Saint Garrett

Is that not Juanmi? It seems we're going to play Mane in the central position whatever happens which I think is the wrong decision.

Would like to see a set up of: ---------Wanyama-----Clasie/Romeu---------- JWP--------------Juanmi------------------Mane --------------------JRod-------------------------

Romeu looks our best player at the moment. Not sure how anyone can say he's been poor. Good decision to let Reed go out on loan if we have no interest in playing him - FWIW I think he can do a decent job for us this season, but it will be good for him to get some games.

Be delighted with a draw, prediction 2-1 Watford. Stek; Cedric Fonte Caulker Targett; Wanyama Romeu Davis; JWP Pelle Mane

I'm after some friends...going on my own. Flying into Copenhagen on Weds morning and flying back on Saturday morning. Getting the train at 10am on Thursday, and staying in Herning on the Thursday night. Anyone else doing similar?

Good news.

He's not in the "arrive at the stadium" video the club has just posted on Twitter...we'll see if he plays of not. If he doesn't I expect he wants to go.

I agree, however it is good to have options, and Tadic has been playing wide so far this season. JRod looks way off the pace to me too, wihch I would expect. He's not the answer at the moment.

No idea why we're not after a wide player, would have taken Elia for sure. We have Mane (who we seem to be stuck with playing him centrally), Tadic (who has very poor games), Long (who isn't particularly very good and a striker), and JRod (who is a striker) Juanmi (who is a striker), JWP & Davis (who are central players)

He could be a good player for us this year, especially a good alternative option to Tadic who can have really bad games. I guess the problem is because he's on such large wages, we can't afford to pay a squad player £60k/week.

TBF he was garbage before that Chelsea game last season, then he came back and was brilliant and our main threat for the final half of the season.

Ridiculous to think we cannot keep players here, or that we just bend over backwards when a player decides he wants to leave or a team wants one of our players. I cannot stand Levy, but he does a brilliant job at getting a lot of money for their players, much like we do tbf. I don't think he is good enough for Man Utd, especially as I cannot see him displacing Depay. He is replaceable, just not this window, we have to keep him. If you keep on losing players, you eventually dont get so lucky with replacements and you end up not scoring enough goals (I am genuinely worried about that for this season), or leaking too many. I'm not saying we're particularly in danger of getting relegated this season, but many teams have improved and we have got considerably worse.

He's not good enough to play for Man Utd.

My point was that Clasie doesn't look physically ready yet, although I've only seen very little of him. To play DM you have to be able to put yourself about, I'm not sure Clasie has that in him, although I'm eager to see. It will be interesting to see what happens when everyone is fit in the midfield, especially if Romeu makes a good impact over the next few games. If Davis plays as a CM, then we have to play 3 CM's as he's not good enough defensively for him to play as a DM with Mane/Tadic/JRod as the player in behind the striker. Could we play the below...would it be too defensive? Would Davis be a better "link" than Clasie? -------Romeu---Wanyama-------- -------------Clasie----------------- Tadic-------------------------Mane -------------Pelle-------------------

He's better than Clasie at the moment IMO. Arguably better than Davis in the DM role also. Must be something that Ronald doesn't rate in him at the moment.

Absolutely, fair play to them. It's easier to do when they're English as they're in much higher demand due to the HG quota.

Mane is the problem, but also a good player. Trying to build the team around him playing centrally, which we lose complete control in midfield for. For me he either plays out wide, or plays as a second striker in a 3-5-2. We have to play 3 in the middle IMO.

------------Stek Soares Fonte Yoshi Martina -----Wanyama Romeu -------------Davis -JWP---------------------Mane ------------Pelle----------------

Why don't we sign him instead? Probably want him to replace VVD in 2 years time anyway!

Agree, but would prefer us to sign a midfielder instead of a defender and playing them in midfield though. Think I'd prefer us to sign a CB who can also play RB, rather than a midfielder. Wanyama, Davis, JWP, Reed, Romeu and Clasie should be enough to compete for those 3 CM positions. Can't see us signing Romeu and Clasie and then going and signing another unless Vic is going.

We won't sign both IMO.

They played really well last night Bournemouth, were unlucky, but can see that being a regular thing this season. Playing well having a real go, and not getting the points. Will be interesting to see if they score enough this season to stay up. Will be a really tough game against them I feel.

Shocking, we got it completely wrong today. After the defensive mess last week, why on earth did we start again without a third CM. Wanyama can't do it on his own. Full backs getting very little protection, and so bad going forward as well today. Credit to Everton, they played the counter attack down to a tee, but we should have done better to defend against it. A lot of work to be done if we don't want to be relegation fodder this season.

Train booked from Copenhagen - also on the 10am, takes longer than the 10:50, but means I avoid the bus! Cannot wait.

Indeed you have to change.