Tiresias

Might as well start filling the squad out with some reliable championship players tbh. Gut some of the likely promotion rivals.

9.5

I mean can't count it out totally but we are absolutely going down.

We are going down

I'm not saying it's totally unreasonable for Messi to win it, it's more like he's won it enough it's become this ritualistic annointing of Messi.

Messi wins the ballon d'or again. I get he won something for argentina etc but this is ridiculous. He is not the best player in the world. give it to one of the other well deserving shortlist.

It wasn't exactly brilliant tbh but not going to go overboard. Very disappointed in our second half performance, belief just drained away.

Yeah disappointing reaction to going behind, you can tell the squad have very little belief still.

Oh if it was us on them deffo would be a pen. I just dunno bit disappointed in wilson looking for it too much

On replay think wilson was looking for the pen rather than scoring tbh.

I mean what a goal. This could get ugly mind, really needed to keep it to 1. Not going to complain too much about our performance, our squad is massively inferiour, we played well first half should probably have had at least 1 goal. Disappointingly passoive 2nd half mind. Our midfield is still turboshit.

looked to just fall over ffs

Thats yellows on both full backs, could cost us later

I'm about 6/10, more likely relegated than not right but still just about plausible we survive but we do have to be hugely improved by second half season.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ole-gunnar-solskjaer-wont-park-14311229 (and seen it mentioned by journos more recently so presume he was still at it)

I mean the space reserved for the manager, I'm not suggesting Ole should be shunting Fergie out of where he is actually parking.

Funniest and weirdest thing is ole refusing to use fergies parking spot or office. Just think sends wrong message immediately to players

Ole has not done that bad, his teams at times were oodles more fun to watch than Mourinho's. He is clearly not a manager who will ever compete for the champions league and he seemed to have run into a wall this season, and also why on earth did they not sign new midfielders, but depicting him as hopeless is nuts especially considering the behind the scenes dumpsterfire that is clearly man united. I can see him doing a perfectly decent mid tier premier league job. They are also totally fucked, they need a manager who will nurture a new young side into a more modern tactically astute side that can compete with the man citys and bayern munichs of the world. They also need a manager who won't piss off ronaldo by asking him to do some work or dropping him. They can't do both. Zidane probably would be best but he wants the France job doesnt he, why would he firefight?

Needed to win this. Can't ship 3 goals at home to brentford. Really concerned with our run of games up we'll be all but relegated by february

Ffs XD

I guess if you've got over the turn off of shagging downie you can put up with almost anything?

I agree Bruce can't have helped but rafa dropped shelvey when he went to back 3 and relied on schar to do more of the creating and we never looked better tbh

Shelvey may work hard for a bit for him but I'm sure howe will see through him like rafa did fairly soon. He can't be relied upon to build a team around.

Clicked on page 4 of this thread by accident and got engrossed reading of the weird old times of Tim Sherwood at Spurs and Vincent Tan's mad Cardiff ownership

Mysteriously not using Twitter poll function instead telling people to do something that boosts their engagement hmmm