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No Uruguay caps at youth or senior level at 22 doesn't sound good. Buying direct from SA is always risky, this looks like a disaster waiting to happen considering their lack of pedigree there.

Fuck off is Heskey still on a contract there

don't miss playing Bolton and Blackburn in the fucking slightest. Both easy trips but both just lots and lots of grim memories. Same for Wigan.

Would put everything I own on these 2 cunts Everton are getting from River Plate being shite.

No excuse not to be at a decent level after 2+ years really

Red Bull Salzburg have the art of bottling Europe down to a masterful level, shite club

Fucking laughable the way these clubs do in Europe. West Ham, Southampton, Hull last season. Waste of a spot. Let us back in, we did alreet even with Roeder and Pardew in the dugout.

Good progress made between these two videos. Well done current generation.

another 8-0 plz

Really? Nowt came off for him all night, in not even sure I saw him go past a fullback until about 80 mins after he was put to left back. I'm a big fan of him but he had a shocker.

Yep it was really good.

Probably been mentioned but Thauvin channeled his inner Fitz Hall and did an 'elastico' that absolutely rinced one of their defenders.

Darlow 6 Nowt much to do really Janmaat 9 brilliant performance Williamson 6 Shite but got a goal Lascelles 6 alreet but not sure he's anywhere near ready Haidara 6 Great cross for the first goal Gouffran 5 Crap footballer Tiote 6 was utter shite first half but got a bit better 2nd half Thauvin 9 outstanding De Jong 7 excellent but faded a bit Aarons 5 Probably a generous score tbh, he had a really bad night and his body language suggested he knew it Perez 7 Thought he was good again

Big fan of Aarons but he was disappointing. Barely involved and actually looked a bit sluggish, then his body language when McClaren moved him over to LB was very poor.

Confirmed: Giroud is shite.

That's not a ridiculous suggestion at all tbh.

might periscope you it from the posh seats

We'll batter Arsenal next week though. 4-1. Start of McClaren's revolution.

He's a world class one touch player. Shite at running and stuff though.

Agree on the injuries and striker. But Aaron Ramsey at RAM ends up in the same positions/areas as Ozil and they spend time passing to each other trying to slip intricate balls in.. they are very good players and it can work in more games than not but it's not the most efficient plan imo. Sanchez likewise likes to cut in to central areas. Then it's a bunch of them needing to play the most intricate football to create chances. Arjen Robben is one of the best players of his generation. He's fairly one dimensional too. Maybe that is the case about Robben (as in he's a player who's truly exceptional at a handful of things) but it's not with Sanchez. He's a very varied player who offers loads of different stuff to a team at a good level; as is apparent when you compare the different ways he's played for Barca, Udinese, Arsenal and Chile. Sanchez has shown he can play in a front two for a counter attacking side (Udinese), in a possession side as a wide forward looking to run in behind to score (Barca) and as an all round playmaker (for Arsenal but particularly Chile). He's got great work rate, an excellent dribbler, good vision, is a decent finisher, takes the odd free kick and is alright in the air when he fancies it. He's probably one of the worst examples of a one-dimensional player I could think of to be honest. If anything he's a jack of all trades, but that is a harsh way of putting it.

Exactly, Ozil's role for Arsenal is closer to Iniesta's for Barcelona at his best. He sets the tempo for their play. He was more directly influential for Madrid but then he was a #10 who had Ronaldo and Higuain running in behind every 60 seconds.

But stats aren't all that matter, clearly. It's not fantasy football. Sanchez had ran out of steam a bit by that point and Ozil got them ticking (although Cazorla was also fantastic in this period). He's not a Roy of the Rovers player who's gonna be bursting a gut and smashing in screamers but he was a massive positive force in the vast majority of games in that period, culminating in the final where he was exceptional. Arsenal have a brilliant midfield who didn't play well tonight individually, but that's not where their main problem is.

got some freebie tickets in the platinum club, long live the bourgeoisie

Ramsey infuriating because he doesn't stay disciplined in midfield? Sanchez one-dimensional? Not sure what you're keen to see instead. These are some of the most talented (and certainly not one-dimensional ffs) players in the league. When all together Arsenal play the best football and go on long winning streaks. What costs them is when these players end up on the treatment table (as was the case in the early stages of last season) or they lack the killer, world class touch upfront somebody like Aguero always offers Man City.

Arsenal put together a ridiculous run of form last season pretty much from the moment Ozil came back into the side after injury. He returned mid-January in the 5-0 against Villa and they were the best team in the country right up until smashing Villa again at Wembley in May. To suggest he's being wrongly favoured over other players is a grudge-like opinion. Their problem is that despite having an excellent midfield they have a decent but ultimately fairly limited player in Giroud as comfortably their best striker. They'll finish top 3 this season but be miles off Chelsea and Man City because of this. That said, no way Giroud should have been subbed today. Bringing on Walcott for him as a straight swap in that situation was a poor move. In a packed defence he can conjure something up with 1 touch play and was threatening to do so.