'Even allowing for inflation, this thread is not worth 198 Terry Francises' - EPL 2017-18

Big Sam knows

Tosun/ Bolasie/ Walcott/ Sigurdsson isn’t that bad as a front four on paper tbh and I’m confident they’ll do ok in most games in the remaining fifteen minutes after Rooney has been subbed.

They've got Schneiderlin withering away there too.

That one game when they play Walcott and Lennon together is going to be crazy.

ha i presume this will pave the way for sad photos of aaron lennon at the brittania

Poch response to real speculation is a lot less firm than usual

looks like we have a little sánchez-mkhitaryan-aubameyang circle of transfers too

xp That'd be a risky choice: my back-of-an-envelope reckoning is that, of all the managers Aaron Lennon has played under before Allardyce, only Martinez is currently managing a team.

I'm not even joking when I say Walcott would unequivocally improve that Everton team, but what's the deal with Ademola Lookman?

riotously talented free spirit with iffy teamwork

Why are there so many reports about Chelsea bidding for Andy Carroll?

'I am ashamed of him. I can't even bring myself to use his name' - Ryan Giggs' dad on Wales appointment

Sorry NV, ya boy Locadia - who's move to Wolves was blocked at the last minute last summer - is off to Brighton for about € 16m.

can't believe we're too tight to pay that

That's what I was thinking. He's had a good first half of the season for us up until he got injured (still is but not serious). Maybe his buddy Pröpper being at Brighton since the summer (also PSV) had something to do with it.

Though in all honesty I think Wolves are just aiming higher atm.

i think we're not going to splurge this window, there shdn't be any need to rush into deals but if we don't sign at least a couple more potential first teamers i think some of our fans will get stupid

again

What's going on at Chelsea?

Carroll, Crouch & Llorente seem somewhat odd targets. They must be desperate for some sort of aerial attack

supposed to have offered Roma cash + Batshuayi for Dzeko too

the thing is though, Morata is at his most effective by far in the air

most headed goals in the league iirc

Something very weird is going on at Chelsea. Putting City's complete dominance to the side, their title defence has been really quite limp and no one really seems to give a shit. Maybe the defeat to Burnley on the opening day of the season just managed expectations, but I can just see them trundling to a fifth place finish, at which point everyone shrugs, Conte leaves and Abramovich gives his successor another £300m.

Those targets just scream 'short term fix that won't unsettle Morata'. They need someone as backup given that Batshuayi clearly doesn't have Conte's trust but Dzeko is the only one you can see doing anything vaguely worthwhile there. They were sniffing around Llorente last summer but I don't know why we'd let him go without anyone else on the horizon.

Not going for Sanchez suggests reduced expectations as well.

and as for letting matic go to united

Not sure I see Dzeko going from being Serie A’s top scorer last season (with the same number of league goals as Kane) to happily playing back-up to Morata.

Yeah I meant the three Premiership strikers really. Andy Carroll makes no sense at all and looks like it may actually happen.

Andy Carroll, the white Drogba

I'd assume they want an English player who hasn't played in the Champions League this season, which throws up junk like Rooney and Austin, players they've already sold or sent out on loan - like Solanke and Abraham - or a handful like Vardy / Wilson who'd probably cost a lot more.

I'm sure he'd be a sensation at Oxford Utd, but fucking Chelsea just reaffirms my strong belief that hair weaves do actually affect brainwave activity, or put more simply: never trust a wiggy bastard.

just thinking I've never seen Russell Slade and Conte in the same room.

I haven't noticed Charlie Austin for years but is he really a worse option than Andy Carroll?

Luckily I sold all my bitcoin last month and bought Emile heskey

Austin is out with a hamstring injury and pending 3 match suspension to follow, so probably not turning heads for managers looking for short term fixes in this window. But he'd still be a better option than that donkey.

For all the stick Mourinho gets for being boring, this Chelsea team are generally much worse to watch. When Hazard's not on it, there's just nothing there

ah lennon off to burnley instead
hopefully he won't take the place of johann berg gudmundsson >:(

This is amazing. Giggs' final team meeting as Man United caretaker manager. Lol. pic.twitter.com/fbvlCywZDz

— Sean 🌹 (@shornKOOMINS) January 16, 2018

lol! I think if the Welsh FA had seen that gem they might have realised they would have been better served employing the Cefn Druids kitman than this fucking tool.

boy is my face red

What a goal! 😱

Sumptuous build-up play from Chelsea as Willian doubles their lead within 10 minutes!

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— Sky Sports PL (@SkySportsPL) January 20, 2018

omg Giggseh loooooooooool

the minute's applause for Cyrille Regis felt very otm.

Bad injury in everton game ?

McCarthy double leg break

Marco Silva has been sacked, which looks like a bizarre decision unless he’s was planning an exit strategy to take over from Allardyce.

Huh

They haven't been great lately so either they've got someone lined up and it's just Watford being Watford or something's happened behind the scenes.

Quite amusing to imagine how the Stoke board must be feeling right now.

tbf they have five points from the last ten games but they have been much better this season than anyone could have reasonably expected.

The theory seems to be that he is being courted by Everton and wasn’t allowed to leave - but still wants to in the summer - so has stopped trying but idk.

i was thinking yesterday they're in a slump but maybe we're going to replace Nuno after losing 2 games on the bounce

Watford Football Club has parted company with Marco Silva.

This has been a difficult decision and one not taken lightly. The Club is convinced the appointment of Silva was the right one and had it not been for the unwarranted approach by a Premier League rival for his services we would have continued to prosper under his leadership.

The catalyst for this decision is that unwarranted approach, something which the Board believes has seen a significant deterioration in both focus and results to the point where the long-term future of Watford FC has been jeopardised.

For the security and success of the football club, the Board believes it has to make a change.

The Club will seek to make a swift appointment and there will be no further comment until that appointment has been made.

Awful and had been coming.

Third time Southampton had the opportunity to flash a ball across basically unchallenged.

Good job Southampton can’t defend either though.

Read from a professional football writer after everton match that aurier was beginning to show signs of the complete full back we paid for and I thought u stupid cunt I hope u rot