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Welcome to MOTD 2 Extra on BBC Two and the BBC Sport website. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
With me this lunchtime - Kevin Kilbane, MOTD commentator | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Guy Mowbray and Andy Dunn, from the Sunday Mirror. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
As ever, get involved using the hashtag #bbcfootball | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Manchester City end their six-game winless run with a 4-0 victory | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
Liverpool also win emphatically and are level at the top | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Arsene Wenger's side also score four - to leave Sunderland with the worst | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
start ever to a Premier League season. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
But misery for Jose Mourinho, who's sent to the stands, | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
as Manchester United are held at home by Burnley. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
The Sunday papers are dominated by Jose Mourinho. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Saying the Manchester United manager faces a stadium ban. | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
Andy's paper, The Sunday Mirror, has a story about Yaya Toure, | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
quoting the player's agent as saying that Pep Guardiola is snubbing his | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
How dominant Royal Liverpool? It should have been five or six at | :01:24. | :01:42. | |
half-time, how Palace went in 3-2 down at half-time, I do not know | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
because of Liverpool's dominance. Everything we expect from Liverpool | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
going forward was evident. Palace played into their hands, they | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
dropped very deep and they tried to maybe take away the spacing behind | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
them from a defensive point of view. I think Liverpool, and yesterday's | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
showing the game, you may be looked at them defensively because they did | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
show severe vulnerability. But going forward, they are as good as | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
anybody. What has changed between this season and last season so far? | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
Saddier money makes a difference and gives them more pace going forward. | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
He has got great movement with those upfront, with Roberto Firmino. He | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
still shake your head with disbelief how Daniel Sturridge cannot get in | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
the side. But you see the movement and the way they interchange, it is | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
so difficult for Scott Dann and Tomkins to deal with the movement of | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Roberto Firmino. And Roberto Firmino loves the physical battle, you put | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the ball in the air and he is not afraid to jump and use his physical | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
strength. So Liverpool going forward look as good as anything I have | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
seen. Jurgen Klopp has had a preseason, that has changed. He said | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
last season, I cannot wait for pre-season. He has had the time to | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
work with the team and with the squad. They know exactly. Talk about | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the interchange, they know exactly how they want to play. There is a | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
great dynamic amongst the players, they understand what Klopp wants and | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
he drums that in over preseason. He has had a year, he has got the squad | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
he wants and the players and the first team he wants and it is | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
showing the way they play. The understanding they have. I mentioned | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
the front three and I suppose it is almost like a front five. Yesterday, | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
Emre Can and Adam Lallana were excellent in supporting roles and | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
they know instinctively. When Roberto Firmino cuts deep Philippe | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Coutinho, -- Philippe Coutinho, it works so well. They are great going | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
forward, but will that defence come back to haunt them? Three of those | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
players you mentioned, they have hit their peak and become men. Henderson | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
is a leader and he has captained his country, Philippe Coutinho is the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
proper Number 10, not far behind Neymar in Brazilian teams, he is a | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
leader now and no longer the Prodigy turning it on occasionally. And you | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
have Adam Lallana, he is now a Liverpool player, he looks are | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Bournemouth ballplayer. It is interesting to you talked about | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Philippe Coutinho is a proper Number 10. Listening to David Pleat | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
yesterday on 5 Live, to summarise the game. In between the amusing | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
pronunciations of various players! It made me laugh as I was driving | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
home. Philippe Coutinho reminds him of Luka Modric. Yes, the same | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
stature. More goals to his game. But I am talking about, he is not just a | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Number 10 in the sense that from what David was saying he can play a | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
bit deep. She used him a bit deep this season and it did not quite | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
work for Liverpool going forward because he almost restricted him and | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
he felt he was coming too deep to receive the ball. When he starts | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
higher and comes into that position, it suits him better. This is Jurgen | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Klopp's view after Liverpool's 4-2 win. The first half, it was not | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
really clear enough and direct enough and clinical enough. But then | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
we started playing really nice football and as I say, it was really | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
outstanding what we did then, passing wise, movement wise, it was | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
really good. We scored the girls and we had a lot more chances. A good | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
goal keeper, not clinical enough from our side. One was a real | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
present and the other one less a present but we could have defended | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
better. Does the defending matter if you | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
score three or four? No, it doesn't. Liverpool's best form of defence is | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
clearly attack, it is to chase down possession in the opposite half, | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
this fabled high pressing game means defensively... You clearly have got | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
to defend better. There are still questions over maybe the goalkeeping | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
position. There is still uncertainty. I still think they are | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
vulnerable from set pieces at the back. Those things, he can work on. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
And going forward, gave -- they get so much of the ball and cause so | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
many problems, that might not be an issue. And listening to Jurgen | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Klopp, don't underestimate how much of an influence he is having come up | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
with his positivity. He will not say, tough, he will say, we are in | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the title race, we are genuine contenders. The interview I heard on | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the radio after the game, what you think of that? Spectacular! Went you | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
get a manager as bullish as that? It has to rub off on the players. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Before the game he stands on the halfway line and he stares at the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
opposition and it must be intimidating for the Palace players | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
when they are doing their drills. Jurgen Klopp is on the edge of the | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
area they are working in just literally looking at them. I don't | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
know why he does it, I don't think he has been asked a question, it is | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
almost like an intimidating thing before the game starts. Ask people | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
who knew him in Germany and they say he is charismatic, but he can also | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
be a charismatic so and so! That is the exact phrase they use and he is | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
ruthless. The Daniel Sturridge situation, he is doing what he sees | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
as best for the team and he is not afraid. Daniel Sturridge will not be | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
happy not being in the Premier league. But Jurgen Klopp is | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
ruthless. Chris says that until they sort their defence, they do not win | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
anything and they are deluded if they think they can win the league. | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
And also, yes, not the best defensively but among the best in | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the world. European football makes it much easier for them. Quickly on | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
that defence of thing, maybe there are issues, but are you saying | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
defence is any worse than Manchester City's defence and Arsenal's? | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Chelsea? Probably worse than Tottenham. But not winning anything | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
does not hold, I do not think they will win a title. Look at Kevin | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Keegan's Newcastle, do not need to score four goals to win, they are | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
not not believing anything, I don't believe that. And it said the | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
intensity they play out, eventually, that will come back to bite them by | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
February, March, April. If they have not got European football and he has | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
got a preseason, he is not an idiot. He has done this at Dortmund. He | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
knows how to talk about a team. We talked about those players, he is | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
still the biggest factor, Jurgen Klopp. We go on about coaching, the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
higher the levels of football, the less about coaching and more about | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
man management it becomes and I think he is the best in the game. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
And physically, the physical commitment of Leicester did not | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
lessen as the season went on as they had a game a week. They had a game | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
in week and it was the same team, not just the squad. It is | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
preparation as well. Training, that is what Liverpool do. It is about | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
getting the time on the training ground and the training field. It | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
will be intense the way they train, that is the way they go about | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
things, but maybe tapering it down towards games towards the end of the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
season. The luxury Jurgen Klopp has is not necessarily available to | :09:32. | :09:32. | |
other managers. Manchester City are top - | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
above Arsenal and Liverpool on goal difference - | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
after yesterday's 4-0 He is one of the best, yes? | :09:38. | :09:49. | |
Absolutely. But I want to help him to be much, much better. So that is | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
my target, to help him every game to feel how important it is for us and | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
of course he is one of the best. You have just to see how many goals he | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
schools in the Premier league, how difficult it is, and that is why I | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
am so is, so happy for him. Because of all of that, he is one of the | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
most nicest persons I ever met. And I love to work with nice guys, nice | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
people, and Sergio is one of them. You were there, how dominant were | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
they? They were quite brilliant in the first half. Every time I have | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
seen City this season, there has been one hour of football that you | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
think, this was better than last week, it is getting better and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
better. I thought too much was made of the run of winless games. It was | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
thrown into contrast because they won the first ten in a row and you | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
thought the wheels had come off, they did not, there were | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
circumstances apart from the Tottenham defeat behind every game. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
There are different games with different circumstances. When | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
everything is lumped together... Yesterday, they were still on top of | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
the Premier league, people overlook that, they are still the best in the | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
country when they hit it. He is still learning about the Premier | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
league, he has never faced a team like West Bromwich Albion before, | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
but he had a plan for them. And to his praise of Aguero was false and | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
rightly so because he was magnificent yesterday. What was | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
different yesterday? -- was all. He left him out of the Barcelona games. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
That led to some thinking he was finished at City and he was not a | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Pep Guardiola man, that is nonsense. Danny Murphy highlighted it is | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
today, he flooded the midfield for the Barcelona game and it nearly | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
worked until Claudio Bravo was sent off, it could have worked. Aguero is | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
now tracking back. He made two yesterday. His Group 2 and he made | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
one and he had a hand in everything City did. Does she scored two. We | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
have seen headlines today about Toure, he would not be doing that | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
sort of work in the middle and he has got everybody working and doing | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
the same thing. I also wonder, looking at the line yesterday, when | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
they were at the most dominant at the start of the season, it included | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
most of the players who started yesterday. Aguero, Nolito, David | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
Silva. There was only Kevin de Bruyne who did not start from that | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
dominant period early in the season. There is nothing wrong with having a | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
bit of stability. You say you understand the reasons why Aguero | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
did not play against Barcelona and if I remember, he did not start the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
previous league game against Everton. He came off the bench. To | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
me, Aguero has to play if he is fit in any game. You can be as clever as | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
you want a tactically but I think Aguero has to play in every game. As | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
he over thought it at times? Yes, can you imagine Luis Enrique turning | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
round the Luis Suarez and saying, biggest game on Saturday, you're not | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
playing. You are our best striker and you are not playing. I cannot | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
imagine it at any other club and maybe that is Guardiola saying, | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
nobody is bigger than the club, but I don't buy into that. But over that | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
praise was interesting. He is one of the greatest guys I've ever met. I | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
love that! Was almost as though it may be Guardiola had heard what | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
people were saying and that was that may be Aguero was one of those | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
players, the senior players, that Guardiola, I wouldn't say the word | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
targeted, but has said, you cannot rest on what you have done before | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
you got here. You cannot rest, so the spine, Jo Hart, Vincent Kompany, | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
Toure, Aguero, David Silva, there was a suggestion they were the ones | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
in training he was saying, you have to up your game and after this, | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
maybe this is psychological, thanks for that, you have responded. Isn't | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
the Luis Suarez comparison slightly misleading in the sense that | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Barcelona never have to play Barcelona? Therefore they don't have | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
to worry about what they do is tactically. Every side that plays | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Barcelona worries about, even a side managed by Pep Guardiola, worries | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
what they have to do tactically. When Guardiola was with Bayern | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
Munich, he tried to play three at the back against Barcelona and he | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
changed it to try and do something. I take what you are saying but the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
dog grow but! You kick it over that far side of the studio! They are | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
playing Real Madrid or the big Champions League game and you leave | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
out Luis Suarez or one of your top players, it will not happen. At any | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
other club. But that is because they are at the level of being the very, | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
very best. Sergio Aguero is not? Not Aguero, but you could argue City, as | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
with the Premier league clubs, they are not at the elite European level. | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
I am talking about the individual player. Aguero is that level, he is | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
of the elite, the ultimate. Absolutely, but if you need a | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
tactical plan at the elite level, what happens then? I get your point. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
If you put it on the team as a whole, I would take your point, I | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
would have known what she meant. That was my point! If it didn't stop | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
the cameras, I would move my chair over there! I know what you are | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
saying but the fact is that Aguero, if you are going to build a side to | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
beat the opposition, you have to play your best players and try to | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
get him right to work within that system, that is what I would say. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Not so much you build your team around him, but he has to be one of | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
the players. Surely there is no tactical system | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
he can't fit into. It has to be a balance. You can't just go there and | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
think, this is how we will do it. Barcelona have needed to do that and | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
there's no suggestion he would have dropped any of those front three, | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
there is no suggestion those players would have been dropped. Why would | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
he play on Tuesday when he didn't play Barcelona? Because he will play | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Tuesday. Just because they're away from home... That is a difference. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
We know that managers play differently away from home. But they | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
needed to be a threat in Barcelona. And he carries the biggest threat so | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
I didn't understand it. They actually played quite well on the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
day and then they threw it away. What was different yesterday, I was | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
going to mention Guendogan. He was excellent. He seems to be getting | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
the Premier League. They were having shots on goal from 20 yards. Aguero | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
would have a go, fan and Ennio would have a go. Against Everton, they | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
were trying to over do it. I'm not trying to pick arguments with every | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
guest, but it is difficult to talk about these players! Lots of texts | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
and tweets on Sergio Aguero. He has no equals in the Premier League. | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Goal drought issues or not, the strikes are sublime. I back Aguero | :17:24. | :17:35. | |
for the first team any time. That's paid for my season tickets. By the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
way, Aston Villa have taken the lead against Birmingham. It is 1-0. Is | :17:41. | :17:54. | |
this title race a three horse race? Arsenal, city and Liverpool? You | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
only have to look at what Chelsea did to Manchester United and Chelsea | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
are very much in it. Spurs are struggling a little four goals, | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
really. I know Harry Kane has been injured which has been a big part of | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
that as well. It is five and I wouldn't discount Man United. I was | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
at Man United yesterday and they should have won that game. I would | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
say six. I would say sixteens. I really believe that. So, do Arsenal | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
look like title contenders than they have done in the last five or six | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
years? Yes, without a doubt. That'll be a test for them despatching their | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
closest rivals. I would say city and Arsenal are the top to bottom I do | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
agree with Andy, I don't think we can call it all the way from. You | :18:46. | :18:54. | |
wouldn't put Arsenal top to? No, I think they will fall away. Why? The | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
one thing I would say with Arsenal, when you see them, I've seen a | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
better response in games. They had a negativity when they gave the | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
penalty away and they responded, scoring late against Burnley | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
suggests to me they are better in shape mentally and able to go over | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
that extra yard to get the result this year so I wouldn't discount | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
them but from what I've seen who is playing the better football, Arsenal | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
are playing great... Liverpool and city... You have Giroud, who hasn't | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
started a game yet, he comes off the bench, he is a different goal | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
threat. There is a little bit more about them. Do they have a better | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
defensive partnership? Yes. Per Mertesacker, I'm not totally | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
convinced about the stuffy, here's old-fashioned but I think that has | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
had an impact. He wants to defend. I haven't seen that from Per | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
Mertesacker. I think decent enough but I don't think he has that real | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
will to defend for his team, I don't see it so I think they have a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
partnership straight away. It is the perennial question... Yes, and they | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
have Spurs and Manchester United next in November. They do look you | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
know, Ramsey came in yesterday, he came on, and they've got strength | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
and depth now that they haven't had before. From one to 23, they look | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
well-stocked and you have also got players in great form. Sanchez was | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
magnificent yesterday. These teams we're talking about, Liverpool with | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Patino, Manchester City with David Silva, these great creative players, | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
they have that with Sanchez. These are players that have been opening | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
teams up time after time. Is the answer are they equipped to do it? | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
Yes, they are. Liverpool, great run of fixtures. They play the | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
Merseyside derby before Christmas. Leading up to that, they have a | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
great run of fixtures. I think Liverpool could be top at Christmas. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
And they play Manchester City on New Year's Eve. A winner of schedule for | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
everybody. We go Goodison next. Everton have gone five games without | :21:41. | :21:41. | |
a win. Romelu Lukaku has scored in his last | :21:42. | :21:58. | |
six games against West Ham, he has scored a lot of goals so far. West | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Ham now unbeaten in four games. Slaven Bilic makes one change, | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Adrian back in goal, otherwise it is the same team that played Chelsea | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
midweek. Everton have had a bit of a wobble. Their recently record... | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Equally, if they win today, they'd go within two of Spurs. Defensively, | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
they look a bit better. I think they've been like Tottenham, they | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
haven't scored enough goals this season, heavily reliant on Romelu | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Lukaku. If he isn't scoring, where are they going to get goals? | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Certainly, Ross Barkley has been out of sorts this year. Ronald Koeman | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
has questioned him, saying he needs to do various things to improve and | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
stay in the side, Ross Barkley. That is where Everton are struggling. I | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
don't think they can find anybody else to go with Romelu Lukaku to get | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
them into double figures. I saw them at city, they were swamped. They | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
looked as solid as you like. I am surprised by the recent run of | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
results, put it that way. They are a better team, put it that way. I saw | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
them with Crystal Palace. They played really well in the first half | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
an hour of the game. Once they got the goal, they almost sat off and | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
allowed Crystal Palace to come back in and Crystal Palace could have won | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
it. Are they not dominant enough? I don't think they are, I don't | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
think... Once they get in front, they continue to play. That is the | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
bigger teams. Everton will sit on their lead which is something that | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
will come. I have been impressed with Ronald Koeman and his side, | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
they look better and more solid. I totally agree that Romelu Lukaku has | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
to have more back-up in the goal-scoring front. Ross Barkley, he | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
hasn't clicked on, someone who should be playing midfield and | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
should be scoring. We have seen him score good goals, he's a good | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
finisher and player. People like that should be chipping in with | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
goals. Gerard Deulofeu and others, they should be helping Romelu Lukaku | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
in terms of providing goals. There's a little bit of... A little bit of | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
flair missing. Would rain Ruhnau help? Ronald Koeman quoted on the | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
BBC sport website saying I don't know his situation and need to | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
respect it, it's not my problem but even when we get one time the | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
possibility that Wayne Rooney is an option for Everton, I'm very | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
pleased. He shouldn't be an option for Everton. Everton have got an | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
ambitious major investor. They want to be amongst the Man Uniteds, Man | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Citys, Liverpools of this world so if Wayne Rooney isn't good enough | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Man United, why should he be good enough for Everton? I think it might | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
give him a spark, I'd take him back to Everton. I would. I think the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
majority of the fans would take him back. I think you'd fit well. Not | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
necessarily... Not long-term, but it would be nice. How would it happen? | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
Financially, it is a struggle to compete with the his wages. And | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
United would expect a decent transfer fee. I don't think that big | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
a transfer fee. I think United... My understanding is that he has this | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
year than a year on top of that, then another year which is an | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
option. Until 2018. Is it club option? An option on both sides. A | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
lot of money, in terms of their contractual commitments. Certainly | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
15 million for next season. If he isn't going to play for Manchester | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
United, as rich as they are, they can't afford to have someone having | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
that money so they'd want to get that money off their books so I'm | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
sure they'd come to some compromise. Even if Wayne Rooney came to a | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
compromise on his own wages going to Everton... Let's say he takes half | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
of what he is on at Man United, that's double on what the top end | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Everton is on. However old he is going to be, let's say pushing 32 | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
next summer, do you think he comes on in that sort of money, and Romelu | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
Lukaku is going to set I want that sort of money? Fraught with | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
problems. When you're taking him, he has played a lot of games, would he | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
be that effective for Everton? I think you'd provide a spark for the | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
club. Not necessarily you say being able to play consistently over two | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
or three seasons but I think you'd definitely provide a spark for that | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
team. Are we being a little damage your calling time on his Manchester | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
United days? Yes, but I was trying to get a debate going! I thought I'd | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
throw it in there. I don't think it should happen. It would be a bad | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
move from Everton's point of view. What I would say is it has been | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
noticeable how the bridges between Ruhnau and Everton have been rebuilt | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
over the last two or three years, Everton provided the opposition for | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
Wayne Rooney's testimonial. He takes his sons to watch Everton. It is | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
noticeable. It is a sort of romantic prodigal son story. Various | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
discussions you're contributing to on text and tweet. Ricky says, the | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
puzzle is coming together with more things to come. Fogg says Barcelona | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
wouldn't drop Suarez because he works hard whereas Aguero doesn't. | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
And Mark says, he is a Manchester City fan, which is an interesting | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
point, Spurs are five games without a win but no mention from the media | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
about a crisis there. Keep them coming. If you want to get involved. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
We move on to Sunderland to have made some unwanted history, two | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
points from ten games, the worst ever start to a Premier League | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
season. Here is David Moyes. I've been there before, maybe not quite | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
in this situation but similar situations. First of all, we've got | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
to get away from losing. We've got to get to not conceding goals. And | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
we did a pretty good job at it. But then we didn't give ourselves a | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
chance and they got a third after that and put the game beyond us. | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
Former club of yours. Can you put your finger on one problem or are | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
very multitude of problems? Multitude. Goal-scoring, defending, | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
there are a number of issues that is going on. The one thing we spoke | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
about before when Arsenal conceded a goal, they got themselves back into | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
the game. For about five minutes afterwards, there was almost panic, | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
the way that the players were addressing each other when Arsenal | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
had a corner just prior to them getting... Panic from Sunderland | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
once they got themselves back in front. Everyone was screaming at | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
each other, no one could get themselves organised, no real | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
leadership on the pitch, no real experience and it was almost as if | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
right, we've scored, we need this game to end now. Same thing against | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
Crystal Palace. You could see that. It's almost as if as a team... They | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
maybe even need to look back and see how disorganised and just how they | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
were conducting themselves on the pitch. If you look at it, you think, | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
let's get ourselves right and organised and settled in a calm way. | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
It was just such a scattered approach to getting the job done. We | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
made the point about the body language of the Sunderland players | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
after they'd scored the penalty. There was a bit of congratulations | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
to Defoe, but then the players looking back sheepishly, thinking, | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
what happens now? We all know what happened. Waiting for the inevitable | :30:25. | :30:30. | |
to happen. The whole thing feels rudderless. I'm not saying that from | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
the coach's point of view because I don't know what he can do. Sam | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Allardyce leaving the club in the summer, it's a punch to the stomach. | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
They were euphoric surviving in the Premier League. They haven't | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
recovered from Sam Allardyce leaving. If he is an experienced | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
manager who has been around the block, surely he should be able to | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
do something. There's only so much you can do with the resources at his | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
disposal at the moment. I don't think they are good enough to get | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
out of it this time. You're saying this is an unwanted statistic, the | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
start they've made, but they've been in the Premier League before where | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
it was pretty patents at this stage they were going and it feels like | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
that again. David Moyes, his biggest strength is getting the team | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
organised. Training was good but getting the team organised when | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
things were going against you just to stop opposition at times,... I | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
He was good at getting a side to stop teams. What has happened? I | :31:35. | :31:41. | |
think there is a lack of interest from the top. I am sure he has been | :31:42. | :31:47. | |
at games, we have not seen the owner at games this season, not on any | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
footage I have seen. Is the interest of all going? I don't know what is | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
going on business-wise, it feels it is just drifting. In terms of what | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
David Moyes can do, I looked at Sunderland, and I did not know how | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
they were trying to play, were they trying to pass? They will not play | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
their way out of trouble. You have to accept it has to be more | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
physical, more direct. Like it was under Allardyce. I would look at | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
Sunderland and I don't see what they are trying to do in terms of where | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
they trying to sit back and play? No, they were trying to pass on | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
occasions which they did not look comfortable with. Would they be | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
better under Allardyce at the moment? Yes, they would, he would | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
not go back. A lot of newspapers suggested that could be an option, I | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
do not believe Sam Allardyce would go back to Sunderland, why would he? | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
He took over last season when they had three points from eight or nine | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
games and performed a miracle and this is a worse situation. For his | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
own professional reputation, I think you would look at that thing, I did | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
it last season but I couldn't do it with this team. We are looking for | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
the next window, David Moyes did not have a lot of time to get players. | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
He brought some in. Yes, I know, but did he necessarily get the signings | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
he wanted? I certainly don't you with that she did. Lack of | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
leadership, you have left the club by then, Kevin. I remember the | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
terrible season, like Duncan Watmore and young players with great | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
potential, playing when baked on each ready in a struggling team, it | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
reminds me of when Michael Proctor was thrown in and Kevin Kyle, it was | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
the same sort of season. It was a difficult season and I remember at | :33:32. | :33:35. | |
times we played well in games and all of the sudden, getting in front | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
in games. It is almost, right, that is it. You cannot see the next five | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
or six minutes through and as soon as you concede, that is it, gone. | :33:47. | :33:55. | |
The involved yesterday. All brought in by David Moyes, on the bench. | :33:56. | :34:02. | |
Manquillo. Love. All brought in by David Moyes. I am not denying that, | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
with Labour targets he wanted? I would probably say no. I would say | :34:07. | :34:12. | |
no. Absolutely not. The biggest surprise of all those signings, I | :34:13. | :34:18. | |
cannot work out with all the money he was paid. How did he increase in | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
value sitting on the bench of Chelsea and the value went up? | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
Michel, I feel sorry for Moyes, he got the job late and did not have | :34:28. | :34:34. | |
time to spend in the window. Sean says, Sunderland created decent | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
chances but they lacked the creativity to create goal-scoring | :34:39. | :34:40. | |
opportunities. John, the team looks so breast of confidence, I cannot | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
see them winning a game and Moyes looks clueless. Ali, I am | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
devastated, so much has changed since last year, we may have made | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
the wrong appointment and if he fails, it may be his last job in | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
football. But at some point, a lot of Sunderland players have to take | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
responsibility because they keep going through managers and not every | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
manager... They have had very experienced managers from Moyes, | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
Allardyce, Dick Advocaat, Gus Poyet. They are not all bad. No, and I | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
think that will be, I take the point about the uncertainty in the | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
boardroom level, but I think there is a feeling of exactly that. That | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
we can't keep on making the manager the ultimate scapegoat for it. That | :35:27. | :35:30. | |
is why I think they will stick with Moyes because I think they have come | :35:31. | :35:34. | |
to that exact same conclusion. We can't keep on the change in the | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
manager and at some point, the players have to take some | :35:39. | :35:40. | |
responsibility. But the players change. You mentioned those players | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
brought in and you go down that list and do you think any of those | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
players will be instrumental in keeping Sunderland up? No, I don't, | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
but the sake Moyes did not have a transfer window to bring players in | :35:56. | :36:00. | |
a slightly inaccurate. It is not! Did he have a long-term plan to | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
bring those in? Were they signings because he needs to get bodies in in | :36:05. | :36:09. | |
such a short space of time? Stephen Pienaar was a cry for help. Yes, he | :36:10. | :36:15. | |
would have never gone to Sunderland. I am convinced he would have gone in | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
in the New Year. He probably had a number... He knows Victor as well. | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
Players he would have known and he has had to get people into do a job | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
for him. From a fan's point of view, what, you will just pay them ?20,000 | :36:30. | :36:35. | |
a week and you do not really want them? No, they are not bad players | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
but the point is, if going into the next window he has got better | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
targets long-term, at least they can do the groundwork and speak to the | :36:44. | :36:46. | |
agents and players and people around them and the clubs and get these | :36:47. | :36:54. | |
targets, get them into the club and done and dusted. He didn't have that | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
time to do that. I agree, I think fans will think we are paying them | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
this amount and the players are not being prised away from clubs, they | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
are available for a reason. Pick the yen as I is available for in reason. | :37:05. | :37:13. | |
Love, from Manchester. -- Adam Brown as I. He takes them, having known | :37:14. | :37:17. | |
they are surplus to requirements at their clubs. I think of a target as | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
somebody you think, he is doing a great job for you, we will get him | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
out of the cupboard to do a great job for us. We need bodies. This is | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
what, it is half-time in the Midlands derby, Birmingham zero, | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
Aston Villa one. This January transfer window, Aston Villa and | :37:37. | :37:39. | |
Sunderland are in for the same player. And you look at Norwich and | :37:40. | :37:47. | |
Newcastle. I know. Aston Villa are just on the verge of the playoffs at | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
this time, Aston Villa and sandalwood and there, which would a | :37:52. | :37:57. | |
player go to? That is completely down to the individual, isn't it? It | :37:58. | :38:01. | |
depends how much money is on the table. That is what it is down to. | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
Do you want to give a slightly less sitting on the fence fun -- Anza. | :38:06. | :38:09. | |
Aston Villa, absolutely. Because there will the, if they are in that | :38:10. | :38:15. | |
position, there will be a feel-good factor to Aston Villa and at | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
Sunderland, there has not been anything but do miss season. | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
Personally, I would say Sunderland because I know the potential at that | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
place and even if they came down, the potential is always there and I | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
would say Sunderland. I would agree with Guy Mowbray! But if they are | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
coming to sign me, they are in trouble. That would be very true, | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
goodness me! You are at Old Trafford yesterday, | :38:41. | :38:50. | |
what was the atmosphere like in the second toward the end, was it | :38:51. | :38:55. | |
disgruntled or a recognition they had done all but put the ball in the | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
back of the net? There was disgruntlement it was towards Mark | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
Clattenburg, I thought the atmosphere was good and the fans got | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
behind the team really well. They recognise, everyone can see what is | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
happening and United were having a shot every other minute. They were | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
camped in the barely half and trying everything they could. They unjustly | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
got a man sent off so that gets the crowd behind you more. It was fine, | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
the anger from the crowd was purely at Mark Clattenburg. And they also | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
recognised, and I think it is fair that we say this, but they played OK | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
yesterday. They were good. They could win that Game 29 times out of | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
30. I thought you were going to say 29-0! They were good. And they | :39:43. | :39:52. | |
didn't really. We must say barely defended. Fantastically. I often | :39:53. | :39:59. | |
lead people saying, the art of defending, bemoaning the fact of | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
good old-fashioned defending which has disappeared from the game. They | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
should go and watch Burnley and their centre halves is today and | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
their full-backs, they defended magnificently. Let's do Burnley. It | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
would be grossly unfair not to. They have beaten Everton, Liverpool, they | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
have done at Manchester United, they should arguably have done with | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
Arsenal and the goal should not have stored. A clean sheet against | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
Manchester United and Liverpool and arguably they should have against | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
Arsenal. It is four years today since Sean Dyche took over. The job | :40:31. | :40:38. | |
he has done has been outstanding. Where he has built the club from, | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
his greatest achievement is getting the club promoted the first time. | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
They were on the third lowest budget in the Championship and to get them | :40:44. | :40:45. | |
promote it was incredible. Now, Burnley went down and got promoted | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
and now they are a stable club. He has cemented them for the next ten | :40:51. | :40:54. | |
years of being this club that can come if they don't stay in the | :40:55. | :40:57. | |
Premier league, certainly they will stay at the top of the Championship | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
and go one. His post match interview yesterday, he said, defensively, we | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
were great. Our next thing is to be more comfortable on the ball, | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
particularly in a situation like yesterday for the half of the second | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
half against ten men. Should that be quite easy to develop for top-flight | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
football? I think when you look at Burnley the last time there were in | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
the Premier league, the mentality was to contain. That set throughout | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
the club and it is difficult to flip, being on top in games, to try | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
and... It is a mentality thing? Mentality, but they will work on | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
that in training and breaking down the opposition. The fundamentals of | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
the club and probably of Dyche, it is along the likes of Mourinho, | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
clean sheet, let's stop this clean sheet mentality. We still have | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
quality going forward, they have mooned forward and they have signed | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
Andre Gray who has done great. -- moved. They are bringing in players | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
to make them more expensive and that takes time. The mentality comes from | :42:00. | :42:05. | |
the manager, who has a perfect approach. Philosophical about going | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
down, he worked hard to get them back up. Stephen Defoe was an | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
inspired signing. He has the mentality to play for Burnley. I | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
played with Scott Arfield at Huddersfield and he gets released | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
from Huddersfield and he was trying to get a club and I knew he had the | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
talent, really talented player. You are thinking, what is going to | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
happen with this boy? He went on trial at Burnley and they realised | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
he could do the job. And his talent has taken over. He is a prime | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
example, that is down to great management, he got the best out of | :42:38. | :42:43. | |
him and also George Boyd. And Dean Marney, another one I played with. | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
These players, it you think, good players, but it is down to the | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
manager and how he has got them on the training ground and got them | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
right. It is testament to him. Of course, the players as well. They | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
have good players and the manager has brought out the best. Adam says, | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
people criticise United, Heaton was fantastic for Burnley. Most teams | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
would have struggled to score -- the school. Should United fans be | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
concerned about Mourinho? Yes, I think so. The club hierarchy should | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
be, it is not a good look to have your manager scrabbling around | :43:19. | :43:21. | |
trying to find a seat in the stands for the second half. They cannot | :43:22. | :43:27. | |
influence too much in the technical area but maybe he could have | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
affected changes more quickly and more effectively than sending down | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
notes. He will now get a stadium ban, no doubt. The circus around | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
that, remember what happened when he watched the Stoke came from a nearby | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
hotel? I just don't think it creates a good atmosphere. Body language. | :43:45. | :43:50. | |
We have to end it here and me and Kevin will have a hug, we do like | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
each other! I'll be back for Match | :43:55. | :43:55. | |
of the Day 2 tonight, | :43:56. | :43:58. |