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you saw him against Liverpool in the League Cup game didnt you ? mind you so did Klopp presumably !

He will, Spurs are a bigger stepping stone than us, he will get a bigger job than them probably sooner rather than later. He will have as much loyalty to them as he did to us I reckon.

get your money on Watford and WBA then before their odds come tumbling down !

Thats pretty obvious but what qualifies as fit enough to last a whole game for a keeper ? You mean sharp enough do you ?

Well said. A little bit of brain power and its obvious what FF is saying, and he's right, unfortunately.

This is the guy dismissed as a joke signing isn't it ??

Very interesting first point about the fitness. It does worry me that we quickly run out of steam after the opening 20-30 minutes where we look pretty good, yesterday and Liverpool being a case in point. Take Tadic, in both those matches he has slaughtered the full back for 20 minutes then it all stops and he doesn't do it again. Why /

Oh no !!!!!!!

Be great if we could hear her ! They need to test this system out when the ground is full, no good some guy standing in the middle of an empty stand in an empty ground and saying "yep, no problem with this sound system"

Doesnt the original post which says "Man Utd have spent 260 million and they are still crap" simply underline that spending lots of money doesnt always work ? Just asking !

It's strange, doesn't seem to matter who plays and who the manager is. But different to when I was a boy and Lawrie was manager, we were always great in December, I think he won manager of the month a couple of times too !

Palace not too good at home, we have only lost one away, 1-0 to Saints, Mane scoring.

The most annoying thing on a night of annoying things was how in the first ten minutes Tadic absolutely took their right back, Randall ?, to the cleaners and he got booked for a foul. After his booking not once did we run at him with the same purpose and force him into another foul or two which would have seen him off ! There was a weakness and we didnt bother to exploit it !

As has been said Benteke always gets the better if Fonte, hopefully Caulker plays but I have a feeling RK will go with Yoshida !

He takes a good corner, he takes a good free kick, he's the best technical player at the club....... 'that's all I hear about him, it's all possibly true but in the hustle and bustle of a match he does nothing of any meaning. sorry but I don't see very much in him at all I'm afraid.

Bit of a shame that anyone born after 1973 can't choose Bates. Never saw a match under him but there's no way you can leave him out. Just do top 7 based on their record as well as personal recollections I reckon.

1 Koeman 2 Mc Menemy 3 Adkins 4 Strachan 5 Hoddle 6 Pochettino 7 Bates

Aint that the truth, totally clueless and just plain crap !!!

Better manager, better coaching staff, better players. its a no brainer really.

Christ you're a cheery soul aren't you ? Wouldn't want to watch Casualty with you

Re Tadic - as someone has already said you couldnt have rated Le Tiss much, and aren't you describing virtually every winger or flair player that has ever pulled on a football shurt for any club ? Re Clasie - yes he's been out injured, his fitness needs building up (yesterday was the first match I thought Bertrand looked back to his attacking best in all honesty after his injury) and RK should probably have taken him off at around Lallana time but there are signs of whats to come I believe and he does already offer more than JWP in tackling, forward passes and skill. Thats not knocking JWP who has improved a lot these past few weeks before anyone starts !

The defence is getting better now that RK has decided on his preferred four of Cedric, Fonte, VVD and Bertrand. So they are settling in and building an understanding. Too many changes at the start of the season week in and week out and of course Bertrand was out injured, VVD hadnt arrived and Cedric was like a headless chicken trying too hard to impress. Squad deffo stronger, first team is missing Morgan, whether Classie will become that player to replace him is too early to say !

This in a nutshell, very well summed up !

No way will the team be that weak. If you think that get in the Ladbrokes site and grab that 7-1 on Villa.

Pretty sure Fonte wasn't free, Bertrand certainly wasn't. But i take your point.