Mole_Toonfan

Aye but that's why the really good ones cost loads, there's barely a half a dozen of them around.

I'm more amazed about how we are still in the league

Would love to have that type of shit.

Matic

Sounds like bollocks to deflect attention IMO.

Martial hit the post, game is surprisingly open.

The fact that it's even a discussion says it all really.

unfair to the maggots tbf.

Good start to this, Mata hits the bar and De Gea some how saves from Terry.

Because he's crap, no one here can see it because they are willing to accept anyone because of dross like Colback and rightfully so in some aspects but there is nothing special about him and you're lot will be much better off without imo.

What is this sorcery you speak of? I'm not a witch i promise!

Teams scoring goals, almost forget what that feels like.

Take it off then.

It upsets me so much. Colback negatively affects the team so much IMO. Both going forward and defensively. How long are we going to have to put up with this man being a fixture in the team? It's so upsetting. Another decade imo.

Was a little more than that tbf, was a lot longer than the 2 or 3 good games he's had. I think it's more to do with him struggling the last couple of seasons in general though.

Speak for yourself I'm just here for the thread madness tbh. Although you could question why i do that tbf.

Tbf i think the same applies with other teams for Shola.

Fat

Urgh, there are not words to describe how much that is.

Everything he seems to do is crazy as shit.

Capello and Lippi says otherwise, everyone gets too old man The game passes everyone bye at some point.

There's probably a middle ground between Pompey and choosing one of the richest couple of clubs in the world. Again. No idea why everybody wants him to drop down mind though, He started at the very top ( after the initial stint with Barca B) and was successful at it. Nobody asks any other manager to drop down and do it with a lesser team so why does it apply to him? Same goes with Messi, everyone for years wanted him to leave Barca and " challenge" himself but for some reason this doesn't apply to any other footballer. It's all a load of bollocks IMO, i know Deuce wasn't being serious but just in general the whole mindset baffles me. Messi's stayed at the same club though, and a footballer isn't like a manager, they can't have an effect on an entire club in the same way. What's the point in "wanting a new challenge" that's not actually a challenge? Is he just going to go round each European country managing the richest, most successful club and hoovering up the credit for it? Why not try Juventus, Pep, that'll be really interesting for you. Then give Basel a shot, and I hear Celtic could do with a 15th consecutive title. Yawn. I wouldn't say it's unique to him though. Most of the managers considered Europe's best will turn their nose up at any job that doesn't come with either 1st or 2nd as a cast-iron guarantee even if the janitor was managing them. I've got far more respect for someone like Simeone than any of them. Saying Bayern wasn't a challenge is massive hindsight though, when he agreed to take over mid season Dortmund had won the league back to back and nobody saw them winning the treble and they hadn't won the league in 4 years(which is ages for them). It's alright now but Heynckes was under massive pressure at the time and didn't have anywhere near the praise he does now. Also Simeone ? the same Simeone who flopped at Catania and did ok at Santander? he did no different than any other manager, he took the best job available to him it's not like he started at someone bigger and dropped down to Atletico Madrid. Like i said the whole mindsight is utterly baffling, no one has a problem with Ancelotti jumping from ready made job to ready made job ( and if it isn't ready made he has the finance available to fix it) and he isn't the only one. But for some reason there's pre conceived expectation that Pep should challenged himself at a lesser team when it doesn't apply to anyone else, not to mention the ridiculous idea that if he doesn't win the treble every year he's flopped when that has never applied to anyone else in the history of the sport.

He used to be, not anymore though.