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Surely this is pure speculation, the manager probably wanted more height this game and felt he needed three at the back giving Targett more licence to go forward he did not have someone tall enough to play left back so Soares was sacrificed. If Bertrand was fit and therefore provided more cover defensively Soares may well have played! This is all supposition! just because Koeman decides to put Yoshi in at right back for one match doesn't mean he thinks Soares isn't up to it! you may as well argue that when Van Gaal plays Fellini up front he thinks Rooney or Martial are not up to it! Managers make changes for single matches to suit subtle changes aimed at negating the oppositions strong points or exploiting particular weaknesses even Le Tiss was dropped at times when more energy was needed!

Prudent and Accountancy in the same sentence? Not these days with many CEO's only lasting a few years and all wishing to leave on a high! taking the full revenue and phasing costs ensures lots of early profits while "kicking the can further down the road on the assumption of ever increasing revenue" probably fine if remain in the premiership and TV money continues to grow but a big risk if we ever go down!

Spot on

Cheerio?

Martina is another Danny Fox at this level

Thank you and good night

Tadic was so active early on but has hardly touched the ball since the1st half hour!

Today the value of Pelle is clear his hold up play as an outlet when athe only player up front is out of this world

Pelle back to his favourite habit of hitting the frame

Ron Davies was bought from Norwich I think, but if you want developing number 9's don't forget Martin Chivers (a local boy too) Kevin Phillips started with us ( as a full back but really developed at Sunderland) more recently you could also add Ings, Best and McGoldrick who all went on to play at a decent level It does however appear that we have been more successful at producing full backs and midfielders rather than forwards and centre backs or keepers

Agreed but he is not a playmaker in the Lallana mould and playing down the wings against the bigger defensive Pullis like teams is never going to succeeded we need to play a bit on the floor down the middle too 68% possession and only Jrods miss and maybe Manes late run to show on the real chances tally

Clasie is another defensive mid bought to replace Schniederlin not a playmaker if he is played there it is a risk! what is plan B JWP and Davis?

Its not the attack that's lacking its the play maker we just don't have one and are dependant on crosses not much good against Pullis teams

Tadic shoot ffs

Need Mane on for J rod now

why cant we make possession count

Have to stop giving the ball away when no pressure

Give him a bit of time he has missed 18 months!

it is a cheap and nasty small attempted replica of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai which actually changes colour by the hour at night due to very clever lighting the Burj at 335 meters high is a third of the height of Burj Khalifa it is just taller than both the Eiffel Tower and Shard in London and is a fully functioning hotel too. The spinnaker tower is half its height at 170m the last 60 m being an antenna so really only 110m it has no fabric for the sail and contains nothing more than one lift a staircase and viewing gallery 110 m high. They claim it was designed by local Architects to reflect the cities Maritime history but it sure looks like a cheap imitation of Burg Al Arab. Not sure why Emirates wanted to be associated with it really.

I love the colour alps brings to this site I may not always agree with his views but his passion cannot be denied

You don't know that if I was his agent I would advise him to not sign up to more than three!

Romeu man of the match for me seems a great signing

Pelle has had a great game it is not all about scoring his link up play and knock ons have been first class

I give all the credit for that goal to Alps

Yes yes yes