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Already been made hasn't it? Man U away, think we'll beat them.

Great news this, seems a player Allardyce really wanted all summer. I'd given up on him, really looking forward to seing him in action now if it goes through. Another bigger, more physical full-back too. No more getting bummed from set-pieces. Thought this was the fastest growing thread ever for a minute, uber-threadness gone mad I tells ya.

Great news for England this.

Surprised at Keane, thought he'd have a bit more bottle with his purchases. Only really gone for good, hardworking, low-risk/low-potential types so far as I can see. The exception is Richardson, I suppose... and you know he'd not have touched him if he didn't know him from Man U.

Live and in person, the second 4-3 at Anfield where we were 3 down, came back to level then lost it at the death. At St. James' Park, either the 0-0 with Villa a few weeks back or the 2-1 loss to Fulham last year. And I've been to others... On TV, the 5-0 no doubt.

Welcome back.

How do you know that? I've tried googling his FM stats but no joy thus far.

He's brought him in because he predominantly wants to play 4-3-3 and will need 3 CM's. So with only Butt, Geremi, Barton and Emre in the squad, bringing in Smith makes sense. That he can also play up front is a bonus. Never seen such a blatantly obvious squad signing cause so much mass confusion tbh. (Not really directed exclusively at you mate ) everyone seems to be pushing for n'zogbia to be in the midfield thought and by all means he is NOT a central midfielder, winger all the way Agree, I'd play him on the left of the 4-3-3 every single time myself, think he'll be a star there given the chance.

He's brought him in because he predominantly wants to play 4-3-3 and will need 3 CM's. So with only Butt, Geremi, Barton and Emre in the squad, bringing in Smith makes sense. That he can also play up front is a bonus. Never seen such a blatantly obvious squad signing cause so much mass confusion tbh. (Not really directed exclusively at you mate )

Butt and Geremi are solid enough in CM. With those two in tandem, I would have thought Smith would be given far more license to drive forward than has been the case so far. I think he has tbh, he's just not particularly good at driving forward though.

Utility player. Can play a number of positions to a decent level, you know you're always going to get 100% effort when you put him in there and he'll add a bit of bite to your team. I'm happy to have him here, he's nothing spectacular but he's solid and will help to generally make us a better club as he's a good pro by all accounts. We also desperately needed to stop being such a soft touch in CM, and he'll help with that.

I'd say he'll almost certainly be somewhere in the middle actually, generally underperforming and seeing games pass him by but occasionally producing absolute thunderbolts and the odd really top performance when he fancies it. sounds like Oba tbh I was actually going to say that, but thought better of it.

what makes you think owen and martins can play the wide roles in a 4-3-3? Aside from N'Zogbia, I don't see anyone in our squad who's currently fit that seems a particularly better bet.

Why? Has he f***** his knee as well? Nowhere nearly as bad as he f***** the club. Howay man, Dave Aye, you'd swear he personally bankrupted us or something.

I'd say he'll almost certainly be somewhere in the middle actually, generally underperforming and seeing games pass him by but occasionally producing absolute thunderbolts and the odd really top performance when he fancies it.

Dunphy should really commentate as well as analyse, it'd be priceless.

Tha's just fucking stupid in all honesty.

Why should we take the moral high ground? He's made twats of all of us. If it happened to a decent man then fair enough, we'd be wrong to do anything. Like I'd never act this way about Solano but Dyer has f***** up his time here. He got injured a hell of alot, collected masses of wages, drunk, smoked and slept his way around yet we stuck with him, nursed him to full fitness and then he turns around and says he wants to move to London. Stuck with him? Like when he was constantly getting booed before asking for a transfer? His situation here was untennable, he had to go and everyone knew it. And I'm glad h did, everyone barring West Ham benefitted from the move, which is perfect. And you don't have to take the moral high ground at all, fair enough. Turning your back on your employer VS. Revelling in another human being suffering serious injury I know which sounds worse to me.

Probably at about the same time as a lot of people on here had their sense of humour bypass? I fail to see the joke in comments that are basically just saying 'I'm glad the cunt is injured.' If someone makes a good joke, fair enough. But not many people here seem to be joking.

When the dick couldn't wait to get away from us despite sticking with him for a countless number of years. I never wish serious injury upon anybody but it serves him right for wanting away from us. Aye, you're all really taking the moral high ground and proving yourself to be better than him here. Well done to you all.

Agreed, get well soon Kieron.

I'm not glad about Dyer's injury, I'm glad about the f****** great business it seems this club has done in selling him. Up there with the £13m we got for Woodgate It was quite clearly good business at the time, he was eventually going to get an injury of some sort anyway. And the majority seem very happy that Dyer has seemingly snapped his leg, so you're in a minority there. Still think it's very pathetic, this thread.

No time for Dyer whatsoever and despise West Ham as a club but I do just think there's something horrible about being glad someone, anyone, has suffered a very serious, potentially career ending injury. I know he'll never be particularly stuck for money or anything but laughing at him over this is all very, very distasteful and quite disgusting in my opinion, even if it is Dyer.

Isn't Diarra a DM by nature though? Suppose if there's no genuine RB's out there though that Sam fancies then there's no point buying one for the sake of it. Be excited to get Diarra though, nice to have someone to groom as a successor to Butt.

I agree... He's made some great crosses, but imo they are s*** too many times... Even the best crossers of the ball in the world have more s*** ones than good ones. It's a case of putting in the really telling one enough times to make up for the poor ones, and Milner has put in a few cracking crosses and seems to be getting better at them all the time. It's not his crossing that holds him back, it's his lack of pace that really kills him. He'll never be a top player out wide IMO, especially in a 4-3-3. If we go 4-4-2 then I'd have him down the right, but since we blatantly won't I'd rather see him moved infield. Bench might be better. For now I'd have him playing in the middle ahead of either Butt or Geremi, give us someone in CM who can actually get forward and threaten to score goals. With a fully fit squad to choose from, though, I'd have him on the bench also.