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Put it simple, English players are not "tactically" well-educated. That's something you can hide at club level by regular teambuilding but got exposed at international level. That's no coincidence that all those superstars - Gerrard, Lampard and Scholes in the past - plays like shit for most of their England's game. Rooney is a bit better but he seems like having motivation problems. 2010 seems a bit too early for Capello. Give him time to build the team and hopefully 2012 the team is really completed and able to perform.

Hoping this insight doesn't mean that we're more f***ed than we might have believed? not really we just put transfer cash from last year to cover loses The key point is we have mortgaged ALL the assets we have, including debt receivable.

well it "just" means that we have nearly pledged every bits of assets last year. If we got 5m transfer budget this summer I would be happy then...

Exactly. Guthrie deserves a stater role and it would be silly to spend 5m on a rotation player. Instead, a cheeky bid of 3m for Bouba Diop would be much better.

Kobe

Probably can't. His body has kinda finished, unlike Beckham.

The promotion of Airey and Adjei are the proofs that we aren't going to spend money this summer and we have to rely on them for covers. No disrespect to the lads, glad to see them given chances - but that would be unlikely to happen should we have a 10m+ transfer budget.

South Africa is worse than Brazil imo. Other than the crime rate, there's lots of terrorists. 2018 should be the battle between China and Australia. For 2022, my bet would be England or Netherlands.

The point is, probably no manager in the world can beat Barca without a superstar team. Inter isn't that great in terms of player quality compare with Chelsea last year. However Mourinho did it. That's enough. The beauty of football is how the team win the game by playing out their tactics and strengths.

Routledge has been shocking to be honest.

That's not bullshite. Stoke players have been playing too far too aggressive in this match.

Looks pretty bad. Hopefully its just the bone that is knackered and not the rest of it as thats usually where the problems come in. I think the opposite. It looks not that bad. I mean, for "broken foot" case, this is the minimal. If it's the knee or ankle that is knackered, Ramsey's simply finished. Hopefully he can make a recovery. Probably not a full one, but 80% is possible.

I don't understand his logic. So every "throw-in" becomes a FK?

You guys get it wrong. To say Argentina's best winger atm (painfully true) is shit is unbelievable. He just aren't willing to play 100%. Not questioning his attitude, but probably due to the upcoming 2010 World Cup. Being assured by Maradona that he is a definite starter, he probably agreed to take no risk at club level. That's why he is unwilling to take on opponents --- an injury can end his World Cup dream. Boo him or not, I can understand his decision.

Dave, I got your point, just that it does matter when the club needs cash injection just for paying the expenses. I hope we won't be in this position but it is not impossible either.

Believe it or don't, it's Carroll who has higher probabilities to succeed in EPL. Not doubting Ranger's talents but Carroll's aerial abilities is exceptional.

It would be silly to replace Hughton at the moment. He should be allowed to manage the whole season. After that we should find someone who is much better than Shearer.

What he said is he stopped playing "for the last few matches" in order to get move. I don't blame him tbh, considered that he has been overlooked for nearly half a year and clearly he isn't going to get any matches in the coming year.

to look in an optimistic point of view, this means Ashley did want to sell the club to Moat --- and probably Moat do have a chance to secure his finance, or else Ashley would simply take the club off the market.

It's very silly to think that the money will be re-invested, Kaka. Never going to happen under Ashley.

Kazenga/Vukcic gotta step up now....

Even though he is able to set up plays for other players, I'd prefer him to stand near to the goal and make direct header attempt.

I've definitely never seen him play. Or heard his name before. Just because you didn't pay attention enough. Brazil's 2nd best U-21 striker after Pato.

WFC TBH.