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Same, actually CM is an area we have the right level of cover. Players who are hungry to do a job for the team but don't feel they should be playing first-team Champs League every week.

Why the fuck is Simpson mentioned in that headline? I say sell Simpson if somebody offers £30m. And I like the lad.

Yeah, it's not a bad formation at all, just wonder about the effect of suddenly making such a dramatic change. Could work, maybe swap Taylor and Santon over.

He has Shola as his Twitter background, what a guy.

I think Dalglish has a point about the Rooney appeal, it did said the wrong example for people. The rest of the stuff he's saying at the moment is bordering on the insane though.

Wish people would just accept that Pardew and HBA have come to the conclusion he should play centrally. I don't know if it's just because people hate Obertan or what, but I don't see the big deal with him preferring the centre.

If I was to make a criticism, I'd say he's been on the conservative side when it comes to making a change. Inevitably, if you're the one whose arse is on the line, you might not be quite as bold as many of the fans would like you to be. Most of the time, the conservative choice is probably the right one anyway. But just occasionally I'd have liked to see him take more of a chance - eg I felt he was a bit slow in promoting Krul over Harper, and Marveaux was held back from the first team a lot. I tend to agree, I'm just holding criticism back on that because he is the one that sees Santon daily and knows whether he's ready.

Me too, we might need another CF to defend set pieces.

I don't think Obertan will be dropped with the amount of other first-team players missing.

Smith won't be starting on Saturday.

Wins for Blackburn, Bolton and Wigan would see them bottom. Surely no chance of those three winning in the same week.

Yep.

If Colo's fit it's actually not that bad, it's without him that we're really in trouble.

Whey his grammar isn't perfect, but that's not a requirement in football.

The Torres and Carroll deals must be the worst transfer deals ever made TBH. And that's coming from a Newcastle fan.

Aye, good job Pards. I liked him before he came here, always seemed intelligent and articulate. It was only the circumstances of his appointment I didn't like, Hughton didn't deserve to be treated so badly.

I thought Man Utd weren't that great except for the opening 20 minutes. They had a lot of possession but they flattered to deceive IMO, they didn't create that many chances. And in the second half they just didn't turn up.

Exactly, I don't know why this is so hard to grasp.

Oh aye, he's still a good player for sure. He's just gone from his home town club to being the star signing at Liverpool, the pressure must be immense and it hasn't worked out for him straight away. It's a big challenge for the lad.

FFS man, grow up. My point is that however they generated the money, using £35m of it to acquire Andy Carrol was a waste of money, and we got a good deal out of it. That's it, I don't see what I'm supposed to be an apologist for.

If they thought the difference between the two sales was £15m and they got it, why is it mental? Chelsea are the club that got stung, not Liverpool. They managed to get Suarez out of the whole scenario and he's as good as the two combined, even if he is a detestable creature. I don't see it like that really, I think the link between the two transfer was more like "we managed to get a big fee for our player, so therefore we can stretch to the massive fee Mike Ashley is asking for for Carroll". I agree the two deals were linked, but it doesn't make it any better. They could have equally spent the Torres money on someone they actually needed.