Parky

Man City have been sniffing around Diego as Sven goes all out to quash his boring tag.

Lacks the 'X' factor tho wouldn't you say? Only seen him once mind.

Neri Cardozo The Argie U21 wonderkid? Good shout.

Agree. Get in the spirit Kaka ffs!

Who's the 4th one down Dazzler?

You've got £15m. The brief is to get an attacking creative midfielder who can plays as part of the midfield or in 'the hole' as required. He adjustes the tempo of the game, he orchestrates the passing moves, he is one helluva Michaelangelo on the ball. Who are you buying? I'd go with Van der Vaart or Diego.

You say that now but when he comes back and scores, You will make a new thread preaching how Owen is world Class I doubt it, for one he isn't a world-class player anymore, although his finishing abilities are, and secondly, he'll never play for us again because he's always fucking injured What's wrong with him coach? Too much footie when he was younger has weakened him is one theory.

I thought he was 'fitter than ever'...Pulls a thigh muscle kicking a ball ffs...Then it turns out he's torn it and will be out for at least a month. I say get some money for him while we can, hell I'd take the £9m right now. Can't see him playing more than 20 games for us, pains me to say so but it's looking omnimous.

He looks like his real home is in the sexy footballers thread.

They paid that for his understudy, £8m at least! Yes £8m for mopey....Lovely.

That seems to be the general consensus. But Dave is adamant on this it seems. He gets like this during the sheep dog trials.

Parky wins again. Dave mullared even though he lives in t'Leeds.

'The Dave' doesn't make sense. And as Baggio says, we've played it when it suited. Can mean to as well....no? Nope. It can, actually. I thought so....

You seem to be the sort of bloke who jumps to conclusions Sribble, nothing wrong with that of course but I think you've unfairly described me. I think I'm probably more pedantic than a half full type of bloke which my comment in this thread suggests, I'm happy with the way the club seems to be going but I'm not worried about pointing anything out that isn't quite up to standard, I'm talking about in general and not the way we've played, which on the whole has been very good. Certain things like Stephen Carr looking like our first choice right back and the lack of pace the team possessed today are a slight worry going into the new season, on the whole though I'm happy enough, believe it or not I'm actually swinging my shoe's around my head at this very minute. Don't forget creativity....We lack it....

The scan revealed a tiny bit of Owen's knee in Given's groin apparently.

Counselling? Depression is a hard thing to get over i'm sure. Are you saying we didn't play long ball against Hull or in patches against Juventus? No, but as CoachHTT said... the team we had out against Hull was almost all academy and not many teams play short passes all the way through the game. Did I say any different to that? The Hull game shouldn't have even been mentioned, it's nothing like the team we'll play all season. I don't think the comment was serious anyway, it was mainly sarcasm. Why not? He said we haven't played the long ball game this season, I've pointed out where we have. I can't see what you problem is or how me stating a fact makes me suffer from depression. It's funny how you even make positives into negatives, every comment i see you make is like "We played 7 minutes of longball v Juve, boring football" It's not a negative, it's fact. Prove it. Prove what? That we played long ball against Hull and in parts against Juventus? So you're saying we didn't, even though earlier in this thread you didn't disagree with it. Make up your mind. never agreed either. Liverpool and Chelsea play long ball half the game.....

'The Dave' doesn't make sense. And as Baggio says, we've played it when it suited. Can mean to as well....no?

He's still ill/inj?

Chewbacca is down for it isn't he?

A surprising amount of vision for a maily def player as well. Makes things look easy.

He's been playing 'reasonably' in SerieA for a few years now, originally at Parma iirc, not sure where he is now.

It's too early to start having a pop MJ.

He's so dreamy! He needs adding to the sexy footballers thread.