Shak

Had an off day today but you can see glimpses of his quality and how good he can be as a box to box CM. He'd benefit a lot from a quality target man leading the line.

If we're willing to reinvest the money in a striker be a left winger I'd sell him tbh. Anita and Sissoko has the makings of a nice pairing in CM while we're woeful up front and out wide. Sad to see him go, but honestly can't begrudge any of our players wanting out when a real football club shows interest.

Just finished watching. Jesus, that was a dismal game. Some positives to take, first time in a while we've had a CM pairing that had some balance for example. Biggest issue was the strikers though, both Shola and Cisse were an absolute disgrace.

Glad to see Marveaux get a start, hope he makes the most of it. Anita and Sissoko in a 4-4-2 might work and all. Would be a decent team if we had someone who isn't completely shit in there in Shola's place.

Ireland beating Romania on penalties at Italia 90. First football memory, must have watched the shootout hundreds of times.

In a nutshell.

I thought the debt was an additional thing that he inherited when he bought the club? As in the club owed money to someone else and Ashley paid that off (on top of what he paid for the club) and instead of the club owing money to a bank it now owes that money to Ashley. The benefit being that the debt now won't continually accumulate interest? Not massively sure, but that's always been my understanding of the situation.

No expectation at all that we'd spend the entire amount, you'd be mad to expect it.

Fuck off Ronaldo, stealing my word.

As if Ashley's weed wouldn't be some low quality, homegrown fucking shite.

Think I'll go to the supermarket and get my groceries, feel like I've accomplished something with the afternoon.

Debuchy was wank for the first goal like, just stumbled around like a tit.

Good half IMO.

Imagine Ben Arfa if the rest of the team wasn't shit.

You could see Jonas' panic escalating as he realised he needed to attempt a cross. Cisse's been laughable so far.

What a finish. Cisse asleep as usual to give it away.

Sissoko so obviously better suited to a deeper role. Best move him up top again ASAP.

Ben Arfa.

Well, we held out for ages tbf.

Don't really have much issue with Tiote or Jonas starting a game like this tbh, the two of them is overkill though. I'd start Marveaux ahead of Jonas and drop Sissoko deeper, otherwise it's a reasonable team.

Radge packet.

Aye can certainly agree with that, especially given our propensity for "direct" football.

I'd still rather sign a quality wide player than Gomis. Absolutely no way we should be playing a 4-4-2 with our current group of players, and adding Gomis would appear to make that more likely. If we could sign Sinclair/Ince and not lose anyone I'd be very pleased with our work in the market, assuming the goal is to sign Remy permanently.

Racist.