toontownman

We have Pearson and Roeder for that in fairness, both were good players in their day at the back. We do need experience, but I think we need someone better and more experienced than pressley.

Milner is the gimp. Unless we are planning on bringing in SWP's i see no point in getting rid of Milner. Getting rid of Carr would be fantastic, but i dont think we are in the market for another RB. Bent would be decent if we got a decent price for him and brought another striker that is big and strong and can hold up the ball. Bents someone thats in the middle of what we want and what we have. Power, pace and decent in the air, but not the Owens/Martin Type nor the Shearer/Ferdinand type we are lacking. An upgrade on Shola, but a very expensive one.

I want to see us sign Wangner Love. Just for fun.

To be fair, I dont think i would have started him many more games. He is the youngest and least experienced of all the players that could start upfront for us. I cant believe Ferguson expect Rossi to be starting every week, as ideal as it might have been for him. He certainly would have played more than double the amount of games if he was allowed to play for us in Europe.

Where's Nicky Butt? :confused:

Arteta has being playing central midfield for Everton for ages, whilst he can play on the flanks he is a central midfielder. like i said, if joe cole wanted to come here and chelsea were willing to let him go he would be here.

If we are signing a midfielder it has to be an attacking central one because we simply dont have any. Joe cole would be an option if he wanted to come here and chelsea wouldnt mind letting him go. Sidwell would be a great bet. Arteta and Nolan would be good aswell, but neither are available or affordable.

Rather have distin for half the price, better than upson aswell.

The Loan is surely Anal trying to push his SWP's theories to the hilt. I suppose we could struggle to the season end with Solano, Ramage, Taylor and Carr all capable of babysitting the position. If we get a LB, CB and two strikers i will be very pleased. Especially if we can snare Distin as the CB.

Strange one, but will be a decent signing. Will play exactly the role Shearer should have played for us in his last year or so. He is still one of the best players around in the air, add the service he will be given at Manure and he will be great coming on for the last 20/30mins of a match. He can hold the ball up well and will be good against tiring teams. Still Bizzare considering they could surely sign someone younger and better all-round in January.

NO thank you.

Needs aclimatising into the position, but looks very assured, I would be tempted to keep him there. Problem is, he doesnt want to play there, he wants carr to play there, likewise Roeder would rather play Carr.

absolutely, great battling and work ethic, but his good passing was nulified by his poor and sloppy ones. Needs to get back on the score sheet. Completely different to last season when he constantly drove forward when on the ball, now he stops to assess where he is going and generally ends up going backwards. In effect we are still lacking an attacking midfielder.

Typical performance, except this time we got all the luck in the world. Plus points. Nicky Butt was awesome, Solano and Emre were very impressive aswell. With Taylor doing well on the whole. We kept possesion and passed the ball well at times. Minus point Ramage got torn to shreds as did solano at times. but the latter was positionally much better. We cannot defend crosses, and at the other end of the pitch Luque was ignored on the LW. After excellent possesion we panic and smash the ball right down the field and lose the ball. We seem incapable of find the final pass, ball or any confidence in finding a shot from any part of the pitch. Overall job done. But as always room to vastly improve. But hopefully we can keep hold of the luck we had tonight because Frankfurt were good for the 3 points today. Another game and team and we would have been 4 down without a reply by half time.

will be good to blood some of the young-uns. Roeder is talking of maybe up to four debuts! Would expect us to rest Milner/N'Zog if they arent fully recovered. Luque is definately starting. Is Alan O'brien injured?? Should make interesting watching though. Id expect Carrol, Pattison, Huntingdon and maybe Troisi to get some time though.

:dancing:

if barton had signed for us and was playing for us now Carr would be gods gift. Ten times more likeable than Carr but a worse defender than Ramage, albeit better coming forward. As for the order... Bernard (until his last 6months), Moore, Taylor,Dabizas,Bramble, Boumsong,Distin (before he got good), Griffin,Babayaro,Ramage, Elliot, Carr, Hughes, O'Brien, Barton. Although there isnt alot to choose between any of them really. Bramble would be top if he didnt have so many mares, probably not one that didnt look dodgy at the best of times though.

Cant really tell off one Luque performance, which by itself was barely average. Especially when it came in a 4-5-1. Duff seems to lack the end product Luque showed on bried occasions but he is better at taking players on and certainly gives alot more to the cause. Personally id like to see Luque given the run of games so we could actually have a decent comparison of the two. Neither have played particularly well so i will go with N'Zogbia just to be pedantic.

Well Urban Myth maybe but my mate swears blind he's a life long city fan and has a man city tattoo on one of his arms, and he always wore long sleeve shirts for United to hide it. That aside Butt is good cover, seems to be a good proffesional and unless we buy a decent replacement whats the point. We have so many players we already need to bring in before we can ship anyone out.

blueeek.gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Ricksen he will fit right in. Worse than Carr, you would think adding competition would be the best way to see Carr improve, but he isnt even good enough for that. That said he is apparently playing well for St.Petersburg.. ewww. :happy:

Trophy cabinet for sale Albion.

Nice thinking. Good Glen has realised what everyone here realised when we played Heerenveen. I will maybe forgive Glenn as he was yet to return to the club. But finger and pulse are scrambling to get together from John o groats to lands end. Smacks of unsettling both players, and im quite suprised Roeder has come out and said it considering his normal stance on talking about players that arent ours. Good player, reasonably strong but not the type of player we need to be spending stupid amounts of money on, and it would certainly be stupid amounts of money, if he was even interested.

Thats what i was thinking, apparently we have opened initial talks? http://www.clubcall.com/index.jsp?storyID=299802

Because money is no object? You could apply that to 90% of the names thrown up in this thread.