miss

The fact that the low-balling bids is a meme is in itself a tragic indictment. You don't really hear anyone making jokes about Swansea or Leicester making joke bids window after window.

Fuck me, the amount of money the TV deal brings in and we won't pay the £20m asking price for our first choice target. Pay the money and move on.

No idea why people want to sell Shelvey, regardless of price. It's January and we've got three centre midfielders. Unless it's a swap for someone much better we can't afford playing players out of position there after a couple of knocks.

My favourite version of that is the one recorded of the telly with the chap creasing up at it, makes it 10x better.

Rafa holds all the cards, no point in him even entering discussions right now.

Not great news she's done an interview - presume that means the NDA is done?

Nice to see the "can't complete" line being trotted out by others even though we're the 27th biggest club in the world or whatever it was.

I take great pleasure in Charlie Adam's shitness

Where's the options from the reserves? Absolutely threadbare.

"You couldn't call this game... a draw looks inevitable"

Does he know something?

Don't buy this whinging from top team bosses about "only one team played football", if you've had 80% possession it's up to you. If you want to be the best, the majority of teams will set up to defend against you, it's your job to mitigate them. It'd be refreshing to hear a manager come out and say "we expected them to be tough to break down, they were and I'm glad we got the goal to win it".

Even worse stats: Grim.

Was 3 hours ahead, now 4 hours. Made me check though

Fuck sake, forgot the clocks have gone back to make this a 12am kickoff where I am

He's a total creep. Is he still tweeting from Pav's account - even though he's been dead for nearly a year? I'm not from the area so I've never really known what his deal is when he gets mentioned. Had a Google, it seems he's a doorman/actor/boxing promoter/agent/fansize editor/sacked football agent/pr. Does that just about cover it?

In Mike's case, a few hours

So glad we've got Benitez in charge. Pardew would have bought 11 Hayden Mullins' with 300m.

I'm fairly ambivalent to the club getting sold because it'll be to another faceless consortium whose priorities won't necessarily line up with the manager and the fans'. Complete gamble. It's probably the time for a gamble, but it's a gamble nonetheless.

Long saw it coming a mile off too, so obvious. Literally booted it the opposite way to the goal when he saw him coming