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I hope as a few people have said already, he is proper nasty bastard, hard but fair/unfair if needs be type. We have been crying out for someone like that for a fair while. Proper Argentine style much like Heinze was for Man Utd.

I thought he was alreet at Spurs, decent enough if not amazing, same went for Edman. Scored a pearler against us first game of season in the season Bobby got sacked i think

First time for everything!

I'm "furious" with hapless Enrique. Barton Out! Wise Out!

itrs the mugs who believe it that do my head in. You cant have a sensible conversation with them because you are effectivley arguing against a newspaper article. True and its usually fans of other teams that believe this rubbish making it hard to have a decent football debate with them as they just regurgitate stuff from the papers. Nay mind.

We should, as a club, have a blanket ban on speaking to the media and let them peddle their lies. I find it all very amusing, its the mugs who believe it all I feel sorry for.

why wait till monday ? cos people like to go out raving on a weekend.

Fully agree Wull, everything I've heard about him seems to suggest that when in theory is no more a young Premiership reserve like many others. Compare him with James Milner for example, when do you ever hear of him being a twat?

They were trying to sign Adrian Mutu too so perhaps they're going for a formation change? probably... ----------Aquilani-----------Perotta------------De Rossi----------- --------------------Totti-----------------Silva------------------------- ------------------------------Eto'o------------------------------------- If Eto'o dosent sign, then they can easily move Totti as the lone striker and play Pizzaro and silva off him. Good team, but Sadly for them, their defence is not that great (Mexes is the exception). I guess that would work especially since Mancini has gone to Inter. Decent attack on paper if indeed they buy Silva & Eto'o

@ afar

"officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania" - wiki.

Where are Roma suddenly getting all this money from?! Be suprised if they got Eto'o since they effectively play with no-one upfront (Totti by himself)

read the OP ah shit aye

Turkey at a push.

Armenia and Georgia.

on a technicality: Mexico as they compete in the Copa America but aren't of that persuasion

Very true, as he alludes to in his article.

I wanted to say that one just cos it sticks out; sensational counter-attacking football. We absolutely destroyed them... but i never actually saw it, just the highlights. It just sticks out for that period though. I really can't think of any one that stands out in-particular for me, as i didn't see too many from the Bobby era. There was some decent performances prior to that, that i can just about remember: 4-1 against Everton in the cup where Kets got a brace, 2-0 vs Spurs at Old Trafford - again in the cup. 1-0 vs Juventus and 2-2 vs Inter in the Champions League were pretty damn good performances under Bobby (notice how i'm only saying terrestrial TV games). More recently, 4-1 against Alkmaar, 3-0 against Reading. I haven't seen too many outstanding performances from start to finish unfortunately. It was 4-2 against Alkmaar unfortunately. Bloody Taylor!

We're actually going to be signing Madeleine McCann, the deal was sealed a year or so ago but we couldn't announce it to anyone as we couldn't get her a work permit.

Well informed but misses the point of if we get rid of Barton we've pissed £5m+ down the drain and some other team will happily sign him up and we'll be a player/money down whereas someone else will have a decent player for free.

Zenit don't need the money in the slightest though.

Couple of articles from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/aug/01/newcastleunited.premierleague http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/07/31/forget_the_liberal_values_when.html

Nah in off the underside bar bouncing down into the goal and back up into the roof of the net is the best kind of goal you can score. Tony Yeboah v Liverpool being a classic example.

Chelseas goals used to be horrible

Brilliant game, was just thinking bout that before when i was posting. I think Darren Anderton scored a screamer that night n all. I definitely remember one of their goals getting applause from our fans.