r0cafella

Well, nah, there's allowed to be a balance. Carver was the most important member of staff; as manager, arguably the most important person at the club. And was woeful. I want us to sign a squad member that is going to galvanise the other players in the absence of real leaders. Joey Barton the man who stubbed a cigar in a players eye as a man to galvanise

It's the same sort of thinking which saw Carver and stone welcomed in the beginning

Barton

I hope not, i'd like nothing more than to be proved wrong and that the club have actually learnt from past mistakes.

I'd be fine with a new contract but keeping him on as captain is a mistake, which basically consigns us to him being a starter when he's past his best.

There goes another centre half

That's fair enough, but I don't understand why anyone would go out of their way to spin everything in a negative light. What's the point? Lol the negative spin is usually correct though isn't it?

Not sure what's wrong with having no faith in Mclaren or Ashley personally. Don't recall any sort of mass support for him managing us prior to his appointment other than "he's better than Carver /Pardew"

pretty sure 500k was reported It was, Mclaren is just pulling numbers out of his ass to make his boss look better

As If those s*** players are on "stupid wages". Of course they will be. You don't think Taylor, Gouffran, Williamson etc will all be on upwards of 40K? Taylor possibly but bare in mind Colo is our highest paid player on 60k a week I doubt Willo and Gouffran are on anything close to that. Plus it's just besides the point we have no ambition it's business as usual as far is the club is concerned and the only goal is to stay in the league with minimal outlay.

It's just a shift in strategy from buying more players for less to buying less for more to give the impression we have some ambition. I know the club has more cash on hand than we've spent and that's without favouring the 25 million black hole from the last published accounts.

As If those shit players are on "stupid wages".

Spent his entire toulouse career playing centre mid

He probably will, I can't stand West ham or the golds but fair play for showing some sustainable ambition which is all we are asking for ffs

De Jong causes an issue IMO, i really think Mitrovic flanked by Perez and Aarons with Sissoko and Wijnaldum making runs behind Mitrovic could be class with someone holding it all together behind them. If we had a capable holder then this would be ideal but we just don't have a player who is physically imposing enough for the roll. I wonder if this is where the link from Lemina originated from, he'd do the job from the looks of it.

My team too. On paper yes. In reality fuck no, one of our biggest problems of recent times has always been the lack of protection the defence has received and this side provides absolutely no protection. We'd have to revert to a 433 and swap De Jong for a decent holding player (which of course we don't have) for it to stand a chance.

The new Gouffran

We look good in training. Only problem with that is we train against ourselves who we know are hopeless

Anything remotely positive come out of this?

Our fans

Gutted we took ages getting rid of woodman and missed out on Steele

Yup, I'm impressed this game is being played with a lot of intensity.

1-1 Callejon

Nice play some really nice stuff.

Nice one up, Hatem with the assist.