LDN Blue

Sam's at Sheffield right now, isn't he? Feruz won't be there either imo.

Scholes and Zidane?! Scholes will always border underrated for me. Zidane was perfectly rated imo.

Sherwood is a moron to be honest, not a fan. But you're absolutely right, it's not like we have that much of a right to criticise after RdM, but at least our players didn't show this much disrespect to him (though they did to AvB)

Yea definitely, but that's where Roman being a fan rather than letting his manager do what's necessary becomes a flaw. You have to empathize, slightly, he spent £50m and broke the transfer record by doing it.. He was desperate to see that pay off, even resorting to Benitez. That was probably one his requests of Mourinho, to at least try and reinvent the Spaniard. Hopefully he's come to realise now. Though hopefully not forsaking our spending on acquiring another.

Mourinho needs to be careful with such comments. We've seen Hazard doesn't react well to this kind of stuff and if goes talking to the media again, we'll have a problem

Yeah fair enough. I do think it's petty of Fulham, Norwich and Cardiff to try and bring action now, they lost on their own merits. Though consistency in the FA needs to be more prominent.. This article is a good read if you fancy it, http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/may/03/gus-poyet-sunderland-points-ji-dong-won-ineligible

I'd say Cole maybe, if you haven't got his?

Yeah definitely agree Liverpool isn't a good choice for him, signings like that just remind me of Kenny Dalglish spending for the sake of buying English.. if Rogers goes down that road there's no coming back. It's tricky for Lallana because he'll obviously want a move up, but his nationality and his club will inflate his fee so much that he'll end up moving for a sum over £20million and the pressures that come with that.. Well we know English players are fragile these days (hence my reservations of Shaw for £30m). He's probably better of staying at Southampton for a year, run down his value by taking a year off his contract and giving him a year to prove consistency. These guys who have one brilliant season and move for big money frustrate me. Because we've seen time and time again, especially with your examples, they can't replicate their form. I respect people like Lars Bender, who recently said he wouldn't join Arsenal this summer because he feels he hasn't played well enough for Bayer to have such a move and he wants to stay and improve before making such a move.

How embarrassing if we end up simply releasing him from his contract if/when he comes back

Red pill or blue pill?

Wouldn't go that far tbh, he's shown he can be quality against bigger sides which Adam would often just shy away from. But yeah he won't reach world-class heights but should definitely move a stage up from Southampton. United, Everton even Spurs are all viable options for him.

Doesn't sound like the most reliable source

Couldn't agree more. Though I admit my assessment comes from watching him in the Confed Cup, so someone can argue that could've been a one-off and his Spurs form speaks truth to his value. But from what I saw in the Confed Cup he's tactically sound, someone Mourinho would definitely give a run of games to. He seems like he can hold his own too, so alongside Matic in the big games we'd certainly be able to use that security he'll offer in front of the back line. Against weaker teams he'll be able to assist the attacking midfield players making those intelligent passes into spaces for the wide players to run into the channels. I think Tottenham will really try to squeeze every million out of us. I wouldn't want to see him come for more than £20million

For Adam Lallana, he should most definitely not join us or Liverpool. He's 25 and he's going to be expensive without a doubt, he's a player who's not going going to reach the heights of Xavi, Iniesta, Lampard, Gerrard.. But he's a great player without a doubt. He's ideal for a club like Man United who are deseperately short of quality midfield players and where he's guaranteed to play more than 30 games. He's in the form of his career and should be consistently playing, it would be a great shame for England and for him to see a quality player like him on the bench.

Personally with shirt names, I go for players who have become legends here.. So even if they move on it'll still be alright to wear. So out of your list that would probably be Cech, Ivanovic and perhaps Cahill. I've always gone for Lampard, but I'd see myself getting Cole this year (if I buy one) and Terry thereafter.

Well, seeing as last time I was there he was posting things......... nsfw, I think it's gladly been removed

No, we're classier than Liverpool fans

Jack, what's your honest opinion of the Ji situation? Think you got off lightly or not?

Strong is the unity on this topic..

This could only result in more fines for thing managers say

Struggling to see how they'll be able to implement this without breaking a few laws..

The problem with this, both points, is that we'll then keep in this constant loop of "transition". While Oscar, Hazard & co begin to mature and come into their own we'll continuously be halted by the absence of a long-term striker. And if we took Blue Armour's suggestion of using him to bring through Lukaku, what if Ibra is brilliant in the 2 season we get out of him and thus he actually hampers Lukaku's progress?

The partnership works in Mourinho's system because they do the minimum you expect from defenders, to defend the ball. Doing what you're asked doesn't make you world class because it's the least you're expecting to happen. I've said it before and I maintain that Cahill can be a serious liability on the ball when he tries to carry possession out of danger. He's forgiven for it most the time, and so goes unnoticed, because he's very good at covering the ground to make for it with his last-ditch tackles. I mean some saw his tackle on Snodgrass as world class defending but I saw it as a perfectly normal trait you're expecting from your central defenders. Not saying Cahill is bad or anything, he's capable of doing the job assigned. He's certainly not untouchable though.