Parky

Team really lacks brains. Not one player out there reading the game or communicating ideas.

Too defensive and conservative so far.

We haven't really been a team that is a goal threat for quite some time now and hence nicked a few wins here and there by chance or buckling down to long periods without possession...Cisse can't play as a lone striker and we don't seem to have the players who can join up with him quickly although Winjambum looked like he might be able to do that and Sissoko has done it irregularly in the past. Think we have to accept that this is a project in its very early days and Win and Thauvin will take a few months to get upto pace of what is a very fast and physical league packed with very fit high octane players....Not something they have faced in France and Holland. The biggest revelation is that we really lack a 'door opener' a Hatem type and the final phase is too slow and by the book so mostly easily read and average..Win could become more of a ball player but he seems very similar to Sissoko in many ways with bursts of pace and athleticism but maybe not an eye for the killer pass...We don't really have someone who looks up in posesssion...Colback and Anita are steady and goodish but have very little impact on games bar being tidy and getting themselves around the park...All in all we're a very nervous reactive side that can't yet see how to control phases of play for a few minutes here and there...I'm not fooled by all this passing it around deep in our half stuff. The am/f/wide either have to come narrow or the one on the alternative side of the pitch to where the ball is coming from has to get into the box with one other and we have to do that regularly...There simply has to be more threat on goal from somewhere. Nobody seems to know how to break a side down...

Not sure what the idea is here...

Firmino looks absolute shite.

Gay for Putin.

Marcial looks no different to Wellbeck.

Needed a mohican early doors.

Thought DeGea was blind.

We never got to use the Pardspear. Glinting in the sunlight as it flies in from the stands and then..'thwack'.

It's pretty much just a brand now the PL and the shinning lights of it are protected. I see it game after game. Now that the FFP is defunct the league will go further down the toilet till there is only 2/3 clubs that can win anything.

He needs half a season before we can really say or see what is going on.

Seems to have spent loads on players who end up out on loan or fail sharpish...Markovic, Balotelli, Borinni and about half a dozen others.

Time is up.

It's Arsenal players all over. They all throw themselves over first chance...Giroud is one of the worst.

Maybe stick to the Liverpool thread. Donkey ffs. Based on 3 games? He was hard done by today, aye it was daft but it was a split second misjudgment. He hasn't went to hack the cunt to pieces. Ridiculous craic that. I've watched him since he was 6.

Ok Mulesque. Mitromule.

Come on in his first game and tried to kill someone.

I'm afraid this bloke is a donkey. He's that young and hot headed he has already become a liability and refs are looking for him after what? A couple of games? Mitro is a work in progress and has promise but he's not ready for the PL and that is already clear. Has a big heart and I like him but the money should have been spent on a more all round striker in his mid-twenties not some geezer from the badlands. What's worse is if he immediately takes the aggression out of his game like he's gong to have to he'll be half the player.

Going to be some player. Needs more support up there. Couple of players should be tasked to getting in and around him sharpish.

This will end 2-2.

Best I've seen him since that European game a couple of years ago.

The team felt more confident and compact today. Early days but a good point against a quality side. Think without the Anita inj we would have won.

Pardle warming up for a spectacular fiasco. Love it. And then the positional merry-go-round tinkering.

I sense there has been a real effort behind the scenes to make something of Williamson which is worrying.