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I’d take that bet but I’m scared of getting done for releasing inside her knowledge

I was away on a stag do the other year and got chatting to some girl who told me to put a few quid on Michael Carrick joining the mancs. There'd been no rumours that he was going there at all and when I asked her how she knew, it turned out she was his sister. I didn't put the bet on.

Seems like he’s gave someone the nod that he was going to West Brom

Get xabi alonso out of retirement. He’d not only be our best midfielder but the best in the league

The Simpson’s are the only credits I never fast forward. Barts different lines and the couch scene changing each week was quality humour.

Edit: ignore this and let’s all move on

I wasn’t saying fekir would be bought as a number 9 to play in front of Firmino, more that klopp knew our midfield was limited and was bringing 3 new players of quality to upgrade our 3 midfield positions. I wanted us to bring in a quality no9 to be able to bring on and be effective and put pressure on firmino as his form can drop off a cliff when he struggles. Was hoping Sturridge would have replaced him with 20 to go but klopp seems to have lost all faith in him lately.

As we bounced Fekir for Allison, FSG weren’t buying more attackers while we still had Sturridge & Origi wanting to stay on the wage bill and the Ings deal not going through till the last minute.

Klopps got a £50m problem here as he’s brought Fabinho in to manoeuvre Henderson out but he’s struggled to settle and Wijnaldum has stepped it up to be our best player in that position yet anonymous when moved out to accommodate one of them and our midfield is looking brainless because of this. The positive thing is, Klopp was aware of this and we can see why we went for fekir with Fabinho and keita. I reckon that once Allison was made available we redirected the fekir budget to land him in as a priority and with not getting rid of any of our forwards in the summer, have gone with what we’ve got till January and if we’re still in touching distance of city and are still in the CL, he will add to the squad once the window opens again. Oh and I know Trent's terrible display has been mentioned but Firmino was fucking dreadful again tonight. This is why we still need that top class no9 we wanted in the summer.

Hopefully wijnaldum’s performaces in the no6 role can convince klopp that the Henderson experiment just doesn’t work. If he has to play then id like to see him play on the right of the 3 and told to get forward and support the attack as he’s awful sitting in the middle. if klopp goes with the 4-2-3-1 then I can’t see him getting much game time but he’s a good squad option to have and we’ve been crying out for decent squad back up over the years. Just not good enough as a regular starter for us.

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Nailed on the council will loan them the money for the full build with the extra £7m promised for the original 50% conveniently forgotten about.

seems to be coming into his peak years now though. I’d take the chance on him, could be the difference in finally getting us over the line in the next couple of years.

Give West Ham whatever they want for Arnautovic. He’d be brilliant for us

Him and Fabinho will leave us before Jordan Henderson does