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I'd be surprised if more than 1% of this forum knew what Luque was like before he came here. Personally, he never caught my eye and I never heard anyone raving on about him. Ever. I'd bet a lot of people will say the same as well. Yeah I'm sure most people here saw little Spanish Football and didn't know much if anything about Luque before he came here. I'm no expert either, when I said "start to look like the player he was before he came here" I simply meant he'll look like a good player again. Whatever you obviously don't watch must Champions League either then. You're getting a bit confused there mate, I didn't say anything about not seeing or noticing Luque... As I said I'm certainly no expert on his carear but I had heard of him before his arrival.

Janitor Dear me it must be late for you mate, you're obviously incredibly irritable if you get so worked up over a joke about janitors being lazy.. how bizarre, unless you really are a janitor and I've offended your profession or something? Anyway as I said its not important exactly how good he was, as I already said I just meant he will probably be a good player again IMO. It amazes me how people can make so much from so little sometimes.. This was my comment by the way for everyone to see "About what?, be more specific. I don't know, janitors are such lazy bastards ". Hardly anything to get worked up about is it? BTW I only changed it because I re-read the posts and thought it was a pretty safe bet what you meant so there was actually little point asking..

About what?, that he'll look like a good player again given games? I'm glad you disagree, makes it interesting to wait and see what happens

I'd be surprised if more than 1% of this forum knew what Luque was like before he came here. Personally, he never caught my eye and I never heard anyone raving on about him. Ever. I'd bet a lot of people will say the same as well. Yeah I'm sure most people here saw little Spanish Football and didn't know much if anything about Luque before he came here. I'm no expert either, when I said "start to look like the player he was before he came here" I simply meant he'll look like a good player again.

No doubt he'll start for Ajax the same way he's played for us on the occasional and fleeting apearances he gotten in our team. But who wants to bet that once he's had 3 or 4 consectutive games at Ajax he won't start to look like the player he was before he came here?

Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United? So finishing in the top four last year means your defence is automatically better then everyone elses?.. bollocks

Or wherever I go. We should look at Sturgis too. Sturgis Podmore? If Allardyce signs a 50 year old wizard I'll be bloody livid!!

He's decided to go back to making porno.

Invicta?

Agreed Except that isn't enirely true is it..

There's no way Rozenhal deserves to be dropped, what's he done wrong so far? He's looked very good and while Taylor has been fairly good as well he certainly hasn't looked as solid as Rozenhal. Its got to be Cacapa and Rozenhal IMO.

I don't think he's 28 is he? Still I agree, he's just what we need.

Both Arsenal and Manure were linked very strongly with Martins and Owen.

I wouldn't doubt Dawson, he just wouldn't get in the team or even on the bench ahead of Cacapa, Rozenhal or Taylor. I'd doubt Robinson (seriously Harper is better) and Jenas wouldn't even get on the bench ahead of the likes of Emre, Geremi and Solano.

Once again, the word of the day is deluded... d.e.l.u.d.e.d...

Totenham wouldn't want Shay Given according to that article? mackems.gif Dear me that says it all doesn't it? There keeper is the joke of the Footballing world at the moment, yet they wouldn't want one of the best and most consistent keepers in the Premiership... I've said it before but I'll say it again, Spurs fans are the most deluded fans I've ever witnessed (not every single one obviously but overall). In fact, really they should list both Given and Harper as players they would take, both better then any keeper they have.

Well obviously I can't help being happy to a degree that West Ham have lost a good player, especially after all the shit with the transfer and the way they're throwing someone elses money around. But I'm certainly not happy that he's broken his leg so badly. Despite the fact that in the end I was glad to see the back of Dyer he still doesn't deserve this. All the injuries that have plagued his career and now this. I agree with sicko2ndbest ect, some people here need to take a good look at themselves for being so happy that someone might just have had there career ended.

If he really is available on loan then there's no risk, so I'd take him.

One of the things that's annoying me is Geremi taking absolutely every set peice. All throws near goal, all corners, all freekicks, he's producing nothing with them, so why is he taking them all? Let Milner and N'zogbia take some for suck sake!!

A small outlay? 2M might well be insignificant in today's market but at the moment we still have not acquired a specialist right back. Is money the problem? Could we have saved 2M and use it elsewhere? There is more than enough physical presence in midfield (Smith, Geremi, Barton, Butt). By all account it won't be a bad signing, and I wouldn't complain. But by all accounts I think the time, energy and money spent on Faye should be spent on obtaining a new right back. Yes a very small outlay, £2 million is pocket change in the current market. Also the fact that we had no problem cancelling Dyer's transfer despite just buying Smith a day earlier and then going and buying Enrique even though it looked like Dyer was going to stay tells me we do have money to spend. Obviously Allardyce doesn't want any of the right backs available at the moment.

Wah?.. which three managers were those? Luque played 13 of the 15 games he was available for under Souness (5 from the bench, but what can you expect when coming back from a bad injury). Also Allardyce made it clear that if Luque wanted to stay he would give him a chance having been a fan of his at Depor. Roeder was the only manager who wouldn't play him/didn't want him. Yeah because Allardyce was clearly going to give him a chance as a 6th choice sdtriker. I think it's safe to say if Allardyce had any interest in keeping him he would have. There's a big difference between Allardyce saying "If you stay I'll give you regular first team Football" and Allardyce saying "I don't want you, leave".... No doubt Luque could have stayed and Allardyce would have put every effort into helping him push his way into the team. But obviously he wanted a fresh start at a club that wanted him in the first team straight away.

Nope, revisionist history mate.. Luque played 13 of the 15 games he was available for under Souness (5 from the bench, but what can you expect when coming back from a bad injury). Also Allardyce made it clear that if Luque wanted to stay he would give him a chance having been a fan of his at Depor. Roeder was the only manager who wouldn't play him/didn't want him.

If they give away 5000 tickets every season then why on earth would any fan want to actually buy a ticket?..

I've got news for you mate, I'm only one person.. I get the point, and its a crazy overeaction. This reminds me of that Queen song, "I want it all and I want it now!!"... We will not get back to where 'we feel we should be" over night. Personally I feel we should be in the top 4, but that's something that will only happen over time. I think everyone agreed when Allardyce came in that the first order of business was to clear out the wasters and replace them with good players, that's now been done and done very well IMO. If there's time to start the next step this window (and remember that getting players all depends on the right player being available for the right price and actually wanting to come) then great. But if not I'm still happy that we've made a major step forward in building the foundations for a very good squad. As for how much money has been spent. Before we sold Dyer, which was not guarenteed to happen at all, we'd spent around £14 million. So clearly there is more to spend, but that's useless if the right players aren't available or are uninterested because of our lack of European football and poor finish last season.

Bollocks quite frankly. He's claiming this season has been wasted already. I'm saying that replacing 6 players who weren't good enough with 7 far superior players points to anything but a wasted season ahead.