Minhosa

I laughed out loud at this. Top post.

Contract will mean nothing to Anelka when he eventually spits his dummy out. I am very surprised that he's committed himself to them now though with better things reportedly on the horizon..........unless that was just his Agents/Brothers trying to pressurise Bolton into a better contract. I'll show my arse in Fenwicks window if he's still there in four years though.

Where's all this 'He's a wanker' stuff come from? Have I overlooked something he's done against us or in his private life? I can't, for the life of me, think of what he's done to get this reaction. Not having a go here btw, I just can't understand what I've missed?

Funny, Joe Cole is one of those players that I've always expected to see playing for us at some stage of his career. Don't know why.

Someone had better warn Guy Chambers & Bernie Taupin that there's a new lad on the scene. Deary me.

That Rohan Ricketts ended up there? What a fall from grace that was, he was supposed to be the next big thing at one point. Amazing how many of these 'hyped' players end up nowhere.

How we doing? Anyone give me a summary?

King & Ellington, if fit, will make some strikeforce for them this season. Could be a good bet to come back up.

Beat me by 6 seconds. >

Sunderland signed Kenwyne Jones from Southampton for £6m with Stern John going in the opposite direction.

I hope so. The only thing with Beye is that he could have come earlier in the summer and seemed to commit himself to Marseille. Would that change now in the space of a couple of months? I'm not sure.

Hartey will get ass-raped off anyone with a hint of pace down the right flank. Can't wait to see SWP etc go at him. Hope he starts every week.

No way. Future England regular. We've not had a player through the ranks as good as him for ages. Would send the wrong message too imo.

Being pessimistic, I'd say 4-3-3 is Allardyce's favoured formation and he wants to use it even if we don't have the right players, and will only switch to 4-4-2 as a last resort in games. But surely 4-3-3 is the more positive approach to a game though?

Agreed. Fancyb us finishing above them this year.

Just left iirc.

In an ideal world, I would have liked:- Bolton(a) - DRAW Aston Villa(h) - DRAW Middlesbrough(a) - Win Wigan(h) - Win So.................errrrrrrrrrrrrr................yes. HAPPY.

Wouldn't take much in fairness. He was a complete ........................

Milner was poor today but thats complete and utter bollocks! He is often the only outlet we have! I bet you were sitting there tugging away everytime N'Zog tried to take on 6 players and lost the ball though. N'Zog was a light year ahead of Milner today and if you can't see the difference in quality between the two players you had better give up tugging yourself tbh. I was pointing out how one player will get nothing but praise no matter how much he does! Scored a fantastic goal and put in at least one quality cross so he pissed all over Milner today but he still has a big problem trying to do too much, losing it which leads to us being under pressure again. You wont see this though because Milner is s**** and N'Zog is just the greatest little player ever! Apparently.... Really? I can't recall anyone saying that. Milner isn't good enough for a first team place at a club aiming to achieve something though. N'Zogbia could be. Both are decent squad players. Cant be arsed to get into another Milner debate but he is good enough for us at the moment. He is far far far away from being our worst player but for some reason he seems to be the current scapegoat for some. Disagree. I would prefer we actually stood a chance of achieving something. We're not going to with that sort of quality as a first teamer. Bollocks. So those achieving are fighting themselves to buy him? Good squad player Jon, not good enough for a team aspiring to better things. You need to let your head rule your heart on this one. The old "there arent better clubs after him" shite, which you wouldn't know anyway. Owen was available for £9m earlier this summer but no-one came in for him, is he not good enough either? At this time Milner is clearly good enough for us, there are a fair few players in the first 11 who aren't any better than him so unless we are signing another 11 player soon he is good enough. As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with Dijon. Milner is a good player and is more than good enough for us atm. At least he looks like he's dangerous at some point in most games - we can't ask much more than that for where we are right now.

Agreed.

I think that's almost immaterial TBH. If he doesn't go now it's clear that he's planning for life down south soon. So Sam's better off buying a new RB IMO.

Sorry, posted that without saying that he said 'Mido was within his rights to have a go at the Toon fans as there were thousands of them having a go at him'

Fuck off Southgate you second rate, shite penalty taking twat.

Good post.

I'm just wondering, following BSA's interview, whether he's looking for Owen to be away - seems a bit critical in his interview given his chance was just a half chance imo.