Northern Monkey

According to sportinglife.com David Dunn and Matthew Upson will be leaving Birmingham in the January Window.. If Upson didnt cost too much then I think he would be worth a punt even if Roeder dismissed the idea a few weeks ago that we were after him

 

Dunn wasnt bad 3-4 years ago for Blackburn..  Dont think we need him anyway

Upson would improve us automatically. Agreed about Dunn, though.

Haven't checked all the way through the thread as it's far too long now, but what do people think of bringing Alan Smith to the club. It's mentioned in the papers and other sites today, if we can get him on the cheap I'd say go for it but then again it's another one with injoury worries.

He's a very average Premiership striker - therefore better than ANYTHING we have anywhere near fitness at this point.

Reminds me of Marcelinho.

And - but don't tell anyone - maybe Martins.

I fear our £10m wonderkid from Serie A won't be playing that much this season.

Roeders answer to our desperate need for a striker (as we had NO top class strikers at all once Owen was injured) was to not play (and then to compound the matter) not SELL Luque, insist on playing Ameobi, a fella who isn't Premiership class when he's fit, never mind now, sign a kid from Man Utd who will be good in a few years - for 6 months, pay nowt for a player who is simply not good enough in Sibierski that we are now going to rely on, and sign a player who is very very quick, but not actually a very good striker, in Martins.

Mind, his response to our DESPERATE need for a centre back was to sign a winger we didn't need. So it could have been worse.

Roeder - idiot.

Regardless of nearly losing his sight, it's one sob story after another with him.  He should shut the **** up, and get on with things. 

No but he's been really really ill; and he WANTS to come back and play; loves the club/fans/etc; international class; desperately bad luck; not his fault, its a top secret illness; and he's had a baby, so he's all mature now; match winner tbh;

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He's not going to come back better/changed/more mature.

he's a little wanker, and the sooner he's gone the better.

If he is just average I dont understand why the Man City players were too afraid to tackle him and why he alone could threat the Man City defence the way he did. Remember that Man City has played some real good defending at home so far this season...

Its the pace. Defenders hate pace, and he still has that. Also, bizarrely, his ffet seem to move very fast - he runs quite quick, but seems to move his feet even faster.

He IS only average, thought. All the pace in the world, but little end product.

Liek i say, though, beggars can't be choosers.

At best we can hope Given, Parker, Martins, Moore, Baba and Taylor are fit for this one.

If we are without them then this is going to be a thrashing.

Championship players.

If Babayaro plays, he'll get taken to bits.

Klinsmann is not "available", he's in America and going to stay there..

 

Well, California or Newcastle, tough call

 

There are lots of talented, upcoming managers.. It's just that Freddy won't ever appoint someone like that, it will be Curbishley, Bryan Robson, Venables, Glenn Hoddle type of choice.

I fear it will.

Robson, probably.

Shepherd managed to bring in a worse football manager than Souness when he got Roeder (although less of a twat, clearly), so the next logical step would be Robson.

I'd like to see proper costings on how much it would take to buy the club, get rid of the deadwood (Luque, Shambles, Dire, etc), and invest in a squad with actual players.

I suspect it would be a damned sight more than anyone with any brains would pay for a relegation team.

Dire is quick, and that unsettles defenders. But beyond that, he is a very very average player.

Mind, even though i hate the diseased little cunt, even an average player is better than half of our first team now. Handy as a sub for the rest of the season, when he's fit.

We're going to struggle to get ANYONE to come here, anyone of value, anyway. What with us being shite, having a shite manager, and being strong relegation candidates.

If anyone thinks that Bramble or Moore are good enough to be in our first team in the medium/long term, they are mental.

Our defence is abysmal. We rely on having good 'keepers to carry the appalling defence.

If Shola is involve in our next match against Arsenal,then I think we can simply say we are playing with 10 men.

9 if he insists on bringing Bramble back, which i fear he might.

Roeder is an absolute cretin.

The vast majority of our "first team" is not good enough for a team with aspirations of the top half of the premiership.

Dyer comes on and "improves us" by running fast then wasting the opportunity. Shame he didn't hurt himself again yet.

We are an absolute shower of shite, and we fully deserve to be where we are - genuine relegation candidates.

Under Roeder, we will NEVER get into Europe again.

Keep. Now that Nobby is slowinh down (more), we have no better right winger.

The only good thing aboitu him having to have the operation is that he can't play for us, and Roeder/his replacement will have to think about strikers in january.

My biggest fear is that he comes back after the op, and gets a first team place again. If he's a first team player, then we ARE in the right position in the league.

long overdue.

Zog on the right and Carr and Baba even in the squad??? Surely a wind up?

No. Carr has been very good this year and I don't see who else would be LB if not baba.

Millner is f*cking shite and shouldn't be near our first XI and Solano lacks pace and haven't looked himself since he got back from his injury.

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Babayaro - ANYONE should be LB, Babayaro is a fucking terrible, terrible player.

Milner - you, sir, are a bufoon. Milner has done well. Better, on the whole, that players like Duff.

Johnson - better than Martins. And cheaper. Well done Roeder, on another astute buy.

 

I bet after his first 10 games in Serie A, Johnson would look worse than Martins.

 

Give him a chance to adjust at least.

Adjusting to the premiership is one thing. Being able to control a football is a universal requirement. THAT does not need time to do.

We are a Premiership club, who needed a striker (well, two), as the only one we had fit was Ameobi, and he is not a premiership player. And Roeder fucked it up. Again.

Glen the gormless will probably play him as a striker on Saturday

 

Far, far more likely than Luque getting a game.

Or Luque having a good Premiership one.

Your clutching at straws if you think this will save us.....

 

We need a strike force, nothing more nothing less.

 

Without goals you loose.

 

Neither are goal scorers, and i do include Martins in that.

 

And with them back, we still have nowt.

 

You must be a mackem.

Eh??

He's right - we've got nowt.

Martins is not a good player. Dyer is very average.

Given coming back is brilliant. He's one of only about 6 top-7 premiership players we'll be fielding if he DOES play on Saturday.

Johnson - better than Martins. And cheaper. Well done Roeder, on another astute buy.

Roeder - cretin.

Premiership everytime. But i'd take a shite mid-table finish for a trophy this season.

Alas Roeder is capable of neither.