Teasy

I have to say I won't be too impressed if Dyer's replacement is Smith. To compare them, both seem injury prone (though Dyer more so then Smith) and both have excellent stamina. On the positive side for Smith you have more hunger, more tenacious, better finisher (?), two years younger and will likely cost less in wages. But on the minus side he's nowhere near as quick as Dyer and has less flair. Seems like a bit of a sideways step to me personally. But if Sam wants Smith and he gets him I suppose I'll be happy that he's gotten one of his transfer targets. After all its no good us wishing our manager doesn't sign the players he wants because we don't rate them, trust in Sam!

So what you're saying is that as long as Man City fans don't mind a few thousand murders and the local papers don't mind being supressed under threat of death then everything will be fine? well no-one's complaining about Ashley's Indonesian sweat shops Nobody complained about Freddy's either Freddy owned Adidas? why weren't we told? sounds like macbeth dropped the ball again No but Freddy did have a deal for shirts to be made in those kind of conditions, as do most Football clubs.. Also he used to go down there and whip the workers into action himself Oh and Ashley only had a 3% stake in Adidas. So he only had 3% blame in those sweat shops

No he isn't that good right now (though it could be argued that he is in the current market, look at Bent), but he still has at least 5 years until he hits his peak age. He's easily worth a bit more then we paid for him right now, who knows what he'll be worth in a couple of years.

So what you're saying is that as long as Man City fans don't mind a few thousand murders and the local papers don't mind being supressed under threat of death then everything will be fine? well no-one's complaining about Ashley's Indonesian sweat shops Nobody complained about Freddy's either

Whenever I change a Wiki entry its changed back again within a day... obviously there's some obsessive people around

No way do Sevilla want £5.4 to £8 million for him. They'd have to be insane to ask for that. He's nearly 32 now and has only one year left on his contract. He could be Ronaldinho and he wouldn't cost close to that in those circumstances. Basically, I don't believe that Wiki comment in the slightest...

So what you're saying is that as long as Man City fans don't mind a few thousand murders and the local papers don't mind being supressed under threat of death then everything will be fine?

They're counting goals he's scored when he was 9 years old... what an absolute load of toss mackems.gif

Since when does "would consider a move" actually mean "would welcome a move"...

Surely this bloke hasn't actually chosen Sochaux over us?? If its confirmed that we were in for him and he went there instead I'll begin to have some serious worries about this summer. Could this be an example of what Allardyce was referring to when he talked about the people upstairs not acting fast enough in transfers? Thinking we've got all the time in the world to sign a player while other clubs move in quickly and seal the deal..

If Everton really is his preferred destination over us then I hope he fucks off there to be honest. Little shit bag that he is..

Is this a wind-up btw? I suspect not. This is the line that the Luque fanboys are now taking. "Ok so you were right, he actually IS crap. But he scores goals!" The only people changing there story are the Luque haters with there new line being "Ok so you were right, he actually can score goals, but they weren't great goals so they don't count..."

He played ok in the first 15-20 minutes, challenged well in the air, won a few decent flick on headers and generally looked more confident. After that he seemed to do less and less as the minutes went by before being taken off. Seems that he must have gotten the injury earlier but tried to play on for a bit before deciding that he couldn't continue.

We were told a Premiership "stopper" had rejected us for a rumoured £6M-7M price (which must have surely been speculation) and Silvestre's name came out later. I'm not saying it was definitely him, merely highlighting the fact that we don't know exactly who it was or how much we'd actually bid for that particular player. Or if it happened at all. As far as I remember the Chronicle came out with the £7 million bid for a mystery defender story. Then a few days later they reported the player had rejected us. Then soon after other papers said it had been Heinze. The Silvestre story was a week or so later and entirely seperate (nobody claimed otherwise anyway). The story seems quite believable to me and nobody ever denied it so I'd tend to believe it probably was true.

The Silvestre rumour came about a bit later and I don't remember there being any link to the previous story. Did I miss something in the Silvestre story?

Baines considered moving to Sunderland (took him over a week to finally decide not to go there), so yes I think its extremely safe to say he'd move here in a flash, he's obviously looking to move but nobody bar Sunderland have offered for him, which tells its own story.. Shorey, well that's less obvious but again I think he'd come. And yes we do have the money available for either player, we offered more for Heinze then it would take to sign either of them. It's been confirmed that we didn't make a bid for Heinze, Sam just said he would be interested. Confirmed by who? Geniune question, because I didn't read any confirmation. After the "7 million bid for a defender" story was reported I seem to remember several papers reporting that it had been Heinze and he'd rejected the move.

What I mean is this deal could have been planned for weeks now, deals don't just happen. PSG might only recently have agreed to sell, the player could have been on holiday or had other commitments ect. Lets not right the lad off before he gets here simply because he will only cost a million pounds (which is mostly due to his contract only having 1 year left apparently) and we didn't sign him the instant Sam became manager. If we sign him at all of course

Baines considered moving to Sunderland (took him over a week to finally decide not to go there), so yes I think its extremely safe to say he'd move here in a flash, he's obviously looking to move but nobody bar Sunderland have offered for him, which tells its own story.. Shorey, well that's less obvious but again I think he'd come. And yes we do have the money available for either player, we offered more for Heinze then it would take to sign either of them.

What is this "that good" you keep talking about Its meaningless without a definition.

We offered £7 million for Heinze, so that logic goes out of the window right there. The fact that we haven't offered for Baines tells me one thing, Allardyce doesn't like him as a defender (he spoke of wanting a defender first and foremost rather then a attacking player who can defend).

Using that logic we now can't possibly sign any good players. Because if any of the future players we might sign were any good we'd have signed them weeks ago.. yeah? I'd strike Baines and Shorey from that list janitor, IMO if Allardyce wanted either of them we'd have them..

Hmm, rather strange random thought there..

5'11" is tiny, I'm 5'10" and I'm a short-arse. 5'11" tiny? Its above average height, and more then tall enough for a left back.

How good is the official stream? Does it stop start at all like the free streams? Also what's the quality like?

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