Window Cleaner

In fact has Morgan ever played against Everton, this is out 5th meeting since we got back up and I'm sure he's missed most of them from injury or suspension, might have played the home game just after Mauricio took over perhaps.

Perhaps they're just mocking Sheldon....he started that

When you take out Bournemouth's cut I think it's more, think we only got 18 million for Lovren in the end, say 20 for Lallana and 4 and a bit for Ricky, the five of them cost us about 50 million so we're actually down 10 ish

It's not that bad, once we get past Saturday we'll have everybody available for a few games, unless Clyne or Mané get booked again of course. Oh and Bertrand for Chelsea of course.

Good excuse, he's actually played less than half of the time the team has this season. However I don't doubt that the club expected some sort of contribution from JRod by now. I do wonder if Utd poaching our injury management bloke mid October hasn't had some effect on that.

Where's Yuki today, surprised he isn't slagging us off a bit.

what from the next 4 games

What we really need is one of those strikers who scores when you need him to, RvP,Aguero,Suarez types,Bony (at a push) cost what it may, that and JRod donning his boots again, apart from that I'm good with what we've got. I might enquire after Baffi Gomis.

Because the majority are obsessed with cheap cup success, they want their day out at Wembley and don't see any further than that. We should have played the U21s last night, good experience for them, no first team injuries or cards and the result could not have been worse anyway. Basically our U21s should be capable of giving Sheffield Utd a run for their money anyway. So against Ipswich we play the kids, sell cheap tickets and then no-one will turn on the senior players should we lose.

So stick with it, why take Targett off and replace him with the useless Isgrove then at half time anyway.

Targett says he'd not been injured so the decision to hoick him and put Bertrand back to LB was purely tactical. Feckwit idea in the first place, make a plan and stick with it Ronald, if you've no confidence in the young players tell them so and leave them out.

tell him that not me, it's what he said. I was totally against playing first teamers last night, it never ends well anyway.

I think you're overdramatising the effect that senior staff presence has on players. Anyway Reed was surely there and to me the other 2 have no importance whatsover as far as the team is concerned.

But then you could apply the same measure to Long,Tadic,Mané,Gardos and even Pelle. We sold players for more than they were worth we bought other players for more than they're worth.....football economics eh.

Beat Palace and Arsenal, lose the other 2 , start the year in about 8th place.

We couldn't score, scoring is the ultimate decider in football, you can be **** as you like and then score 2 goals and win, at the end of the day you get the 3 points and the others don't. Too much emphasis on quality and not enough on result. You play football at that level to win not be the unlucky loser.

Meaning that you greatly overestimated the capabilities of Gardos then, or that we didn't sign someone that we might have? NB You hit the wall in the marathon for 2 reasons a: Your preparation is inadequate or b: you've set off too fast and have burned all of your glucose reserves too early and then suffer the brutal effect of trying to burn fats and or proteins. A good marathon is run at even pace or at a slightly (and I mean minimal) higher pace in the second half. I do wish people would not use this analogy to intimate that a marathon is not an even paced affair.

Is also caught offside a lot I think.

Long is a journeyman professional, we paid 12 million £ for him apparently so we've been stupid there, guess we must have been desperate or paid less than is reported. Then again Hull have saddled themselves with Gaston for a season, bit of a fee and a couple of million in salary so perhaps Nemesis caught up with them. We should not have paid as much for Long, they shouldn't have taken Gaston off our hands so we're sort of even'ish.

And then Koeman said we don't handle mistakes as well as those clubs, he's pretty definitive about these things, t'were that many of our fans would be as definite. Then we'd have a jolly sight less of this we played well and lost so that's ok stuff and a bit more of the Koeman approach who's said that our last 2 performances are not good enough. The bloke is saying this stuff, so why dull it down really.

However Koeman was very specific the other day, we need to finish in a EL position and higher if possible (although he seemed to think that unlikely). I'm not making this target up, he said it was what we need to achieve, not hope to achieve or some other expression that could be construed as maybe,maybe not. we need to do that...definite no messing.

Who knows, perhaps our tactical experts wrongly assessed Utd's weaknesses. Players don't just do whatever they fancy on the pitch, they have a set plan, if we were doing that then it's what they'd been told to do.

Not that I'd totally agree with you but let's face it who is as bad as Gazzaniga really!

Oh do give over, he's just played too many games that's all. Rotation of the CBs hasn't happened, well apart from Toby going forward of late and Maya getting a game or two. We have 4 CBs, that shouldn't be 2+2 that should be a straightforward 4. Too many players playing too many games for sure but lay off José, he's done well but has been worn down.

Talking to me ? Yes we should not have played the 2 senior CMs, just as I said yesterday, what I feared happened exactly as I feared it would. We lost and picked up suspensions by the bucket load.