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I was watching our Cup win at WBA via stream. Around about the 70th and 80th minutes the camera focused on MP (from behind). Couldn't hear what he was saying but he was out in his technical area clearly agitated and pointing back into our own half, to me he was indicating we should be dropping back and sit on our lead. Both times Cedric was the nearest player to him. Within a minute or so of each, Cedric first when on an attacking run to the corner flag and the second time a diagonal run that left him in the centre forward position before the move broke down. Can't say for sure he was defying orders but it sure looked that way to me.

Never actually witnessed anything myself but remember an air of "menace" in the coach park both before and after the game. A few months later at the Charity Shield game weren't we responsible for Wembley introducing a roof over the tunnel for all future games after some rather "unsportsmanlike" behaviour as the Liverpool players left the pitch with their trophy?

My stream has just gone down.....thank heavens for small mercies.

I get the impression MP is telling players to sit back and they - Cedric in particular - are pointedly ignoring him.

1) Our kits are nice this season. 2) ummmm.....

Agree with above 2 posts, at a time when we are desperate for some on pitch leadership we seem to have a squad full of introverts playing (personality, not tactically) in their own little bubble. I agree, Yoshida is probably the only one who springs to mind that cares enough to instill some fight in those around him. He should be first choice for the rest of the season - who he replaces, you may as well toss a coin.

Plenty of managers have "lost the dressing room" but has there ever been a case of a team getting together and collectively ignoring a manager's instructions once out on the pitch? I am coming to the conclusion that that approach by the players is our only hope,of survival.

And a thank you from me as well. 100% improvement on both the standard web version and Tapatalk. We can't be the only 3 unaware of that setting, someone make this info a sticky.

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Should be a simple HT talk. "Right lads, all I want you to do is go out there for 45 minutes and forget everything I've ever told you so far this season."

The one thing you are forgetting to take into account is that transfers - in and out - are usually spread over 3 to 5 years. So your £47m profit over 2 seasons probably relates to something like £9-12m per year. And most of that would have been wiped out if the Promes signing had gone through. Then again we would probably still be receiving - and making - payments from the previous 2 or 3 seasons as well in that period. Impossible to say for sure without seeing the full accounts but one thing IS for sure - no-one, not even an owner, can simply "pocket" £1 , let alone £50m , from a limited company without it appearing in the audited accounts somewhere.

So you could have used exactly the same set of figures to show us a) 6th in money spent this window. b) 2nd in money received this window but you chose c) 20th in the net spend this window. I think we all know which direction your "spin" spins

So we're 6th highest spenders this window then (so far). I guess that's not the point you were trying to make though.

Why? He was Plan B. We still thought Walcott was coming back then.

No way was that Mick Channon ....... 3 whole minutes and he never swore once

Nah, he failed as he was left up front on his own whilst the rest of his crew were held back in defence. None were able to make the killer pass and slide the matches through to him as he was isolated whilst surrounded by 4 of the opposition. If the plotters had played a 4-4-2 system the world would be a different place today.

How many times a day are you visiting this site at the moment? Normally once a day is (more than) enough, but currently I must be revisiting it hourly in expectation of seeing a new sticky entitled "X signs 5 year deal" or "Y comes on loan for rest of season". They say it's the hope that kills you.

1) Back in the summer did you Sell a substantial spread on number of goals we'd score during the season? 2) How furious were you that we'd already scored 2 by half time on Saturday? 3) Are you aware that the phrase "What goes up must come down" only relates to gravity. It is not an excuse for a crap season.

Pub Quiz question for the future: "Who were the only club ever to be relegated from the PL due to a typo?"

Redknapp. Whatever the problem I'll always blame Redknapp.

Great player for us, had a brilliant understanding with Wayne Bridge. CMFG would receive the ball and pass it on to WB without looking up, he always seemed to know where he'd be. The fabled Black Box worked wonders in those days unearthing unknown talents. Oh wait, it hadn't even been invented back then.

No, it doesn't. If you by a car on finance you pay a deposit "up-front" and the rest as staged payments. One lump sum would be described as "outright". The whole phrase "up front" indicates it's the first, initial, front (however you want to describe it) payment with more to come .

Think you are showing a misunderstanding of what "up-front" means. In VvD case we agreed - I think - £70m "up front" (i.e a guaranteed sum whatever happens) with a further £5m dependent on certain things (appearances, CL qualification etc) The £70m will be paid in 3 stages of £23.3 million, with an "initial" ( NOT up front) payment being paid now and the rest in 12 and 24 months time. The £5m as and when the dependent circumstances arise. Staged payments are the norm in transfers. It's also how we pay for players when we buy them so if, for example we wanted to buy 1x£75m player today (yeah, right) or 3x£25m players, it shouldn't affect our buying ability in any way. No lies. nothing unusual, move along please.

What would damage his reputation more - getting one appointment wrong (and dealing with it in a timely manner), or getting us relegated.? If I was LR I know which one I'd be more concerned about.