Parky

Nobody beleived me. YOu will all see. Mawhahahahh...

"Glenn Roeder doesn't blame injuries, Glen's role as sporting directoer is one in which he will never have to blame injuries...When Glenn Roeder wakes up and looks in the mirror at Glenn Roeder he isn't thinking about injuries...."

Everyone and his donkey on here last year (when I proposed buying him) were saying they were unsure about Babel or "never heard of him"..."shit striker"..."Isn't he a winger"? Now he's at Liverpool suddenly we're all "interested".

He looked good in one of the friendlies I watched the other night. But Eduardo just looked creamy.

5 seconds too slow. bollocks!! He's played in 2 friendlies and his name is on the website as in the first team. I think he's safe.

Putting aside the obvious name of Torres, my top pick for next year is this fella: EDUARDO Da Silva (24) was born in Brazil but moved to Croatia at the age of 15 and took Croatian nationality in 2002. The striker scored the first goal in European competition at Emirates Stadium when Arsenal beat Dinamo Zagreb 5-1 on aggregate in last season’s UEFA Champions League Third Qualifying Round. Eduardo has made 12 appearances for the Croatian national team, scoring seven goals, including the first in their 2-0 Euro 2008 Qualifier victory over England in October 2006. During his time with Dinamo Zagreb, Da Silva scored 73 goals in 104 appearances, won the Croatian League title twice (2006 and 2007) and the Croatian Cup twice (2004 and 2007). He was voted Croatian Player of the Year in 2004 and 2006, and was the Croatian League’s top scorer in both 2006 and 2007. Should provide some delightful entertainment as long as it ain't against us.

That is it in a nutshell. Pot kettle scenario extraordinaire...

He was a little bit naive in the football sense and was one who sorely needed the help of a DOF. Perhaps also a bit too much a liking for the limelight. The bottom line is he did his best (which wasn't good enough) and Souness did his worst while telling everyone who would listen that he knew what he was doing.

Sulzeer Jeremiah Campbell

Exactly, and didn't Campbell make it clear he would have been more than happy to come here. At the time Roeder was coming out with a load of nonsense about signing young hungry palyers - then went out and brought in Sibiesrski. Ironically he still might have been in a job if he'd have got Sol.

What a charming retort.

What i'm thinking, tbf. What a naff article. It' s meant to be light hearted. Although I dare say there is some truth in it. Dyer Bad-Good player Boumsong Bad - Bad etc..

I would have Sol but not as the only CD signing. Well obviously. But, if by some glitch in the universe, we were only allowed to sign one centre-back, we'd have done well if it were Campbell. Karmic glitch? Intersting Lt.....

"First we have the kind of player English football has traditionally produced: the good-bad player. The good-bad player is an expert in the art of direct, sweaty football. Peter Crouch, banging them in against the cream of the international fifth tier, briefly became the world's greatest good-bad player. David Beckham has always been a really good-bad player: peerless at lumping it into the business areas but without a cushioned scorpion-kick lay-off in sight. Nothing wrong with that; every team needs its good-bad players. Then there is the bad-good player: nice hair, lovely mover, plenty in his locker, just never seems to ... can't quite get on the end, doesn't manage to finish it off somehow ... Spurs sign a lot of bad-good players. Is Aaron Lennon one? Watching him surge thrillingly across the pitch, arms waggling, inexorably drawn to the left-hand corner flag, you think to yourself, yeah, maybe. West Ham have been sniffing around the same territory this summer: Craig Bellamy? Kieron Dyer? Classic bad-good players" This is exactly what I've been thinking of Spurs over the years who tend to buy a lot of fluent players who never really do the business (I mean they've had to buy Bent cause Berabtov is almost allergic to having a shot)...Lennon with all his fancy pink nightwear and shades and dancing on the pitch rarely gets a good cross in. And Robinson the classic good-bad keeper!!?? West Ham are the new Spurs where these kind of aquisitions are concerned? http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/07/28/how_do_you_tell_good_from_bad.html

I would have Sol but not as the only CD signing.

That's rich looking at your avatar Mo.

Allegedly he wanted 80k wages.

I don't think we're quite at that stage yet.

Surely would never happen. A player that so past it that we failed to take him for nothing even when desperate. Went on to have a good season in Italy after we turned him down IIRC. True, but didn't he also have a trial with City after that when he turned up smoking? Christ don't mention smoking to GeJon he'll start frothing at the mouth.

Great defender in his day and still an excellent reader of the game and still very solid. But he is pushing 33 and over the last few years he has been beset with niggling injuries. Seems like a short term fix, but on another level seems like a very unambitious move. He is quite slow now but his experience makes up for it most of the time. If we pick up another young cd in his early twenties then I'd take Sol as well to help with organising and developing our younger def. But I don't want this window to close and just sign Sol or Hyppia or some other 32+ campaigner for the CD cover we need.

That's exactly what I was thinking. He looks like he's taken that green shit he writes about all the time in the Observer to ludicrous levels and started eschewing meat, the stupid treehugger.

I personally don't think it's a big issue. I think the location and ambition of the club are bigger issues for a player and his family.

Brown-Silvestre and Heinze have all turned us down this summer. Sam needs to be a bit more creative about this buying players lark.

Hibbert is a really solid defender but useless going forward. Valente is too old/slow now but had done a decent job for us when fit. Anyway, P. Neville played right back more often than Hibbert last year and I think Jagielka will now take over that position. If we sign Baines for the left we'll have two new starting full backs. -----------------Howard---------------- Jagielka---Yobo---Lescott---Baines Not bad at all. Of the pairings amongst this little group imo this is the strongest : Yobo---Lescott.