James

Aye, can't quite fathom that one myself. Simple, after one year with us, he can go wherever he wants at a low price as he thinks he'll be good enough. Sign a permanent deal with Benfica and he'll find it harder to leave. on the other hand proving himself on the champions league stage would attract a lot of interest and portugese sides do have a tendency to sell players to big clubs For £15m, which managers are unlikely to risk on a temperamental lightweight player with no PL experience.

He would be the best player in our squad by an absolute chasm. If he was that good, he wouldn't be signing for Newcastle. To be honest I'm suprised the likes of Wigan and Sunderland haven't gone for him. Birmingham as well it would seem would rather sign N'Zogbia. Perhaps the fact that they haven't speaks volumes. This could be a player who thinks he is entitled to be at a much higher standard than he is, put in a series of complacent ineffective performances, and subsequently wreck the entire team. This is a massive gamble, we could get survival from this, but we could get yet another massive car crash.

Aye, can't quite fathom that one myself. Simple, after one year with us, he can go wherever he wants at a low price as he thinks he'll be good enough. Sign a permanent deal with Benfica and he'll find it harder to leave. Why not go on loan to Benfica? Probably because he wants to go to the Premier League. No decent club in the PL will touch him right now, so I imagine he wants to prove himself, and where better to do it than here. See Tevez and Mascherano.

Ben Arfa will expect to be first name on the teamsheet

Aye, can't quite fathom that one myself. Simple, after one year with us, he can go wherever he wants at a low price as he thinks he'll be good enough. Sign a permanent deal with Benfica and he'll find it harder to leave.

Will he agree in February?

Aye, not that they mean much if a bigger fish comes in though. Surely if there's a contractual agreement in place though? I guess then the player cna just worm his way out of it.. Considering he can leave for £3m next summer, I think such a clause can not exist.

How can he be here Tuesday or Wednesday if he is playing for France? Despite my reservations about this player loan is best if it happens. Although it won't be with a view to a permanent, as anyone can get him for £3m next season.

I think we have six or seven options, but Hughton won't use the best three or four.

Pretty much agree with all that. Would also add first team experience for Vuckic as a positive. However, the biggest positive, which you have overlooked is first team football for James Tavernier. Invaluable experience, and maybe we'll see the benefit one day.

Yes, you have made yourself look like an idiot. Well done.

We won't be able to sell Taylor with his injury. Any other we'd be able to sell for a fee would cost as much to replace at equal quality.

Think people are being naive if they think liquidating Portsmouth will make other clubs pay their taxes. Reality is that individuals take over football clubs for their own personal glory and have no intention of running things properly. Then they scarper before they can be held to account. Only changing that will protect the taxman.

The people who took the piss should go to jail. Those that are left deserve their football club. Truth is that Portsmouth are a private company who can generate future tax payments to be pumped into the economy. Liquidate the club and you lose £37m plus all future tax revenues. Dont liquidate the club and get a bit back from the CVA, and get future tax revenues from a stable football club. Liquidate the club and every single club in the country pays every penny it owes on the dot, year in year out. Don't liquidate them and others will take the piss and HMRC might lose a hell of a lot more than that over the next 20 years or so. There will always be a club in Portsmouth so they can always tax the new club too. Make them start from scratch. I think the fear of prison for football club directors that don't pay the taxman is most likely to stop clubs offending. Obviously this requires new government legislation, but should be brought into place. Not liquidating Portsmouth will generate significantly more tax revenue than a non-league Portsmouth.

The people who took the piss should go to jail. Those that are left deserve their football club. Truth is that Portsmouth are a private company who can generate future tax payments to be pumped into the economy. Liquidate the club and you lose £37m plus all future tax revenues. Dont liquidate the club and get a bit back from the CVA, and get future tax revenues from a stable football club.

Lovely comments there about a club like Plymouth, who showed us a massive amount of decency and respect in April. Or Exeter City, highest placed fan owned club in the English football pyramid.

Long term prison sentences for the guilty directors/chairmen would be a more appropriate and fair course of action.

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got. Talent, technique, skill, pace, flair. Team spirit doesn't do anything for any of those, and yet they're what we are missing in abundance. Ideally we want team spirit too, but quality always wins out in this league. I disagree. The winners in football always have team spirit. Teams with quality players that win nothing almost not. Robinho at Man City is a good case study. Robinho clearly didn't want to go there, and did so purely because of the money. Shit example. Nonetheless, name a success that wasn't built on team spirit...

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got. Talent, technique, skill, pace, flair. Team spirit doesn't do anything for any of those, and yet they're what we are missing in abundance. Ideally we want team spirit too, but quality always wins out in this league. I disagree. The winners in football always have team spirit. Teams with quality players that win nothing almost not. Robinho at Man City is a good case study.

Absofuckinglutely. I don't think anyone will disagree. However, it is possible to have a different opinion on what will make a quality player for the team we've got.

Our survival is not dependent on a few players being good, more it relies on 5-8 players not being bad. Rock the boat with an individual like Ben Arfa, watch team morale drop, and watch NUFC drop down the league just like before. Our survival depends on us being able to score enough goals against the dross that fills the bottom half of the league, currently our attack isn't good enough to do this. Have you actually got any evidence Ben Arfa is a bad apple as a pose to a stereotypically sulky Frenchman? People posted links to articles when he was first linked. Yes we do need quality players, probably 5 or 6, but buy the wrong ones and you end up with the Newcastle non-team that got themselves relegated with players that showed up against the big teams, and then lost to Hull. Ben Arfa is a wrong one, and I personally don't think Hughton even wants him.

Our survival is not dependent on a few players being good, more it relies on 5-8 players not being bad. Rock the boat with an individual like Ben Arfa, watch team morale drop, and watch NUFC drop down the league just like before.

Cleverley will never make the Man Utd team. We'd be building him up for ourselves if we really wanted him.

I reckon Ben Arfa would have a negative impact on the team. Cleverley would have a small positive impact.

We are going to get more from having a strong team of eleven men this season. A poncy player who has sulked his way out of France's two biggest teams is definitely not what our team needs. He's hardly top level anyhow.