Kanj

Fucking idiot. Cabaye holds ALL the keys to passing football. Yeah right.

If we ever sorted out our fucking shit reserve/youth coaching we'd be getting somewhere. It's been clearly an afterthought for far, far too long.

Debuchy - Willo - MYM - Santon --------Anita---Sissoko---------- HBA--------Marv---------Sammy ------------DeJong---------------- Should be our 10 players not named Tim Krul on the pitch.

Anita/Tiote-Sissoko ----Marv---- Depending on opponent. Not ideal - but I don't see the purpose of both Anita + Tiote together on the pitch with Sissoko, as we'll then have very little creativity on the ball. Sissoko HAS to play for me b/c of his brute strength and pace on the counter. He needs to get back to his box-2-box role through the middle IMO. Marv is the only guy in our squad capable of playing the #10 role able to pick out the pass, hit a decent free kick, and hell - put in a good cross when he's out wide.

Rio >>>>> Terry. No contest imo.

Its all hypothetical - so in good fun if you want two mobile players next to Colo in the middle you'd even have to consider Anita and MYM with Tiote playing DCM.

Colo Willo MYM Deb Anita Sissoko Marv HBA LDJ Remy Willo the rock/organizer in middle, Colo and MYM good with ball at feet and decent passers, Anita holding and able cover, Debuchy and Sissoko bombing forward as one full back and one well rounded midfielder, Marv as the playmaker 10, and HBA and Remy wingers to LDJ the CF. Based on what I know about the 3313 and this good article. http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/06/08/marcelo-bielsa-chile-world-cup-2010-tactics/ /flight boredom

No. He'd be a shit left winger man

It's not the Italy template http://www.footyheadlines.com/2013/10/arsenal-14-15-2014-15-puma-home-kit.html?m=1

^^^^^^^ this.

its the same fkn company Nike sold Umbro

Sylvain has to be back in the frame now man. 3 man midfield of Sissoko, Anita, and Marv with LDJ, HBA, and Gouff up top.

Barring any craziness, we should be getting that template (exactly) so hopefully they won't make a fucking muck of our stripes like the past 2 years with spikes or blue lines in them, but hopefully a simple black and white kit, (the white stripe on Italy will probably be blue for us?), black shorts with white stripe, and black socks with the white detail.

What a stupid quote, players wanted discipline - they didn't get that, so they went off and did the undisciplined thing and went drinking. Bielsa, pls no.

Cortese + Laudrup pls

I don't see a situation where Gaglardi would be a football club owner, however if he ever were to be one, it would be him and/or partnership versus the hotel company Sandman. He definitely knows who we are given their Newcastle property is a one of 2 they have in the UK. FWIW when he bought the building to build the Sandman Signature: http://www.northerndesignawards.com/entry/2012/sandman-signature-hotel-newcastle

No offence but that sounds like a load of s****. I know - straws being clutched at. he seemed quite sincere about it. oh well, we can still live in hope. I'm just desperate to believe there is a buyer out there. Interesting....Their CEO owning the Dallas Stars is decently relevant. Hope he's partnering with Jerry Jones

Debuchy seems to play really well against better wingers too - he'll know every single one of Hazard's tricks from their time at Lille

Forgot about that creepy guy Jeff Vetere, the guy who know people's shoe sizes or some shit.

Wasn't the structure: Mort - Chairman Llambias - Deputy Chairman Wise - DOF Jimenez - VP Player Recruitment? Mort stepped back to his legal practice and Llambias moved up?

How do we know if Carr wasn't part of the problem here ? One thing that has me very concerned is how come we had seemingly only one option once Cabaye was sold, it was Grenier or nowt, surely as the chief scout he should have had a list of targets not just one. Now we have no way of knowing if he did but JFK and MA just refused to move down to the next man on the list. But at the same time we don't have anything to suggest he did. Carr may not be blameless in this whole scenario, so I wouldn't be too fast to make him King just yet. I for one was worried that the great Graham Carr Experiment (as I coined it) had failed and was worried many of those he signed were purely potential and not had what it takes to step their individual games up. I was obviously wrong, but you need to realize we only hear about Cabella or Grenier as those are the 2 that may have been leaked or progressed. For all we know, there could have been 15 targets but these 2 fit the age/price/contract requirement. Graham Carr isn't daft, he obviously knows the situation of players he must work within to fit into our transfer policy. IF those policies were even loosened a bit, I'm sure he'd be telling anyone who'd listen to go and sign a better quality player who'd cost more from a different country.

I'm not a fan of Haidara defensively either, but if we are going to play Anita, Tiote, Sissoko - then AP needs to drill into those 3 that Debuchy and Haidara are going to be push up to create chances and they need to be disciplined in their midfield roles to cover for these full backs.