Saint_clark

Am I blind? I saw no movement from Clasies feet there, a tiny little touch on the back is all.

Didnt that come off the defender???

...what?

Wtf are you on about? Long is a striker and Redmond is being converted into one, which is going well so far.

Too early to be able to say that for me.

Yep, he was marking his man which Davis didn't do.

Well I think we've played very well. Bit frustrating that Davis didn't close Rooney down more but I bet Puel will go nuts at him about it. Only other complaint is that on two occasions we've got forward with them scrambling to get in position only for us to pass it back to the defence giving them time to organise.

Christ on a bike...

Bet you came in your pants.

Should have cut inside the defender. Knew Long wouldn't hit that well on his left foot.

Poor judgement from Van Dijk there.

Christ I thought that was in.

Go on Fonte

Not really. Thought Tadic could have gone for it a bit more.

Redmonds very deep when the ball goes forward.

Tadic didn't score a penalty 2 years ago. But at least he got the scorer right.

Annoying, start well and now have to disrupt our line up. Davis has gone to DM...never looked good there for us.

Cedric still not looking great...come on lad, get with it. edit - couple of good interceptions now.

Ffs why are we watching Kamara commentate over United warming up.

He actually said that every player he manages, improves under him. Very high praise from someone like Henry.

Christ. This coverage is terrible.

So they are, f*ck knows then!

That stat was produced before the Chelsea V West Ham game.

If we were a London based club who had just been given a huge new stadium for bare minimum cost then it would make it a hell of a lot easier to pay players higher wages and keep hold of them, but we've managed to get Van Dijk, Forster, Bertrand, Tadic to stay on after fantastic seasons. Interestingly Payet scored 9 goals and got 12 assists last season in 30 starts, Tadic got 7 goals and 12 assists in 27 starts. And Tadic is younger.

You can't sell a player without their consent, if they don't want to go then they don't sign a new contract. You're possibly thinking of NFL if they trade a player without their consent although I must confess I'm not even sure that's how it works there. Anyway, the long term contracts a lot of players signed will cost a lot of money (think about it - they've potentially signed away any chance of them or their agent getting a signing on bonus for the next 5/6 years, they'd only do so for a lot of money here and now or through wages). Also I don't think we're going to spend everything we bring in, i.e if we have £50million we'll spend that much. We'll probably keep a good chunk of our incomings as a reserve in case things go tits up, or we could even be saving up for some big investment like ground redevelopment instead of taking out a loan to do it.