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That Villa yippee ieee eye song is one of the most annoying in football

I never said he was Benitez is clearly a far better manager who has achieved more. All your lauding about how great he is does is highlight what a crap job he did at Everton. Something you put down to being without key players. Yet when it’s pointed out the circumstances Puel had to work on you point to goals stats, claim when key players were missing “he must had been playing with ten” bang it n about how a previous manager improved players who had left by the time he joined and say he’s been a flop throughout his career and sacked because he was crap Your application of logic is completely inconsistent

So Benitez must have been playing with 9 when they were out, right?

Which he failed at despite being a “champions league winning legend of the game”. You seem to have a bit of a hardon for Benitez it’s weird.

Surely that just highlights what a poor job he did at Everton taking them to a relegation battle and what a good job Puel did taking a team shorn of its two leading goal scorers and two best centre halves to eighth and a cup final

Interesting. When you were praising Benitez being “impressed by the job he was doing” you put the poor performances and results down to being without some of his better players. But when it’s Puel he “must have been playing with 10” when his best players were missing and was crap that’s why he was sacked Both were sacked. One was doing an impressive job without their better players. The other was just crap that’s why he was sacked great logic

So you agree then Koeman had far better players than Puel. Well done. as for your point on Austin he only played 15 games in boring old Claudes incoherent negative system yet someone managed to score 6, not a million miles off his 18 in a season ratio. Yet again your stats don’t give you the full story

Laughable what utter nonsense, it’s simple which players would you have in your team as a front 3? Pelle, Mane, Tadic or Redmond, Austin, Boufal

Because Koemans were replaced with better players. Puels werent

Mane and Pelle contributed 22 of the 59 league goals we scored the previous season. Also their replacements were a significant downgrade. Austin spent most of the season injured and when Gabbiadini arrived in January he was on fire before getting injured. It’s no wonder we scored less goals, but still must all be Puels fault

I just simply don’t think he was as bad as some make out. When the stat lovers point to how few goals we scored they never mention that Mane, Pelle our two leading scorers from the previous season had been sold and Austin spent a good part of the season injured. He also is the only a manager to get a tune out of Gabbiadini, yet again he then got injured just when it looked like he might be quite a signing. that’s what happens when you look at a spreadsheet rather than knowing the details. They also never mention that Van Dijk and Fonte missed half the season with injury and in the case of Fonte being sold and not replaced. Factor in Wanyama was sold, useless Boring Claude got us to 8th and a cup final without five of the best players Koeman had for at least half a season along with a far more congested fixture list due to European league and league cup run. It meant we wouldn’t be able to play a high energy attacking football every week.

Maybe if you’d been to a few away games you might have a different view. We got knocked out of Europe under Koeman as well, the game away at Mitjiaad or however it’s spelt was one of the worst and most boring performances I can remember, but Koeman is a hero and Puel is the devil because we got knocked out. Your point about us losing to Man United is laughable, everyone knows how well we played, but then I guess that defeat of your world was down to useless, boring old Claude as well.

To be fair that’s quite a loss for them, much better player than those two. Now if De Bruyne, Silva, Jesus, Foden, Grealish and a couple of others can get a knock or two as well that would be great. Just for that weekend mind, need them to make sure Liverpool don’t win anything

I guess he couldn't say himself

Heart attack they are saying?

52, bloody hell. I met him when he was playing for Hampshire, top bloke. Has he been ill?

If history is anything to go by we will give them a great game, run them close and be plucky losers. Get lots of plaudits for how well we played but end up with nothing.

It really wasn't. There were good games and bad games, people only remember the last 6 or 7 homes games of the season. I dont remember too many complaints about soporific football when we were beating Inter, Liverpool and Arsenal and played Man United off the park at Wembley.

Yes, for a number of reason not least of all that he was replaced by Pellegrino and Hughes, The three sackings would have cost us millions in pay offs, Puel would have done a lot better than those two. Plus on paper Puels season was one of the best we've ever had. Puel had to rebuild a team and fans didn't like him from the start because he wasn't the big name they demanded and he didn't have any onliners for interviews.

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Dutch produce some quality players as well. Be decent to have links with clubs there and Croatia.

Nothing particularly new or interesting, main things i thought were below The agency Salisu is with has changed ownership so cannot enter negotiating, that's now done. Not know if Salisu wants to extend at the moment. Target this season to finish top half. European football an aim if achieved and a good summer transfer window Always looking at potential replacements for Ralph Unlikely Broja will go on loan again so working out the next step with Chelsea. Could mean staying at chelsea or moving.

WTF are you on about now? How have I give him support? I "liked" his post, because yet again you've turned another thread into a race issue with a chance for you to show how much you care about it. That's odd sunshine. You're obsessed mate, i still laugh at how you made yourself look a total whopper when by me sticking up for another poster as being a decent source of information on here when he posted about the takeover (which turned out to be correct) you got all twatty trying to claim i had arrogantly given him my seal of approval. You really are a very strange individual.

Middlesboro would have to beat Man United, Spurs, Liverpool and likely at least one of Chelsea or Man City to win it, the current best 4 teams in the country which includes the world and european champions. Damn that agenda against us the whole footballing world has.