Mole_Toonfan

I'm sure this has already been answered but why is this Christmas Eve shit even happening? it's fucking stupid.

Is he playing for the full team already?

This season has made me absolutely despise Sunday games, absolutely cannot wait for a 3pm Saturday game again whenever that is.

I think he is too, purely based on pre season and a little bit of Spurs. Rafa obviously thought so too as he started the season, but even so Clark and Lascelles have earned their places till further notice.

Alli, Kane and Rashford is nice, the rest Jesus Christ

Good to change it up every now and then, get some new teams in. New teams who will mind numbingly boring to watch for the neutral as usual no doubt.

Plough further money Wish the media would do some fucking research for once.

I thought this from the beginning tbh, wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if that's exactly what happens.

The process you say? http://media.philly.com/images/062714_sam-hinkie_600.jpg

If you don't follow it then you don't have to comment on it like you know better than people who've actually done some research I have never implied i did, you assumed.

I don't follow international football at all because it's crap, i assumed Peru would go through automatically and Argentina would have to face a playoff no matter what. Calm the fuck down.

Aye but Sweden are trash ( no offence to the Swedes here) Ibra or no Ibra. Portugal where always going through.

Aye but isn't the playoff against New Zealand? Even if they don't get through automatically, they'll be there. It's no different to when Portugal had to go through a playoff with Ronaldo. There was never any real danger of them not qualifying.

He won't win but just being nominated is a class achievement for him.

Wouldn't be surprised if it's the standard pull out of national squads with an "injury" and play anyway. I expect both Atsu and Ritchie to start our next game.

Theoretically 28 billion. But. Thinks of her as your financial adviser or pension guy if you have one. Her job is to make your money grow. Her investors won't give a flying f*** about NUFC and probably haven't even heard of us. The one certainty is that if she invests money from the fund she manages into a football club, she is duty bound to take more money out of it than she put in. Would you want your pension fund manager sanctioning 60 million of funds to buy Kyle Walker or 35 million to buy Jordan Pickford ? Unlikely. Apparently Man Utd recouped the £100m spent on Paul Pogba within one week through global merchandise sales. That will be utter bollocks, not even Messi or Ronaldo accumulate that sort of cash through merchandise sales. Especially in that short time frame, i even doubt they have recouped it even now tbh. Merchandise sales for individual players are nowhere near as big as that.

That was what I was going on btw before anyone thinks I have super inside info So you don't? Disappointing.

I refuse to believe anything until she kicks Ashley in an ocean somewhere.

Nope just stating the facts, no need to get defensive over it. We did deserve a draw and i was happy with the performance for the most part, it's impossible to limit a team with that much talent to nothing. Just saying what i said to make the point that 2 shots on target doesn't really show what really happened on the day.

The performance against Liverpool was as good as we could expect given the players we have, but I'm taking it that I'm one of the few who felt like they could have scored 4 or 5 if they actually finished a bit better? Salah especially seemed to be constantly running into acres of space to exploit. Alot of their shooting on the day was straight at Elliott, or we had somewhat fortunate goal-line clearances. Don't have much a point to this mind, beyond saying that I don't think we're quite as solid defensively as many seem to think and that we'll most likely get a couple of pastings this season by teams less forgiving in front of goal. They had 2 shots on target IIRC. That doesn't tell the whole story though, Salah's attempt after Clark air kicked it went over the bar, Wijnaldum's shot that hit the post, Chamberlain's header late on, the goal mouth scramble early on and i'm sure there's more which don't cover "shots on target". As much as we did limit them, they definitely created enough to win by 2 or 3 goals.

Smells of Vince McMahon this; Ashley will be revealed as the "higher power"

I think he's capable of it though, he just doesn't actively look for killer passes. There will be times this season where he shows it though imo.

Aye I was thinking that, I know he got some comparisons to Alonso before we signed him but I think his game more resembles Busquets tbh. Fucking class either way.

If it keeps happening I agree, but in this one game in isolation it's understandable imo. He played a slightly different role with a different partner so it's understandable it wasn't a completely seamless transition.

I was thinking that when Rafa made the sub, I thought we'd lose some control and we kind of did. I mean I understand why he did it, put Gayle on and see if Shelvey can get him in behind and Hayden as a sub was a necessity as Salah was getting more space. Obviously none of it actually mattered so who cares.