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Bosko Balaban Steve Marlet (12m ) Christian Bassedas All worthy of a mention

According to sky sports news Owen is expected to start. I would personally go 442 but think he'll go with: given taylor......roz......cacapa.....zog geremi....butt.....smith viduka....owen....milner subs - martins, enrique, harper, emre??, Ameobi Got a funny feeling we may struggle to break them down despite our attacking team and them having bramble. I'd snatch your hands off if offered 1-0!

sickening news, makes you sit up and think anyone could have heart problems and not know about it. Makes me feel like i should go and get myself checked out. Even worse to hear his missus was up the Damien, very sad indeed.

Its all been positive vibes coming out of the team the last few months and it does seem we had a few knackers who were taking the p*ss recently. It has got to be Dyer i would imagine as the other lads we sold seemed to be decent professionals (Parker,Sibierski,etc). Probably why Bowyer sparked him a couple of years ago. I read Smith is playing a big part behind the scenes all nice to hear

Obvious ones being man utd 5-0 and man utd 4-3. One of the earliest football memories for me was when we beat Cameroon in Italia 90 and that will always be one of the ones i look back on

My sentiments also, always had the club at his heart despite not being good enough in the end, think some of the hatred towards him isnt appropriate!

Agreed the guy is useless. Anyone see his attempt to win the ball off the brum bloke first game of the season !

thats rank! Why do we need a 3rd kit anyway ffs?

Whats the crack with Luque, he fit or not playing?

From all the reasons i have read regarding this issue, i reckon dyer asking for a 2m loyalty bonus would annoy me more than anything if it turned out to be true. After the wages we have given him over the years and the little production we have gotten from it as well as him saying he is unhappy would make this the biggest piss take i've seen. I'm sure someone will sign him but I would NEVER give him a 2m loyalty bonus ffs!

Is it me or has everyone else got this game even though i dont pay for setanta? Setanta 1 is blocked but its the mackem match and setanta 2 is showing the game free! I had my credit card out as well to order it

I'd be amazed if he was sold and even more so at that price when Chopra and Richardson are £5m plus!! PS - whats with all the weather forecasters in signatures?

He's nee Greg Halford like!

Would be so funny if we nicked him, my mate at work who is a mackem been raving about him all week. Unfortunately i think this isnt true which i dont mind as dont think he worth 6m

Someone on another football site reckon its Phillip Lahm of Bayern Munich? Anyone know if this is a possibility?

'Reports that Allardyce wants Fulham left-back Franck Queudrue are wide of the mark and in any case the Frenchman is only valued at £3m' Anals back alright! I'd be very happy with Heinze as he is a top quality defender. I'm not totally sure about Baines and Shorey though they may not be able to cut the mustard at a bigger club, who knows? A.Ferdinand would be a disappointment but not a disaster. Bridge is really a no go i'd reckon after his latest injury!

Doesnt Anekla usually play for France though? Not too much difference between Hammers and Bolton at the moment so it seems a bit of a contradiction

Their not a bad side. Aye they finished above Deportivo if I'm not mistaken

Click me. Cheers, pleased with this. My mate reckons he was in the world cup XI for last world cup and was the PSG player of the year so sounds promising!!

Any pictures of him? dont fancy trawling through 40 pages of this thread!

Also too early i'd like to see the quality of defenders we get in. Some decent ones and we'll be challenging for fourth i reckon with Arsenal and spuds. I fancy bolton to struggle big time this season but probably still too good to go down. Hard to say with wigan with the beasts of bramble, heskey and sibierski starting for them! Reckon unless the mackems sign some more quality they'll go down their defence is shite!

1. Manchester United Liverpool Arsenal Chelsea 2. Tottenham Newcastle Everton Villa 3. Manchester City Sunderland West Ham 4. Fulham Blackburn Bolton 5. Boro Portsmouth Birmingham 6. Derby Reading Wigan My opinion of course

9/2 for Sunderland is extremely good odds IMO, have a very tough start and could cause them to lose confidence and they would maybe doubt themselves again that they're not good enough for the top flight. No decent signings yet even though they link themselves to players who would never dream of going there!

And he's got loads of that to. Compared to say someone like Butt. John Terry was made Chelsea captain at 21 was that wrong? I think Butt would also be a good choice its just I'm not sure if he'll be a regular starter with Emre and Barton

Think we have been hit the hardest along with Bolton although Chelsea was a surprise Jim White: 'Graeme Souness has had inconsistancies in his statements about the transfers' Hopefully a prison sentence will suffice