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He's got too much going for him to keep suffering. I think he loves playing for a club where he's loved like he's never been before. He knows that things can easily turn sour at other places. However, any remotely talented and ambitious player would be fucking livid with the way we approach games and our footballing philosophy. Pardew's decision to revert to Shola rather than go with three in the middle speaks volumes.

I think I'm going to this. Wasn't expecting to see a centre mid of Huddlestone-Shelvey.

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Need a drastic change in his ideas on how to use the players. This sort of result: we'll have more of them if we don't start playing to our strengths.

All those internationals yet we can't play attractive football.

Ben Arfa's time to shine again tomorrow. Against Carroll and Nolan I think Williamson/Taylor will be decent enough. We'll miss Cheick against Diame though.

Get in Davide.

I love it how Kacaniklic is coming good for Fulham. Partly because he's Swedish, mostly because it makes Liverpool look even more stupid.

Not surprised by the Carroll comments. Can't see why the fuck we'd want to resign Nolan.

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Mulumbu is a top, top player. Has so much to his game. I'd love to have him, we were linked with him prior to the summer I think, there were also some quotes from him about potentially joining etc.

Perfect platform for mindless idiots. Completley liberated from responsibility and actual confrontation. Fascinating but hardly illogical.

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Eh? By asking to play in Cisse's position to the detriment of the team? Wrong by being joint top scorer of the league as of last week. Given their current form and if we are to play 4-3-3, I'd much rather have Demba as the focal point and Cisse on the left and the opposite was true last season when Cisse was on fire. It's simple really, the on form striker gets to play in the middle, that way the team benefit from an inform striker, has higher chances of scoring and introduce some healthy competition between Ba and Cisse. my point is: cisse play central striker or he doesn´t play. Its the only position he can play imo. To put him on the left or right is a joke....might as well but willo there (that could actually be funny). We have better options than cisse on the flanks. all im saying is ba can actually do a decent/good job on the LW and improve us atm where cisse can only play one position. Im only arguing this coz it would make us better in some matches to play both at the same time and not side by side on top (which isn´t the answer). I agree Ba was better at LW than Cissé is. Cissé gives the impression of not having much to his game other than movement and finishing, which is only suitable in a central striking role. I just don't think Ba was anything special at LW. Some seem to think he was actually an asset, but I'd rather have Ferguson, Marveaux or Sammy out there. Among Swedish journalists there is this widespread myth about Ba having so much success and getting loads of assist from LW last spring. I remember him having about one assist and being subbed in most games, often looking disappointed and angry. He transformed those reactions into good performances after the summer. My point from the start was this: Pardew will face an even more difficult situation the day he accepts and realises that Ba and Cissé together are not for the benefit of the team. The question is who he chooses in the long run and what reaction we get from the other one.

Tbh, neither has Demba really. On the other hand we worked well as a team which of course should be the priority. Eh? By asking to play in Cisse's position to the detriment of the team? He was dropped at Everton, came on and hasn't really looked back. He's got back to scoring and producing some brilliant overall play despite the team not playing well. It think that's the way to react, getting your head down and get back to scoring. It's not Dembas fault the team isn't working as well as back in March/April.

Pardew faces a decision here. If he wants to secure Ba long term and play with ONE central striker - Papiss isn't going to be content with sitting around. I'm of course not saying I want us to sell him and just keep Ba, but I wonder if we have room for both of them the way things are turning out. It's getting increasingly unpleasant and I find myself thinking every weekend that in the long run we'll have to choose one of them. Demba really has reacted fantastically to the way Papiss displaced him. I think he's earned that role for now.

There was a moment yesterday when we had a long passing move that ended up at the right wing with Ben Arfa trying to slip him in. Couldn't help but think if it would have been someone like Debuchy bursting forward we'd created something really dangerous. Will be interesting to see what comes off in January. His contractual situation might prompt us into replacing him.

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Don't agree with the second half bit. I thought we sat back far too much and were too deep, especially against a team so poor at going forward. I'm not saying we should have bombed forward, far from it but there was a balance to be found and we didn't do that. Why let a team with one proper striker come on to you so that he's constantly in and around the box? Maybe a bit, yes, but I wouldn't say Liverpool are that poor going forward. They are having trouble scoring, but kept the ball well. Had we opened ourselves up more I think we would have given them - and especially Suarez - the space they need to actually penetrate. They were clueless on how to open us up for long periods. I still think our counter-attacking could be better, maybe comitting Ben Arfa further up the pitch was the missing piece.

Still think we'll see him, Tioté and Cabaye gel into a midfield three sooner rather than later. It has massive potential. He is still getting to grips with things.

Is it only me that thought our style was more acceptable during that first half yesterday? We went 4-3-3, we kept the ball, we didn't hoof as much as previously. The way we defended after half-time was spot on, they didn't create anything until they caught us out with a rare long ball. No fault whatsoever in those tactics. We had no reason to bomb forward and leave ourselves open when we'd taken the lead. Counter-attacks maybe weren't good enough but still, I don't think we can fault Pardew for much yesterday. Had Cabaye stayed on I think we would have won it.

And how can that, in anyway, be a good thing? In that kind of game. When we sit deep. He was controlling Sterling much better than Anita.

It's true that Jonas doesn't add much to our flow or buildup play. He does make a significant defensive contribution though. I would think we should play the Tiote-Anita Cabaye trio in games where we want to boss possession and then play Jonas against the bigger clubs. See. This is what´s wrong here. Everyone is happy if a player is running around and then hoof it long and hard. How can anyone be happy with that? Yes. You are the only one expecting reasonable standards and you've managed to spot problems others ignore.

Excellent work rate today. We played 4-3-3, he'll be a menace if we keep him there.