Window Cleaner

Normally he should have had a year left I think, strange one. More the fool him for agreeing to it if it's exact.

I still don't get all this we're doing as well as can be expected stuff, to me only Lallana hasn't been replaced correctly and we've spent a whole lot of money. Bertrand is and always was a better player than Shaw, Lambert was at the end of the road, Lovren...well you all like to laugh at his "deboires" and Toby is a good player, pity we didn't sign him permanently last summer and Chambers was a back up RB. So yes Lallana is missing but none of the others is of any great import, we got good money for them all, more than we probably should have done so let's knock off all the poor old us we've done well considering stuff eh.

Why is his latest injury looking like a career ending one ?

Safe ? Not if they lose both matches and with us playing at 12 45 on Saturday they won't know the Hull/Newcastle/Sunderland results or even have any idea how those games are going. So they'll try to win and certainly won't be slacking off. the week after perhaps when their safety is assured or at least visible during the game.

I don't think we'll be finding that out at any time soon, we can only hope that JRod makes some sort of appearance before the end of the season. Shows us what we've been missing, even if it's only for 10 minutes or so.

What we should be asking ourselves before we spalsh 3 or 4 million or whatever it is is do we have a player in the academy who can do the job just as well (at least). If not we need to ask ourselves why not and then pay the money because Elia is a very ordinary player..

Reality attack I suppose, we probably can't afford to buy much without selling and if we sell it's only the better players that will be targetted. Vicious circle, too much money wasted on average players last summer. Now if we could sell Long .......

Vince just seems to have no patience whatsover, tries to hoick everything "Over the Top Rank". Smith ...well I had him down to guide us through the sticky patches caused by Vince's impetuosity, perhaps he's just over the top now.

Ah I don't know, Ings and Sturridge might make a good pairing with the attacking midfielders that they have. I watched them against Chelsea on Sunday and I'd admit that most of what they do isn't all that bad but they've nothing at the sharp end to finish it off..well that and Sterling being a greedy hog.

Any cost arguement is totally negated by the fact that we wasted 12 million on a bit part player like Long. That is just totally unexplainable.

the main point that you have to consider is that even when we were playing well and scoring at the start of the season the bulk of the goals scored by our principal striker were against poor teams, 2 in the rout of Sunderland, 2 against an abysmal Newcastle. The fact is that Pellè is not good enough to score against better teams and we don't have an alternative having wasted 12 million pounds on Long. People will say you're a clown, an idiot..I can live with that but Koeman's tunnel vision concerning Pellè has been our downfall. Strikers like Pellè do not score shedloads of goals in the PL, he's not quick enough of foot or brain to be where he needs to be when he needs to be more often than not. Big lumps don't score a great deal in the PL any more.

OK...

9 from 3 is a bit of a tall order, trouble is we've taken 1 from 6 and that is just not acceptable for a side that's spent 70 million £ on players this season, plus a very very expensive loan. Just not good enough. Manager's fault.

Davis has played DM on occasions this season I think, when both Morgan and Victor were out. Can't remember which games, when they were both injured I suppose. We let Cork go before his time, there was no point in selling him off for a pittance before this summer, he's a good pro and would have done his best, we wanted the money that's all.

School holidays ? Anyway we don't need 2 idiots posting the same thing on every thread, sort it out mods.

But did not RK say that KD would be back in goal on Saturday, some interview with Blackmore or other ? Mind you that's not very reassuring either actually.

Still he started 5 games and scored 2 goals, better than Davis who's started loads and not scored at all, or JWP with 1 penalty to his credit.

Too much dutch, of course if we finish 6th or 7th I won't be saying that...well I might actually.

You jest I trust, we're sliding down the table because we can't score and we don't defend as well as we might, because we don't want to is utter bolloaks as far as EL qualification is concerned.

Well I expect us to win. We usually do a bit better at home than away and we might be able to put out a better side.

Torres was pretty good in the 2010 WC as well. Players peak and then drop away. All I remember about that final was the brutality of the Dutch.

Ah, I thought he said he didn't say that at all.

that being ?

Not really a "defector" but I notice that Gaston hasn't been included in the Uruguay preliminary 27 for the Copa America. Now that could be prejudicial to us if we had any remaining illusions about selling him (or even loaning him) to another English club except Hull.

It's a bit harsh all that, nevertheless we have spent 70 milion £ on inward transfers and our tail end of the season should be better.