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As talented as Marveaux is we can't count on him at the moment due to his injury problems. Ba had a handful of poor games but generally played well out wide and was very unlucky in front of goal a number of times. Agree with that, the problem though seems to be that Ba doesn't want to play out wide, Pardew has pretty much said as much. That's a concern for me like. Last night Ba played almost in the hole at times, wonder if that's the plan? Cabaye Tiote Ben Arfa. Ba. Marveaux Cisse With Jonas able to play out left or in CM.

Assumed Bentley just got carried away with the London lifestyle?

Wasn't entirely aimed at you Mole, there have been plenty of similar posts from people who seem to think Carroll isn't even in the same league as Ba, which is nonsense IMO. Carroll at his best was a player that teams (not just Liverpool btw, Spurs also bid over 20m) were willing to pay tremendous amounts of money for. He's decent technically and is one of the most physically dominant centre forwards I've ever seen play football. Having an outlet like that up top is nothing to be sneezed at. Chelsea won a lot of trophies with a gameplan that involved plenty of long balls towards Drogba, when you have a player that wins it that often why wouldn't you? If we had all three of them at the club my money would be on Carroll and Cisse emerging as the preferred partnership tbh.

If he was someone would have bought him for £7m. Who needs a striker in this league apart from Spurs that are better than us? it's pretty obvious why no one has come in for him, because club's above us don't need a striker. But Carroll is not even close to Ba, even Carroll at his best isn't close. Massive pile of rubbish. In terms of technique and ball playing ability, Ba is a better player than Carroll yes. But by the same token Carroll can do things that Ba can't do, he's vastly more powerful and better in the air. I can see why people don't want Carroll back, but this need some people seem to have to act like he's just a big powerful donkey who can't play football at all is ridiculous.

I'd hope not. We need to be signing another striker, even if Ba stays. We only have three now and two of them could be off for a month in January, if Ba goes we need to bring in two.

Yeehawh!!!

We're rightly bummed if anything happens to Tim like.

After the posts that came before it.

That was class from Raylor.

Obertan coming on.

Pass from Cabaye.

What a sentence.

They should play that song Je t'aime when Cabaye is being brought on btw.

Taylor man, guy can hit em.

Cabaye coming on.

Is Viana on the bench?

Less he plays in preseason the better tbh, last season's injury was depressing.

Be class if Ba was on the left.

Both on their way then.

On the wing though?

Bad misses by both sides.

Nice finish that.

The notion that Ranger is capable of intelligent thoughts.

Brazil game is a good watch, they may actually blow this. You reckon Ganso is done then Flip?