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What was going on with the dick in the green who was getting a load of shit from the leazes and then seemed to get grabbed by coppers after the 5th went in?

Have to say, that team out there today was abysmal - if they don't get a decent manager they're going to be bottom half this season and fuck knows where the season after

Started upfront for me, bargain at 5.0.

Need to keep a hold of this lad like. Villa were awful, but he was getting everything in the air.

Steven Ireland 24 today poor lad.

In Mr Lynch after shouting myself horse and this is the most satisfying pint I've had for ages. Has anyone pissed on the parade yet by saying this means we won't strengthen? West Brom must feel as torn as we did yesterday.

I was at villa park in 09 so Im fucking delighted we humiliated those petty, smalltime, boring voiced little softcocks on national tv. You were worse than awful, and I hope it hurt when you left at 4-0 and found out it was 6. Sob on the tyne? Blub in the brum. Oh, and happy birthday Steven Ireland.

Oh dear mackems, if Bent's not firing and you don't get a dodgy pen and an own goal, how are you going to beat anyone like this?

Also underlines that Wigan are turboshit rather than Blackpool being any good.

I saw that edit

Blimey. Can't believe they're the same age as well, Ireland looks older than me!

Was it a deal worth £20m including Ireland or £20m+Ireland? Because I was a fan of Milner while he was here and I was really sorry to lose him (Ignoring the pretty healthy fee that wasn't really going to help us on the field anyway). But Ireland had a cracking few seasons for City before he was edged out after the takeover and if he gets a bit of match practise I don't think there's going to be that much between them

hughton will still be playing it down after tiotes played 15 games. OK, that got a laugh

What players could we sell and get 3.5 million out of? We've not proven ourselves to be particularly skilled in the selling side of the transfer market either, think we're the only team Man City have got a bargain out of.

So this 'no capital outlay on players' was another fat Ashley lie then?

Lazy twat! Not the kind of player we need, bad attitude.

Which Hughton won't play away from home, he'll play 4-5-1 with a strong tackling midfield. I'm not saying he's right I'm saying that's what'll happen he's more or less said it already and did it last year. We're going to be relying on our home games for the points to keep us up anyway! So would it not be helpful if we had a defence who could then stop teams scoring ? They might have more of a chance of that if the ball wasn't in our final third for about 75% of the game thanks to not having an outlet from our immobile midfield.

Yeah, because they know how everyone over reacts and gets antsy. Well, his current technique has certainly solved that problem, hasn't it

Which Hughton won't play away from home, he'll play 4-5-1 with a strong tackling midfield. I'm not saying he's right I'm saying that's what'll happen he's more or less said it already and did it last year. We're going to be relying on our home games for the points to keep us up anyway!

Yes, it's exactly what the club needs right now. A player who can get the ball from midfield to Carroll so he can actually put it in the net isn't a luxury, it's absolutely crucial. We need points to stay in this division and for that we need goals.

It's true though there has been 257 pages of arguing about a player probably 80% of the people on this thread have never seen play even once. It's crazy lol He's a young player rated at a price we could ordinarily never dream of paying that plays in a position we seriously need to fill, and through good fortune he's unsettled, cheaper, available on some sort of loan on the right terms and seems keen to come and play for us. Considering that on past form the alternative will be a final day signing of an underwhelming and over-priced player from the lower leagues who favours a position we've already got covered, I don't think it's surprising that people think we should grab the opportunity instead of fucking around.

Not very flattering to Ben Arfa that we wont commit to keep him even if we stay up really, isn't it. Sounds like a pretty reasonable clause to clinch the deal to me.

He's got the one by Marvin Gaye which is pretty good, dunno of any others.

Bradley Wright-Phillips.

Newcastle are monitoring Rosenborg midfielder Per Ciljan Skjelbred after admitting defeat in their bid to land Hatem Ben Arfa. http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/2010-08-19/toon-turn-rosenborg-ace-after-ben-arfa-snub A few weeks ago his agent reckoned he was probably going to Schalke mind.