SaintTex

Comparisons to the 'Sunderland Cycle' should scare the crap out of everyone.

Tadic made his penalty shot opportunity tonight in the CL. scored a brace.

what happened to Vestergaard? he wasn't playing so badly that he deserved a permanent place on the bench, was he? a Yoshida/Vestergaard pairing wouldn't be a bad look at this point, would it?

meanwhile in the Eredivisie.. Dusan Tadic - 10 games, 7 goals, 3 assists

"we looked the better side" "we had better chances" shoulda, coulda, woulda. So sick of hearing it. How many points have we dropped so far this season, being the better side and having better chances? You know, an away point is only good when you win your home games. How is that working out for us? 6 points in 9 matches.. we are pace to finish with 24 points. Not good.

it was nice getting 3 points today... i was beginning to get sick and tired of "looking the better side" every match and not getting results. I am warming up to the PEH Lemina pairing. I still think we need Yoshida starting in place of Hoedt. The Redmond Bertrand left side is working well. Wish we could find an equally effective pairing on the right.

we are going to "we actually played alright", "the left side had a good game", and "we just need to eliminate 1 or 2 defensive mistakes" straight away to relegation. been hearing these sentiments for awhile now, and none of it is getting us any results.

does Hughes not know our best XI? what was that?

Unless we have a huge rash of injuries, we have the squad we need to stay up. Now if Mo and Armstrong got injured, i could then see picking him up in January.

Yoshida should be first team.

If 4-2-3-1 ---------------McCarthy------------------- Cedric--Yoshida--Vestergaard--Bertrand -----Romeu--------------Lemina---------- Redmond-----Armstrong-----Elyounoussi ------------------Ings---------------------- If 4-4-2 -----------------McCarthy----------------- Cedric--Yoshida--Vestergaard--Bertrand Redmond--Romeu--Lemina--Elyounoussi ------------Ings-------Gabbiadini--------- if 5-2-3 hell no.

the stats back it up... stinker.. Burnley with 2 shots, none on goal, 28% possession, 1 corner, a shockingly low 263 passes completed. We need to take the 3 points tomorrow.

I hope Ings comes good, I really do. I will be cheering and supporting him, but I cant help but feel we overpaid. hell, Liverpool got Shaqiri for £13m

or at the bare minimum a rip in the time space continuum.

HUGE risk. HUGE. but the club simply couldn't afford a £18m player this season unless it sold someone currently on the squad. Hughes pretty much said this last week. We have deferred the big payment for Ings until next year apparently.

quite like this except..switch out Lemini with PEH. ----------------Gunn------------------- Cedric-Yoshida-Vestergaard-Bertrand -------Romeu---------Lemina--------- Redmond---Armstrong---Elyounoussi ----------------Gabbi-------------------

To those who say we really going to miss Boufal this season my response would be that we really missed him last season. His loan to Celta Vigo doesn't really move the needle much when evaluating this year's club against last year's club.

12th/13th sounds about right. I would argue that Hughes took Stoke teams with less talent to Top 10 finishes, but then again the league is not the same as it was 5 years ago. The short of it is : We have a competent manager and an average squad. Is Hughes a 9 points better manager than Pelligrino? I'd argue, he is. Instead of 36, we get 45.

This. I have seen enough of Sims to think he could make an PL impact if he was given regular playing time. To me, it's his time in the PL now or forever be on loan for the next 3 years. re: Sam Gallagher

At the end of the match, they showed briefly Lukaku giving Yoshida a very long hug on the pitch and Lukaku appeared to be giving him words of praise/encouragement. Obviously some respect there. Yoshida has only gotten better in the past few years, and has cut down on the mental lapses he displayed 3, 4 years ago. So, that is what the people tend to fixate on here. I can't think of one howler he committed last year.

nice get this business done early, so he can get integrated into and comfortable with the the club by the first match in August.

If Shaqiri goes to Liverpool his usual minutes will be cut in half. watch him bloat up on the bench.

This so much. I am nourished by Scouser tears.

have. to. keep. If you have a manager who puts him in positions/schemes that play to his strengths, good things will happen. I think Mark Hughes recognizes that. I hope he does anyway.

league, cup and playoff stats for Club Brugge 1,227 minutes | 25 appearances (12 starts, 13 sub) | goals 1 | assists 2 was hoping he would have had more of an impact.