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He seemed confident about transfers. Can't be bad.

We were so close to signing this lad until Atlanta came in at the last second and offered them actual money, therefore blowing our offer out of the water.

To be fair, Rafa is only getting stick from one direction... The southern press. The local guys are much more grounded and have actually defended his honour.

I'm fairly confident that Merino will turn out to be a more complete footballer than Shelvey and I like Shelvey. Maybe we should get them both on the pitch.

I thought a couple of weeks ago that perhaps Rafa should keep the issues "in house", but if I'm honest it's only because I find the issues hard to accept. I find it hard to believe that we are going through the same shit again. Do I want Rafa, perhaps, to tone down the politics? Yes but only because i can't stand the press using it as a stick to beat us with, not because it will change one jot of our performances on the pitch. A "good vibe", won't change performances, our fans are fantastic at getting behind the team (on the whole). Let's stop blaming the fans again. The only way results will turn, is when (not if) Rafa finds a tactical solution to our deficiencies and when it happens the press will soon shut up and move onto their next easy target.

IMO a number 10 should be the little guy running in behind the number 9. Then again, I'm not up to date with this continental "keeping the ball" carry on. Far better lumping it up front and hoping for the best. Tally ho!

Are you fucking kidding me? How was Elliot getting anywhere near Mooy's goal? I don't rate Elliot much but Christ.

Why does some players have periods after them? That time of month.

Doubt Yedlin will be risked. He will be back for West Ham IMO. Defence will be the same IMO.

His style reminds me of Ben Arfa.

Elliot Manquillo Lascelles Clark Mbemba Merino Hayden Murphy Diame Aarons Joselu

So much overreaction, from the same people who critisise Souness for saying we are two defeats away from a crisis. Calm the fuck down. We are two games in man.

Totally agree on Gayle. Him and Richie should be dropped.

Really? We barely touched the ball. And when we did, we played it long to Christian Atsu. There was no quality and no direction. Just a waste of time. We're fucked. I thought we were the better team over all. I didn't have the commentary on from sky, so might be wrong. I need them to confirm what I saw. Huddersfield were shite, with one decent moment. We were poor but got better as the game wore on. We need some cutting edge.

Didn't think we played that badly. I'm not surprised by the meltdown though. Richie was terrible. He needs replaced for Murphy.

Was the same on match of the day extra. "Huddersfield have momentum", ignoring that we have a better manager and players. They can't talk tactics or owt, just what's going on around the club.

Clearly a move to an Italian club is the most likely. The sooner the better.

I love that the times have put the recipe for the paella underneath.

Liverpool are mental for rejecting that unless they think they can get more from Barcelona. Could easily bring in Van Dijk, LB and a younger Coutinho replacement for that. You say that but Southampton will try for as much as possible too, especially if Liverpool have their pockets lined publicly. Nowt stopping Southampton from asking for 70m. Basically, the money Liverpool get would be worthless without a replacement.

If we are going with probability. Elliot Manquillo Lascelles Mbemba Clark Hayden Merino Richie Perez Atsu Gayle

That's only because he wanted reconstruct his own face.

That was fun.

If we can sell a couple and save the reddies for one or two Rafa specials, that would be great. The idea that we could recoup 15m from Colback, Hanley, Riviere and Lazaar is mind boggling since we would give them away. No doubt we will flog them too late in the window to do anything with the money.

Genoa reps heading to Tyneside to seal deal for Lazaar. Couldn't we just do it over the phone?