Ryan

Ryder said he sat out today with a knock.

Happy with this, always quite liked him as a player Bit of a downside that he's 29 but should still hopefully have a couple years left in his prime.

Be glad once this is all over, seems like it's dragged on for too long now.

Not even worth giving them the attention they crave, just let them get on with their idiotic posts and made up theories if it makes them happy

I'd be up for another year of languishing in the bottom 3

Bad feeling for Swansea this year, can see them joining Hull and Burnley in the bottom 3 for most the season if they don't bring a few players in fast. Not fancy Shelvey back?

Fancy Juve having an outside chance of winning the CL this year. They're 14/1 at the moment, think it is best waiting until this inevitable Pogba deal gets confirmed and their odds may drift a little? Or would there be little change to them?

Did you see what happened with him and the CB when he went down? I'm Mitro's biggest fan but it is getting annoying when he's getting involved in silly little incidents like that, especially in pre season.

Never been this excited for a game in a long time. The fact it's Friday night as well seems to make it even better.

Barca are a joy to watch even though it's just their first game of pre season.

how pacy would you say gayle is? Rapid, a lot quicker than I expected. Was one point in the first half where we launched a ball forward over the top of their defence, Gayle must've been at least 10 yards behind the CB and in the space of a few seconds he'd beat him to it and got brought down to win us a FK. Think he'll win us a lot of FK's like that over the course of the season.

Class

Hayden played well first half I thought, faded in the second. Seems like the sort of player who's just there to break up play and lay off a simple pass but he looks calm when on the ball and doesn't mind sticking his foot in either. Made a brilliant block in our box near the end of the first half when one of their players had an open goal from a few yards out. Think he'll do OK for us this year

Efe Ambrose is hilariously bad

Really like the look of Gayle. Reminds me of Craig Bellamy the way he chases what look like lost causes and never seems to give up, hoping he'll have a great season for us. First half was excellent, second half very sloppy. Thought Gamez looked a bit dodgy when he came on too, Nathan (?) flew past him 2 or 3 times late in the second half.

Colback :anguish: :anguish:

'slight groin strain' looking like it could be a bit more than slight.

Aye, Lopetegui got the Spain job. Imagine their loaded owners will fancy getting in a big European name though. Sven still managing in China?

Looks more like a training kit.

Never been involved in an away end as wild as when Harewood scored that goal to make it 2-1 against Barnsley.

'Januzaj, B-Jackson, Fosu-Mensah, Pereira, McNair, Blackett, Wilson, Keane all told to find new clubs #mufc' Wouldn't mind seeing us taking a punt on Borthwick-Jackson if he was being flogged on the cheap. Looked decent for them last season at LB, comfortable on the ball and had a quality delivery in the few games I seen him. Have him and Gamez competing for LB and then Mbemba/Lascelles/Hanley/Dummett competing for the CB places.

That video Looks such a simple task as well. In regards to flogging him, I'd be happy if he goes. He didn't want to be here in the first place, such a daft transfer for us to sign off.

Got my tickets for this. Missing the Huddersfield game so need my football fix before the end of August. Hoping to see the same team that played at Southend with Jesus in for Dummett and Ritchie in for Shelvey.