Gallowgate Toon

Delph's a good player. Offers what Sissoko generally does in terms of always trying to push on but won't be shunted out wide, at least, I don't think he would

One of Shola's was from an absolute peach of a cross and in a side where he was allowed to be the actual front man. De Jong's often been asked to be some sort of deep-lying target man, it's patently not suited to him. Still see something in him, not sure why, he's just obviously not going to at all succeed in this team with his reliance on service and need for confidence.

Same amount as Gerrard, one more than Rooney IIRC. You're always going on about Wayne Rooney. Give it up Froggy, you're never going to meet him.

Why suck it up? Might as well take down every hanger on that's about. That bloke has been given money to copy the work of someone else, he's an utter tit.

Looks like his wife has found someone else and he's not going to rescind what's most likely to be his last big contract. I won't be unhappy with him staying but I don't think he should be a starter anymore.

We need some serious work, like, even if you ignore who's potentially going. We pretty much need players in every area, bar left back. That's probably not going to work well next year. I'd like to see us actually invest in some decent wide men, 3 is the absolute minimum we need to get in to cover that. We need another centre half - I think Caulker would fill that gap - and, of course, we need heavy investment in the striking department. We also could do with another central midfielder and playmaker. Well done to the management at NUFC, short-sighted arseholes.

That sounds a tad ambiguous to me, Dave.

Ozil's class, simply needs movement around him and he'll pick people out for fun, and in ways that 99.9% of footballers simply can't. Set up more chances anyone else, this season, bar Silva. If Wenger builds the attacking stuff around him and Ramsey then they'll be a force.

2-1 win.

I don't really want to read too much into his comments about us as a club because I think he can be a bit of a gobshite but the rest of it is bang on and I hope it helps to push AP out the door. The timing of this stuff is also really interesting, I wonder what he seriously hopes to gain from it.

Benzema is playing well and is an excellent option on the ball for games like these. He's properly underrated.

I've heard HBA's a bit of a bellend and my love for him has waned this season but I'll be ecstatic if this helps shift AP.

The Pards hating comments he's got on Instagram have probably spurred the scamp on.

Aye, 1?

It'd be refreshing if they won, for sure, I'd love them to come out on top as they deserve it. I don't even like them as a club and find Rodgers a sycophantic, repugnant arsehole.

Think they've blown it now. I reckon this is Rodgers' peak too, for some reason, fancy him to be gone by this time next year.

He's an absolute master at shutting up shop, like, the sides are drilled so well. Will never agree with his 'philosophy' but I can't help but love him.

Why's he being compared with Tiote? They're not similar players. One's a holding, defensive midfielder and the other isn't.

Will still probably end 2-2

Exactly the same as this one, cagey. Yeah, but I mean will Jose just park the bus again or will he look to take control of the game. Atletico imo are better when playing on the counter so Jose might be wary to take control but at the same time, he knows he needs to win the match unless he fancies another 0-0 and then pens. He won't park the bus like tonight but he's not going to go for it. I think both teams will be pretty cautious, Atleti are great on the counter but I expect that they'll be a little more reluctant to have as many breaking forward as they usually would in the league.

Exactly the same as this one, cagey.

Martinez didn't really go a great job at Wigan, when you consider Steve Bruce had them in 11th in 08/09. He shouldn't be hugely respected for keeping them about as perennial relegation scrappers. If I recall correctly, he did spend some dosh on real dross while there too.

Purely depends on what you want for the manager. I'd quite like to see this club actually build itself up into something consistently good, I'd have far more confidence in Moyes creating that platform for us in our current state than Martinez. If I was basing it on more short-term stuff and wanting instantly entertaining football, I'd choose Martinez.

In the context of building a good Premier League side, there's only one proven one. Alex McLeish won a trophy, is he more proven than Moyes?

This has become very overplayed like. Look at Everton's team this season. No one outside the back 5 was a regular(for a few years) under Moyes, no one. The back 5 - yeah sure they are a good unit. 2 decent CB's and GK with Jags, Distan and Howard and two quality attacking full backs. So a decent foundation there for sure. Not a "fantastic spine" though. Without some very, very shrewd loan-signings and promotion of Barkley by Martinez ,Moyes' squad was looking pretty f***ing s*** after the sale of Fellaini. Fair enough, 'spine' is probably the wrong term for it. I'd say the defensive foundations he laid and the legacy he left, particularly in terms of attitude, were fantastic and about as good as Martinez could have inherited. I think that players in that back 5 will orchestrate a lot of the on-field defensive stuff. They've got some proper leaders back there as well as defenders.