mrmojorisin75

I was thinking this the other day. They don't have that big club sheen like Chelsea bought for themselves. only mourinho did this, he put them on the map

i think the key issue with abeid is that he's come in against 2 good teams and shown he can handle the physical side and hasn't been left wanting in any area pardew's wet dream colback - english and runs around sissoko - huge, runs around and can switch phases of play very well tiote - musclebound fool who runs around a lot abeid - looks to have bulked up to have the appropriate physique and can run, tackle & pass vurn - tiny little fella who can't compete physically but is great at pass and move football howay man, whether it's january or the summer he's surely done with this manager

We've got a lad there too, came up through the youth ranks though and was actually born in Spain so a bit different. Apparently doing very well though. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/who-jack-harper-you-need-4280337 you've got your own owen hargreaves i see

wonder if they'll bin pellegrini this season then? i have a strong suspicion they will pardew gets a good write up in the press...

aye he's done, abeid has just seen the end of him imo Done & Dusted. Mentally too, you would think. It would be merciful to move him along in January. yeah best for all concerned, trouble is i doubt we'll get more than buttons for vurn after the hatchet job pardew has done on the lad, might have to go on loan for a season before someone is will to pay for him

A chinese WC would be fantastic. The infrastructure is already in place, just need to order 100 million tons of fireworks. amazed FIFA haven't pushed it themselves really, imagine the advertising revenues

it'll be a draw in the home game at SJP imo

they all think they're roger mcgough ffs

aren't hull one of two teams who have an equal or worse record than us over the last year? hull and villa? love how he'll be expected to go in there and just started scoring like it's nothing

my only memory of an ACoN was some game where a lad got cut in half and was screaming his head off and rolling around, some players or whoever dragged him a few feet to the side of the pitch and the game carried on while his still audible screams were heard via the TV mics

i think this might very well be the truth, if a couple of them had come out at the right time in the papers and said change was needed the majority would have joined in

We've never won a derby while they've been here though have we? That was what killed the mentally unstable mackem before them aye was thinking that yeah, that'll be the test, but these ones seem to be holding it together fairly well fortunately for them we've still got pardew so i don't think it's going to be an issue for a while

are these mackems (stray, hithere) the longest-serving we've had any floating about the forum without a breakdown?

Anita doesnt deserve to play at the moment, hes been rubbish. He's hardly played. it's time we all gave up on anita mind, i love the little fucker but he's only ever going to shine in a team built to control and retain possession of the football through the midfield even in our current, sturdier, counter-attacking guise he'll not excel 'cause he doesn't fit the roles properly we need to sell him and promote abeid permanently, or sell tiote

you'd have to imagine china would put in a strong bid at some stage mind, right up FIFA's street as well taking it to china

yes this is good

it'll be sissoko probably this weekend because that's literally the worst decision it's possible for pardew to make

All that's true but I don't understand who he'd be doing the favour for. In fact Ashley doesn't strike me as the favour-doing type anyway. Could someone connect the dots for me? Sanctioned the signing of player Ignacio Gonzalez (IIRC) purely as a favour to a South American agent, came up in an employment tribunal (law-binding). Right, I meant in Chucky's case, where the favor has been rumored to be not for an agent but for a player (Colo, I think?). If it's for another agent, okay. I just don't know who his agent is. i thought it was said to be more "colo's recommendation" than doing agents favours, i.e. he wanted out of ukraine and colo has told them he's mint so get him cheap while you can

\ still can't get over manyoo not going for him at the price he was sold for personally

abeid scored more goals last season than sissoko did his entire time with us didn't he? i'm aware of the pointlessness of the comparison but sissoko is not very composed in the top half of the pitch tbph, would like to see abeid getting up at some point

i think we'll win this; the players are confident and we're setup to operate entirely as a containing, counter-attacking team problems will start creeping in when we face QPR at home i reckon

yeah i've no idea why they're persisting with him out wide so religiously, the best i've seen him play has always been through the middle

aye he played sterling very well at the weekend, fair play to the lad fucks happened to sterling btw? dummett did well but last season sterling would have gone past him like he wasn't there

looks like he could do either to me, and his goals last year suggest he can attack as well pardiola has him sitting deep, protecting though, no license to get forward much