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http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMiVfentHJVkBISOjzbkF/SIG=13kk9q9gs/EXP=1199360991/**http%3A//external.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundodeporte/envivos/fichas/imagenes/04100/4125_140x170.jpg Is this the fella?

The Korean bloke? Maybe he speaks Spanish/Italian?

I think what he is trying to do is making us a counter attacking team, but we do not have the pace or directness in our midfield or attack to play this way at the moment. We need at least one player with these attributes to use as an outlet. Martins has the pace but isn't direct enough. For example Villa have Young and Agbonlahor who set up most of their attacks. Man City use Petrov a great deal in this respect. Portsmouth have the likes of Benjani and Utaka. At Bolton Sam had the likes of Diouf and Anelka. We currently do not have the personnel for this style of football. If we could just add the right kind of playeer or two with these attributes we ccould see a great deal of improvement. if he's trying to play counter attacking football why the hell did he buy Barton, Smith and Viduka these players plus Owen shouldn't be anywhere near the team if that's what we're trying to achieve I agree completely. I think it is safe to say that the summer transfer window was a bit of a disaster and I think a lot of it had to do with the change in ownership. Barton and Smith could actually work in such a system, in the same way Hamaan and Johnson do at City i.e. as the hard working central midfield paie, but where we failed miserably was adding pace and guile to the wings and attack. Viduka was a poor signing for an Allardyce set up.

I think what he is trying to do is making us a counter attacking team, but we do not have the pace or directness in our midfield or attack to play this way at the moment. We need at least one player with these attributes to use as an outlet. Martins has the pace but isn't direct enough. For example Villa have Young and Agbonlahor who set up most of their attacks. Man City use Petrov a great deal in this respect. Portsmouth have the likes of Benjani and Utaka. At Bolton Sam had the likes of Diouf and Anelka. We currently do not have the personnel for this style of football. If we could just add the right kind of playeer or two with these attributes we ccould see a great deal of improvement.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JJAQ5VH5CW5QRQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/sport/2008/01/02/sfnnew102.xml Man City do essentially play a 4-5-1 rather than a 4-3-3 in all honesty, and if they had Milner instead of Petrov and Barton instead of Elano would they really be that much better than we are at the moment? Okay they probably would be due to their defence ... but attacking wise? I don't want to knock our guys but we really do lack quality at the moment in our team and this is our main problem more than anything. With the return of Duff all we really need is a creative player through the middle and I think we would be much improved. An experienced left back would be nice too, to allow Zoggy to play further up the pitch at least occassionally. This transfer window should tell us a great deal about the direction we are going in as far as the backing and support that will be given to Sam.

MON said ages ago that once Davies got the shirt, he expected him to hold on to it. He was excellent on Saturday and good again today. I see him and Laursen in central defence now. Harsh on Mellberg, but we need a proper right back. I'm a fan of his, he has been with us for, what, six mostly s*** years, he's very popular, but I wouldn't blame him at all if he took up this offer from Juventus at the end of the season. Don't you think that if you got a right back that Laursen and Mellberg would be a phenomenal pairing though?

So have we signed anyone yet?

No one wrote him off iirc. I remember people being astonished at the price tag when it was rumoured that they spent £17 million on him but when that was revealed as being false, no one said much else. Quite a few people said he wasn't good enough coming from a weak Croatian league and that sort of thing, from what I remember anyway.

Yeah whats your point? My point is that people wrote Eduardo off but he has shown he has the quality to succeed here. Not saying he is better than Henry ... not yet anyway.

What are you trying to imply? That his 3 league goals so far this season suggest he is going to be a worthy replacement? No. That he is beginning to show that he will score a lot of goals in the league, and that no Arsenal fan is even thinking about Henry right now, due to Adebayor's emergence as well to be fair.

Arsenal 1 - 0 Remember when people questioned Eduardo as a replacement for Henry?

This club is a freakin' mess ... If we've managed to drive Allardyce to wanting to quit then we have serious problems.

This to me is the advantage of having a foreign manager. Could you imagine an English manager coming in and having the guts to drop someone like Owen for Agbonlahor? It would be so much more difficult in my opinion.

For England Looks like the new England manager will be brave enough to usher in a new era. No more free rides for the big name charlies. Owen looks like he will be the first to get burned. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=505459&in_page_id=1779&ct=5

What happened to Routledge? Might be worth a punt for about £1 million. Have him and we can throw in Tainio if you want? Seriously though, what is the deal with Routledge? He's no worse than Lennon but he doesn't even get a look in. Did he fall out with the club?

What happened to Routledge? Might be worth a punt for about £1 million.

:lol: Souness was his hero don't you know http://img.search.com/thumb/2/2a/Souness_flag.jpg/300px-Souness_flag.jpg Only because of this. Yup, that's the one

Would love Bentley rather than Diouf but after some of the performances he's put in we'd not get him in a million years. I wanted him after he said he wanted to leave Arsenal as I thought he looked very good the one year he was on loan at Norwich. That ship has sailed though. No way we could get him now. His price would be stupid and to be frank we are not in as good shape as Blackburn are at the moment.

:lol: Souness was his hero don't you know

People need to chill out about Zoggy playing at left-back ... I'm pretty certain it is only a temporary thing which was forced upon Sam. If we had succeeded in bringing in an experienced left-back like Silvestre or Dragutinovic, who we both went after, then it wouldn't have been necessary to play Zoggy there. I was never really convinced that Enrique was brought in as a first team left-back, but was instead brought in to be groomed to take over from a more experienced player who we didn't manage to bring in. I think we ought to just accept that Sam feels more comfortable playing Zoggy there at this moment in time, because Zoggy has shown he can fill in at that position and he is familiar with the premiership game. I also think we ought to be encouraged by the fact that Zoggy has played in the position without complaining and has given it his all. He obviously has a lot more respect for this manager than he did the last one, and he seems to have matured quite a bit. The experience of playing at left-back will only make him an even better player in the long run. I would fully expect us to go after an experienced left-back in January and I really hope we are able to bring one in.

The truth is that Emre is still living off his past reputation and those you tube clips. People say our team is so bad that he could never look good in it. How come Solano managed it then? Solano even made an impact and influenced our attacking play playing at right-back for goodness sake! Emre stinks right now and that is the fact of things. Got the start against Wigan and couldn't even do one thing that was of any note. Emre has the ability but something inside him died when Souness was sacked.

Definitely a fitness thing with Emre, and you really can't blame Sam for this. Emre does look like he is carrying too much weight and he has a history of injuries which further suggests his fitness isn't up to scratch. If Emre leaving means we bring in someone like Arshavin to replace him then I'm all for it.

Darren Fletcher ... oh man, don't tempt fate seriously.

I realise thats not the answer you were looking for Certainly not.

Yikes ... let's hope not.