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A really solid pro, Danny Murphy. Proper player.

He'd be a great buy for someone but I don't think our football lends itself to a poacher. We don't get enough balls into the box. We'd be better off with a Lukaku type, hustle and bustle, big presence type forward. I guess hence the Gomis link/bid.

Agree with this. Should be an instant booking. Showing the ref your back is something you can imagine kids up and down the country copying because they've seen some disrespectful cunt do it on TV.

Yep - totally agree with that.

Obviously the club were hanging him out waiting for the right bid. He's probably pissed because they've spun it to make him look the cunt.

amen to that.

I'd wager decent money on both of those events occurring.

Aye but would any of them have the foresight to appoint Mick Harford as No.2?

been saying this for ages. Obviously a great deal of risk associated with it, but would be great to think the club had the chance of identifying and appointing someone of their ilk. Highly unlikely though when MA gives the 'DoF' position to some geezer from his local.

Doesn't win enough headers and can't kick it out of touch from the halfway line.

I hope it doesn't. I don't want to watch negative football anymore.

Sadly I've never seen anything to suggest Gosling is a good footballer. At that level, I think he's got the potential to do himself a real favour. Don't see why he can't bag a few goals and improve upon his fitness/sharpness.

Good move for him. Think he'll do well there if he's given a good run of games and stays fit.

Thanks Neil. Looking at a 3 grand loss here pal.

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£3000 on Liege.

Who Cares?

Man U won't win. I'm with Nobody. Don't fancy Man Utd at all tonight.

. My thoughts exactly. Frying pan to fire iyam.

And I would too but he still comes with it all to prove. I actually thought he'd done a half decent job at WBA. I think I even started a thread about him at the time but we need a man/manager capable to instilling an ethos throughout the whole of the playing staff and club. Easy to say, I know, but we need something we some proven ability to do just that or someone who has shown the signs of doing that abroad imho. Edit - FWIW, I think RDM is much more likely for us than GP as RDM seems more of a yes man to me.

That's rubbish, they were virtually out of the CL before he took over, I'm sure they were 3-1 down from the first leg. If anything, I'll give him 'new manager' bounce/influence. A very lucky victory that, ultimately, still didn't even convince the owner that he was capable.

I don't know that they are better but at least I would be able to have a bit of hope, I know Pardew is a poor manager. I don't know that the other two are as bad as he is and it would be worth the gamble. My first choice would be to get enough points to get through to the summer and sack him then and replace him with somebody better but that's not going to happen. Sacking him is more likely to be reactionary rather than something planned for the good of the club. Yep - makes sense. There's nobody on the market in Ashleys price range (£0) that inspires me to think we should bullet AP before this guys gets snapped up. I think AP has shot his bolt here and is a busted flush now but there's no point in replacing dross with dross. Like you, I'd prefer to wait for the right appointment.

There's an argument to say that it's easier getting £xxxm's of first team talent to play decent football when they are inherently better footballers than most of their opponents anyway, that's why they play at Chelsea and not Norwich. Yet Pardew can't get anything from our significantly better players. True but AP didn't follow on from years of work from top managers like Mourinho, Schlori etc etc. Also, Chelsea have a fairly solid group of established players who've probably got a big say in terms of culture. To a greater or lesser extent I should imagine Terry/Lampard etc pretty much train themselves, know their roles and can quickly understand what a new manager wants from them.