The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[brenchill]

The only other striker I have is Bobby Zamora, so I've had to keep both Costa and Lukaku in my team

[Thrilla]

Yeah, I'm keeping Costa and Sturridge up top then and Bojan can come off the bench if need be.

[Baddar]

Di Maria can play tomorrow. No work permit for Rojo yet though. Evans it is. :/

Adam Lallana will make his Liverpool debut on Sunday.

[peteypirahna]

It'd be tragic if Rojo ends up not getting a work permit and thus having to miss the first half of the season until he can be registered again.

Or can they just register him and then keep pushing away at the work permit appeal button throughout the season?

[Gazz]

It'd be tragic if Rojo ends up not getting a work permit and thus having to miss the first half of the season until he can be registered again.

That still wouldn't get him a work permit.

[Berober]

I guess I'll play Naismith instead of Costa :/

[Colly]

We've got Mike Jones refereeing tomorrow for the first time since disallowing Tiotes goal for infringing the offside rule from the 80s. Hopefully he'll remember he owes us one...

[Lineker]

Burnley, whose biggest buy this summer is £1.5m striker Lukas Jutkiewicz, include former Manchester United reserve Tom Heaton in goal in an unchanged team.

Burnley starting XI: Heaton, Trippier, Duff, Shackell, Mee, Arfield, Jones, Marney, Taylor, Ings, Jutkiewicz.

Manchester United return to the scene of their shock 2009 Premier League defeat and hand a debut to British record signing Angel Di Maria. The £59.7m man recruited from Real Madrid starts in place of Tom Cleverley in a team that shows two changes from last week's 1-1 draw at Sunderland with the fit-again Jonny Evans replacing Chris Smalling.

Manchester United starting XI: de Gea, Jones, Evans, Blackett, Valencia, Young, Fletcher, di Maria, Mata, Rooney, Van Persie.

[Baddar]

Young again? Fucking hell.

[Colly]

Ray Stubbs definitely just asked him about signing Danny Blind.

What the hell is the formation? Di Maria centre mid?

[stokeriño]

Yeah looks like the same arrangement with Di Maria alongside Fletcher. Not a surprise - he's played there often enough for Madrid and it's really the only useful way he can fit into this formation (if Mata etc. stay put).

[Gazz]

Di Maria played CM for Madrid.

[brenchill]

Yeah, Di Maria can play CM.

[Berober]

I think di Maria is playing CM...

[Colly]

I think there's a big difference between that job in every La Liga game bar two/four and the Premier League though. Could be interesting, lot of pressure on Fletcher.

[Tigerstyle]

See, they have a great goalkeeper and four great forward players, but the 6 others are a pile of crap

[stokeriño]

See, they have a great goalkeeper and four great forward players, but the 6 others are a pile of crap

Which is weird because that's virtually the same position they were in £160 million ago.

[Baddar]

I like Jones.

[DavidMarrio]

I like Jones...only because he pulls stupid faces when he plays

[brenchill]

Johnny Evans at the heart of Utd's defence today