Northern Monkey

Smith - not a good striker. Shame he's also not a good midielder. We could have got a right back for that £6m.

Yeah, running fast made a fucking load of difrerence.

Ramos now backtracking. Nice conclusion-jumping though, well done.

I would not be upset if this happened. Not entirely sure it would be as simple as that, mind. Why the feck don't Man Utd just buy Anelka? Or Berbatov? Cos then Spurs have no manager, and no player who helped force him out, Now THAT would be funny.

much as i have little time for Viduka, thats class that. I'd forgot about Jeremie "Its all Wengers fault, boo hoo" Aliadiere.

in fairness, when fit, if Owen didn't get a game we'd be mental. and Smith seems ot have been (wrongly) bought as a midfielder.

Sorry, i meant "should not", not does not.

Well, Mido is nailed-on to explode in a shower of cake and sulking at some point..... Exactly, somebody else of a similar nature would be delightful. I've heard there's a lad called Luque available for about £5m. Its a shame Anelka has come good, he'd have been a great accompaniment to Mido a while back.

Jeff Winter! <shakes fist angrily>

Well, Mido is nailed-on to explode in a shower of cake and sulking at some point.....

fletcher and silvestre? Heinze surely?

I'd go with Wenger's judgement on him. Pah! Wenger knows nowt. We need more defesive midfielders!

Cahill is better than anyone we have too.

Not exactly the most outlandish bit of ITK'ing after today's stories, is it His mate is Levy, mind.

Emre doesn't, Smith has done. geremi is going to get played no matter what, despite being out wrost midfielder on Saturday.

Hands up, who thinks this whole thing is funny. <puts hand up>

Firstly - Deco: <snigger> Secondly - no-one good enough for the team??? HE'S BEEN PLAYING CARR!!! f****** Carr!!! If he can't find anyone better than THAT, he's a worse manager than i thought. And f*** Premiership experience, a new player has only got to replace f****** CARR!! Agreed. The worrying thing is Allardyce seems to rate Carr in my opinion which isn't good news for us. hasn't done anything blatantly wrong so far... but you just know he'll do something stupid. (carr, just so it's clear) he was s**** against Villa, and THEY were pretty poor. As he did whenever he's played for us in the past, he'll get raped off decent teams. Tbf he just didn't have the pace.. Anyway listen i'm not saying he's a good player, he's not, just saying his form has been good.. i would love to have carr sidelined as much as anyone; i've just said though that there arn't any PL right-backs available, that's why he's looking abroad. No team is going to sell us their good right-backs (ideally we should be getting first team regulars) with so little time left to find a replacement. his form has not been good - i draw your attention to the Villa game, m'lud. You can't use that game mind, nobody played particularly well. Eh? HE was not very good - you can't say he's been in good form if he's played badly.

What the f*** are we going to do with 13 million boys??? Are they blind/disabled oriental boys? If so, we can make a shit load of shoddy merchandise for Ashleys shops. Or sell the boys in ebay.

On a par IMO. Moyes has done a cracking job for them. He has - they are better in a coupel of areas.

The press? Speculating?? Wash your mouth out! I would think Fergie would be looking for a loan player more than a player to sign, the swap loan deal for 6 months with Owen going to them may not have been such a bad idea.. When is Saha back? Not sure on that one like, and Rooney will be missing a while too, Ronaldo have a ban to see out also but where is Solskjaer? is he injured agian ? Thing is Martins will have to consider what will happen once Fergie has his players back fit, he will drop down the order but same could happen here once Owen is fully fit. So he can choose sit on the bench here or sit on the banch at Man Ure. i know what i'd do if i were a player with no particular ties to NUFC. Hint: i wouldn't be sat on the bench at SJP, except maybe once a season.

how big a secret? Pretty big I reckon. Maybe even that one about the time you and I did that thing. He's a secretive man you know. well, i wouldn't expect you to tell anyone OUR secret. The Fat Man couldn't trust him to keep quiet about the shady accounting "mechanisms", mind.

So, he really is a perfect replacement for Dyer. Dyer got 14 goals in his last 70 games at club level so I'd say not, then again he doesn't get stuck in like Snudger does so that doesn't matter. And 20 in the previous 216. He's a meastro! That wasn't quite the point I'm making, my point has always been to replace Dyer with a player with pace who can stretch games, we've seen in the past before we signed Bellamy and Robert how a team can be changed when you add it, we should have been looking to replace Dyer with someone with similar pace but more consistent in his football rather than a talentless grafter who gets stuck in. Dyer didn't stretch games. He scored very few, created even less. I know it's hard but look past your hatred for Dyer and see the bit I've highlighted, do you agree with that? No, i don't. I don't want a player who can run fast with the ball. I want a player to run fast with the ball and do something with it. Its not about more consistency than Dyer, its about more talent. I don't think Smith is a replacement for Dyer (at least, he shouldn't be), but then i don't think we need a replacement for a midfielder who was s*** on the wing, and offered v little in the centre. Agree with what baggio's saying, its what i was thinking when all of you wanted dyer gone. but to call smith "talentless" is taking it too far. smith is a good player and his passion more than makes up for his lack of pace, his passing game is often overlooked aswell; much rather have him than geremi, i mean we've seen smith play very well for manyoo and don't understand where all this negativity is coming from. He's highly rated by his own fans because of his great attitude and ability on the field. Im going to end up contradicting myself now, but yeah we really need pacey playmaker.. we do need a pacey playmaker, but we needed one when we HAD Dyer. Smith is not highly rated by many Man Utd fans as a midfielder, but when played further up front he's viewed as doing alright. Yeah but we had the pacey part. Pace without end product of some kind is useless. Else Des Hamilton would've had the world at his feet.

The press? Speculating?? Wash your mouth out! I would think Fergie would be looking for a loan player more than a player to sign, the swap loan deal for 6 months with Owen going to them may not have been such a bad idea.. When is Saha back?

It's just another excuse to have a few cheap shots over a non-news story and an idea a huge majority of LFC fans find distasteful. Take a trip to any LFC forum and you'll see comments describing it as eerie/mawkish and asking what is wrong with the current memorial. Or you can continue to spout inaccurate generalisations as it fits the stereotype you want to portray. Stereotypes? I'm sorry, what happened in Athens again? That'll have been re-written by now. It'll have been the Greeks. And Millwall/Chelsea/Leeds fans who travelled across.

how big a secret?