Chicane

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I don't mean to be overreactionary but this has been a truly terrible defensive performance

dat trickery

Either they've royally messed up our formation or Pardew has lost his mind Yanga at left-back? Haidara at right?

Dat U-Boat fret

Today. http://meatballcandy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/today-is-the-day.gif

What day is it?

It's been much better than I anticipated that's for sure. Although I worry about the defense. There will be huge pressure on Pardew now surely, no excuses for not doing well

Not sure if http://i.imgur.com/motUX9F.png

Ben Arfa will be gone before Pardew is unfortunately

This is probably a really stupid question but did Remy have a medical here before joining on loan? Do players have medicals for loans?

Very bittersweet looking through those photos, brings back some great memories for me. Hard to believe it was over a decade ago now. RIP Sir Bobby

Including the Cabaye money is our transfer expenditure/income this window a + or -? Haven't seen the fees for most of the lads we signed

Playing against Sheffield Wednesday on Wednesday. Interesting.

One of the related articles: http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/27/have-you-seen-the-bag-that-looks-like-manchester-uniteds-phil-jones-4811943/ http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/phil.jpg?w=650&h=314&crop=1#038;h=422

Didn't Lallana recently refuse to come into training if he wasn't allowed to move to Liverpool? That's a player who came up through their ranks and that's how he treats them at the first sniff of a bigger club. Point being, I think you just have to accept that that is the way football is today and the way players are. I mean our very own Cabaye refused to play last year when Arsenal showed interest and he is still held in such high regard. I'm curious what Remy did or said that has soured people on him so much because he was a critical player for us last year. And the fact that people don't want him back is surprising to me, if not outright shocking. The injury concerns are valid and a good point, I can understand that.

Personally If he performs on the pitch like last year then I really don't care about anything else. It's not like he did/said anything bad or disrespectful towards the club. Asking to sit out the Liverpool game isn't a massive deal to me considering our season was over, he wasn't even actually our player and he had a world cup coming up. If he was a permanent signing it would be different. Besides, do you really think guys like Cabella see us as anything more than a stepping stone? Didn't Riviere pretty much say exactly that?

Come back to us Loic. We don't mind your dicky heart.

Don't really know what thread to ask this in but, what would your guys early predictions be for our final position this season? I'd probably go with 8th/9th. Kinda depends on Southampton and how well they rebuild their squad, certainly don't think we'll be able to break the top 7

Ferreyra is one of those players I always sign for us on Football Manager. Alvarez Balanta next.

Where is Satka playing? Isn't he a centre back?

Bad miss from wor Jack

GOUFF

I know it's early doors but I like the look of Perez

I think the World Cup showed that you don't necessarily need great individuals to carry out a 3-5-2 successfully. I mean look at Chile, their three CBs individually were seemingly quite poor and yet they were very successful. With the right coaching it could work, but obviously we don't have that I also think you need a commanding CB who can organise the others and obviously we're lacking that as well