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Nah I meant the assumption that our strengthening will be brining in Wayne Bridge

This just typifies the ultra pessemistic attitude on here like I agree we're better off playing the game now then postponing it though.

Do you think Nasri and Fabregas will play? Neither, 100%. Hmm, tempted to put a bet on in that case.

Do you think Nasri and Fabregas will play?

Yeah I agree, I don't think either injury shows signs of an injury prone player and he doesn't seem to have a record of injuries before coming here.

Why did he only score 11 in 42 at Birgminham though? He was 18. Fair enough EDIT: Though to be fair he was playing in the Championship with Birmingham..

Actually his record is fairly shite, but I agree its hard to judge it with him not having another games consistently.

Why did he only score 11 in 42 at Birgminham though?

How about getting Bender and Dirtycock? They'd work really hard for each other IMO.

Possibly, that's what I suggested above, nobody else seems to agree though

Yep, partly because there was no transfer fee.

Said this before. I reckon hes done some damage where the original injury was - could cause all sorts of problems Based on what? The problem is in his ankle/achilles, his broken bone was well above that area. I think he'll always attract bad tackles, more so then your average player, but I cant see tackles like the last two happening consistently. They were geniunely terrible tackles that would have injured any player.

Just think hes a better overall Striker imo Ok no problem if you rate him higher overall for some reason, still don't get the "Yeh suppose probs not that hard to be better than any of our fowards at the moment" though. Why don't you rate a player who's scored 1 in 2 everywhere he's played?

I mean what in particular? Goal scoring?, hold up play? ect Do you want to compare their goal scoring records? Certainly not the first one like..

At what?, certainly not a better goal scorer. No problem if you prefer him as a player but I don't really get the "He's better than what we've got though that isn't really hard" when we've got a very good goal scorer in Ba.

Better then Ba? Fuck off

Liverpool won't get into the top 4, I'd put a bet on it if I got some half decent odds.

Yeah I knew Ameobi would get mentioned there

I doubt it if he plays Football like.

Have him in a flash, good player. He's in a funny mood today

I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in. So say they want £10m for a player we think is worth £5m.. just get him in? Obviously there's a limit, and obviously I'm speculating wildly, but I feel our limits are hindering us in progressing. Like I say, I base this on nothing more than conjecture, but I don't think it's too much of a leap to think we're very easily scared off when we find out how much players want and end up going for the cheap option far too often. Unless we're incredibly lucky then it WILL bite us on the backside, sooner rather than later. Gervinho -> Barnetta -> Obertan Gameiro -> Ba M'Bengue -> Pieters Erdinc -> Probably end up with Carlton sodding Cole There's a pattern there. It doesn't take a genius to work out what it is. Some could argue that certain players never wanted to come here in the first place (Gameiro, Gervinho) but most players will go anywhere if the price is right and ours hasn't been in too many cases so far this window. I'm not advocating a return to the exploits of Fat Fred, but we seem to have swung too far the other way with Ashley determined to replicate the Sports Direct philosophy inside St James' Park. Like you say there's a lot of conjecture there. Also it was reported a few times that we had fees agreed for Gervinho and Gameiro so I'm not sure being stingey on a fee can be used there, at the end of the day Arsenal came in for one so we didn't have a chance and the other wanted to stay in France. I can see what you mean of course, I'm still confused at what exactly happened with the Barnetta deal. Unless we believed Barton was about to leave at the time and his deal fell through.

Hopefully Arsenal accept bids for Nasri and Fabregas today and they fly straight off for medicals

I'm pretty sure he was our preferred choice initially so if we are now in for Pieters we must have been priced out. Priced out? Ffs I'm all for being sensible financially but we've recently sold about £50m worth of players and freed god-knows how much off the wage bill. Perish the thought that we pay decent money for anyone. If he's the preferred choice, get him in. So say they want £10m for a player we think is worth £5m.. just get him in?

Just stop man

Cant see us letting him go their permanently for free and paying a sigificant portion of his wages for the next two years. If we wanted to do that we might as well just keep loaning him. Maybe the prick finally got sick of wasting his career for money and agreed to take a pay cut with us making up the difference between that and what Deportivo can pay.