Mole_Toonfan

It's standard rotation really and sadly we don't have many DMs behind Hayden, he'll continue to do it as the season goes on up to a certain point. After a while i.e. after Christmas we'll probably see less and less changes.

Aye, out for a few months iirc.

I'd argue that Hayden and Colback is a very big drop off mind.

Given Swear he was 40 like 10 years ago.

As much as the team is shite, we are going to have to get used to it at least early on. With two games a week minimum this is going to keep happening, at least until later in the season anyway.

He playing well then? Not that i actually care. On the bench. The camera hasn't shown him so I imagine he's completely motionless. Oh, my sarcasm radar completely failed on me this time.

As long as we win

He playing well then? Not that i actually care.

I was just thinking that they should probably be doing better with the players they have.

That Payet rabona cross

More Bravo's doing no? i agree mind, he really is fantastic on the ball and i imagine they'll struggle to maintain pressure in the same way without him. I don't think either covered themselves in glory for the goal to be fair True enough.

More Bravo's doing no? i agree mind, he really is fantastic on the ball and i imagine they'll struggle to maintain pressure in the same way without him.

"Sometimes players disappoint managers" :lol: Stay classy Jose.

They'll never have success with Pogba making him be a CM in a 4231, it's utterly pointless much less with Fellaini as his partner.

Was utterly fantastic today, felt he was average the first few games tbh but he seems to have adapted to whatever it is his role is.

They weren't, they were just so unbelievably shite in the first half that it looked much better by comparison. Mourinho has a few decisions to make in terms of team selection as some of them just don't make sense to me.

The long balls and knockdowns towards the end Great game though, De Bruyne was genuinely fantastic and Bravo was shite.

But why? Hes been poor all season. He hasn't played on the left all season though, perhaps he wants to see him in a position where he'll get more of the ball at his feet. Aye, this basically. He's looked awful as a #10 and with the way Rafa likes his wide men playing on the "wrong" side so they can cut inside on their preferred foot I do think that the left might be where Perez ends up. In terms of ability he's one of our best players, we should be looking to get him playing well again rather than having him sit on the bench while we persist with Gouffran out there. Not sure where this new trend of people wanting to see him on the left comes from, hes played there in the past and looked average at best. He hasn't played there that often to my knowledge, usually looked comfortable though which is more important i'd argue. On the other hand in the center i haven't seen him have many good games in the last year or so except for a brief period alongside Mitrovic, it wouldn't hurt to try it out personally.

We've sold, what, two players for a profit from his scouting? I'd say that is pretty poor if that was his job like. That's more to do with Pardew tbh, we technically didn't sell Ben Arfa either but under anyone with competence we would have and for s*** loads. Carr has had plenty of downs as well as ups but the Pardew factor shouldn't be ignored as it's the main reason why a lot of the signings weren't more successful. But this has been done to death with far too many people straight up ignoring the Pardew and Ashley factors for there to be an actual balanced discussion on the subject. Either way we are in a much better place now.

Most of the Madrid-Barca games bored me to sleep during their head to heads over there. So yeah dull as fuck is a good bet.

Very good. We got rid of all the deadwood somehow, completely reworked the squad to the point that it's now balanced and deep. Not to mention we made over 30m in profit while doing so, the only real negative was that we didn't really replace Sissoko but I don't think that will end up being much of an issue and should we get promoted we can replace him then. Nobody of the required standard will want to join a championship club anyway, I'm a bit worried that the back up CBs we bought won't actually succeed in the PL and same with Daryl Murphy but we'll cross that bridge when/if we come to it. We managed to get 55m for Sissoko and Wijnaldum

Only sky was mentioning that, was always complete bollocks imo.

Not sure that matters anymore while Rafa is here. Rafa will already be thinking of who to spend that on come January. Hopefully not, no one decent will join us in the championship. I imagine if promotion is looking likely in January we may keep hold of the money until the summer. We will only spend it if we feel like we need to. Exactly what we should be doing, you are not going to get anything until you get promoted anyway.

Not sure that matters anymore while Rafa is here. Rafa will already be thinking of who to spend that on come January. Hopefully not, no one decent will join us in the championship.

As if he was going to play any games anyway, if he were he would have played this season. Complete irrelevant who plays there now as he wouldn't have anyway, hopefully we now get promoted and get some real quality if we do.