Tiresias

After all this Coutinho saga, I still think he's only a good player, not a world beater but one who flatters to deceive. Mikhtarian already is only 2 shy of the number of assists Coutinho got all of last season after 3 games.

Not sure Rafa to be fair will not be impressed with an owner publically slagging off a manager still in his employ. West Ham's owners may be more willing to spend money but hardly great.

Fuck this shit i am switching to the crystal maze

Do you think the reasoning behind Hart is it motivates the team to keep possession and never let malta run through on goal cos it's not like hart will save anything

Gareth Southgate looks like a teacher having an affair with one of his pupils in an edgy itv drama

Hart's sexual favours must be fucking amazing.

He's as good as gone, no chance he'll want to spend any more time than he has to being humiliated and lied to scrabbling for survival at the bottom of a league

A symptom not the disease

leaving and firing up the old football manager would be a good move for him at this point

why can't being a total cunt be an criminal offence with life sentence?

Yep, lets just unite in loathing ashley

I for one can't wait for Ashley apologising for how he treated Rafa in 10 years time on a ssn interview

While the consistency of the rules being applied is perfectly well up for debate, unfortunately still stupid as fuck doing it. No need at all, he must know that he is watched a lot for this kind of shit.

From match of the day highlights (listened to game on radio) looked to have a good game pressing high. So did ritchie, and I thought both of them had been poor till now, hopefully thats ritchie back on form and hope Perez can build on this even if he was only partially improved.

brilliant

Fucks sake, flog our only reliable finisher? (Joselu may be but time will tell) I agree that other forwards add more to our play, he is limited especially for this division but he will still score if given a chance, unlike Mitrovic who can't hit a barn door sometimes. I could understand if a proven reliable goalscorer was coming in but everyone we sign is a gamble at the moment.

West Ham are way too similar to us in some ways, the owners at least spend money etc but that squad is terribly assembled much like ours. Years of accumulating bargains, loads of 3 goal a season strikers and just no clear thinking. Thing is they have also tried to be patient with Bilic and sort this out through some consistency but he seems to have let them down for their trust hugely. I can possibly see Rafa liking that faith in the manager and thinking since they are willing to spend maybe he could clear out and build a squad with them sadly. The downside is a shit home stadium, albeit one which will taxpayer funded give him money to spend.

Finally hopefully someone to replace Cabaye.

Just seen it, should get more than a 3 game ban. Absolutely shocking.

There have been loads of stoppages in the 5 minutes Lol sterling

Blimey poor Bournemouth

f***ing ell. If there was no pep we'd need to invent him. Love his mental team setups, not sure I would if I was a man city fan mind but he's the last 'f*** it we'll just score more goals than you' manager left. Do think he'll forever fall short with city mind

That was a red card,