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Good stuff.

Diego Forlan linked with Juve. (someone has him moved already on wiki) http://www.espnstar.com/football/serie-a/news/detail/item567674/Juventus-in-talks-with-Forlan/ Hopefully he'll stay on until the end of the season for purely selfish reasons.

Needs replacing more than ever now. Paperthin squad is another body lighter now, we'll be struggling to fill the Bench at this rate.

Fernandes is at Besiktas now.

Thats class. Loving Puyol.

Riquelme is also possibly still injured and has only played a couple of games in the last few months so will be even more off the pace than usual

That would be an awful transfer for all concerned. Fairly certain he said he wanted to stay at Boca at the end of the Chanpionship in Dec.

Stoke in for a tall physical player? I do not believe such poppycock.

We'd be due compo on Lua Lua regardless wouldn't we?

Amazing fall from grace. No ta. The lad turned in a Fumaca esque performance against us earlier in the season.

Ivan Rakitic according to today's gossip column, think he'd be ace in the Premiership.

Doesn't seem to much on the Bundesliga I've found and Honigstein's columns on the guardian site are increasingly fleeting too.

That reporters name is not African enough for my liking.

Romeo Dunn. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,74045.0.html

Just thought we could get a list of some other sites that are decent for a bit of football stuff, be it news/funnies/articles/stats etc aside from the obvious (bbc,papers,sky). Here's some I read. inbedwithmaradona.com - articles on here, there and everything re: global football europeanfootballweekends.blogspot.com - ronseal zonalmarking.net - great look at tactics etc. http://hastaelgolsiempre.com/ - Argentinian football blog thefootballramble.com - a good variety of articles on various bits and bobs related to current footy. Brilliant podcast too. Great list here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/dec/31/100-football-blogs-to-follow-2011 What are your must reads?

Yep. I've got this months downstairs, haven't started reading it yet. Isn't it like 5 notes these days? Good mag but has been eclipsed by websites/blogs IMO. Some great blogs out there at the mo. Well don't just keep them to yourself! Share the joy. Will start a thread.

I don't but i would say that. I think the fb positions are positions where neutral fans don't really pay attention to so they judge players based on highlights. Only the fans of the teams will really see how good the player is, so naturally they go for their own player. decent point and I agree. Often the same with central midfielders too particular defensive minded ones.

Still your weaklink (along with DM) IMO. No way. Ekotto is one of our most important players and is ridiculously underrated. He's been exceptional since Arry's been here and doesn't get the credit he deserves. Dm is a weak link i guess but Palacios is slowly getting some form back and Sandro looks promising. Our biggest weak link is upfront and rb when Hutton plays (altough i hae to admit he's been damn good recently)....still don't trust him though. Should've qualified weak link as where I'd attack you if I were opposition.

IMO Capdevilla is possibly better than Jose n all.

Still your weaklink (along with DM) IMO.

Yep. I've got this months downstairs, haven't started reading it yet. Isn't it like 5 notes these days? Good mag but has been eclipsed by websites/blogs IMO. Some great blogs out there at the mo.

Evra Cole Filipe Chivu Abidal You obviously haven't watched much of Chivu this season! Filipe has Atletico defender syndrome now too. One season (bad patch) doesn't make a player though. Going forward and though he doesn't play there so often I'd add Michel Bastos to that too.

Evra Cole Filipe Chivu Abidal

Dutch teams are most in dire straits get in there Pardew.

Jose is good, but Abidal is better full-back overall. I do rate Abidal but I think he's very limited going forward. as is Jose. But when they need that option they can hoy Maxwell on.