Baird of the land

I assume if there’s any basis in it the notion would be to have Lewis & Forster or a loan acting as backup. As for mccarthy’s Motivation, salary, winning medals and playing in cups.

Could make some sense for both parties. Liverpool get homegrown back up & unhappy mignonette gets to leave whilst we unlock funds in an area of the pitch we have already invested heavily in.

Cedric playing I assume because so low on options at wingback. Gunn over McCarthy is interesting. May just want to have a proper look at him. Wonder is Davis in Glasgow already.

Happy he’s turning it round with hull. Equally happy we’ve Ralph but would preferred him back over previous 2 managers.

The rest of the team looked hopelessly out of their depth that night too though.

Football analysts are rarely there for their brains. Jamie redknapp carved a career out via his looks. Women’s football is much more high profile now so why shouldn’t they be trading on their status to get jobs in the media as much as the men.

Armstrong is the player who would drop out. He’s a decent player but he’s not a natural fit to that wide role in the current system. Ii’m very much in the give gallagher a chance camp. Got all the attributes & actually impressed in his only opportunity this season. Still annoyed we panic bought Carrillo. Let’s not do that again.

Pace out wide was what i thought would be the priority. Hopefully centre half means we think we can shift hoedt out.

Cedric has been poor most of the season & if he's not interested in buying into Ralph's approach it's quite right he's frozen out. Valery has looked good in a number of the games he has played even if he poorer in others. Neither has Gabbi done much to deserve more chances. He's been living off his first few games for us for far too long now. Bertrand is recovering from an operation.

McCarthy Valery bednarek vestergaard yoshida Cedric Romeu Davis Redmond ings Armstrong Subs Gunn, targett, Stephens, lemina, gallagher, long, jwp

I actually think it’s the 2nd he should have done better with.

Biggest negative today was Hojberg being an absolute idiot. Given who we were playing and fact we needed to rotate in fresh players i thought we put in a reasonable display on the whole. Handing them the game with two poor goals after doing so well to get back into it was a real shame. If we'd got in at 1-1, the pressure on them would have been immense and who knows what would have happened.

Not a bad display. Infuriating that we handed them the game in a short spell at end of the first half. Ramsay was a definite bright spot. Elyounessi frustrating, trying to do too much but some nice stuff at other times. Mccarthy some decent saves but then could have done better with 2 of goals imo. Thought JWP actually put in a decent shift today. Hojberg sheer stupidity is very annoying

What was Hojberg thinking

resting romeu for chelsea

Except it won't as VAR will only overule blatant errors. In cases like that even if a review happens the ref may very well still retain the same levels of implicit bias as it will still come down to his judgement as to whether there was enough contact. JWP would probably get a yellow card if VAR had been present.

agree i'd be annoyed if that was given against us. Virtually no contact.

Really annoying half. Team did excellently to fight back from 1 nil down to 1-1 and then they proceeded to hand city two late goals. I know there's a deflection on the 2nd but mccarthy has to save that and how neither stephens/targett challenges aguero in the air is atrocious.

Targett so poor for the goal. Had to follow the runner.

Cedric must really have been phoning it in to slip to being 3rd choice. Good to have a manager who is stirring things up and hope Cedric can be moved on quickly if that’s the case.

Agree can’t stand city. They are far worse than Liverpool. Doubly don’t want us to lose.

Same team, hopefully same result.

Fantastic to see saints getting back to being the sort of side we used to be. Lovely Xmas present. Lovely to see the youngsters proving people wrong too.

I’m happy that the money bags got a gunk. I’d be equally happy to see united continue to struggle.

Interesting bench. Wonder if hoedt is on his way out. Very aggressive with 3 strikers.