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Fiiiiine we'll take Drogba off their hands. Martins------Owen-------Drogba Despite his undoubted talent i would f****** hate it if we signed Drogba. He's a cheating, moaning, self obsessed fucktard! indeed, Drogba is the best striker in the world, to say you'd hate it is ridiculous Moaning, self obsessed, cheating. Did you hate it when Shearer was here?

come on man our central defence is nowhere near the standard we need it to be Where do you think we'll end up/should be next season? Top 4? we should be at least starting the season with a first Xl that can get us top 6

come on man our central defence is nowhere near the standard we need it to be

Taylor, Butt, Geremi and Viduka renewed faith in the opinions of NO

Agree with this - main asset pace but no way can he be compared to the likes of Henry etc. 23 year old Henry can be compared to the 23 year old Martins tbf. That said i'm not suggesting Martins will ever be as good as a peak Henry

indeed, it's bad enough the homepage says 'modric deal close'

content tbh they're a top 8 pairing, we should be aiming for better what, you would be happy competing with the might of Blackburn and West Ham next season? I'd see it a step-up from where we've been, personally. absolutely, back to 2006 with Roeder. I was content with that, not happy

content tbh they're a top 8 pairing, we should be aiming for better what, you would be happy competing with the might of Blackburn and West Ham next season?

content tbh they're a top 8 pairing, we should be aiming for better

people would rather Taylor be in the team than Faye, madness

Why not? I think he'd be ideal to help progress Taylor's career. because they're both slow and vunerable against pacey, agile strikers and before anyone throws 'Terry and Carvalho' at me, those two are great defenders with excellent game reading skills who still manage to strugle now and then against a quick attack

I hope everyone knows we cannot pair Taylor and Dunne

what's funny about that?

2 new central defenders asap, we all know it surely

you have to think that out of the 4 people who voted for Carr, 3 were drunk and 1 was him

32, thing is though Beardsley wasn't as reliant on his physical attributes AND he seemed to have a 20 year old's pace till about 97

wasn't there a story on here once about someone approaching Mcdermott for an autograph in Eldon Sqaure and getting a drink thrown in his direction in return made me laugh. McDermott's a cunt, still think of him alongside Souness, having a go at Bellamy despite having never met him

there's no risk in keeping him. He's looking more and more like a fantastic asset.

As far as I'm concerned we would have had the poor Keegan results under Allardyce, I don't feel that confident about the better results under Keegan being repeated under Allardyce. Yes some of the better results have came against poorer teams but these are the same poorer teams who were getting results against us earlier in the season, we are still the only team to lose to Derby in the league and we've only got 3 league games left for that to change. Like you say "results alone don't tell the whole story," we played some very difficult games off the belt and Keegan hadn't really a chance to know his players, under the circumstances I think he's done a brilliant job. Weve actually started to play football that is worth watching, players who were not performing are starting to look like footballers, mostly Alan Smith isnt getting a game and that has been a bonus as we now take to the field with 11 players instead of 10 on a good day, not that we had many of those as we had so many under performers. We can now go to a game knowing that even if we do get beat were going to go about it the right way and try to win instead of trying to contain the dregs of the league, which to be fair, we had become one of them. i'm in agreement with this - we were always losing the games we lost under keegan the only question was how long would the bad run last and could keegan pull us out of it personally i had my doubts (the villa performance/result was a big influence on that opinion as it happens) and they were based on genuine questions about whether keegan could still perform at the top level and turn us around without money; 3 years out of the game, underwhelming at man city without cash etc... he's sold me on the fact that he should be the man to lead us into a new period with recent results but brummie makes an excellent point frankly some of the pro-keegan stuff during his losing run was an embarrassment (as is some of it now), it was like you'd insulted someone's mam for being s*** at her job and the only reason the people were defending her was 'cause "she's me mam" the landscape has changed now somewhat - anyone not behind the guy is clearly an idiot that said, some of the criticism some dickheads on here threw at Keegan was even more of an embarrassment, someone even called him a cunt ffs

i'm praying that is the case

ah well, anyway describing Martins as having a 'deft touch' is the only thing i could find wrong with that article

Well written and extremely well researched. He's writing for a website off his own bat and Weez Keez "the hapless Jose Enrique" Louise gets paid for spouting her mackem drivel. Nae justice like. who does this Louise write for, remember reading some bollocks from her 6 months back about us needing a pacey fullback because of Stephen Carr's aging legs or some such shite

if his daughter lives in London there really isn't that much difference between him living here and living in Barca, still a fairly short plane journey he's still a great players but he's been past his best for nearly two years. Who would he replace Viduka? hardly. Martins? I'd personally be devestated if we sold Martins in the summer, he's less than two seasons away from being a truly world class young (ish) striker that said, i'd still like him here, Martins at 23 isn't that different from Henry at 23 in fairness. Not that i can see Henry coming here like

in the range of Chelsea? fucking idiot

titus is in their cos of his shockers against everton (pass back) and man city (misses the ball). OK 2 mistakes? as opposed to Taylor who is just consistently s**** What an absolute load of f****** bollocks he is though, he's been ok in his last two against s**** and a team who cant score at home but he's looked like an amateur all season OK in all seriousness mate, I ask every Taylor fan the same thing, what indicates he'll ever be a genuinely good premiership defender? He already is a good premier league defender, not outstanding by any stretch, but good. come on mate, he's slow he's got a habit of being shrugged off the ball, his distribution is poor, he cant time his tackles, he's average in the air and dont get me started on his positioning. How does that make him good? he's poor to average Sounds like Cacapa and certainly not Taylor. ok well you describe Taylor's attributes then and when Taylor's captained one of the best sides in europe for 5 seasons you can suggest he's better than Cacapa