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It is a disgrace in my opinion that Ferguson still hasn't been out on loan once in his career. He desperately needs it. Nile Ranger should probably stay here. Shola is injury-prone and he honestly might be a better option than him in some matches, despite the questionable status of his mental health.

Our performance yesterday has completely killed my enthusiasm for the tournament. I don't understand Keshi at all. Our back six was amateur and Ogude is maybe the worst player I've seen in our clours at a major tournament. Worse than Kaita, all he does is foul and pass to the opposition. The only player that impressed me was Mikel Obi, who genuinely looked like a player who competes at the top level of the sport and was clam, strong, and creative in midfield. The rest were below standard. The Zambia game will be massive, now. The matches have picked up in quality and excitement the past few days. I think the rest of the tournament will be very interesting, especially after we get rid of some of the riff-raff.

We can offer Europa League football. West Ham cannot match the allure of that.

The gif they gave you is from when he played the Club World Cup with Mazembe. The lunatic does it all of the time. Anyway, Dr Congo-Ghana was actually a fantastic match, DRC has the best chance to win, but both sides had a plethora of chances. The twenty people in the crowd will have enjoyed it. This Tottenham team lacks actual creativity, imo. Dembele and Dempsey haven't imposed themselves. Lennon, Bale, and Defoe are just running into blind alleys.

That Portsmouth team that went down in administration really had some decent players, but there was just too much chaos for anything to work. If we sign Yanga-Mbiwa and keep everything else status quo, our XI will not have one English player. Have there been any teams in the Premier League built that way?

The improvement in his English from the first post until now is impressive. He's definitely beginning to adjust.

Outperformed any of the other wingers that played for us today. Be angry with the manager for starting him or the board for not getting other options. He used his ;imited attributes to good effect in the first half I though. Would have made sense for him to come off for Perch rather than Marveaux.

I wish this was like the Yankee sports where you can just stop watching and come back next season if your team is rubbish. Now, I have to watch this clueless pack of fools try not to be relegated while my soul gets a little colder. Mbiwa is fantastic, btw. It will be a great signing, but I hope he's here for more than ~15 matches.

I despise you and your ilk. To be fair, Group A is rubbish. Angola just smash the ball towards the Man U reject Manucho and run after it. Pardew might manage them. Ghana v. DRC tomorrow is one I am definitely looking forward too.

I guess no one plans on scoring goals in this tournament. Both games have been so flat. I'm surprised because Morocco are usually a side that plays good football.

There was nothing unique about it at the time. Replacing a physically weak and frail attacking midfielder with a more defensively stout one while leading 1-0 is a perfectly logical thing to do. People like to use hyperbole when they have hindsight. In fact, we have played good football before with Perch and Anita in midfield. The much larger issue is the general attitude the team played with, especially after Reading scored a goal. We seemed fairly comfortable before that. We were too scared to attack after we scored and for all the focus on defence, the team capitulated and fell into chaos after allowing the fortuitous equaliser. We've seen this story a multitude of times this season.

Cisse is just a significantly inferior footballer to Ba. He has extremely impressive predatory finishing skills when he's confident, but even then offers almost nothing else. Right now, his lack of self-belief has taken away his finishing, and he still offers nothing else. There is definitely a place for him on this team, but he's been "off-form" all season now, which is the majority of his career here.

Tactics are not the main reason for this loss. We lost initiative in the second half, but Reading never had control of the game or created plentiful chances. Our defence collapsed for the twentieth or so time this season and we wasted chance after chance as we always do.

This team has no heart. The manager can go, and I have no interest in any of the fit players other than Cabaye, Santon and the new boys from this window. For a group of such "talented" players, they manage to crack under pressure an absurd amount. We have a striker at one end, who never gets himself in position to take chances properly, and an alarmingly high amount of the other team's chances tun to goals.

Stadium in decently full considering the weather and how massive it is. I really think Cape Verde are going to win this match. They impressed me in qualifiers. Mostly made up of decent players from the Portuguese League and play good football. Vuvzela is such a ridiculous noise. Most other African nations make music in the crowd, rather than droning noise.

First time we've seen the Pardew fist pump in while. I've missed it.

Cisse is mentally deficient. Why is he five yards ahead of defence? Was he not taught the rules?

Garath MccLeary is more dynamic than any of our attacking players. They are all so pedestrian and slow, and right now it is a personnel issue. I honestly wish Pardew had started Ranger outwide.

Only after he joined us and made an appearance in 2009. He wasn't when we bought him as he is French-born. Mbiwa was born in CAR and could have played for them if he so desired. We need to get this done with alacrity, but he is the sort of player who would expect many clubs to be interested and probably something of a bidding war. It will be difficult.

Good player, very good. Lacks a bit of end product compared to the level of his other attributes though, so not like Guti/Obermong in other words. But he's african, and they wont sell him. Not that this was your point. Ayew is a great player, really enjoy watching him play despite his nationality. Their manager didn't call him up for the ACN, anyway, you wouldn't have to worry about any sort of national duties for two years. He's not coming to this club anyway, though.

It's all evolutionary, really. Rijkaard did do a lot, but Guardiola refined and took it to a new level. I credit Rijkaard with updating the classic Cruyff/Van Gaal system that had been found out by then and building our platform for success. It was Rijkaard, for example, who finally axed the "Guardiola role", and started playing with a proper DM and moved Xavi to CM - saving his career and letting him become what he did become. But it was Guardiola, on the other hand, who played Xavi and Iniesta together in midfield, while it had always been claimed that it had to be one or the other alongside a more box to box player like Deco. Rijkaard was fond of more classical wingers, he played Messi on the left so he could put crosses in FFS, while Guardiola did away with them and relied on fullbacks for width (Alves was a key signing of his), and thus overloaded the final third... Also, contrary to popular belief, Rijkaard's side did press all over the pitch, but we lost that quality as the seasons went by. In general, Pep was more radical than Rijkaard in creating an uniform possession-based strategy, while the Dutch was more direct. I'm not a heavy watcher of Barca, but I definitely agree with this. Only because I remember the sides under the Dutchman to be significantly more entertaining and less methodical than the current version.

Why is Heynckes being replaced? Things seems to be going incredibly well for the club.

Jonas has been poor this season, but that is genuinely an insulting comparison.

Decent goal.

I am quite confident we will get people in to "improve" the team. The distinction will be whether or not the board will spend for the necessary quality. Even in 2009, we went out and bought players in Nolan and Taylor, but they are ones that simply weren't good enough. It is encouraging that the team was on the verge of spending 10 million euro on a player of Remy's pedigree. If you expected us to compete with QPR in terms of finances and desperation, I don't know what to tell you. We should be thankful they left us so much time. Hopefully, we have the flexibility to move targets.