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"Burnley were clearly better except in front of goal"...well yeah that's why Utd pay 4 strikers a combined total of somewhere around 1 million £ a week. See their chart shows us as less likely to make the top 4 than Utd, that would just go to prove once again that if you don't have a striker on at least 100K a week you don't make the CL.

Still both a total waste of good money though. Imagine where we might be if we'd invested the 12 million or so that we paid for Long in obtaining the services of a prolific striker. 26 million £ for 5 goals isn't much of a return.

Probably in less games as well.

Doubt it, they're out of our price range.

In fact Pellè has actually scored in 6 out of 25 league games this season so I really don't know what people expect from him. Bloke is no Aguero or Suarez, you just have to accept that.

South Americans who succeed in top class English football are few and far between, for every Aguero and Suarez there are 3 or 4 no hopers lured by the exceptional salaries on offer.

Well not signing South Americans might be a start, RK doesn't seem to rate them anyway so we might be OK for a while. WGS hated them, had no time for S.Ams whatsoever, pity we'd just paid 3 million odd £ for a duff one.

Boca is his 12 th club in 10 years, no-one can handle him, at Espanyol he was obviously in a good phase of his life but he only stayed about a season and a half there anyway. English football was too intense for him, said so himself.

Perfectly acceptable behaviour in Argentina though.

Doesn't he want far too much money? In fact so much that prospective employers could get a real manager for the same sum.

Here's the article, comes from OPTA perhaps. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/31428316

As I said the Beeb make a difference between a long ball and a long pass aimed specifically at one player, seems that long ball is a sort of euphemism for "aimless punt". I am not a fan of hit and hope into the mixer, good sides don't do it very much. As for Pelle, honestly I could well do without him, he's not often where he needs to be when he needs to be and is an ill tempered bastard most of the time. If we had JRod available Pelle would be a bench warmer.

Don't know how accurate they are but there are some long ball/short pass/long pass statistics on the BBC site and it seems that although not in the top few long ballers we're not in the short pass experts either. Averaging about 30 long balls a game seemingly. We may need to cut that out.

They can all probably shoot extremely well from outside the box if they have time and space to do it, they either have instructions not to do that or they're lacking in instantaneous aptitude.

What like Victor in the first half you mean, ended up in touch down by the corner flag. If you're going to do that it's best not to bother really. Good keepers don't always get fooled by long range punts 30 yds out.

In fact it's not even as simple as that, we need to get our first XI back on the field and the whole system will fall back into place. Watched the game last night and it looked to me that because we lack a wee bit of class in a couple of areas just now everything becomes complex and mayonnaisey. The balls coming out of the middle aren't right, Toby doesn't just punt out of defence, Gardos and Maya do.

But we couldn't afford anyone decent and there was no point in signing someone just for the sake of it. Basically we gambled on JRod and it didn't work out, or at least hasn't yet.

And do we know that they don't ??

Same injury I think, Koeman said he had a bit of a reaction, which is never a good sign, after Saturday's run out.

Normal, he doesn't want to play for a crap team forever. He can get double for sunning himself on the bench at the Bernabeu.

Extremely unlikely is about all you can say on this rumour.

Guess that's just remotely possible for a West Ham fan, one wouff for long ball, two for an awful tackle, 'bout all you'd need really.

It could be becasue we've lost 2 successive home games yes but we lost those games because our midfield was woefully weak against robust sides, to boot last weeek we were poor in front of goal. Today we should be back to par so we should be OK.

Probably nothing more than forging a sick note from his Mum to get off a day out at Bournemouth and going to the Emirates instead....I mean the club told us he was ill right?

the whole chabang was malconceived; Morocco ditched them and have been kicked out of this tournament,banned from the next two and fined 6 million £ or something. So they found another host, the footy was in the main garbage, most games were drawn and the host nation's neighbours made the quarters in a lottery.There has been a lot of absolutely diabolical reffing resulting in at least one long term ref ban. Now there have been riots because err the host nation were losing a game that they shouldn't even probably have been playing in. The Acon is just a waste of time for everyone who doesn't really follow African football and it should be recognised as such and made a 4 yearly event in the same way as all other continents.