benjii

Well you're just fundamentally wrong on point a), everyone else knows that.

Haha, indeed!

Well, there's literally no point sacking him so it doesn't matter.

He should have thought about that when he signed a new contract. He could have insisted on a release clause or not signed it. Don't begrudge him wanting to leave but do begrudge his unprofessionalisn.

Interesting and sounds encouraging.

The reality of dithering about in the lower bowels of the league has foisted some contrition upon him, it seems. Don't give him too much credit though. He's historically come across as a proper ****.

Koeman would have left this summer anyway so that's bull, I'm afraid.

Ref says you dived = yellow card. Video review panel says you dived = 2 match ban. Impeccable logic there. This is bound to be applied completely inconsistently and cause unnecessary ****-storms.

Some people pay good money to curl one out whilst being rained on.

Cheers Shroppie, I will check them out.

Hello All, Has anyone done this sort of thing recently? I'm thinking of doing something a little different (ie. a holiday which doesn't involve attempting to relax in proximity to a beach) at some point in 2018 and was wondering if anyone had any experience with any of the travel companies that organise charity challenges / "adventure" holidays etc. One thing I have seen which looks quite cool is a cycle ride through Death Valley next November, ending up in Vegas. http://www.globaladventurechallenges.com/international/death-valley-cycle/#cycle Thank you in advance and kind regards benjii

Sounds good to me.

I thought Puel stitched him up a bit last season (although obviously Puel was privy to more information behind the scenes than any of us are). Aside from Romeu I thought he was our best central midfielder when he played and he also scored a couple of really nice goals yet he wasn't given much of a chance in the second half of the season. In a deep two, I'd probably sooner have him than Davis or Hojbjerg, based on what I've seen so far. That said, we still need to be looking to sign a couple of midfielders to improve the first eleven in my opinion.

Yeah, some of those long range goals - Coventry away, Villa away, Blackburn away, Liverpool at home - are incredible. Just look up and place it in the corner with power. None of the modern day "smash it and hope it wobbles" crap.

We don't want him using his annual goal up yet.

Exactly.

Personnel in midfield is still an issue. Austin and Gabbi centrally is a luxury. We miss Redmond.

Just watching a recording of Sky's "PL 100 Club" featuring MLT. That 93/94 period. **** me. I feel privileged to have been at most of those matches.

Agree completely. Unfortunately when a large segment of your audience are borish simpletons you will sometimes be treated badly.

Liverpool is the only city I've been to (in this country, anyway) where virtually every taxi driver has tried to sell me a trip to a brothel. Strange place.

Well they can't have a Virgil but they can have a vigil if they feel that hard done by. As long as it's not with tax-payers' money.

As I said, as soon as we complained, "we will look like idiots when we sell him to them anyway". Hope Monk is wrong.

We don't need to sign lots if no one leaves but if we don't sign another decent central midfielder who can tackle and win second balls then we will be doing to midfield what we did to strikers last season (ie. leave ourselves exposed to one injury - Romeu this year, Austin last - leaving us dysfunctional).

Yeah, I agree with most of that.

There are ways to pick holes in the analysis but I don't think anyone can argue that failing to convert field position and possession into goals was our main problem. I wouldn't just blame "strikers" though - most of the midfielders are culpable too.