SOUTHAMPTON ARE STILL A BIG CLUB! The Premier League, 2014/15

refusing to believe this

Danny Welbeck has been told that he can leave Manchester United, with the forward now hopeful of securing a move to Tottenham Hotspur before the end of the transfer window.

Tottenham are in the market for extra firepower and held talks with Queens Park Rangers over the availability of Loic Rémy this month. They have also considered Mattia Destro, the Roma striker who has attracted interest from Chelsea.

Welbeck could fit the bill, while Sunderland are also pondering a swoop for the 23-year-old. Hull City were willing to pay £12 million for Welbeck’s services, but he has no interest in a move to the KC Stadium.

The England international has two years left on his contract at United and is thought to earn about £50,000 a week, but Louis van Gaal, the new manager, has deemed him surplus to requirements.

Welbeck is out with a knee injury and missed the 2-1 Barclays Premier League opening-day defeat by Swansea City at Old Trafford last Saturday, with Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez leading the line.

Robin van Persie will further increase competition in the United ranks after the Holland striker returned to training this week following an extended break after the World Cup. That will leave Welbeck, who has scored 20 goals in 90 Premier League appearances for United, farther down the pecking order.

A nauseating defence.

Fucking hell - I'd assumed that was a cut & paste of various moronic 'have your say' comments, not a whole load of Harry.

LMA backpedalling furiously: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28896425

I'm 4,174 on the Season Ticket Waiting List!

:D

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/managers/louis-van-gaal/11052364/Louis-van-Gaal-It-has-been-a-very-difficult-start-at-Manchester-United-but-I-will-deliver.html

Cabella's hair is making me feel queasy

regional report: sky down at the tf in castlebar and parking now a euro an hour but the carvery three course is a tenner callin it a draw

jesus wept can someone nudge me toward the best way of str*aming w/out it constantly cutting out. the cpl of online sites i know are unwatchable

also, heard about a thing where access to hd premiership games is only £70 in NZ so my lot are looking into a way of changing ip location and ordering. anyone else done/heard of this?

gone from the http://www.flags.net/images/smallflags/IRAQ0001.GIF goals of yore to http://www.flags.net/images/smallflags/UNST0001.GIF goals

good to see atsu

booooo, that was iraq/usa

Saw Emre Can in Topman this afternoon.

motd anniversary fonts v nice

fuck zarate life ban

yeah i could get used to the retro stylings

bit twee i thought tbh

bazza didnt disappoint mind - "four heads to find, he had to find his own feet first"

yeah i was pretty annoyed at all that 1970s graphics bullshit

every "celebration" is a tawdry rewrite of history

enjoyed shearer's stony expression as savage highly recommended lennon for the palace job

probably just overinterpreted his brainless resting face but still

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#believe

Thinking that Lil Aaron might have been quite useful against a team playing three at the back, although I'm eagerly anticipating this Chadli-Traore donkey derby on the left. Otherwise this looks like quite a sensible team selection, glad that a Spurs manager has finally realised that Etienne Capoue is a very good player.

Think you'll beat us in a really annoying way today.

stream v pixelly can I get a lineup pls

lack of VG players not rly our prob in centre mid I think, more the mix

Lloris, Rose, Vertonghen, Kaboul, Dier, Bentaleb, Capoue, Chadli, Eriksen, Lamela, Adebayor.

@GuillemBalague
The price for di María (in euros): United offered 60m, Real wanted 90. Final figure: 80 million, including adds on. £63.9m

that's a lot of money

beautifully taken

thought I've seen soldado non?

well he's on the bench

how much does a set of soldado shirts cost right now

re: motd - I thought the stark white overlays were pleasingly dry. the gesture is obv borne of nostalgia & those minimal graphics were presumably deployed by the same editors who whip up all those mile-a-minute montages/Adverts For The Premier League to get 12 yo's adrenaline up, but they were new to me & their incongruously starchy looked appealed. football culture is quite twee in general w/ its livery & folk songs, none of it looks so hot if analysed from afar, & - sorry if this is a bit reflective lads, bear w/ me - perhaps the appeal of getting emotionally invested in it is, as someone once confessed to me, largely the analgesic pleasure of being stupid for a while. so anyway, I liked the graphics on match of the day last night, I thought they looked nice

so what position is dier playing

This is already way better than any Spurs performance last season. We are just so much faster getting the ball out from the back and way more fluid and intelligent in attack. Overjoyed that Lamela is finally coming good.

Dier at RB I think. Looks excellent.

otm x 3

also winning all 50/50s its strange almost as if you can actually care AND have tactics amazing

special mention for rose, against teams where we need to push up he's really very good. when we need to defend, eh jury's out at best

wow Lamela

chadli for twenty this season at cf

lovely assist from lamela. spurs are looking good here.

Pretty sure that Poch has a good idea of his best XI already, something that AVB and Timmy never did.

Really nice to see Vertonghen playing like he gives a shit again. I'm sure playing in his actual position helps

on a general note is sopcast just not a runner anymore? never have any joy finding good flash streams I'm basically getting noisy holiday slides from this one

nk just found a 5kbps stream so sharp it hz

this one's ok http://www.ifeed2all.eu/type/football.html

put ad blocker on too

this but found a good in

pls pls dembele rehab starts now

I don't think spurs were 4 goals up at any point last season. v early days but it's nice to see some crisp passing

Dembele dispossessed a QPR midfielder, ran half the length of the pitch and then straight into the opposition defence. It was like having Zokora back.

yeah he was rank when he came on

Hey he played an actual honest to god through ball for rose, baby steps

do you still have the receipt for dembele? feel free to return him for another one http://www.fulhamfc.com/player-profiles/moussa-dembele

Great seeing Capoue an autoselect for Spuds at the moment, he's like a beefcake David Howells for the 2Kteens.

Could do with those two Sunderland lads, Brown and O'Shea, in our back three.

absolute shambles

Fletcher and Cleverley midfield is a sick joke

I feel sorry for Fletcher with his health problems, but he's half the player he used to be