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This Russian commentator has the most sensual of voices

Pleased with that XI

With Murphy upfront fat cunt's just gotta stand there and bludgeon people, job done.

Dat pace on both flanks

x1000 The goal is to put together a squad to get promoted. Nothing more. Upon promotion, I expect loads of these players to be sold and another new batch of PL-caliber players to be brought in. Know nothing at all about Murphy as a player, but at the very least he's an experienced Championship striker. Every club has its share of players who fill in the cracks and round out the squad.

Really? A lot of posters did tbf.

The feeling is appreciated and reciprocated. Does he generally start at right back for the US or is it Cameron? Yedlin's played RB his last 8 appearances for the US after being moved all over the field his first two years with the team. Seems Klinsmann's finally figured out that Yedlin-Cameron-Brooks + LB is our best backline.

Excited about this, naturally. I'll just add that he's a really sound lad by all accounts, so that at least would be an improvement on Janmaat. Don't really buy the "he's prone to do dumb shit" line either. That's based on a couple questionable calls from one tournament, and not something that's borne out by his record. Just don't make him mark the opposition's CF at the back post and I think everyone will be pleased.

always makes me chuckle

Klinsmann tried to shoehorn him into a wing role for far too long. He's great at driving from deep and overlapping but he lacks the skill to directly take on a defender over the course of a match. He has improved a lot as a defender and his speed is a real asset on the flank.

Goddammit son, fuck are you thinking with that footwear

He improved a lot as a defender last season tbf.

Such nicer were the days when Fulfam was the home for Yanks in England

PENNA!

To be fair, he's probably hardly played in that time.... True, but the point is we're after a proven goalscorer. Yes our squad needs more physical presence up front, but a proven ability to get goals is the most important criteria we're looking at. We should therefore stay well away from a 35 year old who hasn't scored for 15 months and has only managed 44 league goals in the last 7 seasons going back all the way to the time we were last relegated. That's a striker with an average of about 6 goals a season. We can only put 11 players on the pitch, and it's not like we have goalscorers elsewhere in the team. It only makes any sense if we were to bring in two strikers then Crouch is willing to be 3rd or 4th choice behind the new guy, Mitro and Gayle. Given Rafa often plays with one up front, that seems pretty unlikely.

We should be in for him tbh. Can't find a more proven Championship goal scorer.

Janmaat played that game, Mbabu played LB and came off in the 53rd minute. Yes I recalled those exact details.

Upgrade on Hart, particularly with the ball at his feet.

The quality's fucking abject, man. Give over. Just look at the Burnley side that won it. Hmm, no?

Jose Fonte, Sr.

I do think quite a few have greatly underestimated the strength of this league (some going so far as to put money on us going undefeated, which is totally asinine), based largely on our experience from 2009/10. It's not remotely the same league it was even six years ago: the PL doesn't exist in a vacuum, its good fortunes do somewhat trickle down. These are teams that are gonna play us tough and push us around. We may yet go on a roll and I think we've got both the quality in the squad and the right man to lead it. But these early results don't really surprise me all that much.

Are you being serious with the Benitez/Pardew comparison son? Yes I am. In fact the turgid stuff served up in the 1st 2 games has been a lot more negative than Pardew. At least Pardew didn't play Anita RW for a full game. For that alone Rafa should fuck off back to Liverpool. There is an institute people like you can go to you know. Cambridge?

Could it have feasibly fallen low enough to *squints at cuecard* leave the ... atmosphere?