Lucifer

I pray we tell Babayaro to fuck off once Enrique and Drago are brought in...

Cost about as much as Rozenhal then, I can live with that. I would be ten times more happy about this signing than Alan Smith.

booo:(

I wouldn't pay more than 4m for him simply because of his age and lack of resale value, and the fact that he only has a year left on his current contract. Any more and it would just be a rip off, regardless of how much we need bodies in defence.

The man is a total crock.

I just love everything that Martins is coming out with ... ready to fight for a place rather than think he has a god given right in the starting 11. Fantastic attitude.

Munez recently scored the equalizing goal against Arsenal in the champions league final at the bernabeu... he was exchanged in the Owen deal:)

Something very wrong about these last few weeks... surely this Drame would have chosen us over Sochaux. Unless of course, those controlling the purse string here were just not offering the going rate.

Just wanted to say congratulations Iraq. Football champions of Asia. For all the shit they have gone through... they deserv it... even though their keeper is a major twat.

Hard? It happens every game when a player jumps for a ball. No doubting there is contact but to be given a straight red for a challenge in the air is harsh, very harsh. As i said Shearer would of been sent off a zillion times if we had this ref. There is also no doubt that it wasnt intentional, Grella isnt that player. As every player is told to jump with their arm to get my height into the jump. You see it a million times in the EPL. On second thoughhts you're right that was really harsh, a yellow would have been suitable. Although what you can get away in in the EPL you can't get away with in any other place in the world. Frankfurts Takahara is decent, I'd have him over Ameobi but not much more.

To be fair it was a pretty hard elbow to the face, whether it was intentional is hard to say. Both teams gettng very testy now. Australians feeling very hard done by at the moment. Though I wouldn't mind seeing Smoggy Shwarzer let in another.

Japan for woman, Australia for food:) Is a pretty dire first half so far, this game badly needs a goal. Viduka feeding of scraps had one or two decent efforts. Though he is being marked very well, and very physically by Nakazawa. One of the teams need to make a push in the second half. If japan gets the first goal they will go through, if to extra time and penalties, I see the Aussies.

Shouldn't Owen be on that list of top ten earners? Or are real wages pure speculation?

Not sure if this has been mentioned, and i obviously wasn't there for it, but I heard a few years back about some AC Milan Ultras launching a burning scooter onto the pitch?

Korea so poor in the final third. Only Japan looking really strong in this competition so far.

Id rather save the money for a top central defender and have Emre, who is quality.

Keep an eye out for Nakamura...this guy is a class above.

Is this the Diarra who made a quick cameo in place of Vieira at the last world cup? He looks really immense. The perfect DM machine. we could then have a central midfield of: Butt/Diarra and Barton/Emre. Awesome:)

This is gonna get real exciting now!!! Cmon Madrid!!!

To be fair Fred was just as big a part of the problem... the fact the he didn;t just man up and resign like Roeder is what pisses me off the most about Greame fucking Souness.

Oh and HTT's post about this is spot - fucking - on.

Fred fucked this one up big time. And Owen basically has no integrity.

Emre and Barton are very very similar in my opinion. Emre will shine in an intelligent passing team which i hope we ll become.

When you include wages, potential return on investment, injury record, then keeping Oba over Owen is the option everytime.