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The crowd are dead, and no surprise since we've left our most exciting player on the bench.

This is ridiculous.

O RLY? Is that why he's always started more games than he's been on the bench except this season?

So we're playing him - our striker - because we need someone to mark their striker at corners and free-kicks?

A manager like Pardew is replaceable. A player like Ben Arfa isn't. Just sayin'.

Well, it just means Shola is starting and nothing else. He's been a waste of space for many years. Nothing has changed. When he buffed up after Allardyce came, he lost his agility and whatever little ability to turn and run with the ball he had, and he's been useless ever since.

I thought we were done with this shit when Souness left.

Yup. Whatever he does, he'll still be a legend at the club, so he has a lot of rope. But, I do think that if Liverpool don't qualify for the CL this year and don't start next year well, he may well resign. I don't think the owners would ever dare sack him.

Dalglish needs to start him rather than sending him on with 20-30 minutes when the opposition are parked in their own half.

Good shit.

We must really like him if we're going to spend 7.5m on a LB. It's a damn positive sign anyway considering the fact that we know that Carr sees these guys many times before giving the ok.

leffe is doing a good job of making me like them more. I would have enjoyed them getting relegated five years ago but now they're actually all right, with the exception of Harry. I don't think they'll win the title, but it'll be interesting. I also look at them as a model for how to develop our club, except of course realising that our stadium gives us a massive advantage. If we ever reach where they are now, we should be able to push on and unlike them, have some room financially to challenge the bigger clubs. They will struggle until they get a new stadium.

Is there any doubt that we make this signing if we had SBR in charge? This is where the best managers earn their money. There's no doubt he'd flourish at somewhere like Arsenal. We need to become a club that is good at developing young players, and I think we're on the way with the likes of Vukcic, Sammy and Krul. The structure that we have at the club is very developed in this aspect and I think we'll be able to work with this kid.

Kids are dumb these days. Some of them will seize a second chance. Some won't. Do you trust this management group to handle someone like him? I think Pardew is smart and sly enough to, and Carver has bags of experience in dealing with young stars. Take a shot. From all accounts he's a future England international. £1m is nothing. I'd go as far as £3m based on reports of his talent. Attitude problems can be fixed. Talent issues can't.

And I bet you Savic will come good, too. People are too quick to write off good footballers. You don't have to watch them for a long time to see that their fundamentals are excellent. With time, with experience, they will improve immeasurably. Like Coloccini, like Vidic, like Ivanovic. These players are Savic's comps.

Most of the players listed here will come good. Hell, half the forum was laughing at Ruiz at the start of the season but he's slowly settling in. He has great technique and in a couple of years, everyone will say 'what a great signing', forgetting their prior opinion on him. The story with Mertesacker is similar. He's a good player and Arsenal will have a very strong defence when he settles in. Gervinho is class, too. Quite a unique player. I don't know why he's been mentioned in this thread. When you pay money for potential, you can't classify the signing as a flop if the player isn't good right away. Jones has had some good games and some bad games, but he's really young and will be amazing in time. I like the look of Henderson, too. He doesn't have much about him but he plays smart passes and is able to exploit weaknesses. He'll be good in time, in a passing team, too. Players like Roger Johnson are genuine flops. Torres and Carroll, no doubt. Nasri, too, for now.

I wouldn't mind him for £5-7m. He's been getting into some very good positions in the past few games, so his game is slowly returning. He just needs a couple of goals for the sake of confidence and then he'll be off. He could have had two against us, could have had one or two against Blackburn. I think he's actually been unlucky recently, and his confidence is shot. He's never worth £35m, though, and he's not one of the best strikers in the Premiership. But, he's still a good striker on his day and when the team plays to his strengths, he'll be able to get you 15 in the league in any given year. So he's still all right and we would be getting him really cheap if he did return at say £7m. I put him at £15m before he left and a bit less than that is still his fair market value today - for someone young and English. A part of me wants him back and scoring because we're going past Liverpool in the next couple of seasons. It would be sweet if Carroll was scoring for us while we did it. But another part of me wants him to remain a drain on their resources and be a symbol of Dalglish's crazy transfers, which will get him sacked in the end.

That match at Klanfield will be awesome. There's no doubt Evra will be racially abused. Expect another shitstorm. For the second time in my life - and in the space of only two months - I'm going to be supporting Man Utd again.

Who gives a fuck how much Ben Arfa tracks back? If he we had two capable full backs then this wouldn't be an issue. Santon doesn't need a lot of help from Jonas but Simpson needs it from whoever is playing RW. The annoying thing is that if we start Ben Arfa there and he starts raping teams then the opposition full back will be much less likely to bomb forward because he knows that we'd be deadly on the counter attack. We haven't really scored a good counter-attacking goal this year because our wingers are always so deep in our half when we defend.

Alcohol in moderation is good for your long-term health. But even that depends on the type of alcohol that you consume. Beer certainly isn't. Wine is, and whiskey to an extent. But for an athlete, there's no point in giving a shit about what's going to happen to you at 60 because your career is too short. Any alcohol consumed causes dehydration and will affect many things like your sleep pattern, which is why the top athletes don't drink any alcohol during their season.

I'm pretty relaxed about this window. Sure, we need a couple of players but this has been a fantastic season so far and I'm enjoying it a lot. It'd be nice if we push on but it would also be all right if nothing happened because we have a good spine to which I'm sure we'll add to in the summer. I honestly have not been less worried about a transfer window in a long time. We don't have any pressing needs that require significant money to be spent to achieve our goals. We'll be challenging for 7th if nothing happens this window, and that's good enough for this year.

This might get ugly.

Where is Christmas Tree and Baggio? Idiots.