Dr Spectrum

It will be -------------------- Carson ---------------------- ----Hoyte - Onuoha - Cahill - Baines-------- ---------------- Huddlestone ------------------- - Milner - Reo-Coker - Young - Richardson - -------------------- Nugent ----------------------- Young was playing left hand side of a 442 when England went mental the other night. Something like... --------------------- Hart ------------------ -- Rosenior - Taylor - Cahill - Baines - -------------- Huddlestone --------------- -------- Routledge - Noble - Young ----- ------------ Derbyshire - Lita ------------

The interesting aspect of that story is that Sir Joseph has gone on holiday. I doubt he would do that if there was any doubt over the move. Probably just waiting for McKay to give up trying to rob City...

ENGLAND U-21 (probable): Carson; Hoyte, Baines, Ferdinand/Onuoha, Cahill; Richardson, Huddlestone, Reo-Coker, Milner, Young; Nugent. (HP: Sun) Ferninand has knacked his groin, apparently Taylor is suspended...

£16m for deadly Diego!!! mackems.gif Good fucking grief. I'd be embarrased to print that shite. And its not even in the Sun. PS: Why is Guily reportedly only £1.5m? Even if its the last year of his contract, he's only 30?

Heart skipped a beat when I noticed the words Manchester City in that first paragraph...thought for a second we were rumoured to be the mugs that will take him off your hands( ). Can't see who will possibly be interested in him btw, especially given how much money he takes home, certainly can't see anyone paying for him. Someone in Qatar maybe? PS: Baines doesn't really strike me as a wingback...I think you need to be a real energizer bunny type to play in that position. Then again I doubt theres any truth in this 352 rumour as its a shite system...

City are doing that too. £95 for a kids ST, anywhere in the ground. Think its a good move myself, get as many kids in as possible so we can get the poor little buggers hooked before they know what they're letting themselves in for.

This was the first time I've heard Saviola had signed for Madrid btw... Wiki says: "On 27 April 2007, Spanish sports paper Marca reported that Saviola had signed a pre-contract with Real Madrid for the 2007-08 season. These claims were quickly refuted by Saviola who said "This was a simple link to sell more papers."[13] " So, in conclusion, he's definetly signing for City.

Dimitar Berbatov - Spurs Thierry Henry - Arsenal Samuel Eto'o - Milan David Villa - Valencia Javier Saviola - Manchester City Fernando Torres - Athletico Madrid Jan Klaas Huntelaar - Ajax Carlos Tevez - Inter Nicolas Anelka - Bolton Djibril Cisse - Marseille Louis Saha - Lyon Alan Smith - Manchester United Diego Forlan - Villareal Craig Bellamy - Blackburn Darren Bent - West Ham Jermaine Defoe - Spurs Yakubu - Middlesbrough David Nugent - Everton Benni McCarthy - Manchester City Obafemi Martins - Newcastle Michael Owen - Newcastle Hrm. I should probably have put at least one of them going to Liverpool...

Sigh...has he no gone yet. You know, I'm not sure how good my maths is but if Barton signed for Newcastle tomorrow without the greedy-fucker-bonus, I'm pretty sure he'd get more money than if it collapsed, he sat on his current £30k City contract till the next transfer window and signed for you then on the same £45k deal thats been mentioned, AND got his bonus... I don't know why he doesn't just fuck off and get it over with...all this arsing about is costing him £15k a week PS: He's in fucking la-la land if he thinks he's ever gonna get another penny out of City.

Anyone remember the last "off the boil" player Sam signed from Portugal? Mario Jardel. That one went well... PS: Not that this counts for much compared to all the people who actually pay attention to football on the continent...but I saw Quaresma once upon a time. Would have been 4 years ago or so when Barca came to City. Didn't look owt special to me - By which I mean, he did fuck all - and he would have been up against Michael Tarnat who wasn't much of a defender. Then again Ronaldinho did fuck all either and he's no bad...

Nope. Heard that there is another team that are doing this - Wigan selling STs at £13 a game was it? Thats for all the shite seats too - The ones in Wigan.

Uh huh. Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, I'd like to wish current Manchester United life-president, and former chairman, Martin Edwards a happy 62nd birthday. I know I'm a little early - 6 and a half weeks or so - but who knows, I might forget in the mean time. Many happy returns, you bent cunt

Is it alright to speculate on this? Cos I could name someone involved in football in this area who is 61. Don't wanna get sued tho

Agree with that, it's bollocks. Totally agree with Pearce on the matter too. I find it hard to agree with Pearce. I'm a bitter, bitter man, and I can't stand the cretinous oaf. He's right on this matter tho. But hey, stopped clock is right twice a day He was saying Hughes tried to pull Bentley out on wednesday. Seems like he is the one behind this. Not on at all. I'd insult him, but he's a former Manchester United player. I'm not sure I need to bother.

Rings of a club with principal if you ask me. At the end of the day their his employers and he's obviously entitled to it. Rings of a club thats bitter that their losing their best player for whatever reason and they'll do their best to milk his sale for all it's worth How is he entitled to it? Thing is I agree with you there....but is it really him? or is it that Willie cunt playing dirty games? That concerns me more than anything with the Barton deal. Fantastic player, and City are unlucky he come out with his immature disrespectful bouts whilst on your books...but you always wonder how much influence an agent can have on any player Have to wonder about that. Certainly wouldn't put it past him being behind that - Back when Barton signed this contract McKay wanted a massive bonus for himself (100k or so), the club told him to swivel on that too. Unfortunately even with Barton going he still has his paws in MCFC (Ireland). Your posts ring of a bitter blue tbh If the club agreed to pay him this then they should pay it simple, not sure if they did though, you seem to be ITK Firstly, Of course I'm a bitter blue but that has nowt to do with this. Secondly, I'm not ITK. Thirdly and most importantly - just going from what Ive read, at no point did the club agree to pay him this - they agreed to pay him x amount over the length of his contract should he remain at City. And he's not staying so...why should they pay him owt?

Rings of a club with principal if you ask me. At the end of the day their his employers and he's obviously entitled to it. Rings of a club thats bitter that their losing their best player for whatever reason and they'll do their best to milk his sale for all it's worth How is he entitled to it? Thing is I agree with you there....but is it really him? or is it that Willie cunt playing dirty games? That concerns me more than anything with the Barton deal. Fantastic player, and City are unlucky he come out with his immature disrespectful bouts whilst on your books...but you always wonder how much influence an agent can have on any player Have to wonder about that. Certainly wouldn't put it past him being behind that - Back when Barton signed this contract McKay wanted a massive bonus for himself (100k or so), the club told him to swivel on that too. Unfortunately even with Barton going he still has his paws in MCFC (Ireland).

Its £300k. But how much it is is irrelevant. Its the principle.

Thats exactly what City's away kit should be like. Well, from the waist up. Absolutely top drawer. Fingers crossed our 3rd kit is like that...

I think you've won your bet. I don't speak le french but it looks like 1-0 France, 27th minute winner - http://www.fff.fr/selections/20ans/actualite/380780.shtml

Loyalty bonus my fucking arse. If this really is the reason behind the hold up...he wants fucking shooting.

There's an episode of the Simpsons where Principal Skinner gets fired...he ends up in the Kwik-e-mart talking to Bart about what he's going to do. Says he wants to write the "great american novel", about a futuristic amusement park where dinosaurs are brought back to life using advanced cloning techniques. He calls it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus". Apu hears him and goes off on a massive rant about how the idea has already been done, how he gives it title nobody could possibly like, how everyone already knows about it..."One of the most popular movies of all time sir!!! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!" I look at that picture and the way Mourinho seems to be gesturing about the difference between something. I see Jose doing an Apu-esque "WHAT WE'RE YOU THINKING!?!" rant. Only to Allardyce. About what he's wearing. Cos he looks like Milton from Office Space. Obviously I can't put that into a caption or I wouldn't have written all that bollocks. So I think I lose. Or. Erm. "...One of the most popular movies about Offices of all time sir! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!?!"

The fucking cheek of it, fucking loyalty bonus?!? Don't get me started on the Dabo shite, but the idea that a player who asks for and gets a buyout clause in his contract deserves a loyalty bonus when someone activates it!??! For. Fucks. Sake. I can't wait till all this over and I can turn me back on this shite.

Wouldn't hold your breath...I think its more likely diagram is the "what to do when Barton drops it straight onto the defender at the front post's head - again" tactic. Emretastic.

Just like to point out that despite what Stuart Pearce may have thought, Joseph Barton is not the answer to all your set piece ills. http://i16.tinypic.com/2poa4ba.jpg You don't wanna know

Eto'o, Messi, Ronaldinho and Henry for Barcelona sounds better. How would they fit Henry into their system? Eto'o Henry Ronnie Deco Xavi Messi Pretty simple. With Ronnie running just behind the strikers. Couldn't see them changing their current 4-3-3. Actually, we could still see a 4-3-3 with Henry in. Henry Eto'o Messi Ronnie Xavi Deco They might change their system if Rijkaard gets el booto...