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At least Mort won't be fooled into thinking we have a good defence I guess.

Goal details?

I'm sure you know how to use e-mail, lets know how you get on. Get to f***. I wouldn't put my name to an email like that, but I'd genuinely like to see the response. He might sign G-Unit to play in defence or something.

I wish he would say that in those exact words.

To be fair, he probably is one of their worst signings of all time taking everything into account despite how good of a player he is.

Fair play to him for saying that. I think the fact that he said talking to the media is not Chris Morts priority means you can more or less rubbish every story he prints about new signings! Like that lunatic will be allowed anywhere near Mort to ask or tell him things from now on. "Mr Mort, a Mr Oliver is downstairs wondering if he could have a chat with you" "Release the hounds" "No scrap that, release Joey Barton" LOL.

We don't. The lack of transfers so far combined with Sam Allardyces quotes are all worrying.

Meh.

Will we actually do some transfers now then?

How is Viduka at penalties? I don't want Owen on penalties cos he's fucking awful at them.

Sure sell him. All evidence suggests we'll sign a replacement, much like we did after letting all those defenders go.

I think Barton's injury has given us all a jerk of reality and shown just how thin we are in several areas. As things stand with injuries and low numbers, I honestly believe our defence would barely be above relegation standard with Ramage and Huntington possibly walking straight into the team. The only positions we have "sorted" are goalkeeper, the wings and up front, everywhere else needs work. In central midfield I have more faith in Emre than most but he does have injuries and I'm not convinced Butt is as good as many here make out, he's had one 'decent' season on the back of two awful seasons and he's prone to the odd injury himself. That should be our engine room, where we control games - I honestly thought Barton would be the mainstay but he hasn't lasted two games. Defence simply must be the first priority but someone like Baptista would be such a useful addition. We can move people into unfamiliar positions, but then problems can pop up in the gaps they leave. It's a problem that'll only be solved by bringing more bodies in, but to see Big Sam trying to juggle players around doesn't fill me with confidence that the numbers we need will make it through the door. Taking a look at our squad and Sam's comments over the last couple of weeks I'm a bit concerned at the way things are going. Glad I'm not the only one. We have two recognised central defenders and one of them is still young and fairly wreckless in the way he plays. We have no decent full backs. The only one who's capable of doing alright there is Solano who we're being told might be used in a central midfield 3. We really don't have enough central midfielders to play Sam's 4-3-3 as evidenced by nearly a whole reserve/youth team playing the second halves in the two friendlies so far. In fact we barely have enough to cover two 4-4-2 formations. There seems to be no sign of new signings and Sam is already voicing his frustration at the new boards naivity/incompetence. Things look very worrying after looking so good to begin with :-/.

Maybe he just has a big man fetish.

It's great that he's gonna stay then. I'm more pleased by what he says about Sams approach to training though!

Heinze

If only lol.

Awesome band.

Would prefer Berbatov to any of that lot tbh though Shearer and Ferdinand in their prime definatly beat the rest. Yeah cos Berbatov is far better than Shearer ever was. mackems.gif

Let's just see what happens eh? *Moderate excitement*.

Change Edgar (As much LB as Barton is DM, tbh) to Duff/Babayaro/Carr and that's mine. I see what you're saying but I'm just loathe to put Babayaro or Carr in the team lol. Hopefully more signings will sort that out.

----------------------Given---------------------- Geremi------Rozenhal-Taylor-----Edgar--- -------------Barton---Butt----Emre----------- ---------Owen----Viduka---Martins---------- Although to be honest I can't see the front 3 working at all.

Absolute farce, but totally expected. Evil always wins after all.

OMG! Edmilson MUST be rubbish then! I agree. Persuing this matter any further will only waste valuable seconds.

Is it too much to hope for a bid for Andrade even if we do sign Edmilson? Think we need a player like Andrade more than anything.

Classic Sunderland.