Jelavic needs time to readjust

I think one of the things about Jelavic is that he isn't the complete striker and he doesn't have to be. He is a predator, playing on the shoulder of the last man with fantastic instincts in front of goal.

Approach play is not his strong suit, for me, and I think he's shown that by often taking the wrong option or killing an attacking move with a poor pass or layoff. Of course, that's not to say he can't do it, as his set-up for Anichebe against Newcastle proved.

Last season it wasn't as much of an issue because he was an unknown quantity and banging them in for fun. Now he's having to find space and drop deeper for the ball, spending more time helping build attacks than being on the end of them.

Things will change for him (again, Mirallas offering ammunition from the other flank can only help as teams won't be able to stack men to shut down both sides) and I hope it's soon.

That said the lack of a killer touch is probably one of the main reasons we're 10 points short of where we should be. We need a few games with goals from him and I'll bet it happens before long.

The next few games are ones we should win but the disappointing results this year have been against slightly weaker teams – definitely time to step up!

Why would Fellaini replace Osman? For everything Fellaini is, he is not a creative midfielder.

I don't know if I should take seriously a man who can't even spell his own name.

A midfield of:

Pienaar Ossie Fellaini Gibson Mirallas

That looks fine to me.

Yes, he does do more work now that Cahill has gone... and yes, defenders will have been swatting up on him so he does need to improve/adapt, but he is not suddenly a flop!

I would like to see the club bring in another forward to ease the expectancy on only him scoring and maybe even give him the chance of a rest, he does look a tad tired at times.

Jelavic has missed a lot of chances that he may have put away last season. At Swansea for example he had the moment he spun his man and put it just the wrong side of the post, he had the header from a corner that was cleared off the line, and he had the lay down from Vellios that he steered just over the bar: three decent half chances, he would have scored one of them last season but not this.

Whether this downturn is due to luck/fatigue/form is hard to say but I don't really buy it when people say he's not getting chances because he is. He's just not putting them away so regularly. Hopefully that will soon change.

My bottom line is that he works hard. He'll come good!

And if Peter Barry doesn't think Mirallas is an improvement over Naismith as a provider... well... I don't even know where to start!

Jella is and they will start going in sooner rather than later. Then watch him go - just like the end of last season. He is a class act and will come good.

I have just sent him the following e-mail:

Charlie, all fans are fickle including your beloved Gooners, In Arsene we trust... in Arsene we don't trust – they dont know who or what they want. Chelsea fans ridiculing Rafa (that's okay with me).Real Madrid waving handkerchiefs. All of a sudden, Man City have fans who watch their games with their arms folded... Kopites beating their chairman's son. Geordies singing "You don't know what you're doing" to every manager they get.

It's all about FRUSTRATION so don't just blame Evertonians, Charlie, just like Dave Prentice (who in turn backs Suarez for diving, that's another matter) of the Liverpool Red Echo.

ps: Don't forget to tell Thompson how good his team is when you're licking his boots and doing their game.

pps: Glen Johnson should have been sent off against Man Utd for a second bookable offence on Valencia, not a word said from all these know-it-all pundits.

Franny Lee, who played for Man City ages ago, won loads of penalties by diving long before a foreign player played in English football. Does anyone remember his diving? He was the original Gareth Bale (but cleverer).

Why does a player get castigated for scoring with his hand? What is the difference between handling the ball and diving for a pen?

Another blast from the past was Ray Crawford scoring with a blatant handball against Everton at Goodison Park years before Maradona's bit of mischief. Crawford was playing for Ipswich which was managed by... BOBBY ROBSON!!! (What a fucking hypocrite!)

When the RS are struggling, they throw £12 mill on Sturridge and we have to wait until 11:45 on the last day of January for a loan or two... Different worlds, my friends, sad to say...

LFC are trying to buy 4th; we are struggling to hang onto what we have... Different worlds.