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No, he congratulated him on getting out of Newcastle If it was just that tweet, it wouldn't have been so bad, but that coupled with him at every opportunity saying that he wants to leave is what makes it very disrespectful.

Best possible appointment they could have made.

Dreamt that Shola stepped out for this in the number 9 shirt. Wouldn't wish that dream on my worst enemy, was fucking horrible

Be nice to have both Jesus and Moses in our team like.

Messi. 100% of left footed Argentine forwards = the 'New Maradona'. Surely Rooney will have had to have been the new Owen at some point?

If Villa get £5m for him it's the best piece of business all summer. Why the fuck would anyone sign Micah Richards? And for money? Life of Brian scenario when the mackems ask how much Villa want for Richards and they say that the buy out clause is £5m and they accept it straight away and Villa are wondering why the fuck they wouldn't haggle that price

One of those rare deals in football where you feel like all parties have done well. There's clearly a very good player in Wijnaldum and I think Klopp can get the best out of him. We've done well to get as much from him as we did, probably much because of Rafa's "we don't need to sell anyone" attitude.

If Villa get £5m for him it's the best piece of business all summer.

If we get £60m for him and Wijnaldum, we could have bought Aston Villa for that money

"big club" debates

Atmosphere is going to be terrific from the away/neutral end.

Fwiw, even though I don't rate him at all, we should not have sold for under £20m before the Euros, and that price obviously rose after. £35m is still ridiculous, mind IMO.

Sounds like a really limited player, not a very good one to me.

Want a creative midfielder now, and a winger with pace after that.

Having medical

Everton appoints Steve Walsh as dof.

£35m

If there is one player I'd buy and build a team around, it's probably Paul Pogba.

Has to be terrible for their pre season preparation this. Only need to look at us last season to see how important pre season is and what can happen if you fuck it up.

Lush from Ritchie

What's the link to the YouTube stream?

The match thread and laughing at Ryder's tweets will be far better than the actual game

Pretty sure he'll have specified it has to exist. Maybe. Why bother though? Good craic innit. Well he's a renowned manager and football expert, why wouldn't he have a website? He has his own stuff to say that doesn't need to be through any particular club. Just because our last two managers didn't know what the internet was. Genuine question, do other top managers have them? And, if so, do they still use them when they're employed by a club? http://www.carloancelotti.it/en/ http://antonioconteofficial.it http://sackpardew.com

He got four of those assists in one game as well, didn't he? Which is often a stick that Wijnaldum gets hit with whenever someone mentions him scoring 11 goals last season. So that leaves three assists in the remaining 35 games.

I fucking hate that "chances created" stat. It's one of the most useless stats I hear being thrown around IMO. Sissoko played nigh on every minute of last season, and especially under McClaren, our tactics were to attack down right hand side through him and Janmaat, so if his "chances created" wouldn't have been the highest in our sorry excuse of a team, it would have been absolutely embarrassing. Sissoko's poor delivery is part of the reason we got relegated, no matter how many of those are counted as a chance created.