blunther

He's the scapegoat du jour on this forum is all it is. It was Mings before, it'll be Bailey next.

Yep, I definitely say no way will I welcome the little turncoat shite back... ... but I know I'd love it.

You are aware balls are spherical?

Guessing the £60 fine doesn't really matter to them!

Guinea - Equatorial Guinea/Guinea-Bisseau/Papua New Guinea Mali - Somalia Republic of the Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo Niger - Nigeria Dominica - Dominican Republic

I don't get the negativity. I remember how he looks levels above everyone else when he came last year. Ineffective under Gerrard this season... who wasn't? I'm excited to see what he can do when he's back!

Missed the match Saturday and only got round to watching highlights yesterday. My take... That's more often than not a foul on Luiz. I was expecting a proper howler from what I'd read. It wasn't great, but he got between the player and the ball and was brought down. The 'penalty' for Digne's tackle I was expecting to be stonewall - I didn't think it was a penalty in real time or in slow mo. I think it could equally have been given as a foul against the Brighton player to be honest the way he came in and clattered Digne (and with a bit more momentum could have broken his leg the way his weight went down onto Digne's knee). Seen them given, sure, but I don't think I'd be screaming for a pen if it was against us. Some more fantastic one-touch passing and moving into space for some of our chances. Our attacking play looks worlds away from where it was The defensive shape looked great towards the end. I actually enjoyed MOTD2's analysis of it, which is a first.

Young did well I thought. Manager, as much as I love him, gets a poor from me for the keeper choice. He's not good enough for this level. I get giving the second choice a run out if he's a competitive keeper, but it's not a **** charity. Martinez should be in goal in the cups until we get a second keeper that cam push him for the right to play.

This keeper can never play for us again. First priority in January as if anything happened to Martinez we are absolutely ****.

Weaker team than I wanted I have to say.

Are extended highlights available anywhere? It's been so long since I've actually wanted to watch some....

I wouldn't play a 'weak' side as such but I think we can expect a few changes so Emery can get a look at some players. Young in for Digne (maybe 30 bring Digne on at 60 mins to keep building up fitness), Chambers for Konsa, Sanson for Ramsey and Ings for Watkins is arguably as strong a team as we put out yesterday, but keeps players happy and lets the manager see what they're made of. I'd keep Kamara on the bench for the first hour too, let's not rush him back in too fast. If we use all the subs it means we can bring on players like Digne, Kamara, Watkins, Archer. It's been a while since we've been able to bring on subs that can make a difference.

That was sensational. Can't ever remember seeing us have a man in space so often. All the little one-twos, the movement, the calmness at the back. He's drilled them hard and achieved that in only a week. I can't remember ever being this excited about the next match. Eery player was brilliant and played their part, but Mings was an utter Colossus at the back and gets my MoM. Ref an utter clearing in the woods, but what's new.

Nah, I don't think so at all. See the previous page for the article on gang-raping a bloke for being gay. **** backwards shithole mate. Verging on something not cool? Assume you're implying a racist element of sorts? You can shove that if so, frankly. If as a country you have a fundamentalist tendency to oppress, for a couple of examples, women or gays for being who they are, then you're a backwards shithole. same goes for Russia as it does for Saudi Arabia.

Those are all backwards shitholes too though.

Imagine a tactics chat like this with bloody Steve Bruce.

Again. The theme of the season. Utter garbage.

This is shite. **** him off.

Buendia our best player as usual. We at least had some shots on target but we're just....poor.

I'm enjoying the SSC/VT mashup of late.

When we're drawing they let man city score from ten yards offside. If we try and win we'll get our goal chalked off illegally. What's the **** point. Bent as ****.

Would have thought he could do better than the Scottish second tier tbh.

only the same as a boxing day match I guess.

How do you know this? Do you really believe Chelsea have guaranteed him game time? Moneywise, maybe they offered more than we did, maybe they didn't. But we can't go offering ridiculous contracts to 18 year olds who have achieved very little. It'd be a terrible precedent to set. He has potential, but that's it. Until he's proved himself in the senior game he shouldn't be getting paid like a senior pro. If that means we've lost this player but avoided setting a poor precedent for the future, so be it.

By all accounts he was offered a very lucrative contract as soon as he was eligible. He didnt want it. Guarantees of playing time?? **** that! You earn your place on the pitch, the same as everybody else. He had plenty of chances to make himself undroppable and don't take them, which is fine because he's young and no one should expect too much. He'd have had more chances this year. He didn't want that, so we got £20m for him. We'd have got nowhere near that through a tribunal. Very smart business. For what it's worth I've never been that sold on him being a guaranteed superstar. He's so physically ahead of most kids his age, which is a massive help in kids football. It does you no good in the step up to men's football though. He's got a long way to go and I wonder if he'll have the drive a top player needs now he's got a six year bumper contract and is set for life.