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He looked like an absolute unit.

Impossible to read anything into that really, awful game. Fonte played well though.

If it was actually possible, we're worse in this 2nd half so far.

At least the adverts are more interesting.

Arsenal is a great fit for him. Don't see it being that big a jump for him to take, more than capable.

Just looks so disjointed, everyone shoe-horned into unnatural positions. He's somehow making Vardy and Kane totally ineffective. The game breaks down when the ball gets anywhere near Rooney.

No they couldn't. Everton are a sleeping giant, just like Villa, Leeds, Wednesd..oh

There's a massive thread just above this all about that. Another good OP.

Paco Jamez @ Rayo is very talented. Villas-Boas wasn't given a fair crack in this country, I like him. The former Chile manager whose name escapes me... Frank De Boer, Thomas Tuchel (unlikely though!)

Given that he's just about to take over Bayern Munich, that's not going to happen. Not that it would anyway.

Apparently (according to the also rans) their squad is already better than ours, they don't need to buy to improve it. That's why it's so exciting if he's given so much money, apparently. I'll ignore the likes of Joel Robels, Baines, Hibbert, Osman, Gibson, Naise, Kone, Jagielka, Barry, Oviedo then.

Sky bet to get loads'a money.

If you look at how Ronald has acted throughout his entire career, taking into account his playing days and his stints at the dutch clubs as manager - he's always true to his word, that's why he's admired and respected so much by his former clubs. He's an honorable person and as has been mentioned previously, the only way he's considering Everton is if we've signaled our intention to terminate his contract. Think about it from a career point of view. He's leaving a club he's propelled into Europe, he's got a chance to have a real crack in a European competition, and then next season or the following season the bigger jobs will become avaliable. If he goes to Everton, it will be a season of consolidation. Apart from Stones and Lukaku they don't have a great deal of quality, so he'd be pretty much resetting the last two years of his career and starting again - risking his dream of taking a big job in the future. I also don't think money would make a great deal of difference, he's not that sort of bloke. So the only way this could be remotely true is if we've signaled our intention to terminate his contract/sack him. None of this makes any sense otherwise.

Christ, what have I started? Take A Break guys....

What a bunch of hob-knobs.

The fact that Sky article doesn't back it's self up with ''Sky Sources understand'', then its based on nothing but betting and is a little bit of click bait for them. I would assume that their 'sources' have tried to find out truth in it, but given that there are no real quotes in that article suggests they haven't got anywhere with that.

Chocolate covered Hob-knobs.

Cheers for the concern regarding biscuit-gate. I'm pleased to say that I now have a new supply, meltdown over.

Because Koeman has rejected our contract, his agent is en-route to Everton to discuss terms with them. Wanyama is leaving, so is Mane, the VVD and JWP contracts mean nothing as they have release clauses in them, St Mary's is going to be swept into the sea and I've run out of biscuits.

That's if they even exist by then!

And thank the lord for that....

He does really, he's an expert at WUM'ing, so he knows all the tricks.

I fancy Long to do well, he's playing well at the mo - top of his game. Best time for him to play in a major tournament. Hopefully Fonte gets the nodd as a first choice, but I reckon it'll be Pepe and 1 other. Pelle will probably lead the line for Italy though. Not euro's specific, but has anyone seen how Tadic has been playing for Serbia? He's at the top of his game right now, looks unplayable.

Has he signed yet?

I don't quite understand their tact to be honest, why don't they just keep their cards close to their chest? why blurt out that they're after a £30m striker? Surely all that does is make the entire thing more difficult and more of a charade.