Ronaldo

Spot on. Pathetic over reaction simply because it's Mitro. He's in a lose lose position because if he didn't challenge the keeper, people would be calling him a cunt for not going for the ball. That's not really worth risking a red for, though. The comparison to Shearer (again, Perez last week) is absolutely fucking cringeworthy, like.

That's nonsense, to be fair. He works much better with Gayle admittedly.

Grab him, he'll jump into the crowd.

Lots of people watch.

This game is fucking diabolic in terms of quality, like. We're second best, too.

Same. Put Gouffran up front so we have some pace and movement up front. Gouffran's pace left the building in 2015.

Mitrovic is fucking brainless, like.

They're absolutely not, like. We're just pretty awful against sides like them, especially without Gayle.

We really couldn't have signed a better striker for Benitez's style/system tbh. It must drive him insane having to play the replacements.

Gouffran has 'all the ability in the world' ffs. Someone just wake me up in 3 months. Fed up of this relentlessly shit division now.

Think they'll both play Tuesday Hanley shouldn't be starting games, like.

I think Merson predicted 3-0 the other way. Mong.

He played last week.

The McClueless effect in full force I see.

Who should they replace him with? This is the worst response to someone saying they think a manager should be replaced. The absolute worst This nonsense was stated when people wanted McClaren out at Newcastle! Well we got Benitez. Just stop it. The question's slightly more pertinent when you're talking about moving from 2nd-4th to 1st and winning trophies, mind.

Shawcross is a big reason Pulis has achieved what he has, to be fair. What an arsehole.

They're a shit version of us, based on every time I've seen them this season. Play the transition/counter game pretty well and keep a streamlined shape but can't break teams down at all.

Who fucking knows what the idea behind the appointment was? There's a laundry list of Ashley decisions that don't even make common sense, let alone constitute financial or footballing shrewdness. Maybe he saw a manager who'd likely be able to keep us away from relegation battles every season, and made Liverpool large profits (before the days of PL fee insanity) on the likes of Torres and Alonso.

Whether that's true or not it's not relevant to the point being made. The issue with Rafa from Ashley's perspective is that he expects to be able to spend in accordance with his naturally high ambitions. In the summer that issue was able to be bypassed due it being vaguely acceptable for us to lose our best players of PL quality for large sums and spend enough to construct a Championship squad good enough to get promoted. That absolutely won't be the case next summer (should we go up) and everything points to Rafa being extremely disappointed about the non-investment in January.

Allowed to get on with making a £32m profit. He knows that can't feasibly happen again with Rafa.

Assume we'll find out in the next hour.

I'm guessing you're not kidding either. Last time I noticed you on here was when you said he was a better option for midfield than Shelvey.

I like how half of them have already managed in the league. And failed pretty spectacularly in some cases.

Would any of us put money on Rafa staying past the summer? I wouldn't, the odds would be shit.