Mole_Toonfan

If they don't finish top 4 this year it's probably the biggest underachievement i have ever seen based on pure talent, their talent far outweighs all the other pretenders except the usual top 4 contenders.

Fair enough, thought you was saying Perez plus a striker, 2 wingers and Sissoko-Diame. Rafa is never doing that tbh as much as we'd like it. Bearing in mind at Liverpool he played 2 and put Gerrard out on the right for a season, I'm not confident he'll change his ways after 1 game. Also bearing in mind one of those was Xabi Alonso, if we had a "DM" as good as Xabi Alonso no one would care.

Good luck Rafa is always going to play 1 DM, all we can really hope is he doesn't play two.

Kind of hoping another winger to go along with what we have will help that creation issue somewhat, honestly not playing Colback and Anita will probably help

As much as i think he'll have success in this league i agree.

He's worth what ever Rafa thinks he's worth, not really hard to understand tbh. We don't need to sell and have no reason to sell him for less than what we consider his value. As i said before you are acting like the TV deals never happened and we are living in pre 2010 Almost Mike Ashleyish tbh.

Considering you wanted to get rid of Wijnaldum for 10m i'm not surprised you do think it's fantastic tbh.

It's fucking ridiculous Some have zero patience at all.

Not sure why anyone would look at the transfers going around and think it's a good idea to sell for less than what we value, I mean McCormack went for 14m ffs.

Galloway is a LB? never seen him play but i'll take that.

He's hardly played in last few years though, enough reason to stay well clear.

The whole Benitez doesn't trust him is the easiest story to make up as well tbh.

Ah good then maybe Arma can go on loan if we bring another striker in. I think that's the plan tbh, i would be surprised if he isn't anyway.

Doesn't really hurt my argument tbh, we are not gonna rely on Armstrong and Gayle. Even if the replacement is quality it's still leaving us very short.

Even if he didn't rate him, he's not going to look to sell him when Gayle is all we have left.

Aye we only have two strikers as is

The whole friendly doesn't count rule is complete bullshit btw, as far as i'm concerned Costa should have been locked in to only play for Brazil once he played the friendly. Also tbh he probably would have had more success playing for them on a individual level.

He's fine when we are not expected to take the game to the opposition like away to big teams in the PL. But in the championship where most teams will sit back and counter attack he simply isn't good enough. Hopefully Gamez plays.

He doesn't really, he just needs to be partnered with someone who isn't Colback

Ruling out the title after one game need to chill out.

Wouldn't be surprised if he's sold or at least close to it before the game anyway, things tend to move quickly at this time of the year.

I would play Ikon's team IF Sissoko is still here - think he is an arse and don't think he is anywhere near a great player but the sad fact is that he is better than what we have currently. Perez needs to man up as he has been poor for a good few month now and he is so weak it's laughable. I'm not against that either really, Aarons for Sissoko if he's not going to play which is really likely tbh.

Probably but Lascelles is Captain so he'll be undroppable unless he plays consistently badly for a while. Also personally I think there's a better understanding and balance in the Lascelles and Mbemba partnership.