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Reckon there is a Barcelona fan somewhere going, "it's time Messi got rotated."

Reckon there will be a few changes. At a guess. Darlow Yedlin Lascelles Clark Dummett Shelvey Colback (if fit) Atsu Perez Gouffran Mitrovic

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Haidara, Krul, De Jong, Saviet can all go like. Aye, selling our best goalkeeper by a mile makes perfect sense. He's injury prone and can't kick a ball. I'd sell Elliot and Sels too given half a chance. Of course that's if we can find someone to replace him with. Darlow would make a decent back up.

I thought Wigan were surprisingly good. They had zero quality but really got stuck into us and made a game of it. We were shite. Lost our composure far too quickly. We had a bit of joy when we went more direct in the first half. Doesn't matter, we will probably batter Burton.

Surprised Rafa hasn't tweeked. Almost certainly will at the weekend then.

It didn't help that Carr was told to avoid scouting people in this country, ye na, the place where they were going to be playing their football. It also didn't help that he had to scout essentially boys, with no experience and with the remit that we could get our cash back if they were shit. That doesn't mean to say he's blameless, just that his hands were largely tied. All clubs sign some duds by the way. The good ones move them on quickly.

Probably do Rowett a favour in the long run. He will end up with a bigger club than Brum anyway.

Even though promotion is the only thing that matters, with the squad we have I'd be rather dissapointed if we didn't win the league. Brighton are going to have to put up one helluva fight.

Is that since we beat them? They lost the game after us, but since then. I think they were shell shocked after our defeat, now they've recovered. In the back of their minds they'll be worried we'll derail them again at St James. First game was at St James. We will still beat them away like.

Great signing for Everton that.

Zola is one of those managers who sounds like a really good idea until it all goes tits up. Shame because Zola is a good guy.

Both sides have improved since then too.

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We've all said contradictory and emotional stuff in the past, like. Edit: Didn't know the above.

Haidara, Krul, De Jong, Saviet can all go like.

Hardly going to have players flocking to join them or sign new contracts, with the future of the club up in the air. Surely Short realises he would get a better wedge by keeping them?

Souness has slagged us off countless times but he's not the spineless wanker Pardew was.

Why the fuck would you want to sell Lascelles for 20m? If he has a decent year back in the premiership he could fetch a stupid fee. Stones went for 50 remember and he can't defend. And that's ignoring that we would be weaker without him.

I think I've been there thrice. Never seen us win. Taylor free kick, Haidara tackle and another time which I can't remember. Towns a canny sup but the stadium is a characterless shit hole.

Wigan is like the learner pool for away matches, everyone's been to Wigan.

Let's remember, if/when we get promoted, we don't need him to be the best player in the league, just a good player. I'm confident he will be.

Or maybe it's the s and m gear he's wearing.

It's the hat falling off his heed that does it.

His vision is almost as good as it gets, at any level of football and his passing his excellent. His attitude is questionable, along with his physical capabilities. He's improved on both scores this year though. Basically, if you can get someone athletic to play alongside him, your laughing. Needless to say, ginger pubes isn't the answer.