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Exactly, and that's the only worriness I have for Kazenga at this moment. This boy, even in the worst case, will be another Chopra, which in my opinion isn't quite bad as a youth product. Not fast enough to be a winger, better than Milner though. Personally I would like him to replace Emre in the first team and save us 60k ppw.

Technically very good which seems like his brother taught him something before, good vision and teamworking, I would have no problem to blood him next season because he is really excellent as a 17 years old player. However he probably couldn't make it because of lack of physical strength --- even worse than his brother. He isn't that fast too.

I think the reason why so many youngsters failed is because our first team coaches are too shit. It seems like they all progress well in reserves but they couldn't step over to the next level and make contributions in the first team. Together with the lack of improvement on some of our so called young prospects before (Dyer, Bramble), I do think it's the coaches that should be blamed, not the boys.

unless they bid 12m for Milner, which is impossible.

Top 4....should be Liverpool then.

Zarate doesn't worth more than 8m. Spend the money on Gomis first. He is a useful squad player but shouldn't be our main target this summer.

The news of departure of Smith is even better than the signing of Ronaldinho.

To be honest we need both of them. Wouldn't mind a 30m double swoop

I do think he can be the left back understudy for Enrique and save us some money this summer.

I think the answer is simple --- he doesn't look like a star.

Birmingham is the best example of how board changes can ruin a club.

So now which team qualifies through fair play?

to be honest 7m is a very tricky price, which makes the rumour sounds real.

Bernard again. Good riddence.

Errr....is that we still have a chance of making Intertoto if we got 2 yellow cards less than Man City?

Have a try on Carroll and Gomis then.

For the best of Newcastle, we should buy a top-quality CB and let Faye play as a midfielder. Faye is actually a top quality defensive midfielder but, unfortunately, just a decent CB.

tbh I think Smith is a bigger flop than Luque.

I would rather bet on a gem recognized by Wenger than pay Zoggy + 6m for a player that's proved to be very bad in positioning and regarded as a weakness in Arsenal's squad. Diaby is a good player but his positioning is really bad. It's like you can only play him in a 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 formation, on a free role like Geremi. It would be a disaster to put him into Butt's role. Zoggy + 6m for an upgraded Geremi? Doesn't worth it tbh. I would rather have Bendtner or even Merida. We need either a top class defensive midfielder to replace Butt, or a top class creative midfielder like van der Vaart to lead the midfield. Diaby is neither one of them.

That should be Merida. Wo don't need Diaby.

Ignoring Paul Robinson, they have got Woody and King in defense, Alan Hutton as well, and they signed Modric who can solved the midfield problem, together with Jenas, Steed and Lennon. If Berbatov stays they would still have top class attacking options in the front... To be fair the only weakness I can think of is they still lack a great winger, and some of their players are injury prone. Apart from that Spurs does have the strongest squad among the rivals.

Everton, Villa, Spurs, Man City are our main rivals. Portsmouth and Blackburn will likely to fall apart. Man City would not be a problem if Thaksin hires a mediocore manager. Villa has a great squad, Everton is as solid as ever while Spurs are likely to challenge the Big 4 if Berbatov stays. We would need quite a lot of luck to got a UEFA spot tbh.

Considering Harewood has somewhat finished Given's career, I wouldn't mind Taylor did similar things to the hammers.

159%? That's really crazy

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