Minhosa

Great tweet that .

Imagine what the likes of Dubravka must think? We're a complete shambles of a club. A joke of an organisation.

No negative views on the club's conduct there from the Bishop Basher though is there?

Fucking hairy knuckled spunk chewer.

Nothing special can or will happen though. All Rafa is doing is delaying the type of protests we need now by a year. We need action now but it won't happen while he is here. This is just a dead year. Au contraire, I think this coming year is the most important and interesting year for fans under the whole of the Ashley regime - Rafa vs Ashley. It will generate wide publicity about how badly our club is being treated. The fact that there was an article in German about a middling English football team with a Spanish manager and no German players, at the top of the front page of the German sports magazine, kicker.de, shows that our plight is gaining traction internationally. Really looking forward to seeing how much damage Rafa can do in these last 12 months. Yep. :thup: He won't be able to silence Rafa the way he has many of the others as Rafa is a much stronger individual.

Not one Man City player?

Tbf, they've priced him accordingly. £6.5m is a lot to spend on a player like him imo. Agree. Same with Gross at Brighton who is now at £7.0m.

Plus get rid of the chief agitator amongst players in terms of daring to ask for a bonus etc. Could easily see this happening. Would be some test of Rafa's motivation to keep us up given he'll have been royally fucked over by the fat lad.

I think Siggy could be an astute choice. He does seem a player that Silva would get firing and he's always a danger from set pieces too. Again, a player I couldn't find a place for, sadly. To bring him and Arnatovic in, I'd have to be dropping Kane when I just know that at some point, I will 100% want Kane in my team, and it'd cost me too many points in transfers to make it happen. Surprisingly low number of strikers have arrived this summer across the board. When you filter by position and look at the forwards there are pretty much all the same names other than the newly promoted clubs.

If the rumours of player/manager unrest at the start of the pre-season have got any legs, I'd steer clear personally. Aye it's why i went for Arnautović, utter steal at £7m, well so is King at £6.5m if he plays obviously. Yeah - I'd have liked Arnie at that price but can't get him into my squad. He look very good value on paper. I've packed my midfield with low price players bar Salah, a risk but the prices this season are making it tough, Tom Cairney at £5m is a steal. Yeah prices are heavy for midfielders/star players. Sterling at £11.0m looks top heavy with the arrival of further attacking midfield competition and the ongoing emergency of young Foden there.

Played up top all through pre-season I believe....

I don't fancy Burnley this year tbh. Nah I know, that's what stopped me putting him in. Are any of the Wolves strikers decent? Tip - they'll play Jota up top and he's in as a midfielder. £6.5m though, so still a bit of a punt. I think he's on pens too.

If the rumours of player/manager unrest at the start of the pre-season have got any legs, I'd steer clear personally. Aye it's why i went for Arnautović, utter steal at £7m, well so is King at £6.5m if he plays obviously. Yeah - I'd have liked Arnie at that price but can't get him into my squad. He look very good value on paper.

I don't fancy Burnley this year tbh.

If the rumours of player/manager unrest at the start of the pre-season have got any legs, I'd steer clear personally.

You've just nailed my two issues (year in, year bloody out) Aguero almost always costs me in terms of selection/timing it etc and Kane always starts slow. The three you mentioned (Kane/Firmino/Austin) are the original three I'd gone with so I should probably stick to that. My team: Ederson Speroni Cedric Alexander Arnold Dunk Tompkins Bernardo Salah De Bruyne Cairney Jota Kenedy Austin Firmino Kane I strongly fancy Liverpool and City to be streets ahead of the pack by the end of the season so have gone for as many of their players as I could reasonably squeeze in with my final dilemma being the Kane/Aguero argument mentioned above.

Almost certainly if he's fit, but that's a massive if. Yeah I am torn between these: Kane/Firmino/Austin Aguero/Firmino/Mitro Thoughts? I know Hughes started Austin loads towards the end of last season even when he was clearly nowhere near being fit so I guess he's a big fan.

Fucks sake. When is this going to end man? Total fucking relentless turmoil this.

He's not cheap mind. After you mentioned him, I thought he'd been a bit overlooked in terms of value etc but at £6.0m he's top end for a defender.

Does everyone broadly expect Austin to be Southamptons starting forward?

Will Mendy be a guaranteed starter though? Well, as close as you can be, under Pep?

Completely agree. If this kid from PSG decides not to come or, more likely, we offer £2.85 for him then we're fucked for cover. If we were even 1% ambitious, we'd have signed the pair. Bryan as a dedicated LB, Paully D could cover both LB and CB as could the lad from PSG. Basically covering the Lejeune loss and getting a bit more flexibility/cover down the left. Fucking wankers.

It’ll be him or Allardici I’d say.

Fundamental and strategic in its intent from Rafa this. At any other time in our history (even the positive times under KK and SBR) we’d have been given some lip service after a gubbing in a nothing match. This is a coordinated attack right here. And I fucking love it. This is going to herald some serious headlines folks. Pressure now up to the max on the fat cunt.

Or laughing, I think it’s laughing. No chance mate. Remember what happened with Prdew said something with a tiny negative connotation on Goals on Sunday? Didn’t he get fined or banned from sucking Mikes cock for a month or something? The fat lad will be furious. His view will be that’s hes paying Rafa and he should be saying the right thing and NOT inviting pressure/fan unrest. Love Rafa.