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This.

That's what the BBC's South American reporter Tim Vickery had to say about him.

Doesn't seem to have done Frasier Campbell any harm mind. You've hit the nail on the head their. Frazier Campbell has done well but he is 20 and those 2 years older than our youngsters will mean he is much more fully developed physically and more able to withstand the physical nature of the Championship.

Gomes? Dodgy keeper? I'd say Gomes is definetly not a dodgy keeper. Certainly a VAST improvement over Robinson.

So you would presume if we are paying a few million for a keeper then one of Harper or Given is leaving.

Wikipedia (I know) says he is a 24-year old Argentinian goalkeeper who plays for Estudiantes de La Plata.

Won't be going just yet. Beye, Enrique, Faye, Taylor, Cacapa and Edgar are currenlty our only defenders. So unless we sign atleast 2 or 3 defenders he'll be staying here this season. Plus his contract is up at the end of the season so he certainly won't be going anywhere on a season long loan.

The problem I think we will have is the Championship is becoming less skillful and more physical ever year, just look at Hull and Stoke (Bristol City as well) last season. That really doesn't suit a player like Kazenga or any other youngster who isn't quite fully physically developed yet. This is a particular problem with our academy currently as a lot of the bright prospects are still very young. Also increasingly your not going to be able to loan to the Premiership as managers want players who will make an instant impact not a kid who you are developing for another team.

Will someone really pay that much for him? I certainly don't think any of the Big 4 would. Don't think that Barca are that desperate for him either. At that price the only place I could maybe see him going is Bayern.

With Intermedia confirming it has been approached it has even me wondering if Ashley is really trying to flog the club. Hope to god it's not true but there's a part of me that fears it is.

Those still worried about how our summer is going. Let's look at our European rivals. Newcastle - Signed 1 Tottenham - Signed 3 West ham - Signed 1 - a 17-year old Portsmouth - Signed 1 Man City - Signed 1 Everton - Signed 1 - Player was on loan with them last year anyway Blackburn - Signed 0 Aston Villa - Signed 1 - Player was on loan with them last year anyway So 1 team has signed more players than us. I'd say on that basis we are very much on course.

But then he'd have to come out and deny every rumour everytime a false claim came out. If he released quotes saying he has no plans of selling to 'American investors', then the next time something came up (selling a player, selling the club etc.), if he didn't release quotes denying it then, it'd be "OMG! Ashley has denied to comment therefore he definitely wants to sell!!! Buy our paper!!" You either comment on everything or nothing and sadly, it's easier to remain silent. I see your piont but this links in with another piont I made in another thread. Ashley needs to do a big interview for the official website underlining his long term ambitions and plans for the club and in doing that make it perfectly clear he has no intention of selling the club at any price. Would also be ideal if he did this interview on camera and sent it to SSN as well. At the moment to the general fan Ashley is a owner who has not invested heavily in the playing squad and is constantly linked with selling the club, which is obviously not a positive image. He needs to outline the general transfer philosophy of the club to fans and make it clear that he does not want to sell, only then will these rumours stop.

In a sense the papers are right that the silence does fuel the speculation. We never hear anything from Ashley and that only increases press speculation. If instead of sending out a nameless spokesperson he'd gave the same quotes to the official website it would have silenced the rumours.

This deal gets more complicated by the day:Link Now Velez say they want him to report to training on 7th July.

Link?

3 very decent signings for them, been extremely impressed by Brown. Seems to be adopting the Allardyce tactic of signing more experienced players. Those 3 would all be very good signings for them.

Sunday 4pm KO for our first game of the season on Sky Possibilty we could be on Setanta Sep 20 if their prefered game is blocked Oct 5th 1:30 on Sky Oct 25th 12:45 on Sky Tue Oct 28th 8pm Sky Nov 2nd 4pm Sky Sat 29th Nov 12:45pm That's the list going round various forums. You can look for yourselves to see what fixtures happen to coincide with those dates.

19 days until were in action again!

Just the Sun jumping the gun.

Was just going to post something identical to this. Some communication would definetly be nice. We don't want Keegan or Wise to come out and name the players were after but it would be nice to hear something about how the club is getting on e.g things are going well, we'll probobly have 1 in in the next 2 weeks etc. As for Ashley it would be very nice if he could give an interview to the main site stating his intentions and his future vision to the club rather than (apparently) giving his only interview ot the NOTW and leaving the fans unsure if it's legit or not.

We won't be signing Zarate. Lazio are paying 20m euros for HALF of him, the other half is going to continue to be owned by MSI, which again would be a further problem to us buying him. If we are signing him because of Premier league rules concerning 3rd party owership we'd have to pay £31m, if were going by the fee they have negotiated with Lazio.

Just shown CCTV of his December assault which he got jailed for on ITV news. It's fucking disgraceful, he throws atleast a dozen punches and to make it worst the first punch has already knocked the poor guy to floor and Barton then just pummels the guy while he's defenceless and trying to get away. I was on the sack him side before but now my mind is 100% made up. Don't want scum like this playing for my club.

Last Shepherd season: 13th First Ashley season: 12th To me that's going forwards not backwards.

Thought it was classy of Sergio Ramos to put a Antonio Puerta shirt on for the victory celebrations, shows he hasn't been forgotten amongst all this.

Depends on the price. He's better than Smith but I wouldn't pay anything over £4m becuase he hasn't played at his best for 3 years now.