Ronaldo

who mentioned nationality?

Makes you wonder if Man U only sold Ronaldo because they knew they could get Damien Duff on the cheap

hope we get Beckford signed in the next 2 weeks

the type of nonsese i'd expect from the biggest wankers in the footballing world.

Coloccini isn't coming out with this nonsense, depsite being a lot more proven in europe than Bassong

Our main rivals are West Brom, god this is fucking hilarious

can't this just be locked

Jenas should be there instead of Milner, and Bramble should easily be somewhere in that defence on current the team would pushing the top 6 imo

The thing is, Chelsea already had a pretty good spine of players before Abramovich entered the scene, Lampard and Terry being the key ones (along with Drogba) over the past 5 years. Man City are building from scratch, don't have the recognition and aren't based in London, it'll be a lot more difficult for them

Puyol is a big name, big star, big personality, whatever. He's also likely to get anihilated in this league. Go for Per Mertesacker for the love of cunt

Is he going back to cleaning boots?

City are in danger of becoming an absolute joke in the football world and one that players will get ridiculed for joining. Puyol now? Honestly, what a bunch of wankers

He could easily turn out to be Sir Bobby Robson mk2. We've got f*** all to base it on. Personally, i'd rather not be shitting cash - cos it's pretty much everything i go against when it comes to modern day football. I'd like to have enough money to survive and get there through skill, quality and graft - a nice balance, like the Bobby era. I know it's thoroughly idealistic, but i just hate how you have to be mega-rich nowadays to achieve any form of success. I'd quite happily take a moderately wealthy owner, with Shearer as boss - if those are the options. But the reasoning for that leans towards the first half of the deal, rather than the second half. I don't want to see us turn into an utterly deplorable parasite like Chelsea or City. Not too fussed on Shearer... love him to pieces obviously but if we can appoint someone who's proven to be a good manager ahead of him, i won't cry into my pillow. which is why chosing him over an awful lot of money is madness, surely you knew what I meant

Stupidly rich owner obviously, Shearer could easily turn out to be Greame Souness mk2

:lol: he's riding a bicycle and eating an apple, yet has this 'what the f*** are you looking at' expression

The Spider. he had some good moments. Especially when playing for leicester in Divison one during 96-95. Played 2 games for them, was at fault for 4 goals and spent the rest of his time there as their third choice keeper

I'm pretty sure he has his initials on his left forearm, fuck knows what that tribal mess on his right is

To be fair, they already have Ferdinand, Rooney, Vidic, Giggs, Carrick, Hargreaves and probably have several more big names to arrive in this window

Milan did sign Zeljko Kalac, the worst goalkeeper english football has ever seen

To be fair to Guthrie, his peformance against Wigan (a) put the performances of the 6 or 7 'captains' to shame

Guthrie's tattoos looked good last season, shame he's turned them into a sleeve, looks awful

One of those players who just didn't hack in the premiership, but will probably do well on the continent. Gooch didn't have the speed of thought to play over here, over there with the slow pace he'll be fine

It was a good night that, long entertaining game. Great feeling about football - 3 games, 2 wins and a draw (against Man u no less) how things had changed a week later, ruined a holiday I paid over 2 grand for

not what Joe Kinnear said as I remember. Over £10m would surely have got him?

Against Coventry mind. True. Still not sure how we managed to go into extra time with that, that was one of the best performances from us I've seen in a long time. I remember going to football the next morning and my team mate saying that it was the best performance he'd seen from any team so far that season. Ultimately meant s*** though...