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Eat that!! Carroll has been quality again, the guy is just a handful for anyone to deal with.

Smith really wanted that booking didn't he?

Smith had his blushes spared there. Raping them here like.

Fucking yeah!! We're the best team ever tbh.

Class. Brilliant play that, Carroll in particular.

Gotta agree with Teasy. Lovenkrands would be a significant improvement to the team, sad as it is to say. He's the only striker we have that provides any sort of movement or threat to get in behind the defense. If we start with Nolan playing off Carroll again I'd almost guarantee a loss.

The quick feet of Vieira, the defensive qualities of Lampard and the intimidating blackness of Iniesta.

Seems a bit of a Lampard/Iniesta/Vieira hybrid type from what I've seen of him.

Never seen him play but he's definitely better than Smith so would be a good addition. Our major needs are definitely further up the field though, hopefully there'll be other signings to come if this is true.

I just don't see how that's possible. Where will the goals come from? Carroll should be a good targetman and will cause problems, but if he hits double figures in the PL I'll be surprised. Lovenkrands has never been a great goalscorer. Shola might get a few but he's far too erratic to rely on for anything. Xisco won't feature, Best is shite, Ranger is a tit. In midfield, Routledge has scored 8 goals since leaving Crystal Palace 5 years ago. Jonas will be lucky to get a shot off at somepoint this year. Guthrie will probably score a goal or two from long range but he's not much of a threat to get beyond the frontmen. Barton looked like a guy with goals in him at City but since he's moved to Newcastle he's been poor in this regard. Smith is a disgrace. The only one is Nolan, but he offers nothing else to the team whatsoever and thus makes it less likely for the other players on the pitch to score while he's around. We need players, ideally a midfielder/winger type with a bit of flair and a strike partner for Carroll. The current squad would be lucky to score 30 Premiership goals this season, very hard to stay up doing that.

Oh we'll sign someone alright. The problem is that we'll end up signing someone shite because we're running out of time and nobody will be willing to sell us anyone that's actually any good for the shite money we're willing to pay.

Loangallon to kill Boro.

Barton had a poor game tbh but he's one of only two CM's at the club who do one very important thing. He actually goes looking for the ball from his teammates. Maybe he doesn't always make best use of it but we need more of that in our team if we're ever going to play anything other than horrible, agricultural football. Nolan thrives on that horrible football so he never goes looking for the ball, Smith to be fair to him knows that he's shite so he doesn't look for it either. Guthrie does it, but not enough for my liking sometimes. Need to start Barton and Guthrie in CM as soon as Guthrie's back.

This is hands down the worst thing anyone has ever posted on this foum.

Fair play to Hughton like, he's obviously charmed the living bejesus out of Ben Arfa. It'll be a real pisser if we miss out on this deal, getting him in would be such a boost.

What's the point of making it a sticky like? Is it solely to frighten people?

Perch is a utility man, I presume if Enrque were to get injured he'd play left back and Simpson or one of the Taylor's could play RB. We do need at least one really quality addition to the team if we're going to have a fighting chance of staying up this year though. Our team is pathetically toothless in attack, ideally we'd sign a Ben Arfa type and also a quality striker that could play right up top alongside Carroll. Getting one of those would be a relief at this point, until this board convinces me otherwise I've no reason to have faith they can do what's necessary.

What's class about the new Sky Sports News ad is that they've basically filmed and screened an ad that is basically them saying "Look what a bunch of miserable cunts we are!" They're taking Sky Sports News off Freeview, I'm not sure why they're so keen to make a big deal about that.

"Bafra"

Real kick in the balls if this is true. We need two quality additions to the squad before I'll have any confidence in us staying up this year. Ben Arfa certainly would have been one of those, miss out on him and I'm not sure there are going to be comparable players that we can hope to attract. Won't be at all surprised though, will just be another display of incompetence to add to the ever growing list.

He was one of their best players last year, absolutely insane that he's being shipped out and SWP started last weekend when he's half the player Bellamy is.

My older brother announced proudly before the game that he had Valencia as his FF captain this week. Had a chuckle when I told him Enrique would keep him quiet. Back in your box.

Tend to agree with him, Carroll really looks a prospect. Gave Man U problems last night despite being completely isolated up front on his own and never stops working. Not many players would have had more impact on the game than he did last night given his circumstances. Has that Drogba-esque ability to get at least some sort of touch on almost every high ball that comes anywhere near him. He's also tidy enough on the deck for a lad his size. Desperately needs a strike partner that can work off him though, hopefully Hughton realises sooner rather than later that this Kevin Nolan just off the striker experiment is among the worst ideas of all time.

Old post I know, but this interview does lend some credence to a theory I've been working on in which Chris Hughton is actually a robot. Stay tuned. As for Xisco I tend to agree with Ronaldo that there's a good player in there somewhere, I just think if he realises that potential it's going to be at another club. If we could move him on and go back in time and not sign Best then it'd be great to get in a quality strike partner for Carroll. It's going to be a very tough year if we don't add another good striker to the squad.

You're learning.