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Valencia in a diamond would be a waste of his crossing ability, and Fletcher would be a better option. Sure would make things interesting, and tbf LVG keeps coming with his surprises.

Not sure if Valencia is playing in the middle. 4-4-2 perhaps?

MUFC: De Gea; Rafael, McNair, Rojo, Shaw; Blind; Valencia, Di Maria; Mata; Falcao, van Persie © subs: Lindegaard, Thorpe, Blackett, Fletcher, Fellaini, Januzaj, Wilson EFC: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka ©, Stones, Baines, Barry, Besic, Pienaar, Mcgeady, Naismith, Lukaku subs: Joel, Gibson, Eto'o, Oviedo, Osman, Browning, Alcaraz

My guess is Pardew is Ashley's 'ideal' manager by far - does the PR work, takes the abuse in steed of Ashley, low wages, accepts he has little to no say in transfers incoming or outgoing, keeps the club in an acceptable league position or maybe safe enough so that SD would not lose the global PL viewership - and that he thinks he can't get a better manager with those 'qualities'.

Surely this has to annoy Ashley. Can't be happy throwing money away. It will be 4m + the 1m loan fee for MYM, a loss of 1.7m. Essentially peanuts to Ashley, considering we sold a few players for nice profits. Possibly the only way it would piss Ashley off is if MYM gets sold for big money as Roma did for Marquinhos and Benatia.

Impresses Roma that they wanted to tie up a permanent deal before the agreed 4.5m end-of-season option. NUFC facilitates the sale of an in-demand player by accepting a discounted 4m fee.

Reckon the ACoN should start with immediate effect.

First time Kaka's advice paid dividends... Until Costa scores a hattrick.

Has seen every match. Backs the manager. More lip-reading at the end of the game.

Has Ashley been to every match so far this season? Seems to be around nowadays when he wouldn't even care in the past.

VI's defo one of us.

That's brilliant.

Ashley's allegations about death threats to his family were never proven true, were they? Seems like a similar case here to make themselves look the victims.

Frank de Doer.

He said all those things, but not in that order as you suggest, and they were responses to different questions. Are you in politics? http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29472154 How would that be manipulation of any kind if it's a C&P job from the BBC article?

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/29472154 He's really not doing himself any favours at all.

This tickled me :lol: The idea of jawdees eating packets of nick nacks and looking through his windows, while he and his family sit fearing for their safety. :lol: Recognisable by the 'you just won't leave us alone' banner at the door.

It's back online.

Footballing giants San Marino and Estonia.

Only three CBs in there too. No one else good enough to be called up?

Good enough for Man Utd, Man City and Juventus but not good enough for AP.

He's available.

It's seriously taken this s*** with MYM for you to accept what has been accepted truths for almost a decade. Christ Spudil is a legend.

Maybe he means Arsenal Kyiv. We wanted ~8m for him in the summer and London Arsenal would have paid that surely.

He was Arsenal's Plan B after Khedira? Wow...