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When have you ever seen a successful diamond formation in the premiership? Chelsea 2009/10

Only so much you can do with the US's talent pool, no matter how far you cast the net

How's that come about? He's just joined the proper Salzburg hasn't he?

Considering the sheer number of games they play in CONCACAF and the fact the Mexican players seem to play forever I'd fancy him to get to 200

Think he meant Kramaric. Ulloa has an EU passport.

Stoke way down their FM search for 'AMRLC'

Watching James try to make sense of various football rules and regulations is painful

It's from that same 'BT Journalist' (ie potential mass murderer sitting in their underwear pretending to be one) that somebody posted the other day. Sheer nonsense.

Guardado has 121 caps at 28

The useless fucker basically handed us 6 points in 2009/10, well deserved.

Williamson is incredibly lucky to only be booed tbqh

Of course they're not.

Only got 1 year left

This is an absolutely atrocious post, by the way. Nicky Butt better than Carrick ffs. Both as shite as each other

beyond grim

Thing is we've stayed up with hotchpotch sides in the past, square pegs in round holes, players playing above themselves etc. You really only need a bit of quality to win you enough games over the course of a season. But if you want to be competitive every week and try to push up into the top half, to also try and compete in the cups, you need a strong spine and every position covered by players in their natural positions. We've not had that at any point since promotion because of: a. looking for bargains rather than addressing positions b. not shifting out shitcunts (e.g. thinking the likes of Perch and Ryan Taylor are 'versatile' rather than 'shite') c. having loads of players who spend half the time on the treatment table

Financial fair play/clever accounting

I think we'd be fine with 2 more, so long as one of them is a top quality commanding CB and the other is a quality wide player. Anything less than that and we're ill equipped. I mean, I think we'll get lower mid-table regardless, but if we want to be consistently competitive we need those two.

Would it be at all surprising if these were the only 3 and Sissoko went to cover most of the outlay?

Actually, saying that, I do remember Carrick falling on his arse and handing the ball straight to Yaya Toure at Wembley. Best to give him his dues there. Controlling the midfield Man Utd have been shite since Scholes retired and they had to rely on Carrick being their best midfielder. They even brought him back out of retirement again in desperation.

8 years ago, be canny if we could sign that version Almost impressive for somebody to play for Man Utd that long and do literally fuck all worth recalling. Even John O'Shea scored that chip against Arsenal.

Funny that cos I remember Park having a stormer against Chelsea in the quarters and Gibson, Anderson and Giggs tearing Schalke apart over two legs in the semis. Don't remember anything Carrick did. In fact, not sure I can remember him doing anything memorable ever.

Would love to know whats massively different about the two of them. Both played nigh on 400 games for Man Utd somehow, both racked up similar number of England caps. Both carried by their vastly more talented teammates for years.

Aye, shite midfield, getting to the CL final and getting beat by one of the best teams in history and that Not that that midfield played every game like He's not the long term answer, but we need someone who can control games and for a least a year if he's injury free he's capable of that. There's zero logical relevance to how a transfer 11 years ago for a different player worked out to how this one would work out. I didn't just cite one player 11 years ago, I cited numerous over the course of the last decade. Man Utd's cast offs can fuck off. In fact, all old big club cast offs can fuck off (Duff, Geremi, Babayaro, Cacapa, Rush, Barnes etc). The one positive benefit of the Ashley dictatorship is not having to watch these kind of signings inevitably fail. Not even arsed if there's a chance Carrick could be decent for a season, I don't want him, and thankfully won't have to see it happen.