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Crouch will disintegrate our team. Why does Roeder love the long ball so much, which is blatant if he wants to bring Crouch in, when it's simply shite for us anyway?

1. Chelsea 2. Manchester United 3. Arsenal 4. Liverpool ---------------------------- 5. Bolton Wanderers 6. Tottenham Hotspur ---------------------------- 7. Aston Villa 8. Portsmouth 9. Everton 10. Reading 11. Newcastle United 12. Wigan Athletic 13. Blackburn Rovers 14. Manchester City 15. West Ham United 16. Fulham 17. Middlesbrough ---------------------------- 18. Sheffield United 19. Charlton Athletic 20. Watford

He'll be fine and we'll do alright, so long as he doesn't play 4-5-1. Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle

Obviously not to the great extent that we have at the moment, but having 5 or 6 injured players works for Roeder. That way the team picks itself and he can't make stupid decisions. :roll: Notice how we've only ever done well under Roeder when we've had 'significant' injuries. Naff manager. We'll finish mid-table which is nowhere near good enough. He won't get sacked, though - not so long as we're consistently 5 or 6 points from relegation.

Annoyed that he's turning down Distin. Equally annoyed that he's interested in Crouch. Largely un-surprised.

Viduka is hardly prolific now is he. Well, not this season, because he hasn't played very much. But in the past - yes. He scored 16/17 goals last season. He'd fill the criteria, without a shadow of a doubt.

Please God no. :roll:

We'd have Owen and Martins. Sibiersky only got a one year contract, though he'll probably get another one. As for Shola, he shouldn't be near or first team, he is just not even near being good enough. :roll: I'd take the 'new' Shola as a third or fourth choice tbh.

If we actually needed a new, long-term striker, and Bent was going for £7m, i'd be creaming. Guarantee of goals, simple as. But we don't need a new long-term striker. We need a stop-gap in January, then Owen and Shola will be back and we'll have a cracking striking squad. Owen Martins Shola Sibierski Viduka/Beattie/Davies/whoever we get in Jan

Don't think we really need a targetman, someone who can hold the ball up, because Martins is decent enough at winning headers and opening up the play. We need a goalscorer, simple as. Someone who'll stand in the box, wait for the ball, and score - letting Martins, Dyer, Zoggy, Milner, etc do the work. Mark Viduka. Repeating myself i am. ;-)

Disgraceful tbh.

We need a stopgap striker or two in January, we'd probably get away with just one (see my previous post). That's all we need. When Owen and Shola come back, we'll have Oba, Owen, Shola, Sibierski, Dyer and that stopgap striker. The last thing we need is to spend another package on a forward. As tempting as it is, cos they're cracking players, we simply don't need a Bent or an Ashton.

Harsh. Especially for Taylor... he's finally coming back into his own. And Ramage hasn't played a bad game in his favoured position this season.

Bramble - £1m. OUT. Distin - £2.5m. Pressley - £0. IN. We'd be more than covered then. £1.5m on a significant improvement on the defense. Pressley would be a shrewd signing. He'd certainly do until the end of the season, atleast. Expereinced and competent defender going for free, and with our situation, it'd be daft not to have a look at him.

Kind of drew up a 'realistic' forecast for the transfer windows. JANUARY: OUT: Albert Luque - £3m Giuseppe Rossi - Loan Return IN: Sylvain Distin - £2.5m Wayne Bridge - Loan Mark Viduka - £2m Lomana Tresor Lua Lua - Loan Given Solano --- Taylor --- Distin --- Bridge Dyer --- Emre --- Butt --- N'Zogbia Martins --- Viduka SUMMER: OUT: Celestine Babayaro Stephen Carr Titus Bramble Nicky Butt Wayne Bridge Lomana Tresor Lua Lua IN: Leighton Baines - £6m Glen Johnson - £4m Wes Brown - £4m Lassana Diarra - £3m (Michael Owen) (Shola Ameobi) First Team: Given Johnson --- Taylor --- Brown --- Baines Milner --- Parker --- Dyer --- N'Zogbia Martins --- Owen Second Team: Harper Solano --- Distin --- Moore --- Ramage Duff --- Diarra --- Emre --- Pattison Viduka --- Sibierski Not much thought put into it, honestly. :wink:

Just want to see some clarification really, baring in mind we certainly have other options for right-back (Taylor/Ramage). And one-sided polls are often fun.

His English is excellent, though. I think he stuttured, only because it wasn't his best goal, which is what the lazy journo asked. What kind of question is that when the Levadia goal was equally as good, if not better?

7 or 8, the home game to Tottenham is key - because we've got very difficult trips to Bolton and Everton. Can't see us picking anything up at the Reebok, but we'll snatch a draw from Everton. It's a tricky fixture list coming up, and 8-10 points woul dbe adequate. We won't return to the bottom three this season, i'm confident of that. But we need to get some players back. 13 injured. :roll: If Nobby and Emre are out for December, 8 points will be a monumental task.

I'd be devastated if either left tbh. And it all depends on Owen's form when he comes back from injury. If he comes back as good as he was, Owen.

They probably will. Saha/Rooney/Giggs get injured... Chelsea'll catch up big time. An injury to Saha would leave Man Utd absolutely fucked.

He'll play 4-5-1 to try and 'frustrate' Chelsea. That won't happen, Chelsea'll take the lead, and we'll be totally fucked. -------------------------- Given ---------------------------- Taylor ------- Huntington -------- Ramage --------- Babayaro Milner ------------- Butt --------- Pattison --------- N'Zogbia ----------------- Martins -------- Sibierski ------------------ The state of our squad is absolutely unbelievable. 13 first team players injured... it's absolute madness. Thirteen. It's a big opportunity for Paul Huntington. He's been roaming around the first team for 18 months now... it is time for him to get his chance. And i think that the hype and the pressure of it being against Chelsea will do him good. It's massive for him - he deserves his full debut, especially after a healthy cameo against Blackburn. We've seen Taylor at right-back, and before the revelation of Nobby, i thought he was the best right-back in the squad. He should play there. Another big day it is, for Matty Pattison. I haven't seen as much as i'd have liked to from Pattison this season, because he had a couple of canny appearances at the back end of the last one - the West Brom game in particular. I think he might do well, with the guidance and cover of one of the best players in the team at the moment (and possibly the most experienced) Nicky Butt. Our performance rests on Butt tomorrow. He's been doing his job excellently of late, and we need him now more than ever. Upfront, picks itself. Martins well on form, and has been since he's come back from injury. Sibi is just Sibi and he has to play. He's forming a canny partnership with Martins. They understand each other.

Essien's goal was an absolute belter. But Taylor's was from another world. The power, the accuracy, the audacity to actually do it, the dip, the pace - and from that far out, AND it was a volley. Simply phenomenal - absolutely mental. To say that Taylor's goal was luck is an absolutely farcical comment. He meant to do exactly what he did, and he did it absolutely amazingly. That, my friends, is one of the Premeirship's greatest ever goals. Not taking anything away from Essien's - it was an absolutely superb striker, but it's not a touch on Taylor's.

Stopped reading at this point.

That was Huntington. Eh? Huntington played his first game for the club yesterday.

Would you take Viduka? People scoff at the idea but he holds the ball up well and is good for a goal or 2. Yup. Exactly what i'm saying.