Tiresias

The club has to prepare for the possibility Ba will go, yeah he hasn't proved himself in holland but our scouts have done alright in picking players in other leagues who'll adapt. I'd be very happy for him to turn up, but would be surprised if we got him, heard of him as someone pretty much everyone was after.

I remember i was stuck watching final score at home on a laptop and I texted mate who couldn't watch the game either saying don't look at score. the series of texts that followed were increasingly mental

Wasn't that probably the best premier league day ever? Goals fucking everywhere.

This is just one very extended troll really... I was just wondering what would happen if they put back the st james sign as: Le park de James

Trouble is that they can't spend any more if they want to comply with fair play, something abromvich has actually championed in the past. They had the money to rebuild and spunked it all on torres, a new manager is going to have to sell lamps et all for pittance as they're getting on and replace them with cheap players, all very well for long term but hard to get into the champions league in the immediate season. They're never going to be able to nurture a new band of players either without trusting a manager with them for a while. They're rather screwed imo, their squad is surprisingly thin all in all.

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I want to see Cabaye playing further up and think it would be up to him to demand the ball in the middle in the final third. Ba drops deep anyway so not sure would be much of an issue. Would be a concern if it ended up that dreaded 4-5-1. I worry it would end up very narrow still but it seems to fit the styles of Ba, Cisse and HBA more than a 4-4-2. Agree need to work Ba threatening, but he always plays deep anyway, if he got lost out wide would be a problem.

Park does it for Man U from time for time Tiote would be main anchor man, Jonas can defend well and threat on counter.

Gonna go for a slightly odd formation myself Krul Simmo Willo Collo Santo Tiote Jonas HBA Cabaye Ba Cisse Was going to put Guthrie back centrally but think Jonas's game is reasonably suited to being more central and could naturally cover the left more than Ba is going to. The three in front are fairly fluid. (never going to happen)

Arsenal are on a good run, could beat us, I'm more anxious tbh that we play well and don't start hoofing it again, really getting sick of it. A win is certainly not out of the question, would be amazing, but kind of feel we start two goals down automatically because of van persie...If Ba gets back on form though we can be similar.

QPR seem experts at stalling their own momentum

ahahaha well over the line

that would have been a great goal from Zamora, QPR getting better, Bolton needed to score from one of those corners or something

God QPR are shit, they're even more hoofball this game than we've been at times

Lost all their momentum second half, couldn't get ball to RVP enough, and milan turned up, and managed to push them about a bit. Oh well, no longer a humiliation, there's no shame in going out to AC Milan.

we gave them one last season, seems only fair!

He got a lot of venom on that shot, wonderful

Still maintain somewhat that cabayes being hamstrung by playing so deep, but agree in a dip.

forgot about Vorm oddly, his confidence passing out probably puts him past Krul atm actually...

Krul Walker Kompany Colo Assou Kotto Leon Britton Yaya Toure Modric Silva RVP Ba

barely deserved but kinda how Utd operate. Tottenham should have been ahead by a mile.

If Van Persie gets an early knock there's no way we shouldn't be looking to win this.

I look forward to what happens when results don't improve with a new manager.

They could run riot over our defence if we're not careful, but have enough about us to score past their defence easily enough. 4-4 lol

At least Stoke put the ball in the box for their strikers. fair point