The College Dropout

18-20m is realistic.

they aren't serious.

They won't need a DM. 2 CM's and an AM in most games. 2 of the midfield 4 will be on the bench.

What? It worked a treat for Everton but obviously it's not a good fit at Man united.

I rate Soldado but he lost pretty much every header. His movement did look sharp but he's not on the same wave length as the rest of the side yet.

Sirgudsson had a very good effort and some decent deliveries. IMO he should try to become a real CM. You need your AM to have more guile than he has. It's the reason why all this Cabaye further forward talk is non-sense to me. Unless you're playing on the counter and your AM can spray long through balls, an AM as to have some real guile to his play. Or else he's just a shooter and needs 10-15 goals to justify selection as basically, a second striker. Marveaux has the bit of skill, balance to skip past a man and cause some havoc. cabaye doesn't. Neither does Suigurddson

saw Spurs in the flesh. Didn't really get out of second gear but only Capoue out of the new signings really impressed. The bedding in period might be awhile fro the new lads.

Was at Selhurst Park yesterday, my god Crystal Palace are terrible. They haven't invested very much at all. 40 year-old Kevin Phillips was noe of the few to have some Premiership movement and guile. reckon they'll finish rock bottom unless they buy at least one defender, midfielder and attacker of Premiership quality. Dean Moxley was double teamed by Lennon-Walker again and again but although he gave away the penalty, he looks to have something about him. As for Spurs. Dawson's passing was pretty impressive, kept hitting diagonals to Rose who was very good. Kyle Walker is a tremendous athlete, strong and quick - needs to work on his final ball. Vertoghnen looks cool as ice. Capoue looked good when he came on but offensively nobody impressed. Chadli improved with more space in the second half I guess.

Fucking Mourinho leaving my Captain on the bench. Your vice gets double right? That's Benteke. Might take Mata out next week and bring in RVP. He's looking like a no-brainer again.

What about the stature of our club? I know it seems hard to believe now, but for a couple of seasons around the Keegan era they were looking up the table wondering how they could achieve our CL position. Hate to say it.. but that was 15 years ago. Blackburn won the PL and they are in the Championship. Villa won the Champions League. It's as relevant as that.

Bassong n'zogbia

Jose barely rotates.

He won't do it this year imo. Not unless he gets Suarez. That's what they said when they sold Fab/nasri, then again when RVP went.

Genuinely think they might be better without him. Their form didn't dip when he was suspended. Gave Sturridge a boost if anything.

Agreed.

Yep I wasn't keen on either Downing or Bent but it is looking like we may get nobody.

He's in the first team squad for Manchester United. And if Moyes likes him as much as Fergie did, he'll get too many games to be loaned out. But not enough to really kick on.

A team with Bent & Berba up top for 25-30 games won't get relegated.

They are an old team so I don't think they can afford to press heavily away from home. Have they added any legs in midfield?

One of Fulham's biggest problems last year was when Ruiz was injured they had nobody else with a little guile except Berba. Ruiz was inconsistent too. Now they've loosened the burden/reliance on Berbatov/Ruiz. There's another player there for goals and another for creativity. They now have serious options. All out attack and play all of them, conservatively away only play 2.. or anything in the middle. The biggest thing in a relegation scrap is quality in the final third, and they have it in abundance now. They might flirt with relegation but they really have too much fire power not to get 25-35 points at home.

People still dislike Danny Welbeck? He's not a finisher at all. But he's good in the air, can hold it up, great link play, rarely wastes a pass and fro England is a 1 in 3 man. Good player.

Every. Single. Year. Spurs have had the better players for at least the last two seasons. At least the season before last RVP was the best player between them and maybe even the league. But last season, Bale was the RVP figure and Arsenal still finished above them.

They are all massively average bar maybe Carroll Separately, yes. Together they'll do a good job. To 12th or 13th yeah.... They were a few points off 8th last year with some bad injuries. They'll basically be nowhere near relegation which is something I'm envious of. They were 5 points ahead of us and I'm fairly comfortable assuming our injuries were worse. Who do you think will finish higher this year? Us. As Mole has said, there is a lot of romanticism of these players. I wouldn't be remotely excited of us signing Nolan, Carroll or Barton and even less excited about Allardyce managing us. Less romanticism than our current squad of players imo. Pardew is copping the blame for some of the worst individual performances I've ever seen in our shirt. Yet this group of awful players have got us to a league position Barton, Nolan or Carroll have never achieved and probably won't. http://i.imgur.com/gWOfiXl.png Hardly compares to what we have now. Even worse when you consider we want a few of the remaining players nowhere near the team. So what is it you want, for us to go back and sign Nolan? All I've said is I think a few West Ham players will do a good job I based that on the fact that they're buying players to make a team instead of just buying ( ) French players who become available. You're bang on with your last few posts. People forget quickly that the basis of our success involved Simpson, Saylor/Willo, Colo, Raylor, Jonas.. Obertan played a ton too. Granted HBA, Ba and Cisse played a lot.

From what i've seen so far, we aren't any stronger anywhere.

Wow, quite a claim that! I agree they might need to be a bit more disciplined at times, but I can't agree that a team with Santon/Debuchy can possibly be "a lot worse" than a team with Simpson/Raylor. Both are bang average players at best. So is this - "I don't think our squad is worse than the one that finished fifth. Ba is a big miss but Cisse benefits from his leaving and we also have Remy if he doesn't go down. Our midfield and defence is better now." I haven't seen anything form last season that proves this point. Just because the Ba and Cisse partnership didn't work it doesn't mean that Cisse (or the team) is playing any better now. Yep, it's my opinion that Cisse benefits from Ba leaving. Cisse wasn't playing that great, but he was doing much better than when he was on the right wing! Obviously if you just use last season as an example, then everyone is s***. Cisse, when Ba was around, only played minimal amount of minutes out on the wing. Something like 3 games