Barry the Badger

If Davis got 7 or 8 goals a season he wouldn't be playing for us for very long.

It's relevant to the running of the club but utterly irrelevant to this conversation

He's just that mix of being very reliable and about the perfect level for them without ever quite being good enough to attract a Champs Lg club. Don't imagine he wouldn't have been off if they'd ever come in for him, just like any player.

I vote we wait until he makes a mistake then start singing "Charlie Austin's red and white" as loud as we possibly can.

Yet

The thing I miss is feeling any kind of connection with most of the players, even when we were on the way up and the players were earning lots of money, they seemed like real people, and many of them had been with us for a long time and didn't seem to be going anywhere. Once you get to the level we are now the money is so unbelievable it's hard to identify with the players or feel like we're all in it together, plus the good ones generally only stay for 2 years max.

and he still got us our best ever finish in the Premier League at that time, impressive.

Fair play to the club, away travel is bloody expensive. Hopefully this will lead other clubs to follow suit.

Because we are the only club in the premier league who has consistently punched above our weight for 3-4 years

Dear god, the comments on that article are meltdown-tastic

This is so funny, you guys

It always amazes me how surprised people are when these people decide to leave. You don't become one of the best defenders in the world by being anything other than ruthlessly ambitious.

This is making me quite angry. Is somebody paying off England managers to do mental things when tournament time comes around?

Great argument bro

Oh well, come on you Red Devils (shudder)

But if we can somehow get 6th we could all support palace in the cup final, which would make me feel less dirty.

Basically, everybody forget about Liverpool winning the EL, it appears to make no difference whatsoever.

He tried to schlong it and failed

Really? I didn't get that sense at all, it seemed quite balanced to me.

This stuff does more often than not turn out to be correct. Not massively surprised if Tadic is unhappy.

He improved a number of our players immeasurably. They may have become internationals later but Fonte, Schneiderlin, Lambert, Lallana all improved rapidly under Adkins. He took over a team which had picked up four points from their first five games and were all over the place. He then won more points than any other team from that point on.

I think he's probably just a bit of a sensitive miserable git.

This. We can't get prissy about him wanting to beat us.

I must have imagined him losing his man for their goal. Good yes, wonder performance no.

Will have to agree to disagree, not a pen for me.