Chris_R

I think what you mean is "I went on Google and someone else had made up £50k/week off the top of their head" Nobody knows what any player is paid.

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Hard to give the ball away when you've stuck it in the opposition's net.

Barnes and Tonali need to be on immediately. Seen enough of Long staff to know he's nothing but a runner, and Murphy isn't great either.

Didn't he miss like 6 months with a sore finger, or something equally ridiculous? Remember it being a running joke at the time.

Worst player out of position was definitely Shola on the left wing for me. I mean he was shit enough as a striker, but to put him on the wing was just a crime against nature. At least up front his height and lumbering stature were a benefit, despite his inability to actually play football.

On the contrary, I'd suggest you had an entirely rational dislike of Geremi.

Fucking hell those were grim times, seeing those 3 line up together in midfield was just soul-destroying. You knew you were in for a long, awful match before kickoff. The only midfielder I've seen regularly play for us who could consistently out-shit that triumverate was Amdy Faye.

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Paully is correct, it was disallowed to give US a free kick for one of their players being offside. That's why everyone was so annoyed. There was no need to blow. If the ref had just waited a half second to see if there was an advantage, we'd have Lee scoring from his own half with his weaker foot.

I'm more interested in the system than the personnel. That's where I want to see change.

It's not even just that Ben Arfa didn't play, it's who played in his place whilst he sat on the bench. We had some right shit that could barely trap a bag of cement stinking up his place in the team, whilst he sat warming his arse on the touchline. Utterly rage inducing.

Reminds me that one of my recurring drunken football arguments is that players should wear paper shirts (Or a material with similar properties) so that any shirt pullling just leads to the offender being left holding a handful of paper whilst the attacker runs off. Instant booking for the offender because he can't deny the offence when he's standing there with a handful of shirt, and doesn't actually stop the attack either. Catch me on Dragons Den next week.

You're right, it was Nolan. I think I'm conflating that effort with one Ranger had in a different match which he flashed just wide, but can't seem to find that clip or even remember what match it was.

Just for the occasion and what it would have meant, but Nile Ranger vs Arsenal? We were 4-0 down, got it back to 4-4 with Tiote's legendary screamer, but people forget we very nearly won it right at the death when Ranger flashed one a foot wide of the post. If that had gone in, firtsly it would ahve been a very good goal in its own right, but add in the context of overturning a 4-0 deficit to win a match and I think it would have been historic.

Haha was just typing Rob Lee vs Brentford. I was in the Milburn paddock in front of where he hit it from. Still raging. The only answer. Close the thread.

Isn't that literally what he did at Everton? Different circumstances of course, but still.

He now owns the land all the way up into space above that strip, so he'll be trying to block stadium expansion plans for the East Stand unless we pay handsomly, as we can't build over the top of it without his permission. That's the play.

Looked just like a knock, maybe just a dead leg, nothing serious. Should be back by February.

By your own logic we already have 2 right wingers. Also wanting a GK doesn't mean we're not looking at wingers too If nobody wants to sell us a good winger for a decent price, our options are: 1) overpay and fuck us for the next FFP window 2) waste good money on someone who's barely an upgrade, again where FFP is so crucial meaning we possibly can't afford a really good winger later 3) Wait until a top target is available at a reasonable price Which option do you want us to go for? Especially as seemingly the club are going for 3 and your not happy, so I presume you're in favour of 1 or 2?

Didn't realise he had 15 in 40, which is very decent and probably alone justifies at least what he went for. "Young" seems pushing it though at what, 24? Probably won't push on too much from there. Not one minute in the PL either. Not a big fee for him, that's for certain. I'd want a bit more more. All this tells me is that I'm hoping Ipswich go down this year, as doubtless that's linked to the mackems getting the extra £5m. Absolutely nothing against Ipswich but someone's got to go down so it might as well be a team that keeps the mackems poor.

What profile? I only know of him because he's discussed on here, and that's mostly with ridicule, laughing at how the mackems bang on about him despite him having done basically nothing of note. I reckon if you asked Tottenham or West Ham fans about him, almost nobody will have heard of him.

Really hope we've left Parish holding his cock whilst we've gone shopping elsewhere.

Haha that would be some grift - buy Sunderland for £60m, free transfer Clarke to your other club, then sell Sunderland for £55m

Oh we will, because we're still paying for every single player we've amortised since the takeover. That's how this works, which nobody seemed willing or able to grasp at the time - Bruno might have "only" cost £8m the year we signed him, but he'll continue to cost us £8m every year until 2027. Same for everyone else we've signed.