Howay

Aye I'd be telling him to whistle. As you say I'm not fussed on the deal anyway as I don't see a great deal of upside for us, if he's shit we're stuck with him as a prominent striker, if he's good he goes back to Chelsea and we're back in the position of needing a striker again. I'd rather us get a player on loan with a view to sign permanently or buy one.

Fuck sake man. That is awful. RIP.

Aye he does. Boring as fuck team the stats Ant highlighted show how snore inducing they are. Hopefully it means one of the relegation spots is full for next season.

Honestly what a thick fucking cunt of a bloke, he can fulfill his life time dream of being a proper gangster now. What a total ball bag. Has he still got his long hair? It'll be a good look when someone inevitably makes him their bitch inside.

It's utterly pathetic. The mackems are a total embarrassment for agreeing to it, it's really typical of them that they'd be happy to do it mind as they're such a pathetic bunch that they'd be genuinely excited to be a part of that moment. John Terry's speech at the end of the game was a fucking joke as well. Walking round the pitch with dramatic pauses it was like watching the retirement of the most pompous, over the top broadway actor not a football player after a Premier League football game.

Sunderland 10 points above 17th place Southampton who he has on 23 points as well. What a fucking nob.

Agreed, there's no way teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid will have interest in him. I'd think it's more likely that Zidane has no idea who Sissoko is than being 'highly interested' in him . Spurs somehow got suckered into the buy because he (for some reason) got some press for his performances in the European Championship and then Everton panicked them into a signing, there are none of those factors in place to make a side like Barca interested. Barca are being heavily linked to Coutinho, Sissoko would struggle to play for Barca B.

Aye agreed.

Are they not asking something like 20m for Cairney? I'd rather us spend that money (plus however much over that) to get someone like Sigurdsson. Maybe Cairney could make the step up but I just feel we could attract players who have done it at the PL (or comparable) level. I don't really rate Mooy, from what I've seen of him I think Shelvey is better and as Andrew said younger. He'd be fine as back up (clear upgrade on someone like Colback) but I can't really see us spending 10m on a back up.

That's part of the reason I'm not arsed, it's a lot of money for our lot so the sponsor can have whatever colour they like. It still looks daft imo though.

It looks fucking daft with the blue sponsor and red numbers. I'm not arsed like as I won't be buying it anyway but like KD says this one was close to being class.

Stupid fat cunt, he's an embarrassment to our support tbh. He's basically a Mackem, has their mindset at the very least.

N'Dong is shite anyway, he only looks somewhat okay because those around him are an utter joke but in reality he's a poor player.

Agreed, from what I've heard of him in the media Rafa loves creating competition in the squad which is class imo. Far better than it was when the opposition manager knew exactly who Pardew would pick, in fact they could also note 'will sub left back between minutes 60 and 75'.

Aye my mate didn't say that Gayle had mentioned Rafa saying owt about looking for another club, he just (apparently) said that he sees himself as a Championship player and is more just keeping a look out but that he loved this season and would love to stay. I agree he'd surely get PL clubs interested, either way I doubt he's going anywhere. I just meant it more as it gives a hint that even the players seem to feel this squad was for the Championship and that Rafa is likely eyeing a somewhat fairly large overhaul over the next 2-3 windows.

I actually feel bad for that Spicer bloke, he's been put in a position that he absolutely should not be in and the haphazard way that Trump flip flops on issues leaves him with his pants round his ankles nearly every time he meets with the press. I bet when Comey was fired Spicer was envious.

Couples retreat except they all get sliced up by an Alien rather than have a 'hilarious' yoga scene isn't it. I look forward to it. I'm a fan of that Chris Pratt as I watched Parks and Rec from the start and Star Lord is a lot like Andy Dwyer, I think that's why I enjoyed the first one so much, it also impressed me how good that WWE wrestler Batista was in it, I know he was playing a character who is fairly awkward anyway but the writing did a good job.

He's fucking shocking like, I remember being on a plane and I put on one of the Fast and Furious films, think it was Fast and the Furious 37 but within about four minutes I couldn't hack watching him as he'd started with "nah, we family" or some utter bollocks as a 8 stone woman flipped what looked like a 20+ stone bloke with ease, what a heap. I'm looking forward to seeing Guardians 2 tbh, I enjoyed the first one so it's good to see everyone on here giving this one positive reviews. Alien Convenant looks good in all imo, I love the Alien movies and actually enjoyed prometheus, caesarian section scene aside plus it's got Kenny Powers in it.

One of them was Hanley, but it was actually Gayle who my mate said was saying that. I'm not as down on Gayle as some people (and I guess himself if my mate is to be believed) as I think if we have the creativity around him he could hit double figures in the PL, the thing that worries me about him is the amount of games he missed.

Good post HF. The risk in January was something I found particularly worrying, Rafa likely wanted one team to get promoted and another for the Prem. A few of my mates saw a few of the players out on Sunday night and he was saying a few of them were basically saying they're looking for Championship clubs. Maybe that's what put Ashley off spending, thinking he could hold off in January and still see the club promoted, while it worked it's something that has the potential to see Rafa walk which would have us back to Charnley pulling out his Panini sticker book from 1988 to see if any of those players are now shit English managers and giving them a ring. They also saw Danny Graham in FYEO btw hours after Blackburn were relegated.

The Mail is linking us to Fernando and Mangala from City This is the sort of rumour we've been missing! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4493652/Rafa-Benitez-ploting-double-swoop-Manchester-City-duo.html

Actions speak louder than words but it's still nice to hear positive statements like that.

I love that we're back in the ridiculous rumour mill, the Championship was shite for that.

I don't think there's any chance of Dummett leaving, I agree with DK though we've all seen him at the PL level and despite playing weaker opposition it's not like he's been brilliant he's just been canny defensively. He still can't pass the ball or contribute much offensively, in fact there were many games where any time he won the ball he almost immediately gave it right back to the opposition, it's things like that which would be punished far more at the higher standard of the PL. I'm not against him staying though as he's fine backup, he's better than Haidara and I assume Lazaar (since he never really played), but if he was our starter going into the season it'd be a worry. Defence and creativity are the two areas we really need to improve imo and replacing Dummett with a better standard of LB would potentially help both issues.