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Just a brilliant footballer. No wonder RVP told Wenger to sign him up.

I just LOVE Holman

GUZAN is commanding his box really well.

We are SO much improved under Lambert.

Holman is going to grow on fans - he's often a bit shoddy technically, but he has a hell of an engine and his energy is priceless.

Great improvement on last season.

More one touch passing, less hoofing, more ball-pressing.

all Lambert's signings look better than what we had.

I've heard categorically (don't ask who - it only ends in tears and accusation) that we'll have a new left back in pronto and chances are it'll be the Ipswich boy.

Don't discount another from abroad either.

Lambert needs a new team - our youth players are basically SHIT

It's almost as if we're playing our reserves......

.......hang on, just looked at the team sheet.......

Herd, Baker, Bannan, Clark, Delfouneso ........ those WERE the reserves when we had Milner, Barry, Downing and Young...

yeah, the wage bill has been exceptional this afternoon - long may it continue

why are we so shit

because we sold our best players and haven't got a pot to piss in now Lerner's stopped backing his managers.

Simple as that.

7 out of the 11 are Championship quality.

Man United have a bench including Rooney, Giggs, Welbeck, Scholes and Hernandez.

Our first team contains Lowton, Baker, Delfouneso and Bannan.

We really have fallen a long way since MON.

Nice to see Bannan - could be great under Lambert's style. For me, Herd is more lively than Delph too. Only issue I have is I'd still have Ireland instead of Delfouneso. Because he's our most talented player by a country mile.

Shame for the lad after the same injury on the other knee last time. We're getting more and more stretched in CM all the time...

Fun as this thread is, there's a sobering undertone to the whole thing:

while the likes of West Ham, QPR and Sunderland are spending big money on players and wages, we're treading water, bringing in bargain bucket signings and expecting to be able to compete.

If Lerner continues down this 'wage cutting' road with one in and one out while all the other teams improve, we'll be in the Championship before long.

It's a serious situation and although it's fun to speculate on an unknown black hand, the truth is that we're sinking like a stone in the 'money talks' world of modern football.

Sorry to be such as pessimist - I know that Moyes is making it work at Everton doing the same, but I'm not sure our squad is as good as his!

meh - a media darling he is not!

any more questions? Nope. Done. Weirdly anti-climactic

WTF!!!! McLeish back as assistant???!!!!!

just joking....

If and then Solskjaer doesn't arrive, we're all going to look back at the sunday afternoon we spent watching Molde vs Ulf and laugh quite a lot!

what makes this so depressing is in the interview on the OS, he says that whoever is boss will have to trade and the chairman will not pump in millions to get big players. He wants 'hard workers' - that means journeymen.

Maybe I'm wrong.

I just think that if we went positive and attacking against Spurs, all we'd learn is that Gardner and Bannan are not Modric and Bale.

When you're outclassed, you have to be a bit sensible

(cue someone saying that I am McLeish in disguise)

chucked 26 quid on spuds to win.. Its a win win situation.

unless we draw and both bolton and qpr win, in which case you'll still be shitting yourself next week!

So the awful line up improvements consist of Carruthers maybe Weimann.

Dear oh dear. Read that again and consider if you'd read it five years ago.

When are people going to wake the **** up and see that we simply do not have the players?

The players that got MON 6th in the league are GONE.

THE LINE UP IS BECAUSE LERNER SOLD OUR BEST PLAYERS.

Yes, Hutton and NZogbia haven't been great this season, but come on people, get real.

It's what we've got. It is a shit team, but that is not the fault of Alex McLeish.

If we play worse than the quality of players we have, fair enough. But we only have kids on the bench.

and before some fool says that Makoun would make the difference, you're missing the whole point.

And without the 'Mcleish Out' glasses on:

....Gabby clearly injured or would be playing.

He's gone for Heskey rather than Weimann but apart from that I cannot see what anyone would suggest instead.

Big Ron got it right on the Radio earlier - this is just an awful squad and we are bereft of quality players.

If someone can spot a 15 million pound player of the quality of Van Der Vaart, Adebayor, Modric, Bale etc on our bench that McLeish refuses to play, fair enough. Name them.