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I think Milner is ok. But Barry

Again. What has performance and person anything to do with each other? You can be just a lovely person, but if you are not good enough then you are just not good enough. pardew has his good sides, team management especially. But I dont think we will play any better than we do now. It´s basically up to what quality we will get on to the pitch.

No one is claiming that. We're claiming he's the new Xavi I think thats a bad comparison. Not sure what you are basing that on.

Just a fantastic player.

Said it 100000 (and more) times. If he is going to play it has to be as a CM that just makes short passes. He can´t play as a wing man, offers nothing, while he can contribute in the middle. a good back up.

Not my favorite player as he disappears in games all the time. But he still has to play, he is the only player that can do something against low defense.

Yesterday was the first time I was frustrated with him, he made so many bad decisions in the attacking play and looked as he wanted to be the hero. Marv should have his position in the final third.

Silly posts.

For me thats whats make great players. Just do the simple things. Seriously, his short passing most be the best in this team, attacking wise. Based on two games? Yes.

We should upgrade the coaching staff with more competent people.

For me thats whats make great players. Just do the simple things. Seriously, his short passing most be the best in this team, attacking wise.

Sure, but we just don´t create anything. 11 vs 10 for 30 minutes and I think they created more.

Just so bad.

DAVE. If all of our players had his "pass and move" we would have won this game easily. Will be really good this lad

Played 20 minutes and is already the best player in the team Really, really hope he gets to play more now this season.

Yep

Come on Anzhi hasn´t started that well. We just let our self down all the time.

We are so bad to create anything. Just long balls at a lonely Cisse.

short term? No chance you would need to drop to 4th in the rankings but long term it could happen if results dont improve. far, far, far away. It´s not that Italy are storming either.

Martins

And my second point is that it happens to often to just be a bad day

Yes, and not the team performance. Thats my main point.

But for all this supposed negativity we dominated the game. Check out the stats on possession, shots, corners etc. That doesn't show a side sitting back, it shows a side taking the game on. My take was not that we were negative but that we could not convert our pressure into goals against a side who don't aim to do much other than sit back and adopt "spoiling" tactics. Possibly Marveaux for Jonas from the start might have given us a bit more creativity but Marveaux had game time in Moscow and was poor imo. Individually we are a much superior team then Stoke. That we won "the stat" doesn´t makes us having a good game. How many clear cut chances did we have? Not much considering the possession and shots we had, and thats what´s important.

We played at home against Stoke that has won 1 or 2 games away the whole season and is a team that will just defend. We have class, class players and still can´t create anything in the final third. But hey, we are great. Pardew is great. We will win PL next season. Hate this "hypochondria" that everything we do is great and anything others do such. Rodgers has been laughed at all season over his "we won the possession". Now I see a lot of us used it as a argument that we played well "we had 58 % of the ball"

Just pointing out that everything should always be so shit with this league. It´s not.