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Hope the reason he hasn't signed a new contract yet is because he wants to leave for something better in the summer.

Obviously they do I'm not disputing that Sheffield United are doing some good preventative work. Was just meant as a side comment to an additional reason why they haven't had many muscle injuries. Fast players get more muscle injuries than slow players.

They don't have many rapid/fast players either besides Mousset (who aren't one of the regular starters), which are normally the ones that experience muscle injuries.

I've stopped watching football with the sound on. All commentators are awful rent-a-cliches with zero knowledge of the game, the clubs and usually have bias towards one of the teams playing. There's a few female former and current internationals that has been part of the studio broadcast in Norway and they have been an absolute joy to listen to. Way more knowledgable and objective than the men.

You’re so weird. That article isn’t a slight on rafa, Abeid is a good player. Yeah Lee Ryder doing articles every day on players Rafa sold is a pure coincidence You'd think Ivan Toney and Abied turned out like Zidane not banging in goals in league 1. Almost as if they found their level Lee. What about selling Xabi Alonso because he wanted Gareth Barry instead? It’s called being forced to sell to raise money. He didn’t have the luxury of Mourinho under Abramovich of not needing to sell to buy. Aye but specifically selling Xabi Alonso to get Gareth Barry? It wasn’t it was to strengthen other areas of the team. He had Mascherano and Gerrard he thought Barry would be a good utility player to cover multiple positions. In an ideal world he would have wanted to keep a player he named as one of his best ever signings but he wasn’t living in a Abramovich world. What multiple positions does Gareth Barry play? Center midfield and? Im sure he started his career as a LB. Also played CB and had his break through season at Villa as a left midfielder.

Still less than 1 in 6 goal record for a winger doesn't make them worth 80m. 1 in 2 or 3 then maybes. We paid €25m for a 1 in 20 goal record winger. 80m sounds about right.

"We've had a meeting with the club to help them gather input on how to sell more tickets and increase attendance" Thanks NUST.

If I find a track suit like that on Amazon I'm buying it immediately.

Not one bit surprised. Joke of an organisation.

Not long ago Murray came out in an interview and said "I am what I am". Seems a perfect fit for Bruce's "it is what it is".

It's so pointless hurling abuse at Bruce. Just pray he makes it as excruciating as possible for the dimwit fans that still go to the matches.

You can compare numbers all you want. The squad is absolutely buggered and quite clearly in worse shape than it was at any point under Rafa. As evidenced by the continued selection of injured players and the small matter of HALF HIS FUCKING TEAM HAD FALLEN TO BITS by half time the other day. Christ. I won't even read that crap. Just want to say the "stats" may be skewed in someones favor by playing slightly injured players while other more sensible managers would rest them as a precaution.

He's not really a talent anymore. At 22 he should be an established 1st team player. If he has any sense about him he should leave asap to try and salvage his career if he has any aspirations of f.ex winning something or getting capped by England.

Think it's more an issue of not being able to offload the players that shouldn't be anywhere near the top level of the Irish leagues rather than hanging on to them. Who in their right mind would want to sign and match the current wages of players like Cack or Saivet?

The irony in using "context is irrelevant" in a sarcastic manner to defend Bruce

Meh. His contract is up in the summer anyway. He has known for a long time that he's better off financially seeing out his contract here and then stepping down to championship/league 1 level contract afterwards than taking a pay cut earlier in his contract duration to get regular football.

Let him stay and give the match going fans what they want and what Ashley deserves. Even better, keep the "promotion specialist" on in the championship and see how Ashley reacts when instant promotion fails for the first time.

Less rotation of attacking players. Last season Rondon was the 6th most used player in Rafas squad with 270 minutes played. This season under Bruce Joelinton (344 mins) was 4th most used player and Almiron (333 mins) 5th. If ASM hadn't already been injured, he would have been in the christmas period now.

Poetic return of his celebration. Every idiot going to the match thoroughly deserved it.

Perfect move for him. So glad he didn't go to Man Utd.

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Shelvey had purple patches under Rafa too. Bruce deserves credit if he can get consistent performances out of him without slumps that lasts months.

0-1. Schar to foul Zaha inside the box. Milivojević to convert the pelanty.

Glad that Deanas two nephews are spared the agony, and that Deana didn't get to give Mike Ashley money to work against the clubs best interests. Deana needs to get her head checked. Disgusting.

Triple captain for double game week gents, unless you got something riding on being top of a league within first half of the season.