Can Leicester City really win the Premiership 2016-17?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37094111

don't know who's in charge of trolling at Liverpool but kudos

well that went well 4 Pardew

i don't get why liverpool are hauling palace over the coals for a 2 or 3 million in a summer where they've barely spent any money, for a player they have no need for. 30m is a p great return on a bad signing.

as i say, i don't know who's behind this, you have to assume it's some obscure moneyball ish rather than Klopp's doing

yeah i can see how it's amusing to just screw over pards, but i reckon we already won this by getting them to offer 30 fucking million for chris benteke. it's like that trial by combat ep of game of thrones, we've already killed them, we don't need to risk it all by taunting them.

supposedly they see the 7m add-on requirements as unrealistic

have probably assessed palace's bargaining position correctly tbf

i'm guessing if he does go lfc break even for the summer? v nice

spurs and bournemouth next for palace so could conceivably be bricking it come deadline day

Lloris our for 4 weeks

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/first-team/general/hugo-lloris-injury-update-160816/

Palace offered an initial £23.5 million with a further £7 million in add-ons. Those additional clauses included £2.5 million should Palace qualify for the Champions League with Benteke scoring 20 goals and playing in 70 per cent of the fixtures of such a top-four campaign. These three conditions formed part of the same clause.

Ayew out for 4 months

oh and Mahrez has signed a new contract

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-accept-27m-benteke-bid-11770163

clearly Fenway knew their market

tbf once i'd seen how much of the original offer was just hot air it did make sense to play tough

it was worth a shot!

well sure, nobody goes in with their best offer first

good to see us at least trying not to be the buy high sell low twats we've been over the last six or seven seasons, in general at least

taking a big loss on Balotelli looks inevitable, might've helped motivate the Benteke negotiations

https://twitter.com/YannickBolasie/status/169402392712982528

nice of pardew to do social media for him.

Rooney vs Bournemouth

https://streamable.com/fu20

Wow thats shit. The MOTD crew said he had an excellent game iirc

just editing a dozen or so absolutely shit moments together like that would make anybody look bad

thx yala 4 softening blow by tweeting like a knob

just editing a dozen or so absolutely shit moments together like that would make anybody look bad

i was thinking this but like, it is a dozen of them.

i may have been gently lampooning TWP

that's a significant proportion of the times he's gonna be on the ball in an average match

haha i should have known

a few of them are genuinely comical.

feel like it's near impossible to make a serious case that he has his place at the club on merit, never mind starting regularly

mourinho seemed to hint at ditching him but it never materialised.

62 minutes is something else

The (hopeful) theory is that it's a give him enough rope scenario

Mourinho's already said he's not playing in midfield so one of his bolt holes is closed

Also, I watched the game and I can assure you it's an accurate representation. The shield game was actually worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwqh9Dw0FPo

Man Utd: de Gea, Valencia, Bailly, Blind, Shaw, Pogba, Fellaini, Mata, Rooney, Martial, Ibrahimovic
Southampton: Forster, Cedric, van Dijk, Fonte, Targett, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Davis, Tadic, Long, Redmond

my tip top predo is twp to score gots before pulling out a handgun and blowing his brains out in the endzone

u watching The Last Boy Scout on telly last night too?

"That’s what I’m saying, I need September because the relation can be good, the players can be good professionals, they can feel I trust all of them, but when a player doesn’t play one, two, three games, the frustration comes and it is difficult to play well,” he explained. “And when they start not training well is I have a reason for not selecting them and they go down the hill."

Nicely warned imo

really enjoy listening to English pundits getting butthurt over the dropping of Joe Hart

It's a beautiful thing.

https://twitter.com/chrisbenteke/status/766967260120543232

Benteke, whoah-oah
Benteke, whoah-oah-ah-oah
He plays for CPFC
But thinks its Burn-ley

the selhurst bard

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/512/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2016/8/20/f32a9029-b056-4252-9792-f23e367f3f26.jpg

bilbo still wants his precious ring back.

Sparky doin' the mobot in the background there.

Two-nil Burnley. The first goal was very well taken.

ah well - enjoyed this season while it lasted.

Woeful

They just ran straight through Liverpool for the second. Terrible defending.