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Courtois Azpi Zouma JT Kenedy Cescy Mikel Willian RLC Pedro DIEGO

Pedro is a good squad player; it is what it is.

Because he's a warrior and always gives his all I'd prefer to see that than a flat pack "technical footballer" who disappears when it matters. The geezer didn't even flinch at playing 90 minutes for us after having his face broken in the line of duty - I respect that.

Begovic Azpi Cahill Terry Baba Mikel RLC Fabregas Musonda Kenedy Bamford I would have played Costa but I will be absolutely livid if he gets injured again. Bamford can get as many minutes as he deserves; then Costa can be a subbie.

Things this boy does for us...

A shame we don't have the gooners later in the season; it would've been nice to put their title hopes to the sword in April.

Use him as leverage to get Varane, then we can buy Isco/James/Reus and end up with a better squad if we're selling.

Did a couple of cheeky bets for this and got good odds from William Hill: Shaqiri to score at any time and Stoke to win 3-2 was 100/1 Stoke win, 10-12 corners and over 6 cards was 40/1 And Bojan to score and Stoke to win was 7/1 I think it's obvious who I want to win!!

JT next season will be his last as a full time player imo. If we see him in 17/18 at all imo it will be in a player-coach capacity, unless something goes horribly wrong.

I'm still convinced Costa needs help up front, with Griezmann I think we would be formidable again. Likely at the expense of Oscar.

Oh right we were in the away end and thought he'd stormed off. Fair enough then!

Yes we should focus on cup success with a mid table finish at this point, so therefore there is no point in dropping our star players now when we will be relying on them next season.

Excellent performance but it's beginning to concern me that he has gone straight down the tunnel instead of to the fans - when nearly the whole of the team did, twice.

Begovic Aina Cahill Ivanovic Kenedy RLC Mikel Musonda Oscar Hazard Costa Nicely balanced team, imo. 3 Academy boys, Costa gets to keep playing himself into form. And since Obi is in there we will surely win!

A small request; can we get the old lion holding the staff back as the logo? Otherwise very nice!

We sang Jon Obi for about 40 mins and after the game hahaha good away day

Going away for this, should be good!!!!

Of course not, it's Man Utd and Wayne Rooney you aint getting nothing off the media. If that was Costa, though... I think some mob-handed Daily Mail readers would come out to crucify us.

It's different when you actually have to make the decision though...

I am not spiting Hiddink, let's not demonise the opposition here, but it really must wind you up that changing the manager has made nearly no difference whatsoever despite the hype of how Jose was ruining the club, picking the wrong team... the only benefit I can see is that his press conferences are less abrasive. Anyway, your claim is wrong - if they suddenly played brilliantly then yes, we would have a valid claim to that (Sunderland does not count, I would have expected a similar result Mou or not) but that hasn't been the case. The Man United draw was actually an undeserved result considering they should have had 2 red cards and we had the closest shot to being a goal (JT header was on target) and we had loads of attacks but our players were hacked down before we could charge in. However to say that was down to Hiddink is not correct. He was good because Mikel sat back so he could charge forwards, and I bet every dollar I got that Jose would have played him or Zouma yesterday. In fact, had he done so, I suspect he would be crucified for producing negative football. As for the Bournemouth result? I'm sure Hiddink has bad results he would like to keep in the dustbin of history too, means absolutely nothing if you have a winning record like either manager.

Juve played a system that protected Pirlo, Arsenal put Ramsey on the wing so Cazorla does not get too exposed. We take it a step too far, sure, but I think John is worth keeping over say, Iva and Fabregas.

Not cost. I prefer to think of it as Cech 'earning' them. Jose did not want to sell Cech.

4 or 5 I think, and that would be enough to keep confidence and I think that would also be enough to hold us in midtable. It would probably also have saved Mourinho's job. They you go, the board really did cost him in the end!

Not necessarily, if Zouma is next to him and the midfield has pace it's not a problem, it gets messy when a mixture of Mikel-Matic and Cahill conspires against him to create a clusterfuck of very slow players.

If Cech was in goal for the 3 months Courtois was out you can bet your arse we would have more points than we do now.