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We haven't struggled compared to other top flight teams have at Swansea in the past. When was the last bad result we got there? We got the 3 points there last season I remember that thanks to Demba Ba. I remember in our bad season under AVB we got incredibly lucky and managed to salvage a point with an own goal in the last minute. With a bit of luck Bony might already be off before we play them, that will help us.

Couldn't agree more, I think people let Oscar off the hook a bit. He got a goal and an assist but you can't expect everyone to get carried away with that. Give it a full season anyway but I want to see better from Oscar, it's not just the stats, Willians don't look so good yes but he hasn't been terrible by any means. I just think we should expect more from Oscar and Willian in attack, we are far too reliant on Hazard at times. Hazards stats don't even tell a true story do they, that's the point really, but realistically Hazard has been absolutely crucial in most goals or us this season, without him I dread to think.

Cech Ivanovic-Zouma-Terry-Luis Matic-Mikel Ramires-Fabregas-Hazard Costa That's hoping Ramires is fit yet, he is taking his bloody time.

Come on you can't just play the Spurs card, that's just unfair, you'll win every bloody time.

It's a new movie, but Frank Lebeouf is an actor currently. But I think that's been news for sometime, I'm sure after his retirement he went straight into it, he's been living in L.A. since or something.

Some parts I agree, I don't understand why Ake doesn't play more. Even Loftus Cheek, he got what 10 bloody minutes in a pointless game... the game was all hyped up about him from the start and we only got to see him for 10 minutes. It's frustrating but I try not to let it get to me, I have kind of accepted it. I was a huge fan of Josh McEachran, I don't know if you followed him closely, but Josh at the age of 16 and 17 was scary, his vision and passing was unbelievable. Watch his debut game against Marseillie in the Champions League under Ancelotti. He was fantastic. And now... well to be honest it all went downhill when he got that new contract, even now he is more bothered about his cars and girlfriend. Nevermind though I guess.

They've been average all season, the luck they have had has been incredible, especially during December. In my time of watching football to this day I have never known a team to have so many sitters missed against them as United have. I still expect them to finish top 4, wouldn't surprise me if they got 3rd, I seriously hope they don't though, would love to see them spend that much and finish outside of it.

Paul Pogba. Edit: I could have said something like Josh McEachran their and ticked everyone off, nevermind.

From what I've seen of Loftus-Cheek he looks like one day he will turn out to be a very good player, but not here. We just don't show that faith in the youth, it's not really how we do things, Ake has been impressive at every moment and can barely get game time, if he was at Arsenal he would be playing at least half the games of a season. It's a shame but to look on the realistic side it's how we have consistently good performances. I wouldn't write off his ability at all, but I have no hopes of the lad ever becoming a star here, not if we buy him in the future like we did with Matic.

He reminds me a bit of Zidane with his skill, seems to be able to take the ball past anyone in the middle of the pitch, very hard to disposes. Will he even be off in the summer? I haven't heard much, it's not like a Reus situation currently is it, we definitely know Marco Reus will end up somewhere and we are potential candidate, as for Pogba I'm not even sure he is going to leave anytime soon.

I didn't say a word about Kun, Aguero for me is the best in the league. But to put Sanchez in the same class as Bale, you're either really overrating Sanchez or criminally underrating Bale, it's either one.

Some people are so fickle when it comes to this sport also, he hasn't had a season yet and already some people would put him down for ballon d'or. If he keeps this up consistently for another season then I see no reason why not to call him an amazing player. But people seem to forget, at Arsenal alone we had Ozil who was amazing when he first arrived, Nasri 4 years ago looked unbelievable until about February, Fabregas did the same for them just about every year then died out in January.

Okay, I had no idea about what happened, all I saw was one post on the forum saying something about FFP and his wages so they had to offload him quick.

And now they are spending 25 million on Wilfried Bony... I thought they had to get rid of Negredo due to FFP??

I love how when Van Gaal was set on Spurs midway of last season and no one said a word about him. As soon as he was going for the United job when Moyes got the sack all I heard was Van Gaal tactical genius and then apparently he was responsible for how good Barcelona are today and one of the best tacticians in the game for subbing a keeper on in penalty shoot out in the World Cup.

When did Southampton get Elia? Always looked a decent player him in his younger days had good vision, went to Juve and never heard of him after that.

You're getting carried away over 5 months. Bale destroyed the Premier League in his final season here, he is a different class to Sanchez. Sanchez appears to be doing really well but can he keep that up for the rest of the season? Can he do this again next season? That remains to be seen. And are you seriously saying he's in the same class as Hazard? Again you're far too carried away with the stats, he hasn't shown anything to be as good as Hazard, Sanchez doesn't just fly past players from what I've seen, I'm very impressed with his work rate, he does seem to cause teams a lot of problems and he has been grabbing the goals and assists. But Hazard is almost unstoppable. There's also a difference here, Sanchez's team isn't competing for the title, he might be carrying it but as you saw today Stoke didn't even put up much of a fight, they completely gave up, Arsenal will come up against those types of sides we will never do that since we are the biggest threat in the league, teams always seem to have a game plan against us. Hazard is our best performer and we are first in the league, don't just look at the precious stats look at how they both play, and I have seen Sanchez play a lot this season and can I just say he isn't in the same class as Hazard and most certainly not Bale. That's not being bias either that's just my honest opinion, I hated Suarez but I never denied his ability, I always thought he was a good player at Ajax but I always thought he was a tad overrated also, which he was, but so is any player by Liverpool fans.

Sanchez is nowhere near Bale.

City and Swansea agree 25M fee for Bony.

Stoke haven't even changed there game plan, they are just happy to lay down and die. Wish teams would play like this against us.

Oh lord Stoke....

I find him a very overrated player, I think his goal record is one of the best ever, no doubt about it, but as a player I don't think he's the best in the world, his ability itself is not as good as some claim. Fat Ronaldo was also a selfish prick, only really cared about himself rather than being a team player, but he was a much better player than Cristiano, he could just run through defences any time, he was untouchable. I don't think Ronaldo has ever hit that level of just walzing through players whenever he liked, there was a time when you couldn't tackle Messi, and I still believe Messi is the better player out of the two, but lets avoid the endless Messi and Ronaldo debates. I agree with the Ronaldo attitude thing, I wish Hazard was a bit more egotistical, it kind of makes you the pro that you are, that's if it pays off, or you could end up like Nicolas Bentnar who still thinks he is the worlds number 1.

For a should I say usually rational person Blue Daze you do put a lot of faith into the youth. If I remember correctly you were a massive supporter of Nathaniel Chalobah? His career at Chelsea doesn't look like it's going to kickstart any soon. I for one would love to see more youth play, it was one of the few things I liked about Rafa he liked to give Ake a good run out. But I think with the way things have been dealt with in the past here I don't have much faith in the youth set up, not to sell at least 4-5 players and just bring in 2 and promote youth faith anyway. Like it or not despite FFP we will always go out in the market for a player rather than bring one through.

I think it's more of a case of the Spurs owner and board being absolute w**kers.

Arsenal look to extend there 12 game winning run at home against Stoke Says the chances of Stoke getting much from that game, I can see Arsenal winning this one then getting thumped by City next week. I can also see a United victory.