themanupstairs

Dummet should have started

I want to see Obertan on the left and Sammy on the right.

Shola ffs. Thinks he's Overmars.

We'll Brighton breeze it man

Chin up sir. Get Marley to make you a hot cuppa and a foot bath.

Get into them fuck them up

Will do him the world of good to get that clean sheet if we manage it.

Manager of Georgia, so I wouldn't imagine he'd have a great record. P 24, W 9, D 7, L 8 For a country like Georgia, that's pretty impressive. Debatable as it'll depend who they've played; according to wiki their last wins came against Moldova, Albania, Luxembourg, Belarus (A). True, but they also narrowly lost to Spain, drawn in Greece, beaten Croatia in his time there. on the whole he does seem a good manager like, not one you'd have predicted back in the day. Never forget going wild in the frontroom when he scored in Zagreb. The precursor to the greatest game I've ever attended. That was class. Did "Marco" Viduka play against us in that game? Aye, him upfront, Prosinecki pulling the strings in the middle. Silvio Maric too no?

Ranger up front with Obertan and Sammy imo.

I'm not surprised. Pretty sure he met up with the squad to sign before the Everton match. Welcome Mathieu.

Bless you

He was injured at the start and Marseille went with Gignac and now he's first choice. Not a strange thing to do tbh, for example at Bayern.... Gomez will injured at the beginning of season, Manzukic came in and has been great and now Gomez is on the bench. I'm not really worried about that tbh. Do you know how Marseille usually line up? The Ghanaian forwards they have, have played more games than Gignac. The Ayew's

Tollemache. Brilliant poster, regardless of his opinions.

You what? When he puts on a bit more muscle, he'll have the PHYSICAL attributes to perform as a modern day b2b midfielder. The closest thing we have to Yaya Toure.

Very very highly. Until he came to England.

The only player we have who looks remotely like a b2b midfielder is Dan Gosling (possibly Abeid but haven't seen enough). The only player we have with the physical attributes to make it as a b2b midfielder is Sammy Ameobi.

agreed

Wembley man

Best "is this real life" face there by berto Go on frdrk/ssr

Who's this Johnny Forren guy?

The excuses trotted out by some that we had to put Shola in there due to the way we'd prepared for the game in advance is f***ing idiotic. There were 3 spare days between the Arsenal and Everton games, and i imagine one was just resting after a hectic schedule. So that's two full days of training. And Ba met with f***ing Chelsea the day after the Arsenal match for christ's sake so if Pardew's honestly preparing to use him during this game the man is off his rocker. What's more, if he's looking to play 4-3-3 - guess what - we already have a perfect tailor made replacement ready who can play down the middle in that formation and score shedloads - his name is Papiss Cisse. He's played that role many, many times - the idea that he can't due to lacking preparation is nuts. Remember when he signed? Newly returned from ACON, and Pardew put Best in the starting lineup (lol), he got injured, Cisse came on with no preparation, looked the dog's bollocks and scored. On top of that, while Shola has his uses as an impact sub, he's good for 25 minutes tops in a game - starting him and keeping him on til the end is madness. The only slight glimmer of sense i can see to it is that he was brought in to cope with Everton's aerial prowess - in which case you've just picked your main striker as, let's face it, a goddamn defender, while keeping your best striker - one who has wished to play centrally all season - stuck out in purgatory on the wing. And if we're led to believe this horseshit theory about Ba intending to play that role - he was also planning to use him as a battering ram, another mis-use of his talents to go along with how he's wasted others or turned them into crap this season. It's another one of those Souness-esque moments for me and there's been too many recently. Fuck me. More eloquent and spot on than anything I could drum up in my posts.

Transfers this window should be paid for by next year's tv money. This isn't fun and games any more. Survive and Ashley gets it back. Go down and we're fucked anyway.

Hope these quotes mean that things have come to a head between Pardew and his superiors. Money is there to be spent, and he'll keep saying it's tight so as to get good deals. Staring down the barrel if we don't bring in 3 this window.