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He's an average player that needs to join a mid table club or go to an inferior league like France or Holland if he wants to play regularly. Most of you are overestimating how good he actually is.

what planet are you so are you assuming that emre would be welcomed with open arms at everton uranus and no. emre is better than arteta full stop. put emre in a good team and he will shine like at inter. and dont say he hardly played. he started at least 50% of games. and for inter thats great. look now, inter never play the same 11 twice. even now viera has only played 50% of games for them. i put it to you, that if steven gerrard or paul scholes were in this team they wouldnt produce 50% of what they can do for there current teams becuase your only good as the players you play with. and most of our players are crap. How is Emre indisputably better than Arteta? I'd be interested to hear your reasoning because I think most people would have it the other way round.

I respect your opinion. But I don't think Arteta is a £15m player tbh. I think he's worth about £10m but you don't sell your best players for a fair price

Arteta wouldn't go to Newcastle. If he leaves us it will only be for a Spanish club in the Champions League and would cost about £15m. I think he'll be with us another couple of years yet.

Probably not THE best but he is good. Very good in fact. Never seems to get any credit

Steve Watson played literally everywhere but in goal for Everton I remember him starting games up front when we had a striker on the bench. Walter Smith was a fucking lunatic

What kind of partnership would that be? One 5 a side game a week in training? Rocha is already 3rd choice at Spurs. I can't see him being keen on a Brazilian international coming to the club to push him further into obscurity Sounds like utter garbage to me

Portugal is Marco Caneira, no? Says so in the article and he's the only realistic one anyway. The likes of Miguel, Andrade and Carvalho would only play for a Champions League club. Caneira is pretty average btw, flopped at Valencia and was sent back to Sporting. Can play centre back and full back

Putting on a right back for a right back at 0-0 with 20mins left was hilarious Then taking off one pacy striker who never got the service he needed for another pacy striker that the same thing happened to..... genius. Don't change the midfield will you Steve? Just take one winger off for another in the last minute

Don't think he's in the same league as your Cech's and Buffon's but a very good keeper nonetheless

I've heard everything from £8-12m. Don't think anyone knows for sure. I'd pay £12m though. He'll be worth more than that in the future imo

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I don't get this viewpoint...why does a midfielder need to be purely attacking or purely defensive to be any good? I think Barton is a good (jeebus, great? have a word) player. I would describe him as a less extreme version of Cahill. Good at getting in the box and getting a goal (not as good as Cahill) but can use the ball and tackle people properly. He can actually use the ball (when Dunne isn't booting 20 yards over his head). Getting a load of stick from some people at the moment tho (Someone actually started a thread "Instead of a SP out campaign lets have a Barton out campaign" before the Boro game where he created 2 goals). I don't really get it as he is one of our few players with any outstanding ability but form hasn't been that great and goals have dried up. Feeling is that he tries to do too much. He does take all the set-pieces (badly) and but a lot of people (not me) think too many attacks go thru him and we suffer for it because he isn't really a creative player. I think he is missing Reyna, he was always at his best alongside him as Reyna would keep it simple, concentrate on keeping possesion rather than owt fancy or too direct and it really gave Barton a platform to get up there and nick something. With Ireland (too weak/inexperienced) and Hamann (too old/slow/s****) he's not really done that much. I think he could work well alongside Parker if he were to play in the same way Reyna did for us but he seems to be far too agressive for that, too busy chasing shadows and whatnot. Emre, maybe but I'm not a fan myself and Parker seems to be the #1 choice for whatever reason. So, no, I don't think it would work that well for yous and wouldn't be worth diverting moneys from the defender fund. I hope we don't get him. Manuel Fernandes looks top, top drawer. Hopefully we pull out the stops to get him instead of trying to do everything on the cheap as usual. He's got that extra bit of quality that could make him great rather than good. I agree with you about all this attacking midfielder and defensive midfielder bollocks. Whatever happened to the good ol' centre mid?

Shirt is good. Looks better with the thicker stripes and predominantly black imo Shorts are god awful

It's a pink square. Lying to yourself tbh

For you lot, so f*** off! Hopefully. Peter Beagrie pretty much said he's already signed on You're On Sky Sports last night But that's not why I think he'll be good and Chopra is gash!

I can't believe Chopra has said this He's not fit to lace Nugent's boots. He might score goals at Championship level but his all round game is shit and he's not an intelligent player. He'll never make it in the Premiership, he's like Rob Earnshaw with less pace. Nugent will be a good player at Premiership level for years to come

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Fulham- The Cottagers? As for Millwall, they're probably the lions on the wallpaper border

You need an old head at the back that can organise a backline Most of these names would do their own careers and your team no good if they signed for Newcastle imo

Mexes finally called up eh? Nice one

I don't see why that would happen at all It's not like the old terraces, you're in a numbered/ticketed/designated space usually with a seat attached to the crash barrier behind you. It would just be exactly the same as it is now on that score

The less clubs outside the top 4 progressing in the FA Cup the better. I want there to be an extra league place for Europe

As a neutral I don't think Taylor is anywhere near good enough for a top club like Chelsea or Liverpool. This is a nonsense story to fill out space in the paper. He's a competent Premiership defender and not much else.

As if he would go to Newcastle. Sideways step. If he leaves Spurs it will be for a really top club.