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Immediate and justified lengthy ban surely I'd like to think so. Carlton Cole is more than likely off to the mackems anyway

Well Giroud has been watched extensively by our scouts recently so we might end up signing him?

@GeorgeCaulkin George Caulkin Confirmed “@lee_ryder: #nufc L'Equipe say Maiga fails medical”

There are direct quotes from his agent tbf. I know but in a French report, could be any kind of mis-report or inaccurate story. And as we see with our papers and news channels, they quote all sorts that turn out to be made up rubbish, i just think its too soon to over react. L'Equipe are absolutely nothing like our papers from what I've seen. Do you read them everyday and how much of a percentage of their stories are true ? Same as many of ours i would suspect. Quite a large percent. Bollocks I'd certainly trust L'Equipe more than our press.

There are direct quotes from his agent tbf. I know but in a French report, could be any kind of mis-report or inaccurate story. And as we see with our papers and news channels, they quote all sorts that turn out to be made up rubbish, i just think its too soon to over react. L'Equipe are absolutely nothing like our papers from what I've seen. Do you read them everyday and how much of a percentage of their stories are true ? Same as many of ours i would suspect. Quite a large percentage.

There are direct quotes from his agent tbf. I know but in a French report, could be any kind of mis-report or inaccurate story. And as we see with our papers and news channels, they quote all sorts that turn out to be made up rubbish, i just think its too soon to over react. L'Equipe are absolutely nothing like our papers from what I've seen. It's very well respected across Europe, not just France.

Defenders are priority anyway. Indeed. Guess we can use the quoted £6/7 million that would have been used to sign Maiga to sign a canny defender (maybe even another one as well who would purely be signed as cover, ie. in the Ridgewell category).

Oh brilliant!

Yeah, it's probably complete guesswork. Here's the article:

Sky Sports did hint that Obertan might be dropped with Sammy coming in.......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/16/joey-barton-noam-chomsky Meh-tastic.

Unlikely, there was a bit of snow this morning but it hasn't settled (unless there's a massive blizzard due tonight). EDIT: ah just seen that the forecast is no snow for tonight.

Hopefully, if we see Smith however

http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/statszone/archive/2011/12/16/liverpool-defend-smart-newcastle-face-different-challenge-amp-rio-fills-vidic-void.aspx Well guess that's somewhat reassuring.

VOM.

Rooney's against us at Old Trafford (2004/05, the game when Ambrose scored) was great tbf.

8 points out of a possible 21 for me too

Yep. The club and Cattermole are a perfect match for each other.

Looked at the BBC website, looks like Rodgers rotates Dyer and Routledge. Either way, both are threats because of their pace.

Thought they played a 4-3-3 type formation? Haven't been paying close attention to Swansea really.

Fan-f***ing-tastic I'm hopeful that we'll see a pretty much full strength team for the WBA game then. So I would have to go with this tomorrow: Krul Raylor Simpson Perch Santon Ben Arfa Cabaye Abeid Jonas Best Ba I'm putting Santon at LB to try and nullify the threat from Routledge.

I've got both Cabaye and Ben Arfa