Black Sea Saint

Needs a thread of its own. Brilliant corner. Looked good when he came on. Let's hope he can step up finally.

The Koeman brothers are coming, amazing I love Fargo and the Hudsucker Proxy

Lallana well down the pecking order. Hopefully a reality check for him.Come home lad.

You've got to quote the whole passage: "and Rickie Lambert having already joined Liverpool. Adam Lallana could also join the Anfield club if a fee can be agreed."

madness, a classic case of our best player is off so let's make out that one of our average players is actually better. You'll be telling us that Gallagher is better than Lambert next, Grow up.

All of a sudden they all want out. What's going on? Schneiderlin has always been very loyal in the past.

best thing about all this is the red and white striped shirts in all the mock ups. Get in!

actually the only major difference on the new update is that I can no longer score goals, despite having 50m of talent upfront. So far this season it's been 2 nil-nils and a 1-0. It's like managing Arsenal or Chelsea

Another update! Damn, I'm in the same boat as Tokyo, absolute nightmare. Why do FM do this? I've built an entire team around a tactic that no longer works.

Takes time to learn a language. This also has no bearing on how well we do/don't do.

Let's hope we fair better than we did that season Strachan got us to safety by March. We literally stumbled along playing awful football until the season, resulting is a few horrible tonkings and us losing all confidence for the Cup final.

Agreed, it takes time to adjust. Look at Suarez, Giroud, Van Persie, etc. None set the World alight in their first seasons in English football.

Marseille, France. Previously South Korea, Morocco, Paris and Santiago, Chile. Surprising never anywhere on the Black Sea!!

Unfortunately for Morgan France being in the play offs is probably the reason he didn't get the call this time. It's not exactly a set of fixtures that you'd want to throw untried (at international level) players into. However, I'm sure once these games are over, we'll see Morgan get a call-up. Regard for him in France seems to be high.

why didn't Clyne make the U21s? Isn't injured is he?

Bielsa!

This was from September 2012 you know

Club all the way for me. Couldn't care less if England qualify or not.

that's just ridiculous. Osvaldo was Roma's top scorer last season, he's also Italy's no.9. Jordan Rhodes is a good striker in a mid-table Championship side. Get real. Rhodes wouldn't get in our squad.

I see a lack of numbers here. How many goals do you realistically expect a 15m striker to score in a season? 10? 15? 20? How many assists? I think once he settles in, and I'd say let's give him until Xmas, that a return of 10 goals and 6 or 7 assists would be good. Next season I would expect more, 15 or so. Your thoughts?

Monaco get 8,500, let's consider ourselves lucky.

Can't see Ramirez doing a job as a wide player. Will he track back to cover Clyne/Shaw's runs? If he's to play it can only be instead of Lambert or Osvaldo, based on our current set up. Think he still has a lot to prove before he gets a nod.

Most of this thread is, rightly, in jest. However, I just saw this on the BBC Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown on Final Score Norwich 0-1 Aston Villa "If you look at the money that's been spent at Norwich this summer, Chris Hughton's now coming under a bit of pressure. Four points from five matches isn't good enough." Surely MoPo is in a similar situation, albeit one point better off, assuming we get beaten at Anfield today

from what's been suggested on here, Osvaldo is used to playing wide supporting a front man, Totti. I can see him replacing Lallana more than SRL. I think we'll end up seeing quite a flexible front 3, with SRL, JRod and Osvaldo interchanging during games.

Not even my FM team are this good. You're having a laugh mate.