Tiresias

this.

Talk about waiting for a bus / injury half a season...

Gah frustrating. Still Guthrie has been alright, just Cabaye has been poor since being more defensive. EDIT: JUST SAW OTHER THREAD GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I think ideally he's in centre but I don't quite see that he deserves to keep Best out the side when he's back from injury, if Best keeps up the form he was in, he's going to get / assist more goals, and until / unless HBA's form outstrips Best's significantly, I'd be happier for him to replace Obertan. I wanted him tested in the middle, and i've thought he's looked pretty good at times, and very promising, but it's surely not that bad if he's out on the right? The only worry is how much cover he'd give Simpson, but we're a stronger side with Best fit at front. They've obviously decided, but Pardew's got to make decisions based on form and such, if he's only to play centrally I'd drop him for Best, bluntly.

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who's manager? Obviously not Lyon's after a 7-1 win mate. Unless Ashley owns Lyon too

Raylor (ok it was really really bad defending) aahhaha

Rooney's been shit, he'll be asking to leave to City again in january

I dunno if he's be much more than a 3rd defender playing CDM, I'd be less convinced he could spread the ball and initiate attacks...actually he's Colo, of course he could

It'd be the best thing for his wallet

Imagine if Chelsea and the Manchester clubs all went out this week

haha, has to be said there is some flexibility in the Fair play rules, if stuff is being done to meet them they can be passed through. Thing is, it's not like their squad has been generating great resale value from this 'setting the transfer window alight', are any of their players going to sell more than they bought them for?

You wonder about whether player confidence could become a problem amoung some of the more peripheral players at barcalona as their standards are so high, a slight dip (to a level good enough for any other club) puts loads of pressure on them. That said Xavi and Messi seem immune to form fluctuations so should be all right. El Classico could be a disappointment, but do think Mourinho has been getting closer to beating Barca, and there's so much pressure now on Barca to go and win, I have to think it'll be an amazing game. I suspect that tactic of playing Khedira up high will return and do what pepe did last season, but without the red cards, could work well. I'm not going to call it, as quite frankly even of Real Madrid do amazing and score 3 or something, Messi could just score 1 more than them whatever the tactical battle results in.

Wow what a dick

never going to settle best ever, certainly up there in contention, and that's enough

Harsh red, however no doubt dagliesh will claim an international conspiracy

"this is newcastle" is his code for I have bastards above who would sell my best players for a cheap buck. I want him to say money will be swiftly reinvested smartly though. If we want to not just be raiding a bit above ourselves the top 4 next season we need a thicker squad, we can't operate a 1 in 1 out policy.

If we keep bringing players in of good quality and fight to keep players as much as possible I'll be happy, I don't want us to be caught short by losing a player to a huge bid and have no replacement again. I desperately hope though we fight tooth and nail to keep the core of our team together.

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by the look on his and all the kids faces not sure it was on target

Yeah I was at the hospital, he's now just a head in a jar

if we're doing that Krul Santon Colo Colo Santon Tiote Tiote HBA HBA HBA Ba

I think sticking Tiote and Cabaye and tell them to protect defence will be alright, baring in mind our defence has been better than everyone elses so far this season, a worse defence may just bring us down to average. (which is a low standard in teh league). I say pack midfield, but make sure not too defensively, keep ball further up, before we could be reasonably happy letting defense soak up attacks, now we should be a bit more proactive in getting it back sooner. Tiote back will help.