Sir Mikel OBE

It is time for him to go. He can get a last massive pay day in China,MLS(LOL), or even Russia. If we are serious about rebuilding, then we need to get the youngsters some game time. This can be achieved better with him gone.

Empty threats. The thing is, besides the fact that the yanks wont attack a nation with nuclear capabilities, there would be non clear winner even if North korea was defeated. 1. China wont allow US to create a proxy state right on its border from a former ally. 2. South Korea's economy would implode on itself if it had to absorb the sheer amount of North korean refugees which would filter in.

What a delicious cross by Essien

Very true, but even that aside a player has to take their chances when placed on the pitch. You wont always have an Ashley Cole(of past) or Juan Mata with you.

The vital difference is that Moses is a proven player in this league with even worse players than Marin takes the pitch with. That is why he gets more playing time with the first XI, and for good reason IMO.

Wow Paulinho and Ramires out. Hopefully Jean gets a run out against Italy now.

Cole would have to stay another 10 seasons before Bertrand would "look ready" to replace him. Give PVA a chance.

Because he still has a slight chance of making the German national team if he goes somewhere he will play.....consistently. He wont do that here, and everyone knows it. Even if we ignore the people in front of him(Mazacaroses) we still have a kid on loan who plays the position he would better than him(Barring the possibility we decide to turn KDB into a pivot player, which we have no idea how it would work). For his own sake he needs to go.

He is leaving.

People who voted for anybody other than Hazard deserve week-long bans

Thats a penalty!!!!

Hasnt been the best evening for Mikel.

That ref is rather flamboyant isnt he?

Redemption tonight?

OH GOD MATA GET UP!!!!

We need goals....BRING ON MIKEL

I said it though. Why else would we go more for youth than picking up hulk and other established players. Hazard,Oscar,azpilizueta...ect will be immense in the future. Nobody honestly thought these kids were gonna come in and be better than the likes of City or United. Only reason we got Ba was to try to salvage the season when we had already lost the original plot.

The thing is simply thios United side were built to compete this year. Our team is one for the future. We will get better.

Keep the faith lads. We have at least a goal in us today

The thing is, and I know this is an unpopular opinion around here, but PVA simply has a higher ceiling than Bertrand. He should stay where he will get consistent playing time, but I cant be the only one who sees this even before the display today.

Why was there a huge American confederate flag waving in the stadium?

Brilliant

The thing is he is 100% correct in his statements about the malcontents who feel the need to show up both at the bridge and away and slag him off...especially when he is tasked with keeping us in the champions league now. The people who do this are a minority too, a vocal one, but still a minority. They really are no different than another organized group of thugs, who shall remain nameless, who constantly showed up and tried to ruin the experience out for everybody at the bridge years back. Groups more preoccupied with their own personal vendettas than with actually supporting the boys and what we are trying to accomplish on the pitch.Any bloke with a pint and a few quid to get in automatically has a soapbox to ramble on about any and everything and the Stewards literally cant be arsed to do anything about it, but pounds rule the world eh? No coincidence its coming from the same area too.... Benitez will fuck off soon enough(thank heavens for that) but the valid point will still remain. Watch those drunk invalids find another target once he rolls away.

You have got to be kidding me....

Take away the misses and this performance by Torres is actually quite ok by his recent standard.