*Official* English Football Season 2016-17

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So this is Drinkwater without Kante

 

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Getinthere

 

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Cracking through ball by Fellaini there

 

[King Pietersen]

Fellaini in being ****ing terrible shocker. How does he still keep getting picked?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Absolutely mental leaving Juve

I can think of 300 thousand reasons a week to go there.

 

[Tangles]

Rooney's so slow nowadays. Lazy first touch, slow to release the pass, slow to let shots go, don't think he'll last long under Jose.

Ibra and Rooney as a pairing will have defended yawning. The double donkey attack.

 

[Ikki]

PL clubs have far more money than sense. They were scrapping with a piss-poor Serie A for that 4th CL place FFS. And they've hardly done much of note in European competitions, for all the money they've thrown around. Very poor RoI if you ask me.

Definitely a poor ROI. I think there's just going to be even more money spent, at which point it just seems like even you and I could become a Director of Football and do well at these clubs.

So this is Drinkwater without Kante

Turned this game on around 60 mins in, how is he doing?

 

[vcs]

It greatly annoys me that i like Ibra and he's playing for this lot.

 

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Great header

Turned this game on around 60 mins in, how is he doing?

Looks half the player.

 

[Cabinet96]

Mourinho giving Mkhitaryan 10 seconds and taking Mata who he'd brought on to do it. He's such a ****ing wanker it's unreal.

 

[Tangles]

Mourinho giving Mkhitaryan 10 seconds and taking Mata who he'd brought on to do it. He's such a ****ing wanker it's unreal.

Hoping to provoke a transfer request maybe.

 

[King Pietersen]

Didn't Mata get taken off because he tweaked his knee in that tackle from Gray?

 

[Cabinet96]

City making a lot of really bad mistakes in build up. Arsenal have pressed surprisingly well though.

 

[Ikki]

Mourinho giving Mkhitaryan 10 seconds and taking Mata who he'd brought on to do it. He's such a ****ing wanker it's unreal.

Didn't Mata get taken off because he tweaked his knee in that tackle from Gray?

Apparently he was taken off because he's short (and Leicester were just lobbing it into the box at the end).

 

[King Pietersen]

Mkhitaryan is 7cm taller, so I can't see that argument making any sense. Either Mata had a twinge, or Mourinho's a dick. Probably the latter.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Pep started the game today with Fernando (!) and Kolarov (!!!!) in central defence. Would hope this trend doesn't continue.

 

[Furball]

Dunno, about the same time you switched support to your eighth team probably.

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[Cabinet96]

So Arsenal are genuinely targeting Jonny Evans. Can a United fan here make help me think positively about it please.

 

[Ikki]

Disgraceful stuff

Everton have ditched me after 25 years, says Tony Hibbert: 'It's no longer the People's Club' | Daily Mail Online

‘I was in Formby with my dad and brother when my wife Samantha rang to say she’d been getting text messages from friends that I wasn’t being retained. It was on the website,’ reveals the player.

‘I couldn’t believe it so I rang a friend at the club to check. They said, “Tony, I honestly don’t know why nobody has spoken to you”. I contacted Leon and he was in exactly the same boat.

‘I won’t tell a lie, I was really hurt. Surely someone at the club should’ve realised it wasn’t right. I’d rather have been told at any point during the season there wouldn’t be a contract so I’d have a chance to plan my future and say a proper farewell. No player deserves that whether they’ve been at a club for five minutes or 25 years.

‘In what other job would someone be let go or fired without a senior manager talking and explaining what was happening? I never got that and I honestly don’t know why. I didn’t get the chance to properly say goodbye to the fans.’

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‘Every contract I had at Everton, I never questioned it or demanded more money,’ he says. ‘I have never kicked up a storm even as a kid. But since David Moyes left (in 2013), I have noticed the club hasn’t got the same feeling.

‘The People’s Club, it’s no longer that. It’s a ruthless, horrible business and a lot of good people have gone.
I understand a new manager wants to work a different way but it is a dog-eat-dog culture inside the club now. People are only looking out for themselves.’

‘Bill used to text me good- luck messages as a player. But I’ve not heard from him now,’ adds Hibbert.

‘It’s hard to blame only him because of his own issues but you’d like to think there are other people who know how to do the right things.’

‘It’s hard for me to go in. It’s a horrible feeling,’ he says. ‘I feel embarrassed. Everything from the club feels like a new smack in the face. My wife is even angrier at how I’ve been treated.’

 

[King Pietersen]

Hate the way they've treated Osman and Hibbert. They probably aren't good enough to be in the squad anymore, but they're club legends and should have been kept on, even in a non-playing capacity. I like the money, but hope the new chairman doesn't tear apart everything that makes Everton great.