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6 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

I honestly want Mings out the first team. I rate Konsa the highest of the lot but Konsa and Engels should be considered. Mings has cost us big there and it was coming over the past few weeks.

TBH, I'm thinking similar. he needs a **** rocket up the arse, that's for sure. It's pretty much every game at some point he's Franz Beckenbauer in his head but Titus **** Bamble with his feet.

The problem is, we want ball players everywhere so can't discourage it yet it's all about decision making.

**** Mings **** about again.

He's shown glimpses of real talent, got heaps of potential. And he scaplula'd us up into the PL so he'll always be looked upon with affection and gratitude.

But he really needs to find some mean and harden the **** up sometimes. He's a big, strapping lad who's **** rapid but he's got to find his beast mode to get to the next level.

He's got to go to bed tonight as his usual Jar Jar Binks-like self and wake up as Zlatanaldo. Full of running, piss taking, fire and vinegar.

2 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said:

What about in 12/13? Smith would get him back to that form in my opinion 

He would? Smith has a machine that will do that?

Something like that one in The Fly where he has two pods, sticks the late twenties, shit, venal, lazy, useless Benteke in one pod and with a couple of zaps of electricity and plasma out springs a seven years younger, fit, hungry, loyal Benteke from the other? 

Yeah, OK.

29 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Fair enough, if Benteke was only on 110k per week that maybe we would've took him 

Just did the google search on players weekly wage after seeing his, I assumed he would be around 60-80k but 120k is crazy.  If you go through clubs wages by individual (estimated) they are crazy.  On us the largest seems to be Heaton on 42k per week.  I thought Jack was on that or more.  Anyway my point is the randomness of wages that players get, which is obviously down to timing/previous clubs paying them at peak/desperation of clubs but it is rather interesting.  We obviously know easily of the top end like De Gea whose on 350-375k per week and then kids are only 10-20k per week but the middle guys like Benteke earning 120k per week at Palace on the bench is just mind boggling.

And that, dear reader, is the primary reason B€n£€k€ isn't worth a **** light, especially to us. He doesn't give a **** because he's always been about the money.

18 hours ago, sne said:

But is he fit, or is it a Leadly King sort of deal.

Be interesting to get a bit more info as it's been quoted that it might be a permanent issue for him with his knee. That he can play, but there will always be an issue.

AFAIK, from what has come out of the club, he'll be permanently sub-100% now. Or to put another way, his current and future 100%, however often or rare he's in that condition, will never be pre-injury level.

So, yes, Macca and Ledley type managing and nursing is how it'll go, it seems, but I don't recall ever reading exactly what the injury was or how exactly it did and does affect him. It seems the club are being a bit quiet about all that and possibly for good reason. There's been stuff said about him playing when he very much shouldn't have and the club may very well be seriously embarrassed by one of their employees being crocked because one of their former employees was so incompetent before he was fired that he breached a duty of care.

I think he'll be looked after on a nod and a wink at the very least. The fact he was up there with Jack collecting the trophy at Wembley was telling, I thought.

1 hour ago, sne said:

think he meant injury vice 

He was on the bench in at least one of the last two games, wasn't he?

Edit: He was on the bench for Wolves 10th Nov but not against the Barcodes.

On 27/11/2019 at 17:19, maqroll said:

Tekkers?

Really, just stop it now. That's a joke that hasn't been funny for about three years.

6 hours ago, Genie said:

Bruce steadied our sinking ship and then got us to the cusp of the big time

As has been mentioned but can't be repeated often enough, we got hugely lucky twice.

Not because that charlatan "steadied the ship", many managers could have done that. When RDM was blown out, we had a pretty good squad that hadn't delivered results and Bruce was given plenty to change the squad in his own image.

And because he only got us to the cusp of the big time and failed by stinking Wembley out with the team and tactics in his own image.

The double stroke of huge luck was his failure directly lead to Xia being exposed as a total chancer. The second stroke of luck was we didn't end up with him as our manager in the PL as Wyness and Xia stayed in place to wreck the club.

Be in no doubt, had we gone up that year we absolutely would have "done the Fulham" that the lazy pundits have been talking about this year. we'd be skint and in the Championship.

20 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

I honestly think we will go down if we lose tonight. Can't afford to lose at home to the likes of these.

Agreed Even this early they're the proverbial six-pointers and we need to get some distance from those around us.

43 minutes ago, ferguson1 said:

Doubt he’s been dropped.  He withdrew from the Wales squad last week for personal reasons, so perhaps he still not mentally right for football at present? 

At present? Well, I suppose every current second is "the present" and is perpetual and was when it was the present in the past.

So yeah, at present.

2 hours ago, Designer1 said:

I think we'll win by at least two clear goals.

I think we should and think we will, too.

If we aren't beating these teams, relegation candidates, we've got a problem.

So that's us playing an OGS Manure next week, then.

4 hours ago, Zatman said:

Mourinho rocking the gilet in his press conference

Second most stylish gilet-wearing Hotspur changeling his inner Tactics Tim.

He even said a couple of days ago he'd be seeking to inject pashunn into the players.

7 hours ago, andykeenan said:

Bournemouth v Wolves 

3 hours ago, A'Villan said:

Unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me at all if Grealish remains on their radar.

OK, I look forward to that.

"OK, Little Danny - I can call you Danny, can't I? OK, Little Danny, I know this is going to be hard for you but do you think you can stop crying long enough to show me on the doll what Nas and Wes did to you when you tried to take their favourite toy off them?"

9 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Unless Randy Lerner is the owner

Well, I did sort of cover that with the "savvy club or business" caveat.

AFAIC, Spuds can sign Benteke now with my blessing. As Poch's replacement.

26 minutes ago, Pelle said:

Just saw that. Sacked or left? Why sack him now? Strange. I mean, there's been a long international break and they decide to do it at the end of it?

The replacement negotiations were finally concluded, maybe? They wouldn't have sacked him without having someone lined up. All the bollocks about "the search starts now" that clubs come out with after a manager is sacked is just that, complete bollocks. Any savvy club, or any business for that matter, doesn't leap into the dark like that.

12 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

He seems incredibly hapless.  Pretty sure he had a fall at Wembley (watching Man City) and was in a coma a few months ago too.

That's true. Three times the karm charm, eh?

The universe isn't done with you yet, blue nose, you utter word removed. Not by a long way.

3 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

It is. And he's been abysmal for most matches. 

Just shows how many chances we are creating if he's scored as many and as frequently as that whilst being simultaneously disappointing. Imagine how many he'd have if he could keep his feet or head a ball.

On 06/11/2019 at 08:56, Stuartc445 said:

I just can't watch the accents are painful some are more scouse than Brummie and the one this series I heard it the matter of a few sentences he went through all the dialects I'm Birmingham.

It's a very common for actors to do that "scouse brummie" accent, I've been hearing it since the days of "Crossroads".

Years ago a mate of mine went off to uni and pointed out the only good aspect about the shite brummie accent was no bugger could actually take the piss out of it properly because nobody could actually do it.

The best they could do is what actors who manage to avoid scouse brummie - or scummy, if you prefer - do and that's the yam yam midlands accent.

Despite it being an utterly bone accent and sounding simple to reproduce, it's actually hellishly difficult for a non-native to replicate with any consistent authenticity. As you've mentioned, sometimes a few people will pull off a sentence or two but the longer they're expected to speak, the harder it is to not slide around the region before finally ending up in Birkenhead.

1 hour ago, It's Your Round said:

We will be tonight, don’t worry. 

So what you're saying is, It's Our Round?

5 hours ago, LondonLax said:

Norwich and Southampton have received some big thrashings already and are in the relegation zone. I’m hoping they stay there with Watford all season. 

I'm hoping for Norwich, Newcastle and WH (in perpetuity). I doubt the latter will go but I'll happily take two out of three.