themanupstairs

We are NUFC not Barca, you crumpet. Anita's role is first and foremost the defensive one, making things tick is not the only consideration, otherwise you could play a nice passer in there with no defensive duties at all. Anita's crap at the defensive part. We don't need "someone to make us tick" like Anita does.... we aren't Barcelona, Ajax or Swansea.

Not if the boots are at the top of a really steep hill

Bundesligas best player last season and probably the main reason to why Wolfsburg ended second behind Bayern. Seen him play for Chelsea Wolfsburg and Beligum and don't see anything particular special. What am I missing was the question not what his team had achieved. Hard working and creative. Basically a massive upgrade on Milner.

what a load of rubbish. As if you're the only one with a list Your arguments are so pedantic and boring I almost (almost) couldn't give a shit what your list is.

Shearer man

Very harsh. Just got back from this, and once again we (Cyprus) dominated possession but lack of support for the striker meant we couldn't translate the dominance into a real goal threat. Defensively Cyprus put up a great effort. Fellaini, Benteke and Origi were absolutely woeful. I don't think Benteke played a single pass to a teammate. Nainggolan and De Bruyne were full of energy and Hazard was sensational tbf. Both keepers made some decent saves, but two key moments involved Kompany who should have been sent off for an elbow, then got away with a foul and a stamp, and Belgium just played on and scored on the counter.

Very much so. Was one of, if not the best, creative forces for us last season. Powerful intelligent running, and a somewhat decent cross.

Should mean CL football for him (I assume, because it doesn't seem like there's ever another Cypriot team in the CL). Good move for him. Anorthosis Famagusta have been in the odd time haven't they? They have. Ketsbaia was their manager when they became the first Cypriot team to ever qualify for the group stages. APOEL Nicosia have been in there 3 times now iirc, as have AEL Limassol.

JC is available I believe. So is King Kenny. He knows the Singular Unique Honorable Righteous TiciTaca Liverpool Way. He would channel The Spirit of Shankly, and they would once again be living in history, exactly where they belong.

A premier league proven goalscorer for Arrons, who promises lots but delivers nowt. I'd take that. obvious wum is obvious

Serious question: Who apart from Lovren is he obviously playing because they are his favorites over other more capable players? Maybe Lucas over Can as well?

Fatima Whitbread? Will Mackenzie isn't it, sans spectacles. The state of the football

excellent

Rob Elliot for me. An absolute impostor.

pashun

Just got home from the match. They weren't much cop tbh. Cyprus could've and probably should've spoiled the party. Bale was woeful apart from that one moment. But I guess that's all it takes for a special player like him. Ashley Williams is a cunt of the highest order. He was bullied all night by the young centre forward Mytidis and constantly complained to the ref and linesmen. Ramsey was great to watch, and I was very impressed by that Richards kid who put in the cross for the goal. Draw would have been a fair result, but having a player like Bale in your team makes all the difference.

Fuck Spurs. Would have been as bad a move for him to go there as it would have been to move to Chelsea or Man City at this point. Footballing graveyards for players like him. So happy he's still here and I hope we get to see much more of him this season

That is still bananas

Going down marra 9-1 FTM, divn't you know?

obvious wum is obvious

Sell for 6, buy Austin for 15. The 9 million difference is well worth it when it will most likely mean staying in the top division.

57 in the end. not a bad haul. 52nd in NO league. dizzying heights!

Man up shark man ffs. It's just football. YOLO and all that. You know you want to

Casual racism isn't funny tbh

To be fair, we've had 2 games with 10 men against superior teams and a game at Old Trafford where we probably produced more chances than we'd have expected. If we're not creating against West Ham and Watford I'll start to worry. Let's be honest. Didn't look like scoring against swansea anyway. Ditto Arsenal. 2 half chances and one genuine chance is hardly anything to talk about in attacking terms. I don't consider any of the teams we'v faced to be real untouchable top quality. Pretty sure McClaren himself has said the passing/attacking would come later, the focus is on making us solid first. After last season, he has to be super careful with confidence, especially as do/did have quite a tough opening run of games. I think there's a plan in place and this has to be remembered, it took us quite a while to look an attacking force under KK when he came back, let's not forget. There's also the small matter of the massive windfall that clubs are hoping to cash in on next season. Priority will clearly be to set up defensively and play the counter-attack for 10 or 11 clubs in the division as they try to avoid relegation.