shurlock

Don't deny that. But let's be clear: he's not giving up regular or quasi-regular football or he would play in Leicester's likely short-lived European football. He's never played for Leicester. He's their brightest academy prospect (he wants more than £20k pw) but is well behind Fuchs (even Shlupp has started ahead of him at LB). As such, references to Liverpool being out of Europe and Leicester being in the CL are largely irrelevant, other than Leicester's greater need to rotate (who says the scousers won't rotate in domestic cup competitions too). In one sense, it doesn't come close to the level of knobbishness exhibited by the likes of Chambers.

Why? It's not like he's getting much -indeed any- football at leicester. He's unlikely to feature in next season's CL campaign either. As such, Liverpool remains the better long-term bet.

You can't separate his fitness from his evaluation as a player - it's the reason clubs have stayed clear of him (Never mind his play outside the box is quite different from Pelle's). Hopefully a good preason will make a difference; but until he shows more, talk about him being Pelle or anyone else's replacement seems a tad premature.

Austin has shown very little so far. Not saying he won't. But it suggests a bit of caution is warranted until he does show a bit more.

Replacing pacy and/or tricky attackers is the biggest crapshoot of the lot. If Mané and Tadic leave, can see us bringing in 3 players, including a prem-tested player a la Townsend to spread the risk.

Tickets should be easier to obtain than last season. Bigger stadia, bigger allocations, especially if we're drawn/seeded in the third tier.

We won't be in the top tier of seeded teams, so there's a chance we'll get them. I assume we'll be in the 2nd or 3rd tier for the draw.

Shows the f**king ego of the man: assumes he's right, so pathologically incapable of waiting and seeing.

dog***t reffing

Great day out.

You mean the flybe-shirt wearing yokels? Are you one of those pal?

Marco, pal.

Wouldn't go that far. We were also poor in the first half iirc. Wasn't Wanyama needlessly rushed back and things only improved after Cork came on at HT?

Why would anyone do that, pal?

Yep, on more than one occasion. Works hard off the ball as well.

Dog**** defending

Hahahahaha moreno

Not really. Clasie and Romeu were for Morgan and Cork (who had not been replaced in the previous window). Caulker probably did more harm than good - either way he was a loan filling in for Gardos and soon f**ked off. Cedric and Martina give us provisional depth but that is ultimately outweighed by the sheer drop off in quality from Clyne.

Why would I think VVD's inclusion is silly? Perhaps our scores are purely coincidental. It doesn't mean I'm using the same criteria to rate a player. Indeed, I think an awful lot of those selections are questionable and markedly biased to easy-to-measure things like goals/assists. And it's not just this: everytime I check whoscored after a game, I'm frankly puzzled by some of their grades and the degree to which theyre out of line with what other fans and experts have seen.

Does anybody take WhoScored stats seriously?

Gary O'Neil #talisman

Cheers.

Our 'brightest and bestest' were singing that at WHL a few weeks ago (the chant at least, not sure if it was for Koeman).

Jesus wept. From toons by a mulleted millionaire and father of an exhibitionist wrecking ball to the type of loved up tosh you'd probably hear in Heaven on a Friday night, what is the world coming to.