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Fucking hell Hatem that should have been beautiful.

Boooooom.

Haha this is class.

Cabayeeeeeeeeeeeee

The players they've signed are all pretty young, plus it's basically a whole new team. How they look after a year together will be the real test of how good they're going to be.

Roy's pun. "To be Frank, Lampard could have played".

Don't see what he's said wrong there tbh.

Sounds like Nolan. A midfield poacher is rare. How on earth anyone can liken Alan Gowling to Nolan is beyond belief. Granted when we signed Gowling from Man U, he was a reserve midfielder, but we converted him to a striker and he scored a phenomenal number of goals in fact only Andy Cole beat his record of scoring more than 40 goals in one season, as I recall Given you would really have to be at least 45 to have seen him regularly and Jack Flash is going off a description someone else gave is it really beyond belief? Sounds like Nolan. A midfield poacher is rare. How on earth anyone can liken Alan Gowling to Nolan is beyond belief. Granted when we signed Gowling from Man U, he was a reserve midfielder, but we converted him to a striker and he scored a phenomenal number of goals in fact only Andy Cole beat his record of scoring more than 40 goals in one season, as I recall Given you would really have to be at least 45 to have seen him regularly and Jack Flash is going off a description someone else gave is it really beyond belief? Nobody should take anyone else's view on a player as correct unless they have also seen the player for themselves...its like me trying to give my opinion on Hughie Gallacher when I was far too young to know what he was like - I wouldn't even though others have said he was brilliant. All he said was "Sounds like Nolan" ffs. It's not like he was making out he knew what that player was all about.

If it means Hatem signs a new deal I couldn't care less.

Krul was, posted a picture on twitter. Think Mbabu might have been too.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130905-son-marseille-football-boss-killed-street-shooting Wasn't Anigo the guy at Marseille that Hatem really liked? Probably not the right thread for this, a tragedy though.

Anita, Cabaye and Sissoko in a central three has to be given a go imo. 4-3-3 with Remy, HBA and Cisse up top. Worked a couple of years ago, would like to see it given a go with better players (Anita for Tiote, Sissoko for Guthrie/Jonas, Remy for Ba being about like for like as far as suitability to that left sided role goes.)

I vaguely recall something about this Oh good, I've not lost my mind.

Seem to recall something similar to this happening before? Someone was designing an alternative shirt, was trying to get permission to put the Bobby Robson Foundation on as the sponsor (for free, obviously). May have made this up like. Anyone else remember this?

Raging in terms of how I shit I feel it was, but really just completely jaded would be more accurate.

Hope the phone thing is true, if nothing else it'll knock some ego out of him, might make him realise how good he's got it here.

Agents always look as slimy as they are. It's hilarious.

Ben Arfa is the cutest thing in the fucking world man. Like an excited kid talking about how he thought nothing was gonna work out that day.

Probably Dinho lad. The hero worship by people like you, man. You make Justin Bieber fans look-like Vikings. Prepared to be heart-broken by Cabaye? I hope you've got someone with you to call the emergency when you have your breakdown. Why go on like this after a win like that? Because one or two plonkers on here think that just because some people criticise a player it means that they have a vendetta or something against them. I couldn't give two flying elephants if opinions hurts the feelings of some of fan-boys on here. Accept it and just stop crying about it. We won, yes, but it's nothing more than that; it doesn't mean that the failings of the team and individuals are going away or shouldn't be talked about. http://tnation.t-nation.com/forum_images/9/a/9a623_ORIG-freeman_2D00_he_2D00_mad.jpg

There isn't a great deal about him that I would change. The frustrating parts of his game are amplified because he's generally too deep and/or there's no movement ahead of him. Eradicate those team foibles and he's we can accommodate a 'luxury player' like him - which is what we've done today towards the end, by the sounds of things. Feel like I need to reiterate that I didn't see the game, I'm only going off what I've seen before/what people have said about today's game. Spot on, I wouldn't change him at all. Just get more movement in the team and stop defenders doubling/trebling/quadrupling up on him. Yup. He's a hell of an asset in the right side. Rather than crippling what makes him so awesome, we should be fixing the team to fit him in it, as on song he's a match winner.

Thank fuck for that. Hatem, take me now.

WHAT A FUCKING GOALLLLL

lolno. Last 10 minutes, that's it.

Marveaux off? Fucking hell. Cisse has done fuck all.

Decent subs, though Anita has been good.