Leazes1986

The main thing here of course is we have to sell him if Arsenal bid for him, and with two of the mornings papers reporting this so far it looks like there could be something in it. Looks like we might have seen the last of him.

In an ideal world we will keep both him and Owen. If we do lost both though we could replace them with two more reliable strikers. Both Owen and Martins are unreliable for various reasons.

Very very harsh.

Who the hell do you expect us to sign? He covers a few positions, is cheap, experienced, and is a good quality player. Nobby is more than capable at right back, but Geremi is better there because he is better defensively. I don't understand what some people want. This is exactly the type of signing we should have been making last summer.

Big money will not always get you a top defender. A good manager can identify a quality defender though even if he isn't a big name.

Hope we get him. I wanted him here last summer. I would be absolutely chuffed if we end June having signed Rozenhal, Geremi, Barton and Viduka for a total of £8.8m

And what's to say they won't be the next Repka & Boumsong then? About £5m tells me he won't be the next Boumsong

How many of Cech, Carvalho, Robben & Drogba had played any Premiership games at all when Chelsea signed them in 2004? Number 3 was not the main point though and is just a minor one. The first two questions i asked are the important ones because at the end of the day we don't even have a decent starting line up to put together yet. Signing big players might fill the gaps in your line up, but you're gonna be seeing Matty Pattison on the bench cos you won't have money left over to build the rest of the squad.

Have a look at these lists and tell me who you'd sooner have.... Barton, Viduka, Rozehnal, Beye. or.... Gattuso, Ashton, Andrade, Miguel. 1.Estimate how much Barton, Viduka, Rozehnal, Beye would cost then see how much you are left over with out of a potential £50m 2.Estimate how much Gattuso, Ashton, Andrade, Miguel would cost then see how much you are left over with out of a potential £50m 3.How many players out of Gattuso, Ashton, Andrade, Miguel have played over 40 Premiership games?

For the people wanting big money signings over cheaper players i say why don't you go on nufc.com and look at the tansfer section under Souness and have a little think. If the £50m bit is true i would be happy for him to spend £30-£35m on bulking up the squad with good quality players, then maybe bringing in one big signing and it would have to be a creative playmaker for me.

From a Brugge fan on a forum i go on:

Richards is so much better than Bramble its actually painful.

Taylor definitely still has rough edges, but you can see even now that he has the potential to go all the way. Everyone had doubts about Bramble all of his career really. Taylor has the right attitude and he wants to improve. As long as he keeps a steady head and gets a decent defence around him he can really be a quality defender.

Carr should never play another game for us. He's fat and slow and his attitude is awful. Very poor defender. When he was younger he was always one of them full backs who were better going foward than defending but he had some pace to be able to do it effectively back then. Now he just gets caught out time and time again. Even if his attitude was spot on, he still couldn't get away with his lack of pace in that position. Nobby gets away with it because he's clever as fuck and can read the game with his eyes shut.

He's not great but he's solid enough and i would take him for now for a couple of million if we can't get a top right back in.

I'd love to see him become a top manager one day.

I think i'm gonna have a brain overload with all of this stuff going on at the club at the minute. We've always been in the news, but the amounts of potential changes/things going on at the minute are madness even for our standards.

Freddy Shepherd is a great chairman. Always backs his managers etc

If it was a clause for the same price we paid for him or less i would be angry. I tell you what though, if we got £22m in for him and Owen i wouldn't lose to much sleep over it. That article also mentions offloading Dyer and Emre. I have said many times over the last few months i would definitely sell them for the right price. This article could be "way off the mark", but if its bang on i wouldn't be too unhappy. I like Martins but i think we could get someone more reliable for that money. Freddy Shepherd with these fucking clauses though

Fucking hell. Everyone knows Fat Fred interferes but i have never thought he would interfere that much. Souness could just be talking out of his arse now though. His reputation is already totally ruined so he won't do himself any harm passing some blame on to the man who sacked him and give him a £3m pay off. I hope this is Souness lying here because i already despise that fat one as it is.

I couldn't agree more. When i was watching the match the neet and he made that mistake where their striker got past him, but he got a free kick for it i thought straightaway to myself that there will be a certain few people on here who wouldn't be able to post about his mistake on here quick enough. Some people are definitely willing him to make an error just so they can say "told you so". It makes me wonder even more because we haven't had a quality defender come through the ranks here for years and now we have one who could on to be a genuine top Premiership defender if he is managed right in a good defence. Some people just love to moan though. He will go on to become a very important player for this club for years to come. I'm glad its just the forum moaners who get on his back though, rather than the 52,000 who go every other week.

On the day that we're supposedly playing Sampdoria at home as well

No centre backs will push the current lot out of the squad for a good while yet. As long as Terry, Ferdinand, Woodgate, Carragher and King all stay fit then they will be mainstays for the next couple of years. In a couple of years though i expect Taylor to have developed quite a bit. He is definitely capable of overtaking Brown, Dawson and Upson in the pecking order. Its just we have so much quality there that he's not gonna get his chance for a good while yet. I think he will go on to be a much better defender than Brown, Dawson, Lescott and Upson in a few years though. We have to remember he was robbed nearly a whole season in 05/06 as well. He's still learning. Definitely got the potential to be an international defender though, no doubts about that.

Carson has had an excellent tournament. Can't blame him.

Well there is no issue here at all. Shearer's done nothing wrong. He has done a talk in and in HIS opinion he doesn't think we should sign Bellamy back. Thats the be all and end all of this. Of course Shearer is a cancer to this club though and we will never win anything until his life ends. Worst thing to ever happen to the club.