1878

Ghana will top that group

Not saying you're wrong but I need educating on this and am willing to learn. At first glance it looks like he bought some canny players with money and on a budget made available to him by the owners, overall did the club eventually sell those players at a profit? And whilst he was manager they won the FA Cup. He's no angel by any means but what did he do wrong at Pompey? Portsmouth probably made a profit on transfer dealings under Redknapp tbf. The problem is the wage bill he tends to leave clubs saddled with. At West Ham & Pompey he would offer whatever daft money he could get away with to get players to sign up. As you point out, the board have the ultimate say but at the end of the day people like Redknapp aren't daft. They know what a reasonable budget is for a club like Pompey but just bury their heads in the sand and splash money about like it's going out of fashion regardless. The manager of a club should have more responsibility than that imo. I know we've missed out on players the manager really wanted because Moyes wouldn't go above the wage he thought the player was worth. I think O'Neil is the same.

Mexes would be eaten alive in the Premiership, one of the most overrated players around. Vermaelen & Gallas are miles better. They just need some physical prescence in midfield and maybe another striker.

UEFA wide salary caps, max. squad sizes & domestic player quotas Reintroduction of the old straight knockout format in Europe, bring back the CWC, drop the stupid Champions League & Europa League names Video replays for goals & pens judged by the 4th official who would let the ref know within seconds via an earpiece whether the decision was correct Scrap the away goals after extra time in League Cup semis. In fact, no, fuck having two legs. One off game at a neutral ground. Stop having FA Cup semis at Wembley.

Distin & Gosling injured already. ffs.

He rejected one back in the summer iirc but said it was only the first offer and that he wanted to stay. The club also said they would be making another offer but ever since we've heard nothing which is worrying. Absolutely vital that we keep him. We can't afford to replace him with someone even half as good if his contract runs out. YES 1-0!

I liked the look of him at Shakthar

Saha

Who scored the pen? I missed it.

Sunday is going to be horrible. I've gone from thinking it's 50/50 to 100% certain that we will be stuffed on our own ground. Something must be seriously wrong behind the scenes. Yes, there's loads of injuries but that team is still good enough to beat Hull. 3-0 after half an hour is a total disgrace.

He deserves bashing for spending more money (net) than anyone else in the country since he took over yet getting nowhere near the title. And that money was spend on a squad that had already cost a fortune for Houllier to put together. If it wasn't for the flukiest cup final win ever in 2005 he would have already been out of a job by now.

1-0 Hull. We are so fucking shit. I hate Sylvain Distin. He is fucking dogshit.

Gerrard's face at the end The rafalution must continue! I wonder if there are any more processions with that framed picture lined up? Embarrassing wankers

You owe Paul Hart an apology tbh.

That's a good win. I fancied this for a draw but never got round to putting a bet on.

He's an attention seeking bellend. Always been a phoney prick.

I hope Martinez doesn't completely change his approach after this game though. Much better to see a manager willing to attack and play football against every team and be as likely to nick a one nil against the big boys or suffer an arse tanning. Total myth that Wigan play good football. Their tactics at Goodison this season were nothing short of disgraceful. They just kicked everything that moved, loads of gamesmanship etc ala Wimbledon of old.

Saha instead of Owen surely

Preki was rubbish. iirc we signed him from some mad "indoor soccer" league

I was wondering that. Stuey Barlow was nicknamed Jigsaw by our fans because he fell to pieces in the box.

Rodwell really shouldn't go to Chelsea. There's no way he's getting on the pitch at DM, CM, or CB for a good little while. he's already better than Obi Mikel imo. He should stay here for a few years at least though & develop into one of the main men in our team, break into the England side etc before he thinks of going anywhere. Obviously I'd rather he stayed but unless Kenwright fucks off that won't happen.

Chelsea bid £14m for Rodwell. Turned down.

That team is so unbalanced. Seems to me like Pelligrini just wanted to squeeze in all his best attackers so he couldn't be criticised for leaving anyone on the bench against a lowly team. He'll just get criticised for the team being disjointed and s*** instead now. btw- Diarra (still lol @ "Lass") played right back a fair bit at Arsenal & especially Chelsea

Baffled by that comparison tbh. He's not much of a tackler. He's slow as fuck though meaning right back isn't for him. Maybe that's why he was having to dive into tackles if he was playing there? He had a couple of games for us there recently because of injuries and got raped each time.

Phil Neville seems one of the most obvious candidates to me. I reckon Bolo Zenden with his 73 different languages and desire to keep playing to a relatively old age could be one to move into coaching too. Also the likes of Tim Cahill, David Unsworth, Davey Weir, Jamie Carragher, Gary Neville, Darren Fletcher, John Terry etc