benjii

Suspension for Stephens is good news

Decent effort but our defensive weak links are leaving us exposed. The writing has been on the wall all season with the constant shipping of soft goals.

Would prefer to see Boufal or Redmond in the Tadic role but hopefully we can at least be difficult to beat. Nice to see our record signing isn't good enough for the bench. Good one, Les/Ross/MoPe.

Sales look fine to me. All gone apart from the top tier and that is down to "orange" in a lot of the blocks. There will be a surge when non-members are eligible.

I'd have both but not in a noddy 442. Have Long running down the right channel of a front three, Austin in the middle and Boufal or Sims on the left. Romeu, Lemina and JWP in midfield.

Yoshida!

Russel Howard has seemed like an absolute c-unt whenever I have had the misfortune to see him on the TV.

You're right. We need to commence "operation rule out every country apart from Russia", and quick-smart too. Let's divvy it up. I'll take French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Oz, NZ and, to mix things up a bit, Burundi. You start on South America.

I don't think anyone says she expected nothing in return. I think everyone expected her to sell at some point. She did write off £33m of loans and could have taken more out if she wanted. She's not some Saint but she wasn't taking huge amounts out.

Johnson got his words wrong. It's not a big conspiracy. He knows it was the Russians. Part of that knowledge is due to the Porton Down evidence. He said he knew because of the Porton Down evidence. That's a mistake, not a great big lie.

"completely untrue" - why do you persist with this silly hyperbole? You say cui bono is relevant to identifying suspects then you wonder why Russia was quickly identified as a suspect in the attempted murder of a former Russian double agent.

Poor article. Schneiderlin was signed before Reed had any association with the club and the academy players mentioned cannot be credited to him either.

May have the added benefit of Swansea being safe. Perhaps. Might be good. Maybe.

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Don't forget that these results are for the season ending under Puel. I suspect the gap with Spurs is bigger now and Everton will have overtaken our wage bill. Still, though, it does show that relegation will cause serious problems if we can't shift players and don't come back up.

Basically corroborates what I said the other day. Whilst semantically Johnson may have been wrong, the info from Porton Down - "it is Novichok" - plus the other intelligence the government is privy to left them in no doubt at all. And apparently we have convinced 25 other countries sufficiently as well.

Yes, exactly.

Way over the top. He can't mark in the box so will always cost us goals.

Are you mental?

McCarthy Cedric Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand Romeu Lemina JWP Long Austin Boufal

That's why we need Yohsida back.

Socotra island looks amazing too. Did you go there?

Yep, I agree with most of that. Going Burnley isn't the answer. We need to play a similar shape to what the players are used to, get someone playing with a bit of confidence in the 10 role, up the intensity off the ball and make the most of Austin's current fitness.