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Fat Sam claims Cheeseburgers to be the equivalent of Lettuce.

If we stick with this 4-3-3 the balance of the midfield 3 is crucial, there doesn't really seems to be a logical fit for Alli in that system (or any outside of a 4-2-3-1 really!). Was glad to see Southgate go to a 5-4-1 late on rather than leave two up all the time as he did at the World Cup, even if it didn't quite work in keeping Spain at bay.

He's undoubtedly a brexit wanker. Even less scrutiny into SD's employee relations.

Maybe if someone threw a cabbage at Ashley...

Things like this will happen at every club. Same as with Lascelles and Diame last season, let's move on.

Rondon works harder than Mitrovic too. Mitro simply suits Fulham a lot better than he suits a Rafa system, it's not as simple as just comparing the individual performances.

I know it's not a pen but the decision to make that tackle from Schar was pretty stupid.

But it's only the local media (& likes of Caulkin, Hope etc) who write about the link between Ashley and Bishop. For the likes of Sky and Talksport to start a smear campaign against a minority of our twitter fans, they would first have to acknowledge said link which they won't do as they're probably on the payroll themselves.

Don't see what 'ammo' Bishop gets by a few people tweeting #ashleyout etc at Flavio from strictly or whatever. The end result will only be them complaining at Bishop which achieves the goal of disrupting his business.

£35 an hour, no floodlights.

Do we even have the full 25?

Tubes need to have a few deep breaths here. Rafa literally has 3 options: 1. Walk, and pay the fat man £6m. 2. Stay and moan for the whole season, turning the Non-NUFC footballing world against you and therefore in favour of Ashley. 3. Stay and get on with the job, pray for a takeover and that doesn't materialise then walk off into the sun and tee off freely once your contract has expired.

Manquillo?

'Mike Ascot' Can't quite think what that sounds like..

I don't mind the squad other than obviously Lascelles and Shelvey should be in on merit. It's pretty clear what Southgate wants to do is play a consistent back 5 and then have options with the 5 ahead of them, be it 5-3-2, 5-2-3 or a 5-4-1 diamond.

Good half, I'll allow the fact they should have had a red card to balance with the fact it should have been a pen to Leicester.

Santon was shite, albeit you'd allow him the one excuse of playing on the wrong side.

The Pardew of TV presenters.

Lascelles is probably his ideal centre half partner though. Luiz just needs to do what he's told

No one of sane mind could seriously be suggesting Rafa out. Get a sense of context ffs.

It's pretty clear now he's our best defender and with it our most important player. Praying he stays fit in reality as without him we'll be down.

You need to rotate the squad around at times, the real crime is that our squad is shite built upon shite. For this, blame Ashley, not Rafa.

Charnley's fate should be in the hands of Rafa, basically. If Rafa has a genuine trust in him to conclude the deals as he wishes, then he should stay, at least in the short term for this window. Rafa and Charnley may well have a hit list ready to go, and we sure as hell need January to run smoothly.