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Actually, I think Curbs being our manager might help Parker's game. Parker's best form so far was while he was a Charlton player after all.

Ugh, 37 with Micah Richards and Barton to go. Group match opponent is on 47 with Richards to go - sigh. If only I hadn't sold Lamps for Drogba and Giggs -_-

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Hopefully he won't even be around that long.

It doesn't look like we'll get anyone better than Curbs though.

In all honesty, it wouldn't have made a diference even if he took the subsitution 30 minutes early.

Fulham's record isn't much better.

I'm sure gemmil has something to say about both points =P edit: ah, guess not Luque didn't look as lazy as I expected, that is after reading all that has been said about his workrate. Martins on the other hand doesn't look like he's running enough for a player who supposedly relies on his pace, but I'm sure thats just something of a side-effect from playing in Italy.

:roll: Insta-bite from a non-attender. Cool. Hey, I've attended all of the toon games I can =P (that EPL promo thing in Malaysia a couple years back) Not saying he'll be an instant hit, but any team worth their salt should not give up on players after 7 (maybe 10 including the Souey regime?) appearences -_-

:roll:

I think he'll make a pretty decent player/coach though.

Have you watched Luque live in all of the games he has played? From what I've read on the forum, half of the anti-Luque faction jumped on the bandwagon after Ventspills and Aston Villa, ignoring the fact that he has produced some sort of end product in every other game he played under Roeder.

^ thanks >_< Why the eff not? Even Ramage has been a better LB (defensively) than Carr at RB. As a long term prospect, Martins for 10 mil might prove to be a bargain... if only we had better coaches to develop our long term prospects.

*cough* Stephen Carr *cough*

Do you honestly trust Roeder's assessment of (his own) players? =P

yuck yuck yuck

Sigh, I wish. Rossi's given Roeder the perfect excuse to leave Luque out of the squad for good, I suppose. By being miles better than him? Guess so eh... It amounts to nothing in the long term, to us.

Sigh, I wish. Rossi's given Roeder the perfect excuse to leave Luque out of the squad for good, I suppose.

As good as he is, he isn't here on a long term basis, and obviously helping our rivals blood one of their youngsters does nothing for us. Clueless move by a clueless manager. re: "rival" - to be fair we're hardly in your league, are we

Whats the point of starting him? So that he does an even better job for Manure in a season or two?

ah, ok

Ahhhh thats the game sorry, slipped. Still, despite having (much) fewer starts, Luque has managed to score the same number of goals Martins has. Isn't that enough to give him a run in the side for a few matches at the very least?

Ramage, Shola and Steven Taylor? We nearly ruined Shearer by playing him as GK though.

Games Luque played in (under Roeder): Sunderland, Lillestrom, Wigan, Aston Villa, Ventspills. Games Luque scored in: Sunderland, Lillestrom and Wigan (bad offside decision). Game Martins played in: Every match since Aston Villa Game Martins scored in: West Ham (edit) Talinn (2) ****ing silly to write off a player like that, especially when you consider that people are mostly judging him by the games where he was thrown into the deep end by a clueless manager carrying a personal vendetta.

Used it, and won my group match this week (2 wins in a go now) should have stayed with Giggs instead of getting C.Ronaldo, though :/