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He simply has to sell, his hand is growing weaker and weaker. If he pisses this lot off then it’s hard to see who would bother coming in to try and buy after he pissed around a very willing buyer with a more than fair offer on the table. I’d say he must surely see this but it’s Mike Ashley, the stupid cunt probably thinks he’s the stronger party in the negotiation even now.

To add to this Troy Deeney just got sent off against Huddersfield for a far weaker challenge than Cabaye and Kane did on our lot.

Chasing ghosts here, anytime we do touch the ball it just ends up being given away without much Arsenal pressure. Just hurry up and sell man Ashley you greedy pig.

Glad to see Darlow dropped. Think ewerk is right regarding Ritchie needing a rest, he’d been looking a bit ragged on the defensive side of his game recently and was conceding fouls, a congested run coming up as well. It also could be that Rafa went for the pace of Murphy and Atsu as we’re obviously going to be setting up to counter.

Ndidi sent off for diving the cunt kicked and elbowed his way through our team but didn’t even get booked.

I’m with Andrew, we’ll batter this lot. Lascelles will put lacazette in his back pocket and that’ll be that. Dummett to come on at half time, absolutely level Sanchez then stand over him yelling like Batty on Keane.

Agree with this. It's so frustrating to have a keeper you absolutely cannot trust in net, he really should be dropped after that one. I totally agree about the ref mind, that Holgate took one of our lot down outside the box first half and got a warning if he had been booked for that he'd have been off after his later card (or at the very least more cautious). I'm never convinced there's some conspiracy but the complete lack of pens we've had or red cards against opposition is fucking absurd, and as you say it's getting very frustrating seeing opposition players receiving a warning while ours are booked for similar fouls. I still don't understand how Rooney didn't get booked for what was clearly a "put one on them" type challenge on Ritchie after it got a bit scrappy and he ran over showing a hint of elbow. I'd get annoyed at Shelvey but I agree with what SEW said earlier that the ref is just being a bit of a cunt really, it's the 94th minute, we've lost, it's not a bad challenge he was just late and overreaching, I know it's a yellow but he'd let more than a few Everton players off for similar whereas Shelvey got a booking for each of his fouls iirc. Allardyce is such a shite manager mind, with a far poorer squad Rafa had control of the game, quality let him down as we had enough of the ball in dangerous areas to put them away and their goal was from utter fucking shambolic goalkeeping. Diame is a fucking nightmare of a player mind, anytime the ball comes to him he needs about 4 touches to bring it under control. The only positive I take from this one is that Lascelles is back and had us looking a fair bit more confident at the back. It's also incredible that despite 7 losses and 1 draw from our last 8 matches we're still 16th and only 3 points from 11th.

Was there not some recent fear about the government getting tougher on Chinese money leaving China? I seem to remember something along those lines recently. Milan are also having a bit of bother with their new Chinese owners as well aren’t they? Neither question is aimed at you btw Graing. I’m firmly in the same camp that as long as they’re better than Ashley I’ll behappy for now.

I’d heard a rumour that it was some Saudi Arabians that were wanting to compete with the growing influence Qatar and Dubai had in football. Absolutely fuck all backing that up mind.

All other points aside do you think Abramovic has the interest any more?

Very exciting news if there’s truth it in, Caulkin is generally quite reserved with the news so I take his point as being very positive. Fwiw there’s also rumours going round that a staff member has leaked it’s done, I didn’t believe it at first but seeing all these journos reporting it is making me more likely to actually start getting excited.

As I said in the last match thread without Lascelles I can see it being a loss, if he starts hopefully we get back to resembling the resolute side from earlier on in the season and can get a positive result.

Honestly man, what a fucking shambles he is.

Fully agree, that middle aged bloke in a seemingly decent job that posted a derby goal by their lot against NUFC for no reason on a post about them losing the bid for city of culture sums them up. I’ll happily let them have the “6 in a row” craic for the next 50 years if it meant we never played them again as they battled the likes of Darlo. I worked on building sites from a young age so encountered them enough to realize that I’d rather us never have to play them. My mate didn’t really encounter many and was one of them “nah I want them in the same league for the derby” types, that was until his job was transferred to South Shields and he had to spend every day working with a load of mackems, within 3 months he was saying “I hope they just fuck off to the lower divisions so we never have to play the cunts”. They’re rabid, obsessive, little cunts, the fact they have multiple threads every week about Rafa shows it.

Aye they barely had a kick, like I said before even when they did it was just booting it up to Niasse and Calvert-Lewin. Typical Allardyce shite already, it’ll get them to safety mind but they’ll have to bin him off in 6 month. It was fairly funny to hear Neville kicking off about the pen, didn’t he do something on sky sports a few years ago where he said that anytime there is any contact the player isn’t diving? Can’t stand that little manc chode.

Pen for Everton literally fuck all possession and have already fell into the Allardyce way of booting it long anytime they do get the ball and it’s 1-1.

Everton can’t get out their box in this first half against Liverpool. Pickford has had more touches of the ball than any other Everton player. Hopefully the floodgates open second half to knock their confidence a bit ahead of the match on Wednesday.

Whatever happens with us the fact is they’re heading right to League One, it’s utterly pathetic. The way Moyes has West Ham playing shows how deluded they are in thinking he’s the cause of all their current woes (that is literally what they are saying), their squad is the problem, there are serious issues that many have alluded too (the secret footballer, Gus Poyet, etc) but the tramps ignore all that and pin it on Moyes for some bizarre reason and then call us deluded because we rate a manager that won the CL, and was coaching Real Madrid before he managed us. Honestly I’m bored as fuck of them, they’re completely deluded, irrational, utter fucking SHITHOLE dwelling little fucking charvas. We’d stuff them 4-1 at their hovel and two days later they’re starting “yeeez still goin on about that?”, but if we lose to them they go on about it for fucking years (“we always win 2-1”). What a boring fucking bunch they are. Sunderland is actually a place you couldn’t fucking pay me to live in and they try and argue it’s mint compared to Newcastle it’s just fucking not man, it’s not even me being bias, Sunderland is just a fucking tip. The centre is just all poundstretchers and bakeries that are just trampy versions of Greggs. I’ll be chuffed to bits when they fuck off to division three and I hope to fuck they stay there. And aye I have been on the drink, that’s about the only time I can get riled up enough to post this bollocks about them.

Our only hope at the moment is that once Lascelles comes back into the side we show some of the defensive solidity that we had before he got hurt. If it does then we might limp to January where the fat pig might invest.

It is weird that he seems totally opposed to trying those players there. There is absolutely no way Merino or Shelvey playing there would do less than Mo fucking Diame.

To be fair Gayle showed today he can play up front alone. He played it off a broomstick for the first goal, then scored the second.

We may as well select him and have him stand behind the goal telling the defence what to do, since Lejuene and Clark take up exactly the same positions and follow the same player around anyway.

Aye that’s what I thought as soon as we lost, the useless bugger has cemented his place with that. Agree fully with SCSI, it’s genuinely puzzling how little Joselu seems to be involved in every match he plays. It’s almost as if he leaves for a few pints for large sections of both halves. Also worth noting how fucking woeful Darlow was today, sad part is Elliott was dropping some utter clangers before he was dropped as well. Hopefully Lascelles starts on Wednesday as the Clark and Lejuene pairing is rough to watch, they just constantly close the same man down leaving the middle wide open.

That Ndidi has got away with fucking murder here like, how he doesn’t even have a booking in this game is shocking.