Football

which is why clubs keep throwing piles of money on the transfer bonfire.

Football clubs in England are merely a reflection of the society we live in.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/shortcuts/2014/sep/02/jorge-mendes-football-agent-transfer-deadline-day-di-maria-man-utd-costa-chelsea

Cleverly gone as well, brilliant window. Shame it's only temporary.

Barney Ronay doing with Barney Ronay does as he tries to figure out where Danny Welbeck's career goes from here

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/sep/02/arsenal-danny-welbeck-manchester-united

and it does contain this lovely little descriptive paragraph

Take the best bits of Yaya Sanogo and Olivier Giroud – pace and agility; decent all-round finishing – slather them together with papier-mache and chicken wire and you might get something that looks a bit like a Danny Welbeck, a player who will run and finish at least some of the time, rather than doing only one of these all of the time. A team of princely little conductors finally has somebody more obviously qualified to clash the cymbals at the end of its orchestral embroidering. And all this for just £16m: half an Andy Carroll; one and a half Ross McCormacks; a Balotelli.

#nullpost

(can't seem to quote myself) but it seems we have got Cleverley after all. The closing of the window is obv a bit flexible. Good value on a loan I think.

Somewhere, Pisti is mopping his monobrow...

Roy will work him into a god. A FUCKING GOD.

taps nose

ROY! I love you Roy!

ROY!

Please come back. Please come and kick Wayne up the fucking arse.

And out on to the fucking street.
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYY!

I'm supporting Liverpool this season.

You are about as annoying as the average Liverpool fan on here.

Lol.

There is no such thing as "the average Liverpool" fan on here. They're all statistical outliers.

Can we start to construct some kind of Van Gaal Trojan Horse 2014 transfer window narrative?

Welbeck to 'accidentally' backheel own goal (á la Roboto's gif) in decisive game at the end of the season, miraculously handing United the 4th Place Trophy...

Cleverly's knee to spontaneously combust at the Villa Christmas party, mortally wounding Agbonlahor and ruining Weimann's hair?

They're all plastics.

Ftfy

@dan : He's got rid of shit, and spent a lot of money on upgrades.
He could be off this very forum.

Fair point

Someone will be along in a minute to tell him the formation he's playing is all wrong and has he considered this sick new import from China.

I'd say van Gaal is in his HHSB phase, lots of expensive parts, questionable build.

Anti porn>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Take the best bits of Yaya Sanogo and Olivier Giroud – pace and agility; decent all-round finishing – slather them together with papier-mache and chicken wire and you might get something that looks a bit like a Danny Welbeck, a player who will run and finish at least some of the time, rather than doing only one of these all of the time. A team of princely little conductors finally has somebody more obviously qualified to clash the cymbals at the end of its orchestral embroidering. And all this for just £16m: half an Andy Carroll; one and a half Ross McCormacks; a Balotelli.

Strip out the flowery bollocks and purple prose and I think that's pretty much what @lemonade and I said 2 pages back.

What's a Grauniad subscription cost these days and how easy is it to get a refund?