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Marca describing Gazza as a wall after yesterday's heroics he single-handedly got the win for Rayo after doing 5-6 worldy saves apparently, their forum loves him, seems like a Kelvin Davis v Leeds effort yesterday. http://www.marca.com/futbol/segunda-division/2017/04/17/58f49885268e3e8d4e8b45f1.html

Unlike Tadic at least Boufal tracks back and tries to win the ball back a lot.

He has too. Him coming to us was a proof of concept that he is good enough in this league, he has exceeded that and is now the finished article. There are not many world class CBs available so think the price will be closer to 60m if he goes and I expect him to go to a mega club (replace Pepe if Varane goes to Man U).

Calling Dubai Phil to this thread for golf talk

Didnt watch Bournemouth game, hope we are not as bad as that game.

Take Davis's name out of the discussion and imagine the sort of return (goals/assists) you would expect from a player who has played a large majority of his career in the AM/CM position. Based on that Davis is not giving us the return I would expect in that position but based on value (cost/wage) he is currently above his value in my opinion. A hard working, assist making, goal scoring CM/AM is an expensive position to fill, it will be interesting to see what the club do.

Interesting info assuming they mean our soares ?

Boufal can go past his man and has more pace, Tadic can stand his man up and passes forward better

Called it

Need Boufal on for JWP

Get in

hahahahahahahahaha I am a ****

I am aware it is too early in this game but Tadic has been average for most of Jan/Feb, I presume the thinking is he feeds Gabbi better than the others

JWP losing the ball more than hairline at the moment

yeah go 9th or 8th think we will crack on now we have the killer up front

Van Basten when he was at Ajax

Not read the thread but i assume his injury is chocolate wrists or a mishappen kicking foot

yeah agree with this, not been his biggest fan but looks like he has adopted the beckham role out right and is there to purely ping crosses in for the others to feed off. Would like to see redmond (or tadic) and boufal and gabbi though against Watford to see what they can do.

Jose being brilliant and honest in his post match interview. Zlatan won that game not Man U. Also how did Phil Neville get a transfer from BBC to Sky Sports ....... looks like nepotism

Thought we played really really well. Gabbi is a star I just don't know whats happening with fraser doing punches when he should catch, poor kicked, given Zlatan 2/3rds of the goal to aim at and doesnt semm to be any sort of shot stopper anymore. Ce La Vie. Proud of our team today warts and all. Really think now we will only play once a week we will move up the table rapidly to challenge for europe again.

Can't hate Cortese. Got sacked for wanting to be in total control and spend more of someone elses money on us.

Ok cheers, win or bust then

Simple question. If we win we are in Europa next year ? If we lose and Man U get Champions League position do we go to Europe in their place or does it go to the next place on the table?

I think claude will just assess quickly where Martin is in terms of fitness and sharpness, if he is getting there he will spend most of the training camp get back into playing and then drilling defending back in the UK but a guy who is good enough for barca and juve should be able to pick up our style very quickly. He seems of lean build so probably has good endurance so maybe match sharpness is what he needs to work on over the next week.

Its a good job jose isn't hee anymore he couldn't big time charlie it about his european win with Martin around. More major medals than JWP has goals.