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Wrong again, unfortunately.

This Botman boy might have a shout. The young lad Trippier also looks a prospect.

He is a thick fucking cunt, and he's doing us all a disservice with his shit.

No, me too. Away fans making next to no noise. Pitiful.

Leeds don't go ballistic. THIS is going ballistic. Watch until the end...

Bollocks did he let the occasion get to him. He was up against Casemiro, Fernandes and a lad who starts ahead of Bruno for Brazil. He did fine.

Bore off.

And you include the Ashley 10k ST freebie mob in that, yes?

Yep, agreed. It hurts (and I'm far more disappointed for my sons than me), but we're still in the final.

Gave up my ST after donkey's years when Bruce was appointed. That was the clear line in the sand for many thousands. So it was disappointing that the club's recognition of those who had ditched their STs (by allocating some last summer to former ST holders) only applied to those who'd done it in 2019 or later. It's seriously galling that folk who took up Ashley's freebie ST offer in 2019-20 will be at Wembley rather than me. But it's worse still when some "soopafans" on Twitter tell you that you deserve no better because of a lack of "loyalty"...

How are his good points hard to see? Finishing apart, was excellent last night.

Absolutely honking last night and most of this season. Clearly carrying too much weight and has an attitude. A definite no from me.

Nobody's asking him to be a left-back. They're just asking him to do a very basic thing: track their full-back when he tries to overload us. The fact is that the better teams in the modern game no longer carry "flair players" who refuse (not are incapable, but refuse) to work hard without the ball.

As well as buying Targett, an RCB, a striker and possibly a right winger is the business the club expect to do this summer.

Our owners are having to deal within FFP, whereas City - through the loophole of "sponsorship" money (a loophole now closed) - did not. Ask anyone in the know at the club, and they will tell you that our situation, no matter PIF's wealth, is incomparable to that of City.

This is bollocks. Did a huge amount of pressing.

Absolute nonsense.

Bad take? Or WUM? The lad was excellent again.

Almiron was gash.

I think there's something in that. I always remember around the time that we signed Tino, I read this article by Brian Clough in one of the tabloids. He said that when he was manager of Notts Forest, during their title-winning season, he was very tempted to make sure of success by buying another player towards the end of the transfer window. In the end, he decided to hold his nerve, because a new player at that stage might be difficult to integrate, and might be seen by his existing squad as a vote of no confidence in them. For those reasons, he decided against entering the transfer market, and he now had similar doubts as to whether it was wise for Keegan to buy Tino. We'll never know for sure whether things would have turned out differently if Keegan had done differently, but I've since been inclined to think that Clough made the right call. Tino was a good player all right, but he wasn't the player we needed. Including him meant that the Sir Les - Pedro partnership, which had been so fruitful, was disrupted, with Beardsley being pushed out right. The weak link in the side, and the player that should have been replaced, was Gillespie. We needed a wide player. I recently saw an interview with Sir Les, where he himself said that changing the line-up to bring in Tino was a significant error. It's not that Tino can be held 'to blame'. It's just that he was the wrong player at the time. Sir Les was brilliant and I've got all the time in the world for him, but the truth is he wasn't able to adapt his game to play alongside Tino. Which is not really surprising and can easily lead one to think it was the wrong decision. Personally I thought Les went missing in the second half of the season whereas Tino seemed to be fine when the pressure was on. That finish against Liverpool in th famous 4-3, he was cool as a cucumber. So yeah, while I'm a big Les fan, think that wasn't quite the whole story there. Those figures for goals and finishes bear out his effectiveness and I agree with Optimistic that he got scapegoated a bit. Ferdinand stopped hitting the back of the net, Beardsley started to show his age, but personally I thought the introduction of Batty to the team had more of an impact than Asprilla. Batty was a good player no doubt, but I think the dynamic of the team changed and we were a better team with Clark in the middle. A half decent keeper and we would have wrapped the title up as well. Still hurts like a motherfucker. As much as I love him, all roads of regret lead back for me to Sir Les and the Man United home game. Had we won, that was it - title done and dusted (seven points clear with a game in hand). But, as good as Schmeichel was, he missed a couple of unbelievable chances that night.

Also this has to be a mistake. There is no way we are paying Shelvey £850,000 a week. 850*100 ≠ 850,000 = 85,000

That's not one of the reasons Rafa left though. He felt the money could be spent better elsewhere. Same thing. He left because there was no trust and no ambition and things were not being done right. The situation you describe is just one of hundreds of examples of this in action. Given how hard he'd had to work to convince Ashley to spend £20m on Miggy, I'd suggest the prospect of seeing double that spunked on a player he didn't particularly rate when trying to strengthen a squad desperately short in several areas was a pretty big factor in Rafa deciding enough was enough.

Think he has probably ended Zabaleta's career.

Dear God, give the gimp a pair of clippers.

Jean-Philippe Mateta is the one I wanted more than Joelinton, Saint-Maximin. Proper striker reminds me of Demba Ba. Joelinton will need time to make the striker role his best position. NUFC were offered Mateta for £8m last summer...