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I think that Pardew has realised that Best upfront alone won't work and that in the longrun Loven is shit. I think he might decide to give Ranger a chance as he will be the hungrier one and also the one capable of developing. He has the most potential to score goals for us this season if he gets a run of games and manages to get one to improve is selfesteem.

I can't see the club looking at this option, and if they are I doubt they even know Mutu is out of contract (if he now really is).

No doubt that him alone will win us plenty of points. You just noticed today that both Nolan and Guthrie moved forward and when the ball was lost there was nothing in between defence and midfield. Us to beat Arsenal 3-1 with Tiote back and having Cesc in his pocket. (literally )

We still won't get relegated. Teams like West Brom, West Ham, Blackpool, Wolverhampton are way worse. I predict us to finish around 42 points and at around 13th or 14th. Good enough for me, keep the hope guys only stupid to stop believing

I think what will save us this season from getting relegated will be the 4-5-1 tactic. Mind we are shit with it, but at least we scrape the odd points and score the odd goals from set pieces and so forth. Nolan will be vital as he will have to play a more advanced role and Guthrie-Tiote behind him. I think that Ranger will only get better while Best has proved once again he's awful and Lovenkrands will only decline from here on. If I was in charge I'd play Barton - Guthrie - Tiote - Jonas Nolan Ranger Until we get Ireland, Gosling and BARFA back.

Was thinking how tha fuck are we going to even have a chance to beat Arsenal. Then I remembered. We have Tiote back

Leon Best is a fucking joke. Put the young lads in, at least they'll have something to prove.

Fucking awful that. Was obvious though.

Hahah Leon Zinedine Zidane Best

Our only chance of getting points this season are penalties, free-kicks, corners and well drawing 0-0. We look awful up front.

Are you taking the piss?

So everyone agrees? The hattrick was a fluke and he's shit. Wonder if we could've gotten like £4million from him for the hattrick alone.

Leon Best has proven it, he is a one-match striker. he'll never be decent again. FFS I'll even take Lovenkrands before him. He's awful, thank you very much.

Come on! Those blue shirts

Loved naples, great pizza, shit hole sure, but to visit it and go to Pompeij and so on was cool. There pizza is much better than the ones in Parma, Milano, Rome, Venezia and so forth. Best pizza ive eaten in italy;) So much cheeeeeseee

Get the fuck, this is the realistic transfer targets.

through the "outstanding young talent" rule I presume (like Man Yoo did with Anderson). Any players you could have him mind? Dentinho? Looks a great player but not sure how realistic it is. From Argentina, Rogelio Funes Mori is a very promising striker and speaks English (having grew up in the states). Btw, Blackburn got a bargain in Mauro Formica. Whether it`s a gamble or not, 3m is peanuts....certainly some potential bargains in S.America if we have scouts there. We need Mirandinha, Solano, Acuna on the case! Dentinho is a good player, but very injury prone and very how'd you say, he loves himself a bit too much. But players who might be to big for us now after all their hype are Lucas from Sao Paulo Ganso Neymar But i'd look to sign a player like Jucilei who is very technically gifted and can play everywhere across the midfield. He also got his first call up to the national team and is a calm player and also very strongly built. I think he would do very well in the Premiership. However, Juventus and Paris SG are teams looking at him. But playing him in the midfield with Tiote would be immense, bar the language barrier.

If that deal comes crashing down, I'll hurt inside. haha, yes it's never going to happen. Too good for us, unfortunately, but if we finish top 6 than maybe who knows.

Honestly, we should look to sign Brazilian or Argentinian talents playing for u-20 or u-21 and so forth so we have a chance of them getting a work permit. Or we go into the continent of Europe and search for young players who are scoring plenty of goals in leagues such as Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and do some bargaining there. Belgium especially has an eye for developing young players.

There's no doubt about it that Andy Carroll has talent. But don't forget his form has skyrocket in the last 12 months and he really has developed into a good player. And really only time will tell if its true or not. However, I have my doubts that he will be even near the top 10 of the last decade that the world has seen and hence the £35million being a ridiculous amount of money. If he does develop to the £35million player then good work to liverpool, but if he doesn't they've probably made the biggest mistake ever made and that will cost them dearly.

Quinn,Goddard,Withe could all be in with the same bunch as the had a few years here and did a job as Carroll has basically come out of no where ,not saying they are better no way but tbh the thread title can be twisted as you see fit . Don't forget I was born 91, and have barely seen Cole and Beardsley, and knew very little about football when Sir Les played for us. I have seen their qualities on multiple occasions of vt and so on. Shearer and Bellamy I experienced, although as a kid, but remember telling everyone that those two together were probably only not better than bergkamp and Henry together, although I said this not to be too biased .

Some may disagree but Owen when he came was a better player, obviously older, but a better player and he cost us £17million. That he turned out to be a injury prone wanker is another thing. But he scored many and was dangerous in his first games, wasnt he? Then Bellamy, Sir Les, Alan Shearer, Beardsley, Cole are obvious examples that were better than him.

But...but..they will never play in the Champions League?

ANELKA! Lets win tomorrow!

Anybody nows what he said?? Insensitive of him to comment on it, but we have no idea what he said right?