Guan 2.0

I hope Ings bangs in 20 a year for us, but your statement is damning. Fit for a year, but Klopp didn't want to play him and sold him at the first opportunity, and he has only scored 3 in three seasons.

No one can say the club isn't funny . Agreeing to pay 20 million pounds for a player who has had 4 long term injuries, and scored 3 times in 3 seasons. Oh, and Liverpool only paid £6.5 million for (Ings didn't make enough appearances to trigger the further 1.5 million bonus payment, shockingly.) Our glorious leadership think the above adds up to an increase of 14 million pounds in his value. I wonder if our negotiating team pulls their pants down before meeting with the opposition, or figures it's more fun to let them do it.

How much did Liverpool buy him for in the first place? I can only presume £25 million, and his injury-hit time there (earning little playing time), has deprecated his value by 5 million. Otherwise i can only imagine a talantless arse would negotiate upwards from what Liverpool had paid for him....

I may have mentioned it once or twice in passing, but he was unfit to manage at this level. Anybody who for some reason feels sorry for him, should remember that he was paid millions to produce garbage football on a weekly basis, bulls#it his way out of any responsibility for improving it, and then repeat the same mistakes a week later. Apparently that makes him 'nice' and 'honourable'.

Does anybody have match highlights? No MOTD coverage for this one : (

Some of the best reactions i've seen so far. Sometimes football rewards you. Today was one of those days. Also, I hope Huddersfield stay up now.

Not over yet. Regroup at half time, make some tactical changes and the game is there for the taking. C'mon Saints!

Except that this piece is from 2013 concerning actions from 2012. I take your point that this Government today has double standards, but in this particular case it is a different Leader, business Secretary, Coalition, etc. I mean, look at who was being questioned over waving the deal through. Vince cable, now a leader of an irrelevant party, who manages to win as much airtime as he wins votes.

Five Pledges never revealed, and a vast ocean of promises left unfulfilled.

Having a system in place, and then ignoring the vital functions of that system, and bending/breaking every rule which made it successful. When faced with the reality that Pellegrino was a disaster, we tried to imagineer a mindscape that PR equals points. Turns out, blue sky thinking can't alter the league table. Disastrous on all fronts really.

Alfie Jones starts for the u-23s, while will wood is on the bench. It would appear they are out of contention for tomorrow.

To get some of the English talent we would have had to pay the English premium. Which we could only afford by horse trading with our continental success stories. Catch 22.

Encouraging. Keep the spirit and improve the defensive aspects, and we may have a chance against Chelsea. Optimistic right now.

Yes. Been calling for this for a while. McQueen has a knock anyway, let Jones come in and keep Bertrand on the wing. Win Games. Stay up. Let Reed go. Then rebuild : )

Good to see you join me in the straw clutching movement. Welcome brother!

Come on Arsenal!

I think we will win 4-0. Feeling positive about this one.

He carried so much dignity as he bluffed his way through a season where he was utterly hapless at best, and took his multi million severance like a true gentleman. Truly, we shall never see his like again. Hopefully. Goodnight, sweet Prince.

Were there many interesting possibilities? And did he confirm a draw is just like a win?

For those bemoaning the choice of manager: The club aren't going to sack Hughes. Just be glad Pellegrino is gone, at least now we have a chance of staying up. For those who think that a short term contract will have an adverse effect on the team: If that was the case, Pellegrino's brand of stale Dogsh1t football wouldn't have taken hold. Hughes wouldn't have been my choice in ideal circumstances, but he has kept Stoke as a mid table team for a number of years. These aren't ideal circumstances, so Hughes has my backing for the rest of the season. Onwards and upwards.

On Sunday I was told they were considering Kelvin and Radhi Jaidi until after the expected loss at Wigan (pessimistic but practical). But It appears that that line o thinking may have changed. We'll find out for sure when Ralph gets back on Wednesday.

Had heard this was incoming yesterday. But i would be lying if i said that each passing hour without word hadn't raised doubts that minds had been changed or delays had been sought. Celebrated the official announcement like we had scored. Hopefully soon all Pellegrino will be is a bad memory, or a punchline. Onwards and upwards. P.S. Finally Pellegrino is trending, lol.

Indeed. Replace him now, and enthuse the fans, give the team a fighting chance and get everybody working together with fresh ideas and confidence. We have some games we can actually win (imo) under a different manager West Ham (a) Swansea (a) Bournemouth (h) Everton (a) 3 we will be lucky to get a point from Chelsea (h) Arsenal (a) Leicester (a) And 1 annihilation to celebrate winning the league. Man City (h) If we change up now, we can get the 3 wins and a draw we need. If!