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Martial is a midfielder, can't decide if that is tempting or not. He's £9.5m so probably not. Jay Rodriguez is also a midfielder, which might be useful depending on how Puel uses him. So many managerial changes I feel like I don't know anything, it seems sensible to pick Man utd defenders because of Mourinho and likewise Chelsea because of Conte but who the fuck knows.

Allardyce gone then? Rumours gathering pace Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Been reading Bellamy's book, his comments on Rafa were that he was basically a control freak who loves to rotate but was very astute tactically, though very stubborn. Nothing we didn't know already but if we sign Hanley, it's naive to think that will automatically relegate somebody to the bench, it just means there will be plenty of rotation which is no bad thing in a 50ish game season Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They're signing Berahino as well

Didn't West Ham have a bid for Ritchie rejected just a month or so ago?

Least we know what Taylor's offer from abroad is

We stupidly didn't keep him on right away so when he did sign, he was woefully unfit for the first month or so. He barely missed a chance from about December onwards though

Yeah but the Rafa masks? Obsessed cunt.

Villa lost last year's final, they aren't in Europe. Palace have to win it to get in. If Man Utd win it opens up Europa to 7th.

Saw people on Twitter discussing us loaning out the likes of Mitrovic, Wijnaldum and Perez next season, presumably to get them back if we get promoted. Seems stupid given we'll probably work under the idea of only spending whatever money we bring in. De Jong has hardly played for 2 years, I can't see anybody keen to take the chance on buying him but a risk free loan which takes his wages off our books seems like an obvious choice. The others you mentioned have played regularly and will presumably continue to do so unless somebody actually buys them.

£6m for De Jong He'll be loaned back to the Dutch league and we'll never see him again.

..and assist for Janmaats He looked absolutely fucking rapid on the build up to Janmaat's goal, don't know if I was just caught up in the madness but didn't realise how quick he was

He's not the quickest and he's obviously not the biggest, but he's very good technically. What is his best position? He's been average everywhere this season though that's not entirely his fault.

Really? Can see him getting a move to a decent club but I don't think the cue will be long. They'll certainly want to pocket him

That second picture

This is what annoys me so much, he's a failed League 2 manager and we value his opinion more than the man in the dugout. It's stupid

They don't play us at all so there's no reason for them to change their manager

Is that Ben Shepherd? Can't get that fucker off the telly

After the stick he got at Chelsea despite doing pretty fucking well, he surely won't go through that again at a former rival

It's really not. It's exciting because they're all different levels of shite, bar a couple of teams who have obviously gone on to get promotion. We played Alan Smith centre mid for 4 months and won the league ffs

I don't doubt we'll have better individuals than that but it's all about who is in charge and what sort of a team they can blend. We were fairly turgid in the Championship pre-Christmas and got by on having better individuals, it was only once Routledge arrived we had a proper cohesive unit.

Says it all about how bad Colback's finish was that a free shot from about 10 yards didn't go close enough to warrant being a highlight

For the Spurs game to be a factor, we'll need to have won the next 2. Hopefully Spurs can't win the title, so put yourselves in their shoes: Resigned to 2nd, Euros to look forward to for most of the players, long hard season and a long trip up to Newcastle, who will be up for it and flying into everything (in theory). Only slight things to play for could be Kane looking for the golden boot, but hopefully they just have the day off

That fucking Wednesday when they both play their games in hand is going to be a rough night

If they'd lost, we'd have the same points and they'd still be about 6 goals better off on the GD. We're not going to overturn that goal difference, we still need to win the next 2 and hope they don't win their next 2 and the game in hand.