S-Clarke

Still young in GK terms, and still young to this league. He has all the natural attributes there.

I remember De Gea when he first joined Utd. Young goal keeper, failed to command the area, let in some clangers...but they let him mature, they allowed him to develop, and he turned into a top class keeper. This is the lesson we should take from that.

lol @ lovren. what a total mess of a player he is. To russia with love In January I think.

How the hell was that allowed to stand? Funny, but for a game at this level, absoutley diabolical officiating. Doesn't give you much confidence in the other games!

Lovren should be a good laugh.

Fee's mean zilch, absolutely nothing these days. Not sure why people focus on them. Mane has talent, but is the typical eratic player that those type of players are. People cry out for ''pacy wide men'', and this is a pacy wide man. Erratic, inconsistent, frustrating, but still a potential threat. If people want more of a consistent wide man, then have a look in Barca's, Madrids and Bayerns squads - that's where those types are! Long wasn't bought soly for goals, it was all the other aspects of his game which create movement in and around the front 3 - he brings a work rate and a nuisance with his game that will add to us. Not the most refined player, not a natural goal scorer, but still a good attacking option.

He didn't bring on Mayuka yesterday though, and started with Hasketh and subbed him with JWP. Mayuka will vanish down the list once we have players back from injury.

He's not against anyone, he's just generally ****.

Knee injury by the looks of it, he's having a scan today and they'll know more (so Koeman said). Doesn't look good for a player who has shown promise. Must be a horrible feeling, feeling like you're on top for the world -you've made it, only to then get a nasty injury which potentially puts you back to square one - if not further away. The reality is that it's a ruthless league, we may have been looking at Hasketh to provide us competition with Mane away on AFCON - but if he's injured for a while, we will need to buy, and his position in the squad will be pushed back further.

Ignore him. Poor WUM trying to lap it up as we're losing games.

I think you need to watch the goal back again, and explain just what exactly, in the name of physics and movement, how he was able to magically change the course of his body to meet the deflection within a milisecond? Unfortunately he's not magic.

If we pay £10-15m for a player with only 6 months left on a deal, then someone at the club needs to be taken to the itchen bridge and shot. That would be pure desperation

To even mutter the words Koeman and job security together is a disgrace. Have a word with yourself.

When we attack and it works well, we create a front 3. Not sure how you've missed that during the start of this season.

To be honest, apart from Spurs, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal etc....no one can really boast amazing depth. Take a couple of good attacking players away from us, villa, newcastle, everton, Swansea...and we look weaker. We're not amoungst the weakest, quite a silly thing to say really, we're just one of the rest.

We don't play a lone striker. We play Pelle as a focal point, with 2 players coming in from the flanks to join to make a front 3 - the full backs them bomb on to supply the width. What is defensive about that?

Just like when Shaw went and we failed to replace him with anyone decent, oh and Lovren, and Lallana, oh and Lambert. Stop with the silly posts.

Pelle is alright at the moment, working hard, but the supply into him is nothing short of horrific. So he's got nothing to work with, he's having to do it all by himself and he's not quite a player of that level to do that.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic with the board cocked up line? We sold our entire spine, and they managed to replace them all and put us a decent position. They didn't cock anything up. If you honestly thought at the start of the season that it was all about maintaining last seasons success, then show me the post. No one expected this start, not one person. Anywhere. So no one cocked up any summer signings.

Sorry, how could he have saved it? He was set to go in the direction of the flight of the ball, until it takes a wicked deflection at the last milisecond which alters the course totally. He was already set, and couldn't change that. Please can people stop blaming every goal on the GK, it's quite boring to read.

I don't think we ever really looked totally comfortable, we never had control of the game or dominated it for any real spells. Neither side did really. It was a disjointed mess from the 1st minute to the last, and it was always going to be hard to get up any head of steam playing that way.

Tadic kills our attack these days, just kills it dead. No idea what's up with him.

That was an absolute mess. No more to say.

A couple of ok moments, but generally a bit of a mess.

Well that will get some people moaning, I guess. Start for Hesketh, but at the expense of Long - not mane. Great to see Toby back. Full strength back 5.