Howay

Takes him 3 touches to bring a slow pass under control tbh.

Aye fully agree, mind even when Depay beat him a few times it rarely led to much as he got back to cover him well. Owen is a prick. He'll definitely have the beating if we can keep drawing Smalling out as Blind, Darmian and Shaw can't compete at all in the air against him.

I don't get why he's giving him grief, I thought he looked our best defender during the first half as well as almost getting an assist from the Mitrovic chance.

His double header was class, think the second one was from his knees

Agree, that Memphis took to a bit of diving and moved out of position to get away from him late on. He got beat on occasion but recovered well.

This, was nervous the way we started but we came into the game around the 30th minute and started to be able to keep the ball a bit. We need to sub at least one of Colback and Obertan off tbh and bring either De Jong or Aarons/Thauvin in their place.

That's the 3rd time Colback has passed it backwards gifting them the ball, he's really struggling today. Obertan is total fucking useless as well, it should be Perez and Thauvin on the wings from now on tbh.

Wijnaldum looks a classy player in the 3 games so far like.

Aye Colback has been struggling here.

Mbemba looks like he's going to be a class defender. I'd like to see Thauvin come on at half time because Obertan isn't causing any threat to Shaw or tracking back to help an out of position Mbemba against Memphis.

Close by Mitrovic there, think that's where we'll get our chances if Mitrovic can get himself against Blind. Good cross by Mbemba too mind and he just made a good block on Depay.

Aye he wasn't offside that's what I was meaning by a let off, horrific defending by them 2 with neither covering him and Taylor playing him on

Perez is the only one giving them much bother so far, should start more often tbh.

Taylor and Colo partnership is a bit worrying, they done the whole splitting wide thing except Anita was pushed up the field so neither bothered marking Rooney. Think we got a bit of a let off with Rooney being ruled offside there.

Obertan looks back to his clueless best so far

This, I still think we'll lose but I don't think it'll be a kicking.

Saw Man from Uncle last night, canny enough film tbh. Had enough of the old fashioned Bond Campy humour which my lass enjoyed, that Henry Cavill is built like a brick outhouse mind and seemed to be struggling to put his arms at his sides it has me looking forward to Spectre tbh especially as it was one of the trailers.

I'd be happy enough with him going if we were to bring someone else in to take his place (or use that squad space on a LB/CB).

Not meaning it's a dream of mine to have him play CM but out of what we have it's probably a better option than having Anita and Colback together, unless like you say Tiote gets into any form but it seems fairly unlikely due to the fact he's a total fucking knacker. I'm just worried that Anita and Colback are too small as a partnership to really control a midfield, one of them with a bigger player is a possibility but together I'm worried they will get pushed out of the game and it's not like either is particularly gifted technically anyway. If Sissoko can get over the fact he's a massive fanny he could be of some use there. Is De Jong injured again? I think we need to buy an effective midfielder that can play deeper tbh as the two best options (Wijnaldum and De Jong) clearly prefer a more forward role, it can wait mind as I think we need to sort the defence first. I'm just really wanting to see some use out of Sissoko unless we sell him tbh, as he's fairly useless on the wing in all honesty.

I'd like to see him play CM for a bit tbh, alongside either Anita or Colback as I think we need more of a physical presence there.

Aye spot on DK.

Aye, I'd rather we have him (unless we'd buy a CB/LB with the money) but 15m for a bloke that is clearly not arsed to play for us would be good money if re-invested of course.

Aye this is what it seems like tbh, it is a shame the lad wasnt really given a proper chance mind.

Admittedly it looked as if you were right, I've seen basically nothing of this kid but we did need a winger so I'm pleased we went and got one. I'd love to see a full back brought in since we only really have two full backs (if you class Dummett as a cb who can play fullback) but we may have to wait till jan/next summer to see that with the spending we have made this summer.

He missed out, if he signed I'm sure Robbie would have shown him his collection of fedoras.