Villain4Life

Holy shit, Beast .... back to £35 mill for that boy.

Lost for words .... 3 min.

With the debt to equity swap, Mr Lerner doesn't need to waiver his interest payment any longer. Hmmmm. Joy. Yeah, but obviously good for the club to be rid of that £20 mill (?) payment. That said, with a turnover of £83 mill and an operating loss of £43 mill, there are expenses of £126 mill in the club. On what exactly? Our player wages should be cut down to ... £70 mill, maybe even lower. So where does the rest of the money go? Will be interesting to see the details.

To still play in the PL ... everything else is secondary.

And Lerner wants to reward Lambert with a new contract ... We need 12 more points to survive. If we do not win against Norwich, we're in it deep. Following two matches are against City (away) and Chelsea (home). Come March, we could be in the relegation zone ..

Figures .... we deserve to go down

O M F G ... Vlaar ... no MOTM for you, my friend.

FFS Benteke ... OPEN YOUR F***** EYES

Bennett on for Bertrand. Immaculate hair cut.

So after committing 23 fouls, Tiote finally sees yellow ...

We're living life on the edge now ... ...

Sylla?! ...

We are still in the match. We have a clean sheet and a point ... It could be a lot worse.

Are we playing 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 with Andi in the top diamond #10 role?

I'll quote you just as an example. It most definitely is not a moot point. You're right in that a player needs to be of some standard and the better the better. However, if you have a right footed and a left footed CB, it's better than if you have two right or two left footed ones. Neither of them plays in the center so that it wouldn't make any difference. If a player is far superior, he can play on the wrong side too, but it's not ideal, as someone has mentioned. I wouldn't want to play Vlaar on the wrong side if possible. But if Okore is clearly better than Clark, I would. I don't have evidence he is at the moment, so I'd play Clark on the left and Vlaar on right. Let them fight it out. No way is it clear that Okore walks back in and Clark gets dropped. I don't get it either. If a right footed cb needs to go on the left side of the pitch is he a lesser defender all of a sudden? Most players today are at least reasonable (if not good) with both feet, I wish somebody did a statistic on Vlaar's defending touches on either side the pitch to see exactly if this 'right/left footed' discussion has any relevance I have a statistic. When Vlaar is forced out of position to accomondate Okore, we lose 100% of the time (sample: 3 games out of 3). It's only natural, that Vlaar won't deal as well with crosses coming in from the left than from the right. As he is right footed. The question, imho, is, if Clark + Baker is a better option than Okore + either Clark or Baker, in the unfortunate situation Vlaar is not available.

Staying with the back four, the 3 games Vlaar played with Okore would suggest, it does make a big difference. The defending was terrible. As for (above) Okore being young and learning to playing on the left side, I have seen him for Denmark and for FCN (and Villa) and I have NEVER ever seen him in another position than right side. Naturally, I have missed some games, but all I've seen, he's been in ONE position and one position only. Further about the topic a quote from Lambert in re to Vlaar being back for the Cardiff game: "His absence affects things because of the balance. We have two left footers playing at centre-half which is not ideal." Suggestion Lambert also doesn't see the pairing Vlaar/Okore as ideal.

Spot on, imho. Okore is bought as back-up to Vlaar. If Vlaar is fit, Vlaar will be teamed with a left-footer (and that's Clark and Baker). Moving Vlaar to the left to accommondate Okore (whom I've never ever seen play anything but right side in defense) is a recipy for disaster. We saw it in the 3 games early in the season, where Vlaar had to play right side to fit in Okore. 3 straight losses and a shaky shaky backline.

We were better with Weiman on. Delph was good, Vlaar good. Albrighton a mixed bag. I can't work out, how our TWO left backs could look so fragile against one Cardiff winger. Gabby was poor, Benteke just ... *sighs* .. West needs to be dropped.

How did he save that?

So poor by Gabby ... what is he doing ... Jesus.

OMG almost deflected in ... sighs ... that was close.

Bennett off for Weiman ...

West off for KEA, Bennett for Weiman ... I'd like

F F F F ... Benteke was totally free.

Before every game, I hope and look at the table and dream, how amazing it would be with 3 points. Usually it only takes 5-10 minutes after the start, before I'm praying and hoping for just a point - somehow. Truly depressing, how poor we are