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It's so difficult to predict what he's going to do. Given that he's praised Milner and Martins, said Owen is 100% staying, stated that Dyer will play a major part in his plans and bought Viduka and Barton i can't see Emre getting a game, and it highlights how much Big Sam is trying to build a squad. Martins.......Owen......Dyer Milner.........Butt........Barton Viduka, Solano, Duff, Ameobi, N'Zogbia, Emre, Luque, Gudjohnsen?, Edmilson all left out?

If we put him up for sale i'm almost certain that West Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam, Villa, Man City and the Smoggies would attempt to sign him. There's plenty of money being chucked around the Prem at the minute, someone's bound to buy him.

I wouldn't sell Berbatov for £50m. He's one of the most gifted players i've ever seen. The Spuds should spend the next few years building a side around this guy not selling him to a Premiership rival. Only way i can see it happening is if Tottenham sign Tevez which isn't totally beyond the realms of possibility. I will laugh my arse off it it happens though.

What do you want me to do gaffer? Mark De Man!!! Class......

IMO we need the following: 2 left backs 1 first choice right back 2 Centre backs 1 Attacking midfielder 1 Defensive midfielder Owen's replacement Suggestions: Trenthe/Baines/Quedrue/Emmanuelson Beye/Seitaridis/Richards/Vanden Borre/Geremi Chivu/Campbell/Ferdinand/Davies/Kompany/Hyypia Sneijder/Benayoun/G Barnes/Giuly/Nakamura Diop/Mark De Man (in there for comedy value more than anything else. Belgian Defensive midfielder) Defoe/Huntelaar/Kerzhakov

I thought he looked really good towards the end of his ManUre career. He was scoring goals pretty regularly and his movement off the ball was quality. Bit suprised they sold him when they did tbh. For some reason South Americans seem to take longer than any other nationality to adapt to the Premier league.

Fully agree about XL airways. FCUKING RUBBISH! Flown with them on two seperate occasions and after the first time i'd said never again, then the missus booked a holiday to Egypt flying with Excel. All 4 flights we took were delayed, the staff were crap and the amount of leg room they give you must contravene a number of human rights and health and safety laws. Unless you're 5'4" or under with a death wish i wouldn't even consider flying with them. Qute fitting that they're now sponsoring West Aaaaaaaaaaam. Dodgy c**ts!

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Baines was excellent for the U 21s last night. He was actually better defending than he was attacking but he still found time to bomb forward and cross for Nugent to score. Something else that impressed me was his delivery from set pieces, caused the Italian all sorts of problems.

Dimitar Berbatov - Spurs Thierry Henry - Barcelona Samuel Eto'o - Milan David Villa - Valencia Javier Saviola - Arsenal Fernando Torres - Atletico Jan Klaas Huntelaar - Ajax Carlos Tevez - Man Utd Nicolas Anelka - Newcastle Djibril Cisse - Marseille Louis Saha - West ham Alan Smith - Sunderland Diego Forlan - Villereal Craig Bellamy - Villa Darren Bent - Spurs Jermaine Defoe - Spurs Yakubu - Pompey David Nugent - Everton Benni McCarthy - Blackburn Obafemi Martins - Newcastle Michael Owen - Newcastle

As is we're going to sign Bellamy for £9m when we sold him for £4.5 or whatever pittance it was. FFS!

Trying to be as realistic as possible: Sneijder Baines Richards Silvestre Young Rozenhal Ben Haim Tuncay People have been saying we couldn't attract Richards. Why not? We're a better team than Man City, we have a well respected manager and a group of good players. We might not be in Europe now but it's only a matter of time before we're back there. Lineup for home games .......................Given Solano.....Taylor.....Richards....Baines Milner....Barton.......Sneijder.....Tuncay .............Owen.........Viduka Away games: .......................Given Richards....Taylor....Ben Haim.....Baines Milner........Butt......Barton.......Tuncay ................Owen.....Viduka

:celb: Happy days!! I must have felt this good at times when Bobby was in charge but it seems so long ago that i can't recall. Sam has worked his magic already in getting rid of most of the crap and almost securing 4 quality signings for -£1.5m , and to top it off he's just been handed £45m to spend. Checks over his shoulder for Jeremy Beadle.........

It doesn't have to be an expensive summer at all, especially with all the free transfers knocking about. It may just take a bit of wheeling and dealing - guess what, we've just employed the ideal man for the job. How about this: Owen goes for £11m Parker goes for £8m N'Zogbia goes for £5m shoot Carr and Babayaro Djibril Cisse for £5m Sol Campbell for £2m Giles Barnes for £5m Eidur Gudjohnsen £7m Wayne Bridge for £8m Luke Young £3m Viduka on a free Distin on a free J Lloyd Samuel on a free Igor Tudor on a free Piece of piss! Only £6m spent for a team of: Given Bridge Taylor Campbell Young Barnes Butt Milner Gudjohnsen Cisse Martins Viduka Distin Tudor Samuel Duff Solano Ameobi Emre

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I took some friends to the Birmingham fiasco a couple of weeks ago. The result was embarassing but the state of the support was pure humiliation for me. Myself, an Aussie and 3 Leeds United supporters made more noise than anyone else around us in the South stand. My mates were actually telling the guys around us to get behind their own team. We were 0-2 down at the time. Even after Milner scored it didn't get any better. None of them are in a hurry to come back.

Lets hope his toe keeps hurting til the end of the season.

You could also argue a case for a fully fit Ameobi as well. He was looking good towards the end of last season and the beginning of this. Carr, Bramble, Bernard = first division players.

Yeah, you're right he's rubbish. I'll replace him with Kevin Davies because he scored 2 last week.

Given Richards(7m) Puyol(10m) Kompany(10m) Riise(8m) Lennon(8m) Parker Kaka(25m) Duff Huntelaar(12m) Adriano(20m) Not a penny wasted!

Saw him play for Valencia about 4 months ago just before he got injured and not only did he look like he did when he was at AC Milan ie. fit, slim etc, he also scored a cracking goal. He certainly didn't look fat. The reason we haven't heard much about him is because he's been out for ages with that injury.

4 Strikers: Ashton Martins Kuyt Mido 6 Midfielders: Barry Malbranque Graveson Wright-Phillips Downing Gary O'Neill 6 Defenders: Curtis Davies Chimbonda Campbell Bridge Trabelsi Woodgate Struggled a bit with the midfielders. Haven't heard any names linked in that dept.