Is the Bossman knocking about these days? Good move for little Tommy Carrol, eh Bossman? Good footballing side, Swansea. It'll be interesting to see if he develops into a player there as you and I agreed the PL suits his style better than the Championsh*t. As for today, we don't have Kranky to come back and bite you in the ass but we do have BIG BAD BOBBY!! Is Ekotto going to feature?
#THFC team: Lloris; Dier, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Rose; Bentaleb, Capoue; Chadli, Eriksen, Lamela; Adebayor. #COYS #THFC subs: Friedel, Davies, Dembele, Holtby, Lennon, Kane, Soldado #COYS
Friedel, Davies, Dembele, Holtby, Lennon, Kane and Soldado on the bench. That's a whole bunch of Sandro leaving stories in Monday's papers, then.
Interesting choice with Chadli starting. Adebayor obviously with the pressure on to score (as it should be) . Usual 2 + 2 = whatever transfer gossip for some of the absent players.
I thought Lennon would start instead of Chadli, but I guess the Belgian's cameo in Cyprus pushed him into the team. Looks like we'll be leaving some fairly big names out of the squad in every game, assuming everyone stays or those that leave are suitably replaced.
"Looks like we'll be leaving some fairly big names out of the squad in every game, assuming everyone stays or those that leave are suitably replaced." As it should be (if the manager has a squad meritocracy and communicates his reasons for the starting XI / bench lineups to the squad) .
QPR look like they're set up to hit us on the break, which could be very dangerous against our high line. Remy could get some joy here if he gets the proper service.
Bentaleb looks to be 1st choice. Really has been a fantastic year for the lad as Pochettino rates him as high as Sherwood did.
Aside from today, I worry for QPR (and Redknapp) if they carry on with this 3-5-2 formation as i'm not convinced it works in the premier league, which means they will probably outplay us today !
Strange decision to show Hull v Stoke instead of our game, in my opinion. I wouldn't have thought that the audience for that tie would be larger.
I guess it's just that all teams get their quote of live matches that's all. Given we will be playing on Sunday a lot unfortunately we can't always be on TV.
Paulinho was miles off the pace against Limassol and there are a lot of rumours about Sandro leaving, unfortunately.
