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It's not a hard task though. We have a lot of money to work with and we don't need to be aiming for the ceiling. There are plenty physical CDMs out there who can pick out a pass. Hundreds of solid fullbacks. Like we could replace half of our defence and midfield for less than £40m quite easily. I'm not saying we should go for Courtinho, but replacing our other positions shouldn't be a mammoth task.

'Relegation battle' is a bit of an archaic term mind in this sense mind, it's PFM defence usually. Teams escape the relegation zone quite easily all the time by just winning a few games back to back, that's what we want to do, not be grinding out draws against the bottom clubs. I mean it's not as heroic as escaping relegation by gosl difference but it's usually the sign of better management We're in that state now because we essentially have no manager and a squad who struggles to pass the ball about with any kind of intent. We have to reighn in expectations a bit but we SHOULD be able to assemble something in January capable of picking up wins against the bottom sides.

In fairness to Courtinho it's only Barcelona where he's flopped. He found form at Bayern. Still on paper it's a tragedy in the making.

Aye sticking with Ole when they could pretty much have the pick of 99.9% of managers out there is legitimately insane. I'll never understand the thought process behind it.

How would people feel if we got Dr Harold Shipman for the interim?

Odds on a porn tape leaking of Scholes and his daughter?

how have we got to this?

What exactly are the police investigating like? The cartoon on it?

Aye they're completely right actually like. Don't get me wrong, it's completely pointless as there's no going back at this point, but football is a complete bag of shite nowadays. The only real alternative is to support local lower league clubs or accept and join the horrific, money is everything elite. Following a club that middles about Premier League mediocrity until they're bought out by oil money is a complete joke but it's where we're at.

Yeah I love Rafa but I really want a manager with a more modern attacking philosophy. The dream is Xavi, but he'll be destined for Barcelona if he does well so probably a bit pointless.

If that's the case then fair enough like.

Cannot blame him to be fair like

Not something I was expecting to read today like

Probably the most unathletic overhead kick I've ever seen but he couldn't have picked the corner out better

Is that the whitest, most middle class crowd in British football?

Jesus Christ that's embarrassing like I completely understand fans trying to get digs in because of this, it comes with the territory. But that's just weird. Imagine having a pint with the group of adult men who designed and created that.

There's plenty lovely places in Northumberland where players can easily live a quiet life out the way with their families. This idea that every footballer and his wife wants to live some glitz and glamour WAG life in London is absurd

You would imagine like In either case we really should be trying to save as much as possible going forwards and prudent as we can now imo. I don't want an early City situation spunking money on mercenaries like Robinho only for them to be a complete non fit.

Was like £170m or something that was touted during the takeover.

So do the likes of West Ham and Villa think this will help them bridge the gap between them and City? I mean footballs fucked, this is all completely vile and I wish none of it had ever happened and we were back to the 90s, but since the rift in money between the clubs has gotten to this point their only hope of ever competing is to go down the same route we have. We'll be fine, there's no way they will be able to legally put in place enough roadblocks at this point, but they might be in place if ISIS or some other conglomerate ever purchase them, in which case they're really just fucking themselves.

Martinez would be like getting tossed off instead of stabbed. I want my cock sucked clean off.

He's been shite for a decade and will completely destroy the dressing room Madrid completely changed him as a man

He dialed a lot of the annoying shit back when he got big enough to just be himself I think.

My main issue with Emery is that he looks like a creep.