mrmojorisin75

exactly, even villa flood people forward when they know they can break...been watching for 3 years pardew's tactics of leaving it to 1-2 players to try and break down a defence i think it's finally going to unravel 'cause he no longer has a ba or remy to do it for him

hopefully villa get it together and manage to beat us, there's fuck all point hoping we win this just to keep limping on under this fuckwit also bear in mind that villa play at home like an away team so this is more or less what we can expect to look forward to at home

Benny has had halves like this too. Hope Cabella can bounce back (if not hauled off). in some respects cabella here reminds me of HBA when everyone stands watching him....slightly different but if we're going to expect him to be a playmaker and create chances we're going to have to get people forward to make options for him or he'll end up trying to beat the world on his own, and fail like HBA

this; new season, some new players, same pardew

me too, going into the next home game on the back of 3 defeats would see pardew in panic mode going into the next home game

Meanwhile, our manager says: i should tire of reading these kinds of things over and over but i never do, what an utter coward we have for a manager

english football needs to burn itself out like italian did in the 80's, unfortunately with sky continuing to throw radged money at the clubs that looks a long, long way off

Are we thinking Vurn isn't going to get dropped the moment Tiote comes back now then? Be amazed if so, Pardew has never trusted the lad.

At 23 years old having never reached double figures playing for the most successful team in the country what makes you think he'd almost double his best ever goal tally playing for a defensively minded mid table side? I was also wondering this

pardew is capable of taking this current squad close to relegation imho, especially if he gets injuries to colo & willo

we're not getting a proven goalscorer like, not a hope in fucking hell best we do is a decent CB from somewhere so we become less porous

maybe it's a covert mission to make him resign; give a wretched, terrified-of-his-own-shadow, shit defensive manager only attacking players to work with

howay man this is getting daft, what would pardew do with that many strikers for fucks sake?

thought IP must have hounded someone else off the forum

where did santoon go btw?

that car is fuck all to do with being "mental" and everything to do with having no taste whatsoever

saw poyet saying the other day he'd spoken to borini and he had no problem signing for sunderland, or words to that effect, i wonder if liverpool have been holding the transfer back pending getting another striker in?

anyway come to think of it has any other club done this bullshit except citeh & chelsea? whenever arsenal, manyoo or liverpool buy a young english player it's almost always with the intention of giving them a chance isn't it? can't think of many that they've bought and just stockpiled that being the case then we're really saying just don't sign for citeh or chelsea if you're young, english and talented then

Also why it's so sad to see a lot of these young kids joining the cash clubs for the money and sitting on the bench for a couple of seasons (if they're lucky). They're taking themselves out of the game at a crucial time in their development as a player. very true i do wonder if this trend is going to continue after the abject moves made by the likes of moses, rowell, sinclair and whoever else...penny seems to have dropped that it's a shite thing for them to be doing It's just a bit short sighted for me. They want the big paycheck now (and the inevitable move to a smaller club on lower wages for the rest of their careers) instead of realising that with 2 or 3 years of first team football they'll likely be good enough to earn and keep a spot in that top club on the big money for 6, 7, 8 years. i think you'd have to consider the other side of it if you were in their shoes though, i.e. football being the sport it is you could get snapped in half the next game and never play again, if someone was offering you a guarantee of XX millions at age 18, 19 or 20 or something you'd have to think it's a good idea financially most of them will play at the top level on good wages for the years to come as well let's be honest but i agree with you taking the current barkley route will surely be better for him as a player and if he develops as expected he'll get the money anyways someone also put it in here as well the other day, footballers being the type of person they are likely won't be considering the idea they could fail and will most likely fully expect they can break into a top class team

Also why it's so sad to see a lot of these young kids joining the cash clubs for the money and sitting on the bench for a couple of seasons (if they're lucky). They're taking themselves out of the game at a crucial time in their development as a player. very true i do wonder if this trend is going to continue after the abject moves made by the likes of moses, rowell, sinclair and whoever else...penny seems to have dropped that it's a shite thing for them to be doing

another good post from wullie, i've always been of the opinion that there's a very fine line in football between making it and falling into oblivion, and a lot of it comes down to timing and the team a young player comes into...i see it as the managers job to be able to recognise the right time to give a young player his chance and once given they'll either flourish or fail which is fair enough this is why i was all for starting sterling, barkley etc. at the world cup because imo it's very similar at international level, sometimes players just take to it and never look back once they get the chance but if they're held and held might never take the chance later imo considering the pre-season that aarons has put in under a normal manager he'd have jumped the queue to be on the brink of starting games and certainly to be in the first line of subs and he'd be given enough chances consistently over the season to prove he's worth something, most likely under pardew unless he does something amazing pretty quick he'll just fade away and we'll not hear from him again

can't call this at all tbh

surely all about keeping balotelli motivated, interested and on whatever medication he needs

commentators in the world cup were saying sabella had some criticism for picking him as he was seen as a bit of a favourite and they had better options...thought he played very well in the games i saw tbh but didn't seem like a CB to me despite his size Tim Vickery was saying the other day that he would never have envisaged him being a Man Utd player as he didn't think he was good enough. I thought he was canny enough tbh without being amazing