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The longer it stays 0-0 the happier Mourinho will be. Disappointing that Barca have fallen for it, they were controlling things early on but they've allowed themselves to get wound up and have lost the run of themselves completely. Guardiola needs to sort it out at half time or they'll lose this.

Mourinho will probably have a quick wank before the half time teamtalk, reckon this was more or less what he was hoping for.

Why, he was hardly shite like?

Barca goal will be the making of this tie, shame that didn't go in.

Those are class. Baba's effort will forever be the funniest thing in this thread though.

He and Barton are a nice combo in the wide positions. Jonas provides the dribbling and ball carrying skills down the left flank, while Barton gives you the quality delivery from the right hand side. Kind of like a shit version of Beckham and Giggs.

Doyle would be a poor signing. Decent all-round footballer but there's nothing at all about him that will scare teams, we should be aiming for someone a lot better this summer.

So you'd start Guthrie ahead of Nolan? 's So you'd start Guthrie ahead of Nolan? # So he'd start Ameobi ahead of anyone? I'd start Ameobi ahead of everyone, to be fair. Clearly our best center forward at the moment, bone chilling a fact as that is.

Aye, it's not like he's a professional athlete who is meant to be recuperating from an operation or owt. He was driving a car ffs, not breakdancing.

He does go looking for the ball more than any of our other CM's to be fair to HTT, so I can see what he means. Never likely to be a huge factor in the final third, but it's great to have a CM who goes looking for the short pass out of defense like he does. We've had too many in the last few years who just hide.

A wealthy man in his early 20's staying up until after 6 o clock the next morning... What is the world coming to.

Good performance, another step towards safety. I'm excited at the prospect of seeing this team with a couple of quality players up front. At the back and midfield we're a decent side, but there's nothing up front. Praying for a couple of quality additions in the summer.

Theoretically he could be backup to both Nolan in CM and Ben Arfa in the free role, so I could see the sense in signing him if we think he could get his head straight. Obviously the fact that he's a complete tosser who hasn't had a good game in a couple of years is a bit of a negative, but beggars can't be choosers I suppose.

http://cr.rs-clans.com/public/style_emoticons/default/StoneCold.gif Do you see how maybe it's a particularly urgent need for us by any chance?

First thing to do is make sure we don't lose any more of our key squad players. Simpson, Colo, Enrique, Barton, Nolan, Tiote, Jonas and Ben Arfa are the 8 players in our squad that I would be upset to see leave, if any of them go we're weakened significantly. Priorities in the transfer market. - Absolute no-brainer addition is a quality center forward. Someone who'll lead the line and provide us with a physical presence up front and get goals into the bargain. A replacement for Andy Carroll, basically. - A winger, ideally one who can play both sides and provide real competition for Jonas and Barton. Someone like Routledge, only better. Those two are a must, IMO. If there's any more money to spend I'd be looking at another striker, a young CM or possibly a quality center half to partner Colo. Bring back Forster, send Krul out on loan for the year. Give Forster a chance to start next year. Loan our Ranger for the year to either Scotland or the lower leagues. Try to get rid of Lovenkrands and Perch, let Campbell go also. Pray that someone is stupid enough to take Ryan Taylor and Smith off our hands. Throw a MASSIVE party if anyone does so. Next year's first team squad looks a bit like this. Forster Harper Simpson S Taylor Colo Williamson Enrique Ferguson R Taylor Barton New Winger Jonas Tiote Nolan Guthrie Ben Arfa New center forward. Shola Best That's with only two quality signings, which I don't think is an unreasonable expectation. If we can add more then that's great, but the above squad would have me relatively content going into next year.

Good effort, unlucky.

Impressive from Lovenkrands, actually made good solid contact with the ball there.

Aye.

Strikes me as the kind of player who has gotten by at youth level by just being physically better and more naturally gifted at football than his peers, not going to be enough in the future though. Obviously he's still very young so far too soon to write him off, but he needs a lot of work if he's going to make it in the Premiership IMO.

Nah, don't think so, we just have absolutely NOTHING in terms of quality up front. Lovenkrands is no better at football than I am, and Ranger is absolutely thick. Just need to get to the end of the season and hopefully we'll be able to bring in a couple of real strikers. The rest of the team has potential to be useful, though. Still think we could get something today though with a bit of luck, Villa look very poor considering some of the players they have.

Playing every week in the Premiership rather than the Belgian league with a few Champions League games thrown in would be better for his development, I'd imagine. As others have said though, there'll be several better clubs who'll want him if he does leave so absolutely fuck all chance of it happening. Mike Ashley is our chairman, also.

Colo just edges it from Nolan for me.

Tiote's by a fucking country mile. Taking it first time on the full volley, weaker foot, absolutely flushed it into the corner. One of the hardest techniques to pull off in football, and he absolutely nailed it. Even without the epic circumstances surrounding the goal it's still the best we've scored this year by quite some way.

Little depressing that one of Man U or Chelsea are probably be going to be in the final... I'd fancy either of them to do Inter tbh. Barring a massive upset there's going to be a very tasty semi final with Barca v the winner of Real/Spurs.

Agree with Ronaldo. Barca - Spurs Man U - Real Madrid Would be what I'd like to see if possible.