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United to win and more than 4 goals in the match seems like free money. A win would be the biggest surprise since Martina's wonderful wondergoal against Arsenal in the 4-0 drubbing.

I will vote at the end of January. If he's sacked the manager, appointed a good manager in his place, and signed 3 or 4 good players to give us a fighting chance in the league, he can stay; otherwise... out.

Flog Bertrand for big money, Forster, Long and Davis too while they still have some value. Gardos can **** off, loan out Bednarek and McQueen. Sack Pellegrino. Appoint Rodgers. Sign Tierney to replace Bertrand, Armstrong to replace Davis and Dembele to replace Long, even if it costs us a ton of cash. Celtic always bow down to us anyway. Also bring in Lascelles (to replace VVD) and Ziyech, with an attacking winger type like Cyprien brought in for the X Factor. Forster can be replaced by Butland. Perfect fantasy window. I can dream...

None of these up and coming managers fills me with confidence, this is not the job currently for someone to try their hand at the big league. We are looking over our shoulder at the relegation zone, with a squad full of decent players but with big egos. We need an experienced manager, preferably a big name or someone respected, maybe even someone with Premier League experience, that can whip this team into shape. My first choice is Rodgers. He can coach, he's been at big clubs, and he's turned Celtic into a strong team. I just think he fits. The question with him would be getting him... I think he'd be reluctant to leave Celtic. After that it gets tougher, I would have Koeman back but be wouldn't be a popular choice. After that it's slim pickings. Personally I think we'll have Pellegrino longer than we all think, and that worries me.

This. Just found out about it as been asleep since finishing work at 3. In the summer I said I'd sell to anyone if we got £70 million plus, as it shows we won't be bullied. We've got more than we wanted. Liverpool have paid a premium to get a player that's rarely had a good game in a year, and I'm pleased. Yes it smacks of Alan Shearer/record transfer syndrome, but we do need to invest in the team and this will help. Of course I'd have preferred it weren't to Liverpool but at least they put their money where their mouth is. Virgil throwing his toys out the pram in the summer is everything that's wrong with the game, but we made an admirable stand in the summer and kept him. Was it the wrong decision? Had we got £50 or so million this January then perhaps, but to get such a huge amount of money shows our stand was justified. Liverpool Football Club acted terribly in the summer and were found out, and Virgil acted terribly. They deserve each other, and as good as he can be on his day, I'd say we've been suitably compensated, even after Celtic get their share. Now invest the whole bloody lot and sort the team out! (Starting with the manager!) As for Virgil, I hope he has another brush with Vardy...

"I didn't see the incident, I'm not sure how Harry Kane got a broken nose because I didn't see it. I saw the blood, I saw the red card the referee gave Wesley, but I didn't see the incident." "He is class, he gives us dimensions - he showed his talent by scoring a hattrick today. It's unfortunate we conceded six goals at the other end, but a great hattrick for Nathan." "We have good defenders in this squad. That's why I started with 8." He won't say one of these...

As my mate is a Fulham fan we've gone for 4 seats in neutral p2. Still loads left. I take it colours aren't allowed in there?

What worries me most about MP is he doesn't seemingly know what our best formation is nor what our best starting line up is. Rotation is fine if you have the squad, but as soon as a player starts playing well (Austin/Hojbjerg/Boufal in recent weeks) he's dropped. We're looking worryingly over our shoulder and with a squad like ours, we shouldn't be doing that. 4 wins from 18 games and out of the League Cup against a reserve team from the league below us - not great is it. New manager IN please. No disrespect to Pellegrino, but this squad needs a big kick up the arse, and the jolt of a new manager would sort that. None of this Potter/Wilder stuff either, we need a manager that the likes of VVD and co can look up to, a name in the game. (Yes, I believe the problem lies 'above' the manager, but Reed/the board aren't going anywhere so Pellegrino needs to.)

Almost every time you do a team, it's the team I'd come up with, so it saves me a job! It's hard to tell with Pellegrino in charge, I don't think he knows what his best team is, but I think that line up gives creativity and solidity.

One of the KUMB posters thinks that the Director of Football that Sullivan thinks very highly of is Les Reed, which sort of fits. Sullivan and his son are embarrassing though, KUMB posters are spitting blood over those comments...

My Fulham mate and I are already arranging it!

I was chatting results with a mate today because he wanted to put a bet on. So far I've got 6 of the 7 results correct today. Am I gutted I didn't put a bet on? You betcha. I had Arsenal vs United down as a draw too...

This is the first World Cup I've had off in years... unfortunately if the due date is correct, I'll have a screaming 2 week old baby (our first) to take care of by England's first game.

5 more points puts us on 21 points after 21 games, a point per game average over the season gets us to that 38 point mark. However I do think we'll fare better against the "lesser" teams as the season progresses and we click more, and that 38 point mark becomes less of a worry. 5 points is very achievable in the 7 games this month and we should do better, but the games against Bournemouth, Leicester and Huddersfield need to be the priorities for points - anything we get from the rest is just a bonus.

Now let's hope we stick with it, at least against the big clubs, it's shown it can be effective.That was gutting but at least we didn't get battered - and I bet a few City fans were worried when we pulled it back to 1-1. (Off to look at Bluemoon...)Anyone know how bad the Cedric injury was?

Ooh I was close with my line up prediction! I'm pleased we're finally using 3 at the back - with the personnel we have, especially at centre back and with attacking full backs, this is the formation I think we should be using. My issue is that we're using it against City. Chances are we'll lose (as we did against Wolves) and the formation will be disregarded again. Still, I'm glad we have pace up top, the only issue with the line up is that Cedric and Ryan's job will be to whip crosses in, but we have no big man on the end of them. I'm hoping Shane has had positioning lessons from Chaz. I think we'll lose, but it'll be good to play well and get a goal against these...or two!

I liken the outcome of this game to the first appearance of Hypno-disc in Robot Wars series 3, when he tore Robogeddon a new arsehole. We could very well get battered. However Huddersfield showed that it's possible to stop them playing to their strengths and, even though they ground out a win on Sunday, that they are in fact fallible. My hope for this game is that we can annoy City and stop them playing. A draw would be a great result though. I would go with what seems like the minority, have Austin on the bench so he's fresh for the Bournemouth game, and play Long up front. Well it's unlikely we'll have much of the ball, so a pacy, annoying player could work. It won't be popular but my team would be: Forster, Cedric, VVD, Hoedt, Bertrand, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Lemina, Tadic, Redmond, Long. Solidity and pace is what I'm going for there! It won't be, but then I'm not the manager. I'd take a draw but I can see City winning this. Keeping the score down will be key. 3-1 City.

Between 8 and 10, although if we play as we have up to the Everton game, it could well be fewer, however if we play like yesterday it could be more. I'd like at least one 'scalp' in that lot, and not letting Watford do the double over us.

I saw 25 minutes of the first half, and the last 25 of the second half, as I was travelling to work in the middle. Ergo I missed the Everton goal (although I was listening to 5live in the car so I heard it) and both Chaz's goals. Still from what I saw it looked like we were playing some decent football, controlled but more importantly incisive stuff, and most of the players were having good games. From what I saw, I agree with the sentiment that Hojbjerg was having a good game, but there were a couple of times I saw where he lost possession that could have cost us, in the first in the build up to Tadic's goal, although he instantly put that right with a great pass to Boufal (I think it was) and once in the second half when he attempted a poor backpass but it bounced off an Everton player for a throw. (Show's their luck really.) I'll put this down as rustiness because he's been used sparingly. If he can get a run of games, he could easily be first choice. Having been at Bayern he seems to have good pedigree (akin to Romeu with Barcelona or Lemina with Juventus) and after that performance he deserves to keep his place. Tadic took his goal well, something he's been lacking as an attacking midfielder, and Boufal and JWP seemed to have good games. Bertrand and Cedric showed good attacking prowess - even though we won today, how we've not tried playing 3-5-2 apart from a poor cup game against Wolves when the season was as old as a baby sucking a tit I'll never know, with the players we have, the abundance of decent centre backs and attacking full backs, not to mention the potential to have Austin and Gabbiadini up front, it makes a lot of sense to me. Still I don't get paid millions to make that decision. My MOTM though is for Austin - a whisper away from a goal in the first half (which maybe he could have done better on, but he made up for it later) and he could have had a hattrick. All in all a decent win for a change. City now becomes a free hit, and then we go balls out for Bournemouth. Perform like today and there's no reason why we can't win.

Great goal Davis!!!

Is the season still going? FFS. I foresee this being one of our "anomaly" games, where completely against the run of form we pull an excellent win out of the bag... and then I wake up and it's 0-0 or worse. Any kind of win would paper over some serious cracks though. Up to 16 points would see us somewhere back in mid-table and Pellegrino would be keeping his job for another month. If people want Pellegrino out then a loss would at least have some kid of silver lining attached to it. Surely the powers that be can't keep him on after a loss from a poor Everton side... can they...?!? Personally I'm going for a 0-0. I still wish we'd try with 3 at the back though. With the players we have we're perfectly suited to it.

He's a cracking player Dusan. A real game changer. He's got a sharp eye for goal and is key to our attacking force this season. I wouldn't let him for any less than £30 million. Whoever wrote that article can't have seen many Saints games lately.

Out. I'm usually supportive of the manager but it's obvious he's out of his depth. We're a top 10 side with decent players sliding towards the relegation zone. We need a jolt, someone that will kick the players up the arse.

Need somebody with pedigree, someone respected, a good tactician, someone that can attract good signings, and someone the media like. I think Mancini would fit that but we wouldn't get him. The more I think about it the more I think we should bring Koeman back. Personally, and I said it in the summer, but I think Rodgers would be a decent fit, but I can't see him coming to us mid-season. I look at Allardyce, and as much as I think he'd be a short term appointment only, the more attractive a proposition I think he'd be for a top ten club that are sliding towards relegation... I feel dirty saying that... Get rid of Pellegrino now. He's had a bash and failed, he's wasted our easier fixtures with some poor football. He doesn't even know what our best team or formation is. With centre backs like ours, we should be playing 3 at the back.

According to recent comments by Brum manager Cotterill, he doesn't fancy Gallagher up top, preferring to play him out wide. Quote at the bottom of this article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41821683. Get him back in January if there's a break clause I say.