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Cleverley is a promising player imo. Pity he got injured really, was looking good from what I saw.

On bail until 21st March.

Brighton's Owen bid! Regarding the RVP and Wenger story, whilst we don't know what goes on behind the scenes, I reckon there's no conflict as such between the two. But wouldn't be surprised if RVP is becoming frustrated with Arsenal's progress this season.

5th is a failure for them. Plus, if anything happens to RvP, they won't finish 5th. Yep, it's 4th or bust for Wenger really. (Imagine if they somehow won the Champions League this year though ).

Fools.

First I've heard this. Lee Ryder must have been bored.

Last home strip I bought was the 07-09 one. Quite liked that one tbh.

Yep, that's the right call.

Actually, that's a fair point. Which other club/site would do what RAWK did? One thing I don't understand - a few people have said that he should only get sacked if he gets a custodial sentence. That sounds like you're saying that it doesn't matter if he's guilty or not, but does matter if he gets put away and can't manage the team. Or do you think that by getting put away it automatically becomes a grave enough offence to warrant the boot? It will be interesting to see how the media treats him afterwards. Weirdly, if he stays on but loses his media jobs and shuts up a bit more, he might actually become a better manager. You know that's simply not going to happen as long as he's in the game.....

Source?

Probably the end of it then. Can see us slightly upping our bid (an extra 500k possibly), if that doesn't do it (or Watford are really insisting that our bid should be £5million), have to look elsewhere I guess. Lewis Dunk has also been mentioned in the Chronicle today like.

That's what I was getting at really. If it turns out our defence is being destroyed by pace, could bring on Mariappa for Willo to combat the threat more effectively. If we do sign Mariappa, I'd still like Coloccini and Wililamson to be our first choice CBs though.

Would be a good plan really.

Even if Real win La Liga this season, can see Mourinho leaving at his own discretion tbh.

Great news that. Would be a welcome return

Well then.....

Certainly. The less room he had to manoeuvre with, the better we seemed to do. That Tottenham away win for example, I seem to remember we were down to the bare bones. The team that day: Given, Ramage, Taylor, Huntington, Pattison, Solano, Butt, Milner, Dyer, Martins, Sibierski. (Subs Not Used: Harper, Edgar, O'Brien, Carroll, Troisi). That defence Who the hell's Huntington? http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42449000/jpg/_42449573_ab8.jpg He scored that day btw.

28?! Didn't realise this, thought he was 25!

Go on Benny!

He's a right winger according to the sites I looked at yesterday. Looks like it. In his actual interview, he doesn't really give much away about his ability. He says that he wants to improve his technique (achieving "technical ease"). His role models are Zidane and Messi.

Well, looks like Douglas was right about something! Thinking about it, even though I know f*** all about Mariappa, I guess he would be a decent signing really. Firstly, he's a CB and it is a position we really need reinforcements in; secondly, the Watford fans seem to rate him very highly and finally I trust our scouts to have watched him extensively and have thus made an informed judgement on the lad's ability. If the price is reasonable (£2 million max), then I'm all for this transfer.

Honestly, from what I've seen, the mackems haven't really played that well recently. All credit to Martin O'Neill for getting the team's confidence up/getting them back to winning ways and all that but from what I've seen of them, can see us just about winning against them. It'll more than likely be a tough game but simply saying that we'll lose, howay man! Quite an attitude there, have some faith please. (Plus, we're at St. James').

Ah just seen this..... Well that was a nice few minutes.

Well, I didn't expect that tbh (well at this point of the season anyway). I expected him to make some sort of decision this summer regarding his future....not now.....