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Really? I see this cliché trotted out on here quite a lot but the world is full of people who are ****e at their job but bumble through regardless without any proactive management for many, many years. Are you sure you would be sacked? Are you sure you're not one of those people?

Indeed. I know lots of people who have worked for PWC, Deloitte, KPMG etc. and I can confirm that none of them are billionaires.

Is he, or is he just a patsy for Alisher Usmanov?

He'd work well alongside Carsten Janker or Oliver Bierhoff. I just hope Paul Hart and Arrigo Sacchi can get him playing near his best.

I think the police should investigate that. Sounds rather racist to me.

Frankly, if Walcott commands £100k a week and Arsenal want something like £20million, I'd rather just play Josh Sims.

The only thing we got wrong in the summer (apart from appointing MP) was not adding a striker.

This. Yes, the city centre has some shiny generic shops and bars. Much like any other city centre. Go out to where people live and it's a dump full of feral wastrels. I don't hold out Southampton to be some glorious paradise but neither do I buy into any suggestion that Liverpool is nice. It isn't.

I've been there. Thought it was ****.

Because Ings has barely played for years and Sturridge is a prize **** and both of them are probably on wages we don't want to pay. Apart from that, yeah, they're probably a bunch of idiots.

Maybe they can investigate this while they're at it: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/jan/25/everton-farhad-moshiri-alisher-usmanov-new-money-ownership

If someone has the ball and you kick the lower half of their leg you are not going to get sent off unless you stamp on them, use excessive force, go in two footed etc.... If they haven't got the ball then it's just a kick and you will get sent off. That's why Beckham got sent off, although it was more of a tap than a kick and could hardly be called violent so the red was harsh. It's not at all relevant to this discussion in any case. The chap that Fer tripped had the ball. He wasn't lunging two-footed, he wasn't high, he didn't stamp, it wasn't with excessive force etc. It was a cynical trip. Yellow card What you are saying is that all referees are applying the law incorrectly apart from this one trail-blazing hero.

There are numerous deliberate trips in every match. You know full-well why it isn't a red card by any stretch of the imagination. Stop being a berk.

It was clearly not a red card and the ref made a ridiculous decision. That said, there is some merit in saying that the laws of the game ought to provide additional sanction for fouls which are clearly purely cynical.

Could be the least of his problems.... http://www.espn.co.uk/football/liverpool/story/3328015/liverpools-dejan-lovren-faces-perjury-probe-in-croatia-reports

This is obviously what we should do. I'm not being sarcastic. It's obvious. No idea why we don't.

No, I'm sure we'll sign someone but it will be towards the end of the window and a waste of money given the useless manager they will play under

My friend makes bespoke luxury toilet tissue and he's had an order for 500 rolls of three ply butt-luxe aloe vera with gold "MB" embossed motif, to be delivered to the Winchester area.

Well, he's been a winger most of his career and also played up front when out on loan. The only reason he plays full back for us is because he can't get a game in another position. No idea what your point is. Do you think he should be starting? If so, in place of Bertrand?

Due to our careful strategy and long-term planning, we're in a great place to write the next chapter of our history with a strong, largely homegrown Championship squad. We're confident Mauricio is the man to lead us storming back into the Premier League.

A big strength. A great and big strength. Really strong. OK. Wibble.

There have been a number of matches where we have taken the lead after a first half barrage of shots and then barely mustered an attack I'm the second half. You're right that a lot of our players have been playing sub-par but we have been far too passive once leading in a lot of games and that has to come down to the manager. Either: i) that's what he wants; or ii) it's the players fault but he's unable to get them to change. Either way, we can't change half a team in January so our only chance of improvement looks like getting rid of the manager.

Good point. I forgot the Spurs result! Somehow those two goals didn't really stick in my mind!

By "rescue" manager, you just mean one of the no-nonsense British stalwarts that do the merry go-round of underachieving Prem teams. If you think they are the only people who could improve on the useless incumbent sufficiently to keep us in the league then I find that odd. Pochettino had an impact on how we played from his first match. There is any number of potential managers who could improve on this guy.