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Played together at Man City, so knew each other already.

It's enough for me. Don't get it - how easy do you think goalscoring is and do you think Maresca is just out to try and lose his job? Jeez.

Strikers are judged on how many goals they score though. Don't think there is a team in the whole division that is currently happy with their no. 9 even Citeh! Hardest thing to do in football is score a goal but this gets taken for granted. They don't just roll Jackson out on a Saturday and hope for the best - he's scoring goals and the teams scoring goals and he's not going to get any better by not playing. So is being given the opportunity to improve and if this doesn't happens, then he will be replaced. Simples. Firmly behind him myself at the moment at least!

Guess it would still be green early in the season - by Xmas a colour tv would have been wasted on you!

It is obviously not something he is doing on a whim and will have already given it considerable thought. Always loved Marcos even when there were many who didn't want him near the team. Also a lesson for Lampard in his future management career in that you can't just ostracise players because of personal differences. Both he and Rudiger could have left but are now linchpins of TTs team.

Sarri was just trying to justify his own tactics. How about getting Kovacic and Kante to switch positions even for a few minutes if we are not holding the ball, or even just doing something different? The guy should be thinking on his feet not just setting up the team at the start and saying that we were 'struggling' for a full half hour. We were playing Malmo not Barcelona or Man City. Their players put in a good shift in the first half but were always going to either run out of energy or get caught out because they were playing against better players.

Shearer's clips are on the whole quite meaningless imho. Takes a couple of seconds here or there from the whole 90 minutes and then discusses them out of context of the actual game. I tend to only watch MOTD from a recording so that I can skip their pointless analysis! Not a Jorginho fan either btw as yet to understand exactly what he brings to the table, what makes him so undroppable or why Sarri cannot change the plan mid-game when he becomes so obviously shut down by opposing teams.

Watching on BT Sport myself - but Google is your friend - always comes up with a (watchable) stream.

Next game is actually THREE days later v Spurs.

We won't be able to get our possession stats up cos it's Citeh. Otherwise could go for the record of say 85% (with Jorginho making 300 passes) whilst still getting tonked within an inch of our lives.

Plan B????? You're really having a laugh now

Nah. Didn't want him at first but did a decent enough job and warmed to him in the end. Is streets ahead of the Sarri tactically speaking...but then so is my Nan and she's dead.

Point is he already said he wouldn't. If plan A don't work you get better at Plan A so he says.. United had a plan for the first half and a different one for the second.