Rayvin

By year 3 the fans will have turned on him, and by years 4 and 5 he'll have fallen out of love with the game and will be contemplating taking up a new sport in line with standing tradition for UK born players in Madrid.

Masterpiece.

Was apparently ok in his first season with Man U, they had a strong defensive record compared to the previous season - was under Ole. But aye, since then he's dropped off hugely for some reason or another.

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By coincidence I watched a Maguire lowlight reel the other days and he definitely sees himself as something of a 6 based on how this convo is defining things. All these marauding runs from the back (with no end product other than eventually falling over) and so on. He was apparently a midfielder initially though which explains why he fancies himself that way. Honestly though, and appreciating I've only seen the lowlights, he looks like someone we should be furiously avoiding... kicking teammates in the head, dragging teammates to the floor while they're trying to defend, dribbling the ball pointless in a circle in his own half for 10 seconds before hopelessly giving the ball away, appealing for handball against his own team... just no.

How are we ahead of Inter

Agree with this tbh, I feel like a 6 should at the very least be on the radar but Rice is the only one we've been linked to (that I know of) and we'll almost certainly not manage that.

Aye mate, but you're overlooking that there are 'levels and ethics' in these things. Whatever the fuck that's meant to mean.

In fairness to him, the scoring record keeps him remembered for longer. If he wins the La Liga most people would forget that in a year or two. If he overtakes Shearer then IMO he'd be somewhat relevant for maybe 3 years before Haaland goes past him

For. Fuck's. Sake.

Surely though, surely that is it for the giant spunktrumpet of a man. Off you fuck, preferably into the sun, you massive traitor to the country.

At the risk of oversimplification, my view is that it's because we pander to stupidity.

If anyone is struggling with this result a bit, get yourself over to RTG. They are fucking beside themselves. Moyes has just proven that their club was shit, and not him

I like ASM as a player, he's fun to watch. If he's not right for the team then fair enough, I'll support whatever decision the club makes and will assume it was the right one. Reminds me a bit of Ben Arfa in both positives and negatives.

Luke Edwards of all people taking him to task on it...

Absolutely, 100% this. Not all of them, some of them have critical thinking skills that are up to the task, but clearly not enough of them. I always think of my Mum on this front as I think I've said before. She voted remain I'll stress, but she happens to also believe that there is a New World Order forming under the banner of the Catholic church where a single world religion will be imposed on us. And that aliens are already amongst us because Roosevelt's granddaughter says so, and she must be right because she's related to a former president and has a website and everything. They just weren't equipped for the realities of the modern world. I swear my Mum is actually a fairly intelligent person aside from the absolute lunacy of those views btw

It's coming, the penny dropping moment isn't far off. Mind you it'll not be a 'oh damn, we were wrong after all and have fucked the entire country', it'll be "well not my fault like is it? you lot shoulda been nicer to us, called us all racists, what did you expect? Your fault this is. Not ours."

Ah here we go, TT's own scout in the Spanish leagues can deliver a verdict.

Aye that'll be right If he ever runs out of places to hide in terms of trying to seem legit, he'll claim it was all some ironic parody of the whole thing.

I thought this too "Dunno what the mags are talking about marra, there's mackems in the PL" "Gerrin, that goal against the mags went in off Clarke's arse, 7 in a row that" "Always loved Palace me, proper club. They love us down there an all"

The great thing about that is, the mackems absolutely will not be able to accept losing him to those clubs.

Isak loves it gets well into it when he scores. Loved that one when he put his dead down and went right into the crowd to celebrate with them. He's got great spirit.

I like the idea of calling him "the Hungarian" to get around trying to remember the spelling of his name too.

Can't recall if I posted this the other day but RAWK has a thread where posters are so enraged by the audacity of clubs like City and ourselves being state owned that they want to bin off the entire premier league and go and make a super league instead. State owned teams would be banned and only 4 teams could enter from each country. Naturally Liverpool would be first on the list for England. https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=354280.0 Bitch, before we were taken over I couldn't even have told you who won the league on a given season two weeks after it ended, that's how low my interest in your big 6 nonsense used to be. And while I'm not saying that it'll be more enthralling for the other clubs now that Newcastle might threaten to win it at some point, let's not pretend that the apathy will be new. What's new, I suppose, is that Liverpool fans may be the ones feeling it for change.

I didn't - just googled it, can see it's a running joke, but felt just as brutal then as it does now I guess whatever it is, I've missed it.