well it just does not get any better for us cressy/Antonio out for tomorrows game...arsenal fans will be rubbing there hands with glee.....if our players had all been fit I thought we would win but with those two out sakho as well payet seemingly lack lustre and no forwards to think of it is going to be an agonising watch...when will our luck change?
DITM he's down your part of the globe put some calls in and tap him up!
For a start there must be a big clean out, the likes of Zazza, Tore, Callerie, Nordvelt, even Fernandez have to go. I don't expect Payet to stay as he will not want to face relegation and will be tempted by the bigger clubs with the promise of European football so we will need to find players that can help us stay up. For me it is good if we can get in 1 or 2 decent foriegn players but I would look to the championship players as they would not be as expensive but have a bit of experience. Also the Scottish league as there are some players that could adapt quicker than foriegn players and we will need them to start quickly. A couple that should be looked are Tom Rogic and Dembele from Celtic, both are in good form.
With the failure of the last transfer market we have no choice but to go for broke and it will be an interesting market.
management/physio..medical staff/players/board....maybe us for believing? I just do not know.. we are so poor right now and it cannot be down to simply playing in a new stadium...we can blame the board for saving money in the summer the manager who must of had input into the players we got in.. the players who were already there just not performing or seemingly bothered.....or maybe us fans for not creating an awesome atmosphere in our state of the art blah blah blah stadium....inside a year to say the wheels have come off would be an understatement...last nights cup game saw us revert back to how we have been performing this season and why? Payet looked disinterested maybe because of the team picked to play or the formation maybe he has been tapped up who knows? but the way we started both halves was a smack in the face for the fans that travelled and gave great support....the team are lazy and waiting for someone to take responsibility but nobody is......and whats happening in the physio/medical room? we hear that players will not be allowed to play until they are 100% sure they are injury free and gone through rehabilitation course of training and prep getting them ready to be available for the first team....back for two games and sakho is out injured for 6 weeks the old thigh injury occurring once more if carroll ever laces his boots up again who is confident he will last the week let alone 6 months? not me....so again the question is how can so many things go so wrong in a year? you can blame bilic all you want and if they sacked him(which I doubt very very much)and got a new man in you are still stuck with the same underperforming squad that if you lost payet/cresswell/Antonio/kouyate would start to look very average indeed....major problems at west ham right now and to good to go down ha! we have been relegated with better teams and look at Newcastle last season they thought we'll be ok and see where they ended up....
Dont know if many have seen the pictures of our beloved uppers being torn down , i cant help thinking our current form is a kind of revenge for our owners greed ,its a fact that most thought one maybe two points from the current run of four matches compare this to our form last year the fact is if we dont get our finger out we will go down and if that happens i personally feel it will be the end of this great club ,imagine 12 to 15 thousand in a 60 thousand stadium
We will be a laughingstock sky will have a field day .
Looking at the match tonight only comfirms my doomsday theary ,our lack of coincidence linked with a few very average players ,one shot on target and heads going down early means we are defiantly back to the bad old days of the last decade when we were up and down like a fidelers elbow ,i can only hope and pray that i wake up from this nightmare and soon
Manchester Utd: De Gea, Valencia, Rojo, Jones, Shaw, Carrick, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Rooney, Martial, Ibrahimovic Subs: Romero, Blind, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Lingard, Mata, Rashford
West Ham Utd: Adrian, Reid, Cresswell, Feghouli, Kouyate, Obiang, Ogbonna, Fletcher, Payet, Antonio, Fernandes Subs: Randolph, Nordtveit, Lanzini, Zaza, Noble, Collins, Masuaku
Just leaving for old trafford. £140 spent on tickets for wife me and the 3 kids. I have a feeling we might just do it but what about the rest of you. will it be money well spent or money down the drain ?
lot of talk about getting nothing from Liverpool and Arsenal. IMO this is not what football is all about. We are in the premier league and we are there to compete against anyone in the league regardless, we're not just here to compete against the bottom halfers. Im sure Bilic doesnt take this attitude, at least i hope not! last season he showed that he was the opposite of the allardyce 'respect the draw' away from home as we went to big names and won. there is no reason in my view why this cannot continue. we have been poor yes yes its true but we have a good squad when all fit and this i agree would be the key argument as they aren't all fit. but we have to approach the games as equals not inferiors. i look at liverpool for instance and don't see anything to fear. they are flying at the moment yes but lets face it milner, henderson, lovren, can, firmino etc aren't players id be worrying about too much. yes mane is quality but we have quality too. lets be more positive in my view, lets not dwell on losses or performances in the past, its always about the game ahead and we kick off at 0-0. lets go to anfield and believe we can win, draw at worst. lets take on arsenal at home and get the crowd going for the london derby and lets have faith in bilic and the players. we have match winners in our team, we have payet, lanzini, antonio and even ayew who can all come up with big performances no matter who we face.
Cheikhou Kouyaté, Diafra Sakho, Andre Ayew and Sofiane Feghouli if fit could all be missing in mid jan to 5th feb because of the african nations cup add to that the rumour of us being in for the sunderland centre back Lamine kone for around (£15million)if true he would also if fit be at the African nations cup......so what will happen to our formation and players coming in during this time.....upfront we all know we are short but sakho showed against utd his turn of pace has clubs having to respect us a bit more and sit back so without him will we buy/loan sturridge as a replacement? kouyate will be a massive loss so ginge reid and ogbonna will be the back 3 Antonio/cressy as wingbacks obiang in middle with noble lanzini/payet and who knows maybe carroll(new that would make you smile) upfront....there would not be much depth on the bench fletcher and maybe samuelson making a showing but we would not have much room for changing players around so have to hope we stay injury free for that month but we all know our luck there.....so heres hoping for heavy snow to fall during those weeks....palace/citeh at home saints/boro away....3 winnable matches at a critical time and a tasty one that you never know we may surprise a few again...
seriously though it is clearly going to be a crucial time for us and I do hope those at the club are aware and plans are being made or we could be in the brown stuff even more than we currently are.
Manchester Utd: De Gea, Valencia, Jones, Rojo, Darmian, Herrera, Pogba, Lingard, Mata, Rashford, Ibrahimovic. Subs: Rooney, Blind, Young, Romero, Mkhitaryan, Fellaini, Schweinsteiger.
West Ham Utd: Randolph, Kouyate, Collins, Ogbonna, Antonio, Obiang, Noble, Cresswell, Lanzini, Payet, Sakho. Subs: Nordtveit, Feghouli, Zaza, Adrian, Ayew, Fletcher, Fernandes.
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