Wullie

You don't really want Liverpool to win do you Sima?

Its true though, its not that long ago people were slating Drogba. I found a post on Toontastic th other day where someone was claiming Drogba and Crespo were average. I see what you mean, but Drogba had the attributes (ie finishing, holding up the ball, movement, etc) before he went to Chelsea, it was just about getting that out of him in English football. I'm not convinced the same will be said about Martins. He'll be more like a Wiltord type imo. Will get you anything between 12-18 goals a season, but will have many a poor performance in the process. Why did Drogba only get 11 goals in 60 odd games in the French second division at Martins' age then? So are you willing to give Martins 5-6 years just in the hope he'll become as good as him? What a daft question. Newcastle can't afford to buy players of Drogba's calibre who will drop straight in and get 20 a season straight away and be superb every game - even Drogba himself didn't, we know that, that's why he was getting booed by the Chelsea fans in his first season. Presumably you'd have sold the 22 year old Drogba off as not good enough, seeing as his goal rate at that age was not even as good as Oba's when he was 18-19. Players like Martins' are the best we can go for - fringe players who are on the up and have the potential to go all the way - for what it's worth, I think Martins will be absolute dynamite in a few years time.

Its true though, its not that long ago people were slating Drogba. I found a post on Toontastic th other day where someone was claiming Drogba and Crespo were average. I see what you mean, but Drogba had the attributes (ie finishing, holding up the ball, movement, etc) before he went to Chelsea, it was just about getting that out of him in English football. I'm not convinced the same will be said about Martins. He'll be more like a Wiltord type imo. Will get you anything between 12-18 goals a season, but will have many a poor performance in the process. Why did Drogba only get 11 goals in 60 odd games in the French second division at Martins' age then?

I'm still holding out hope for Sevilla.

Come on, if silly money is offered - he'll be off. We all know this. EVERY player in every team has his price. If Chelsea offered, for arguments sake £26m, could any chairman turn it down? Well, the €40m offered by Juve is roughly £26.7m and that was turned down. He's not worth it but I stick with my statement in an earlier thread that I don't think Levy would even remotely consider selling Berbatov for less than £30m, probably £35m. He gives Spurs the best chance to break into the top 4, not because he can do it on his own but by keeping him, other players who might have thought about only the top 4 when moving may now consider a 5th option. OK then! Just to be pedantic what about £36m? My point is that every player has a certain amount that can not be turned down and if the buying club keep coming back with more money, eventually a bid is going to be accepted. The wishes/ambition of the player become irrelevant. Berba has publicly said he is happy at Spurs, I don't think Levy would sell him at any price with the player's own words ready to be thrown back at him should he be sold against his wishes. Negotiations are very nearly complete for an extended contract taking him up to 2013 and doubling his money. But as, currently, he is only on £22k pw he could still earn far more elsewhere. Find it hard to believe he wouldn't be sold for 'any price' but I suppose we'll just have to wait and see what happens in the next couple of years. When Newcastle got close to the Premiership under KK, how much would they have sold Shearer for? The answer would have been 'not for sale' no matter what figure was thrown at Newcastle......... and rightly so imo. It would have been 'not for sale' but more because we didn't own him at that point.

Hoping his travel agent posts on here?

Not if it's anything like Bolton's, thanks very much.

I fucking hate the G14. As for a European Super League, the idea is sickening and I don't like the way it keeps being mentioned.

Stuttgart won it in the end.

You can only really blame Hellski for that. Tedious Mourinho. Sorry but Man Utd aren't going for it any more than they are.

Fuck me, what a yawnfest.

Quality.

If you think Pompey are going to let Campbell go for next to nowt, you're living in cloud cuckoo land imo. They don't need to sell and they've already made clear their intentions by breaking from their "one year extensions for over 30s" policy just for him.

Really!? On a free we're having a fucking laugh. Ben Haim, Campbell and Heinze for threepence. Won't Pompey have something to say about that?

Not content with knocking off his bird, midds is now conducting a footballing assassination of Steve Harper. Why won't you just leave him alone?

Heinze's 29. [/nitpick]

They did aye.

Baines - Wigan left back Barnes - Derby midfielder

Boro have frozen theirs, not reduced them.

Are some of the people in this thread smacked off their tits?

Looks like Dimi is going to Coventry. Real shame and a huge blow for Pools but I'd like to see Krul go there instead.

Dyer to Chelsea, Christ Almighty, as well as Sidwell? Quick, get on the phone, see how much they'll give us for Stephen Carr.

:lol:

£429-596, unless you're in a bar, in which case it's more expensive, up to 929.

My youtube account got disabled for putting up football footage. Same sad cunts who go round websites looking for people posting the next ten fixtures of the club they pay to go and watch. Wankers.