dcmk

It's good man management. Also it's a subtle message to Mike Ashley, without being a total prick about it.

we established that when you said he was better then Ribery to be honest

DCMK. Maybe you should read the posts before my mine.

No shit.

It is but that's the only quotes I have read from Hughton about Ben Arfa. Unless you have heard more from him?

Maybe he has said something since i read these brief quotes from here: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/sport/Ben-Arfa-deal-39unlikely39-says.6444516.jp

Something along the lines of it's unlikely to happen.

Took him arguably 5 years to do so mind.

it happens to the best of us

Where have you heard this?

You mean the guy who hasn't played one competitive match for us yet? ..and people say we write off foreign players too quickly.

Nasri and Benzema didn't get into the France squad. Would you take them? Can we sign those for 800k?

I like the signing but I'm not going to pretend i have watched him more then once - i know nothing about him - other than he's supposedly good but couldn't make it into a poor WC French team and that hardly any clubs are in for him.

I'm curious to know that if we were to stay up, what the transfer policy would be for that summer. Hopefully not a repeat of the here and now.

Zero chance of bringing in Van Aanholt. He is one of Chelsea's home grown players.

Again, people have been saying this for weeks and I find it kind of funny. Three strikers out of the entire bottom half (Bent-24, Cole-10, and Rodallega) got double figures in the league last year. Strikers, excluding truly exceptional cases like Bent, do not just waltz around plugging 15 goals a season in relegation-threatened teams that struggle to create chances for them. I'm not saying you're wrong, of course we're going to stay up if we can get someone who can score 15 next season. But it's not realistic in any sense of the word. I'll consider it a great success if whoever's playing up front for us nets 8~9 next year. Putting forward "double figures" or "15" as if it's some sort of benchmark for a competent bottom-half striker is ridiculous.

Maybe his name isn't foreign enough.

Shola shouldn't be anywhere near the first 11.

Miller can no longer rape our center backs, good stuff

So, nowt to do with your dodgy legs then Mikey??!! it's everyone else's fault, apart from his own! the guy is a Grade A c*** How about you try reading the article. He never even said that.

Just because he was good last season doesn't mean I'm going to delude myself into thinking that suddenly he is going to be strong enough, fast enough for the Premiership. How many times in his first season here was he caught out by a simple ball over the top? Blaming that season as a blip based on a bad midfield doesn't fly when you consider he was comfortably outperformed by Bassong, who was in the same boat.

Last season counts for nothing, Steven Taylor is better suited to the Premiership then Colo ever will be.

Great news

What exactly is crazy about letting him go?

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