7:30am South Mimms service station handful of Spurs, must have been 100 Manure. Stopped in service station on way home around Birmingham 20 Spurs, I recon 500 manure all stuffing their cockney mouths. :llorisserious:
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But Dembele is an Attacking midfielder. Only thing is he hasn't been for us and was really only at AZ, managed 6 a season average there. He was the one bought to replace Modric.
Fulham he scored only 5 league goals and 5 assists in 2 seasons, but still more than what he has done here.
With us he has managed 3 league goals and 5 assists in 3 seasons.
He can't last 90 mins. His only asset is he is strong on the ball and in the tackle really.
If you mean the one in Ilford, then not been in there for donkeys.
I`ve never thought of Ilford as North London, it is though.
I agree with the Dembele bit. I have said before that Poch has done a good job with him. We all know he cannot last 90 mins, but he looks fitter, slimmer and has not suffered form injuries like he has done under previous coaches.
Still needs to turn it on for us, as he has been very disappointing. However, the sight of him running from deep first half to collect a return pass was what we need from him.
I just hope that he can adapt and use that left foot to good effect. It's so frustrating watching him do fuck all.
Hopefully sometime over the season it will all click for him. It's about time.
It'll take far more than that if we're going to try to make a profit in each window and always plan for 2-3 weeks after the season actually starts.
Maybe if Eriksen would have put that lob away it would have been a different game.
As a team we need to finish the chances we have and not gift goals.
Story of our season last year.
There are not that many good finishers in the side. They may do it in training, but it doesn't transmit into games.
Pock seems to have drilled in the offensive side. What we need now is a few players who can finish naturally, like taking shots and have the ability to do so and refine the technique of the ones we have got.
There is no doubting Chadli, Eriksen, Kanes and even Mason and Lamelas goal scoring ability, but it has to come as instinct when they get the chance. It's mad that the only person who does do that is Townsend and he's quite pants at it.
Chances will be few and far between.
I'd like to see our players doing more of what carrot did v Milan the other day. Not taking one more touch and maybe looking for a pass, when you get in that Zone put it away instinctively
As a team we need to finish the chances we have and not gift goals.
Story of our season last year.
There are not that many good finishers in the side. They may do it in training, but it doesn't transmit into games.
Pock seems to have drilled in the offensive side. What we need now is a few players who can finish naturally, like taking shots and have the ability to do so and refine the technique of the ones we have got.
There is no doubting Chadli, Eriksen, Kanes and even Mason and Lamelas goal scoring ability, but it has to come as instinct when they get the chance. It's mad that the only person who does do that is Townsend and he's quite pants at it.
Chances will be few and far between.
I'd like to see our players doing more of what carrot did v Milan the other day. Not taking one more touch and maybe looking for a pass, when you get in that Zone put it away instinctively
Nobody has finished their business yet, bar Liverpool & Watford.
Remember the PL kicked of a week earlier this year, but the transfer window didn't.
We have sold 7 players and brought in 3 since July 1st. Name me one club who has had to sell 7 players?
We still plan on selling at least 2 more imo and the window has 3 weeks left.
If this would have been a regular season there would still be a week to kick off.
Can you not understand that we need money with what's going on and won't be spending much. If we make money so what? As long as it is invested into the club.
I don't think Lewis and Co are living a life of luxury on the profits of us mate.
Have a read; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26365955
Liverpool spent more money than us last season, didn't finish above us. So did near enough everyone below us.
We are not on a par with the spending of the 4 above us mate. So, don't bring them into the equation Can you not understand that.
Woolwich did fairly well without spending too much since 2000. Why cannot we?
We have never been massive spenders, and we ain't going to spend money we have not got. Especially now. We have to pay our way, unlike Spam.
Anyway, we didn't wait until the last mutes in 13/14 or last year really. Fazio and Stambouli came in late because Saints would not let MS go, our Is choice CB Moreno broke his leg and the back up Mussachio had third party ownership problems.
It never stopped Spam, but it was a no no for us.
Back from Manchester after a round trip of 10 hours that should have been around half that... felt very weird that it was already the start of the football season again. OT always impresses me, even though I've been a few times recently. They're fans were actually quite good and made a decent noise for what must have been at least... 5 minutes? Then they were pretty quiet except for maybe 3-4 happy clapper moments throughout the whole game. Our support seemed pretty decent and genuinely played a part in lifting the team, especially in the second half when we were looking utterly clueless and exhausted. It was nice to get a decent acknowledgment from the players afterwards. OT is a friendly place to go nowadays. It's a bit like Fulham but on a much larger scale.
Overall, we had enough chances to score at least once, and they were lucky to win. Neither side impressed much (both looked tired and rusty) but we should take some confidence for more than matching them at their place. But it does piss me off that we are, as ever, far from 'ready' at the start of a season. Our squad remains light, the players were knackered, certain individuals (e.g. Bentaleb - poor guy had a 'mare) were so far off being sharp enough for competitive matches that it shows our pre-season circus to be just that. If we have another sh*t August that shafts us at the end of the season, well, I guess that's the way now. Maybe they should make all matches in August half price for fans... given that no teams seem properly ready yet?
Oh, and our home kit looks shit even in matches. Too much blue and red. We're not Crystal Palace...
Overall, we had enough chances to score at least once, and they were lucky to win. Neither side impressed much (both looked tired and rusty) but we should take some confidence for more than matching them at their place. But it does piss me off that we are, as ever, far from 'ready' at the start of a season. Our squad remains light, the players were knackered, certain individuals (e.g. Bentaleb - poor guy had a 'mare) were so far off being sharp enough for competitive matches that it shows our pre-season circus to be just that. If we have another sh*t August that shafts us at the end of the season, well, I guess that's the way now. Maybe they should make all matches in August half price for fans... given that no teams seem properly ready yet?
Oh, and our home kit looks shit even in matches. Too much blue and red. We're not Crystal Palace...
Haven't really read through this thread, but I can expect some off you have already slagged off Bentaleb. Yes, he was shit today. But have some patience, for god's sake. A good amount of fans voted him as the player of the season. The dude is 20 and had to work hard, offensively and defensively, as Eriksen and Chadli are both to lazy to work back. I've seriously want to see Pritch and N'Jie instead of them both.
Apart from that, this game wasn't unimportant. It doesn't matter if this would have been the first or the fifth match of the season. You can lose to the top teams away - aslong as we don't fuck up against Brom, Newcastle or Stoke at home. Those are the games we HAVE to win.
Apart from that, this game wasn't unimportant. It doesn't matter if this would have been the first or the fifth match of the season. You can lose to the top teams away - aslong as we don't fuck up against Brom, Newcastle or Stoke at home. Those are the games we HAVE to win.
I didn't think we would get a win, was hopeful for a draw.
Just sort of guts me that we had them completely on the back foot , and I mean completely, for the first 20 and then one mistake gives them a goal and we completely lost our mojo for the rest of the half.
Still, was impressed we contained them to one shot on goal.
Romero....that guy is fucking awful.
Van Gaal's expression when they got the goal, looked like he had whiff of bad cheese.
Just sort of guts me that we had them completely on the back foot , and I mean completely, for the first 20 and then one mistake gives them a goal and we completely lost our mojo for the rest of the half.
Still, was impressed we contained them to one shot on goal.
Romero....that guy is fucking awful.
Van Gaal's expression when they got the goal, looked like he had whiff of bad cheese.
Not slagged off - just observed that he cost us the game and was terrible. This isn't a fucking garden party mate. Chadli is lazy, Eriksen isn't. Neither of them were any good though, but hey, they're in their 20's too, so all good.
We have quite a lot of weak players. Ok, Bentaleb cost us, but to just fold like that was weird. It was as if some of them thought 'ok fine, a goal down, this is more like it should be'. I don't think any of them prepared for winning the game, and the manager has to shoulder some of that. Nobody can tell me Utd were great, they weren't.
Bore off mate, nobody said spend like the top 4.
It's a fucking joke to have one striker on our books that we have any intention of playing, we are having to use a CB as a DM in game one because of one injury.
If today didn't fully demonstrate the issues then what will? Dressing up a loss as a good loss, an unlucky loss, a loss we deserve because we're not worthy of Man U, it's all bollocks, it was a loss. Everybody saying how fit we were at the end, how Man Utd were disjointed, didn't cause us many problems and so on......oh great.....yet we still lost!
All that says to me is they were there for the taking yet we weren't good enough and, had no options to change the game. Lamela isn't ready and who's to say he is actually going to come good. Apart from that who do we put on to help chase a game, inject some extra energy and/or creativity? Trippier, Wimmer.....Carrol??
It's lightweight, it's mis-balanced and it's been proven today already. Oh but it's Man Utd so no drama, we should know our place.
I'm sorry, I really hope we see unprecedented progress from youngsters who become amazing and we end up punching way above our weight, it's hope, chances are heavily against it.
We're gambling a lot. We've bought ONE player into our first XI, we've got 3-4 of it (Lloris, Rose?, Mason, Lamela) injured/unfit already.
We didn't roll over today but we gifted the game away and never really looked like scoring much. Our travelling fans were the highlight.
But the way, the window opens on 1st July, you can scout and enquire outside of that.
Yeah it was weird. I don't know if was so much that we gave up as that we were just so psychologically cold cocked by the goal, an own goal even. It was like they completely forgot what was absolutely working just a minute before. A truly 'what the duck just happened' moment. It took us another 60 minutes to get that edge back. Was hoping we would come out of the first half barnstorming again but it took the changes to get any heat going.
Perhaps because we didn't play with wingers?
We were way fitter than them. They were cramping up and it was all us in the end. A few made sniper comments about our preseason but it makes no sense considering how strong we were at the end.
Poch has us fit as fuck. It's his best quality for me as a coach.
How about you go and find a match thread where I call Lennon a cunt (like someone called Bentaleb) or tell Soldafo to fuck off (like someone said to Bentaleb)?
Let me save you the search. You will never find me cunting off players in match threads.
I'll talk about their form but I won't call them cunts or tell them to fuck off like people did today.
And after telling Bentaleb he can fuck off, Totti was back an hour later telling fans not to melt. Gotta love those fake chest beaters.