themanupstairs

Sissoko the new Robert on the LW

Yup.

Not sure where Sissoko should be playing either. Hasn't got a defined role in this formation.

Ben Arfa man. Should be out wide where he is looking forward and not over his shoulder hounded by zombies.

HBA should be an outlet ffs. OUT WIDE!!!!

fuck off

We look rattled ffs

They do. White socks

GET INTO THEM....COME ON!!

Mark Bright saying he spent a week with NUFC last season to see how we do things etc.. (Just before playing Anzhi in the EL) Said didnt realize just how good Cabaye was until he saw him in training in the flesh. Also said that Pardew focused a lot on attack during training sessions. Don't shoot the messenger.

Ok forget the optimism. Absolutely cacking it now. Wish this fixture would just fuck off into oblivion.

Ronny Wallwork has done well to form his own club after that stabbing incident. edit:

Get into them fuck them up Doesn't matter what side we put out. The bright spot is that Dummett is a local lad who knows what it's all about and will not shirk his responsibilities. Wish him all the best.

Man up you crazies. We'll do this mob. 4-1 to the away side. Off to work now and back just in time for kick off. HTL

Bit of off-hand scouting... Jean-David Beauguel. 21 yr old French striker who plays for RKC Waalwijk in the Dutch league. Randomly watched the Ajax match last night and he stood out for me. 6'3 with power and pace, and seemed to have decent awareness around him and held up the ball well. I can't pretend I know anything more about him than the 90 minutes I watched last night (match ended 0-0), but he just seemed to have that extra something about him.

I can't really spot that many weaknesses in this Liverpool team yet. Their midfield obviously is a concern, but they could very well strengthen there in January. Sturridge, whilst in top form, looks a moody fucker. But even when he's seemingly out of sorts, he can still come up with a finish like yesterday's. Their goalkeeper and defence seems to be sorted for now. Losing a non-UEFA-cup-tied Suarez for a massive fee in January is probably the biggest thing that could damage their league campaign. Not entirely impossible if Real or someone of that ilk want to boost their CL push. If they can hold on to him, add a midfielder and possibly another decent centerback, I see no reason why Suarez and Sturridge can't score the goals they need to win the title.

75 points with 4 players to play tomorrow. Well worth the -4 hit I took this week.

Southampton playing some great football. Classico is fucking redundant. And so early on in the season, isn't that interesting.

Goal and an assist from Lambert already When it rains it fucking pours

46 points from Coleman, Ramsey, Lukaku and captain Suarez Boruc, Lallana and Lambert coming up. Zabaleta, Vertonghen, Shelvey and HBA tomorrow.

Drafted in Boruc and Lallana for Harper and Marveaux. All the surplus cash I saved at the start of the season should start to pay back dividends now. Fingers crossed.

Who Dunnett? Paul Dunnett.

Papiss Cisse is struggling to score goals because.. Ba is a greedy b****** He's played out of position We don't create enough chances Another down, next. Well, to be fair, this season, how many of our goals have come through "chances created"? I can only count Dummett's, Remy's first against Hull and Ben Arfa's at Villa. Cabaye's two goals, Remy's at Cardiff, Ben Arfa's against Fulham were all individual strikes. The rest mainly rebounds due to deflections (Gouffran's winner, Remy's second against Hull). Not absolving Cisse whatsoever. But we don't actually create that many goalscoring chances for a central striker, whoever he may be on the night.

Exactly this.