Ollie

He looks really gay in that picture, hope to see him play soon tho, still never seen him play. Fulham CC must be his bow.

Gonna be great to see him back at the bridge for a proper send off from us. Such a solid performer and had such pride in what he did. Essien, Lampard, Ballack.... What a tough midfield that was to get through at their peak.

He needs to stop drifting out wide and so deep and he needs to have a few more digs at goal. He needs to play off that last defender like Darren Bent does. Of course he needs service too, Danny and Juan can provide that if they play. Malouda should be able to too. He needs that game where he scores 2 or 3. Old Trafford soon, bout time he scored against them.

Rwanda is about his level

Germans are so consistent and they always get the job done but the transfer window is now shut. Be so nice to forget about transfers for a few months now after all the shit we've read since the end of May and get on with the squad we have.

That 4 year deal worried me... i was almost looking for something to smash. I got into a hot, nervous flush. Bastard Alex.

Nobody knows what will happen and who will win whatever. The only thing i ask is that we give 110% every game and battle with the 2 manchester teams and not lie down like Tottenham and Arsenal did last weekend. The opening game away to Stoke was impressive although we didn't win, we didn't cave in to Stokes aerial & physical bombardment. We gave as goods as we got and in the 2nd half, we had them on the back foot which is a big difference to when we went there last season. In our 2 home games, losing 1-0 and drawing 1-1, we got the wins, although not with magnificent flowing attacking football, we did battle when needed and got the job done. We've got off to a decent, solid, relatively unscathed start and we have strengthened the squad since then with Danny to come back. Sturridge is basically another new signing, we have signed 2 wingers like we all wanted in effect, Mata and Sturridge. It's gonna be a long tough season with the way the 2 manc sides are playing but we have to hang in there, don't give in and try and do the best we can. We, like nobody, has a god given right to win matches or trophies. We all have to get stuck in and earn them and compete with the best. We have a good squad, a squad that CAN compete and that CAN win matches and trophies. We just have to believe that we are the best and show these 2 manc clubs that we are gonna be there right at the end, going for the same goal as them and that's to be premiership champions 11/12. Not a fucking stepping stone for them to achieve success. We have the players to pass teams off the pitch and we have the players to physically beat a team, even if we have to go route one, we can do it. If we fall well short of the eventual champions, there's no excuses because we do have a good enough squad to compete.

They were lucky to beat them at all in the 3 games they've played against them. We did annihilate WBA last season and where did that get us?

To be honest he was playing like a 45 year old last season.

We showed good tempo against Stoke and were just unlucky not to score, i think in time, we will get things right. Mata is 23, Sturridge is 21, Torres is 27, Ramires is 24, Meireles is 28, Mikel is 24, Essien (When fit) is 28, McEachran is 18. We have youth and we have experience. You need this.

I believe we can win it. We have good players, a good balance, plans A and B, we're not 1 dimensional and we are very solid and hard to beat. I believe we'll come 3rd but i know we can win the league.

I'll remember this thread in May. I don't think we're too old, it just depends who plays. We have old and young like every good team should have. It's not old, it's experienced. We can win this title, we probably wont but there's no doubting we can.

I'll never forget when we beat Boro 5-0 away and turnbull had the most shocking of days lol. I don't think we'll ever see turnbull again tbh, poor guy but getting paid for doing nothing is kinda lucky.

Torres worries me. He needs to just put in a great performance against someone shit like Arsenal, bang in 4 and say meh i'm ok. The more he goes without scoring, the more i'm getting agitated.

Welcome to TC, there's a gay Bosnian here somewhere, be careful of him...

He's simply been brought for next season or the year after. He'll get 15 appearances at most this season.

If you'd seen Kalou for the 5 years we have, you'd find out why we hate that useless prick. He's a fucking winger who cannot assist, score, dribble, shoot or pass. He should go on loan to Kingstonian imo then not only will he play with players his level, i could also attack him on the way out.

Easy really, 45 minutes, game won, move on. These games are nice to have. Ashley Young and Wayne Rooney are gonna cause everyone some real problems this season. They are kinda devastating.

Italy put in another devastating performance winning 1-0 against the faroe islands....

Didn't Cyprus draw 4-4 in Portugal not long ago?

Looks as tho Belgium and Lithuania cost me £580. the joys of betting...

Don't get this at all, maybe Lukaku is scared of flying or something. Kalou.... i'm beginning to seriously hate that word, let alone the name. I simply don't wanna see him ever play for us again but maybe Genk at home can make him feel special instead of special needs. Talentless cunt.

I get the horrible feeling that Sunderland are due a good result and a couple of goals. Hopefully i'm wrong tho and we do what we should do. We have a very good team to chose from.. Hope Raul is fit but he'll most likely be on the bench if so. Hopefully Cech can be back too to get a match under his belt in time for Old Trafford.

I think he'll play a bit otherwise surely he'd of gone on loan. We must be keeping him for a reason.

I was watching him and Mancienne get the run around against Bayern the other day, one of the most horribly one sided games i've ever seen. Lucky they only lost 5-0