The Skipper

100%. Correct. Bale is a machine.

Post of the year.

Lol I agree that it's stupid, but I can imagine that Roman is still trying to see if his £50m will work. Ps. Happy new year to all.

What it DOES stop though is lets say an Abramovich coming to a club and just buying the best available talent out there from his own pockets and not by what money the club produces. In a sense, this is advantageous to big established clubs like ourselves who have already gone through that process. What FFP will do is stop a new Man City, PSG or Chelsea occurring which is fair enough. Back on topic though, I think Ba doesn't want to sign because the club have told him he'll be behind Torres. Don't think it's anything with the wages - perhaps as people have said the agent fees could've also played a hand in it but we'll see.

Something United have done for decades.

So so happy. Brilliant result, absolutely brilliant. We fought hard for it and got the result, fortunately for us Everton hit the post 3 times, but I'll take that any day. GIVE LAMPS A NEW CONTRACT.

SFL hattrick? Can imagine what the odds were before the game...

Not really, BBC are a lot more trustworthy. And I people are going by it because the commentator said so then it isn't as close as people are making it out to be.

Lets get rid of Lampard right...

Going by what?

Has Demba Ba actually been confirmed or are people just going by what the commentator said?

Moses should've started. He's decent defensively and will push Baines and Pienaar back, don't like how we're shutting down a whole flank just to contain those two. Also, Moses is not going to play for a month now.

Mikel and Moses must play.

Valencia don't have Roman. I'm sure the new stadium wouldn't count under FFP regulations anyway.

Valid points but Fellaini will cost a lot more than £20m.

I wouldn't give AVB the credit for getting Mata, I think it was more to do with Emelano etc. who chose him as an alternative after we were prized out of a Pastore move.

Good call.

Yeah, why not if we need a 5th choice centre back.

Exactly. Walcott thrives in an open game, had a great game today, but like you said, he's not as good if he isn't afforded space. If people aren't willing to see Sturridge up front here, don't see why they'd be happy with Walcott.

Never said you did but there you go. I don't think Ivanovic and Cahill are our best pair at all, that goes to Luiz and Terry for me. Obviously there's a massive gulf of difference between opinion here so we'll just agree to disagree.

Cahill isn't as good as JT, doubt he'll ever be either.

Or you could play him CB. Just because he's had a few good games in the pivot doesn't mean he's now useless as a CB.

Agreed with everything apart from the "better attitude and patience" thing. Walcott has said he wants to play CF as much as Sturridge has.

A bit of this again please.