Sparks

Back on topic... 70k a week? ffs, barely worth half of that.

A player who has never lived up to the hype, Only Boro have got decent service out of him since he left Holland as a youngster.

SBR's defense on the Bowyer signing was, "The past incidents were out of character" Barton may be deep down a nice bloke, but there are a number of prisoners in jail right now who are deep down nice blokes. Barton has serious anger issues and if he was a normal person on the street he would likely be behind bars right now.

Agreed to join West Ham according to SSN.

Barton + Butt = creativity. Could be a useful combination away from home, but I won't be happy to see the two of them lineup at home against the likes of Derby, Wigan and Fulham.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/Sparkynufc/anal2225.jpg Have a happy holiday Alan.

Shorey did as well as he could, for a player with limitations. Although his and Carraghers unwillingness to get forward was part of the reason why England didn't great much.

Well done Dyer, award for the most stupid foul ever there.

They're complaining that England are negative, but if England played all open and free like they want them to, Brazil would have destroyed them by now.

They're telling him to shoot

Who were Arsenal spending all their money on, their only big hitter is Henry.

Lets hope he can stay fit.

6.5 million wasn't it?

Most people on here could manage Lyon to the championship.

The rating system is a joke anyway, it seriously needs changing and updating. All stadiums with athletics tracks around them should be banned from hosting major games, the fact that The Olympic Stadium in Athens has a 5* rating despite having no turnstiles, a handfull of toilets and the smallest concourse you have ever seen shows how wrong Uefa have got it.

High Five, HowayTheLads?

Yes. But How was Carragher at fault for both goals? Gave the ball away for the first, and must have heard the last orders call for the second or something when he decided to try and play Inzagi offside.

Do you see how Carragher play against Barcelona and AC Milan? Very part and parcel of one of the premiership best defenses for 2 consecutive seasons. Yeah he may make those last ditch tackles but if his tackles help him defend well so be it. Does that include the Champs League final? the same final in which Carragher was at fault for both goals.

Doh, I just posted this. Baines was ranked really low.

Another McClen moment coming on then?

I just read his wikipedia page which included. - 2002 Boateng was unable to keep his place in the Panathinaikos squad, and was sent on loan to OFI, another Greek team, in which he had a terrible time. - The 2004 season saw AIK relegated from Allsvenskan for only the third time in the history of the club. Boateng, the rest of the squad and organisation received massive criticism from both media and AIK fans, requiring police escort from the arena several times when AIK had performed poorly - The 2005 season was his major breakthrough at his current side. Before the start of that campaign he was deemed an unaffordable expense and used his pre-season training trotting around Europe in search of a new club. He failed in this mission and remained at AIK. - He was considered unfit by manager Rikard Norling and only got to play regular season matches after committing to an extensive physical training program.

I'm going to take this opportunity to ask people just wtf is going on here.

A loan deal it is then.

Sounds very similar, mass of fans many without tickets trying to bunk into a stadium, that couldn't cope.

Arsenal don't want him is more like the reality. He won't come here to be a squad player and he doesn't appear to be able to adapt to the pace of the premiership, plus his finishing is only slighlty better Dyer's.