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Wolves have a good team but they are shit at scoring goals. I reckon our defence can keep them out. 0-0.

Let's get this cunt signed. I'm excited

Ashley would be dumb not to let SD pay the going rate because he doesn't own the whole of SD, but he does own the whole of NUFC. It's like transferring money from someone else's pocket (the other shareholders) into his own pocket (the club coffers). I think he's smart enough to do that.

He has potential, which makes us selling him cheaply - the most likely event - highly irksome. Like I said in the other Taylor thread, he's got all the physical attributes and I suppose he's just at the age where defenders start to mature and fully develop, so I think he's going to continue to develop. Maybe he's a future England international, maybe not, but it'd be a shame for us to lose him now because Campbell is a short-term buy. It'd be much nicer to have him in the squad for the next few years because he's a good cover at RB as well. Honestly, he could realistically be worth £10-12m if he has one good season in the Premiership, but selling him now is the only way we're going to recover any money so I suppose it must be done. I actually think Taylor leaving Newcastle would be good for him because I think he can't control his emotions when he plays for us because he wants to be this Geordie Hero, flying in to every tackle and trying to mark everyone on the pitch. Moving away would open his eyes and he would cease to think that he's the big fish in whatever city he moves to, and that'll help him immensely.

We're going to get fucked like Marseilles is getting fucked over Ben Arfa. There's no way we're getting fair value for him. I hope a club in desperate need of a CB comes in because if not, it's such a massive lost of opportunity. If this is true, Taylor's burned his bridges. We've just been promoted to the Premiership and he asks for £60k. What the fuck has he done in his career to merit that? And what did he do last year to even think about asking for a contract like this? What a daft cunt.

When we finished fourth, there was talk of winning the league. IIRC, we had three consecutive tough matches against Sunderland, Arsenal and Liverpool. Won the first, didn't do too well in the other matches and our title chase was over when we got smashed by Man Utd at home.

He's a goalscorer, he's not a winger. The fact that Inter won everything last year obviously justified everything that Mourinho did, but it still doesn't hide the fact that Eto'o's performances at Inter were incomparable to his performances at Barca, which had him rated as easily one of the best strikers in the world. It was obvious that you would miss the point of what I said, which was focused on individual players and their style of play. I like to see flair, style, moments that make you jump out of your seat. In a Mourinho team, that doesn't happen because everyone is geared towards the team, which obviously works for him, but when players leave him, they can never recover their previous individual form, hence why I said Mourinho 'fucks up' players. Once Mourinho converts them into the team player that everyone in his team must be, they're only good so long as they're in that system. Once they leave it, they find it almost impossible to recover form and are unable to fit into other, less rigid systems.

Mourinho fucked up Duff, Parker and SWP, didn't he? Duff and SWP was exciting as fuck for Blackburn and City, then Mourinho turned them into robots who did the same thing over and over again. Parker also showed dynamism at Charlton but his style of play since he left Chelsea has been typically, for a Mourinho player, conservative. Let's see if Mourinho fucked up Eto'o by dumping him out wide last season. I suppose Eto'o should be thankful that it was only one season. A couple more and we'd never see the type of Eto'o that played for Barca again. Edit: I'd add in Joe Cole as well who was an exciting talent capable of producing sublime moments of skill but Mourinho turned him into a team player - an effective one, I'll admit - who's unable to produce those special moments.

Impossible.

I reckon SWP would be good for us because his pace will be used. For the bigger teams who control possession, his lack of control means that he's useless when they're constructing attacks, but for someone like us who'll be looking to counter-attack almost every team when we're away from home, he'd be an excellent outlet because he's just so pacy.

They've got a young and exciting squad, which really reminds me of us in 2003 (although we were better, imo), so I'd definitely be excited if I was a Spurs fan, but they've just gelled at the wrong time because the other teams are still too strong for them. I'm afraid a year or two out of the CL and most of their best players, like Bale, Modric and Lennon, will be off. This season is massive for them if they want to push on but their likeliest competitors for fourth will be City, who will just be too strong over the course of the season.

Yeah, that's the best thing; when they launch a ball down our left hand side, I wait for the inevitable Enrique interception. It's like they're giving us the ball on purpose when they attack down that side.

He's a bit slow and will get burned by the better strikers in the league but he's calm, mops up nicely and works well with Colo so he'll do, but I'm still worried about how slow our central defence is.

I couldnt agree more he is the best we have got since Sir Bobby..... Tooj, man, you're a magnet for the KK stuff (or the KK stuff is a magnet for you)

Not so easy for people in Saudi Arabia to learn the Korean word for South Korea and stuff like that though. Corea is how they prefer to spell it and then it's dae han min some shit is how they pronounce it in South Korea.

A 23 year old version of Bellamy would be the spark to much greater things for our team.

Check my posts and stop being a bellend, I've said we should have tried for him. As usual you spout a load yet can't disagree with the points I make. Promising It was Niall Hickman from the Daily Express. He said he had been over to interview McLaren last season at Twente and McLaren had said there was only one player in his squad that was good enough for the Premier League and that was Tiote. Now that I don't believe. While Tiote was instrumental in thei championship win last season and has improved vastly over the past season, there are players in that Twente squad who are better still, like Brian Ruiz. I don't believe McLaren would have said this. Also, you have to wonder why McLaren didn't go in for Tiote for his new club if he really thought that highly of the lad.. Eredivisie is a better judge of Midfielders and defenders than strikers imo, too many have proven to be success in Holland and fail elsewhere. I think he didn't take him to Wolfsburg because they have sufficent DM's. Regarding strikers that have failed to live up to their reputation from the Eredivisie, I can only really think of one, and it happens to be your namesake.. As already said, Alves, KJH, Kuyt, Marcus Berg all spring to mind as good strikers in Holland who went on to be poor in bigger leagues. I wouldn't agree on Kuyt, he has just become another type of player in Liverpool....and Marcus Berg is still in Eredivisie. You probably meant Elmander in Bolton, and yes, he hasn't been good. Maybe this season is his. No, I meant Berg, he went to HSV and didn't score ergo why he is at PSV on loan. Somehow I still don't count Bundesliga as a "bigger" league. I find them somewhere between PL/La Liga and Eredivisie. There could be so many reasons why he didn't succed at HSV, too. It doesn't always have to be down to footballing skills. Marcus Berg is still fairly young you as well, and he wasn't exactly scored 30 or more in Holland even, like Alves and Kezman did, who I admit have failed to live up to their reputation abroad. Whilst not every player coming from the Eredivisie can make the step up to a bigger league, there have been sufficient players who have done exactly that to say the Eredivisie is a good hunting ground for the big leagues. Some of the very best players in the past 20 years have learned their trade in the Eredivisie. I honestly can't think of a recent striker from the Eerdivisie (RVN doesn't count) who has made the step up to the big leagues, I was commenting purely on the current state of the league, of course in the past you've had some great goalscorers go on to bigger things and succeed. Why does Ruud van Nistelrooy not count? I would say the likes of Bergkamp, Hasselbaink, Kluivert, Van Persie, Robben, Kuyt, Huntelaar, Makaay, Kalou and many others over the past 10 years prove otherwise. I will now gladly admit that a few of them have also failed to impress when they moved to better leagues abroad (I'd qualify Alves and Kezman in this category), but in general I think there is no denying that players who have been quality in the Eredivisie have adapted really well in better leagues over the years, probably more so than any other league. But RvN doesn't count, man!

Agreed. His defending was good but his passing was woeful, but he was still a good LB, which made the Allardyce decision not to play him very surprising. He had shown great potential anyway and I've always thought that he was a quality player; an absolute beast in defence.

Hughton better not play Enrique. If he's injured we're pretty much fucked at LB.

This forum is like a football version of 4chan.

Cole and Evra are more complete LBs because they contribute in attack, but defensively, Jose is on a par with any left back in the world. I know that sounds like an exaggeration but there hasn't been a right winger who's had the better of him since he signed for us, and that includes the likes of Lennon, Valencia and other pacy/strong players who he's come up against.

Diamanti's shite. He scored a few nice goals so people wank over him but his work rate is poor and the other areas of his game are mediocre.

Kezman, you're full of shit, man. Honestly.

His performance was excellent and he's shown real hunger in both of our matches so far. I really hope he keeps his head down and works hard because there are still areas of the his game where he could easily improve (movement around the box, right foot, stamina), but that'll only be done if he works hard and doesn't let performances like this go to his head. The presenter on the tv channel I watched last night said that Hughton had already had a talk with him concerning his behaviour off the pitch and surprisingly, he said that Shearer had also had a long, long talk with Carroll about the responsibilities of being a top striker, of being the #9 at this club and about being someone who other people will constantly focus on. Carroll has good, experienced people around him and I hope he takes their advice to heart, knuckles down and works hard because you don't fluke a hat-trick in the Premiership; you certainly don't fluke it with the type of goals he scored last night. He's been our most improved player over the past year and like Hughton said yesterday, he's still very young and has a lot more growing and maturing to do. Let's hope he's able to fulfill his potential with us because we'll be quite a team with a beast like him up front

Smith will hopefully not appear on this list in a couple of weeks time when Tiote is starting.