Chris_R

HAHAHAHHA Good work by the club, saw a few mallorca games on the tellybox and he looks decent. Good work by wise et al. Also I think its pronounced Guti-er-ez kinda like its spelt... By all accounts he's going to be known as Jonas, I think that is whats on his shirt. Yeah, but in the Premiership they have to have their full surname. Remember when Hasslebaink first arrived and he had "Jimmy" on his shirt for the first game? Dragutinovic wears simply "Drago" on his shirt. I'd imagine over here he'll have "Gutierrez" on his top. Jordi? Nani? Juninho? None of those are full surnames... Jordi is the exception though. The others are nicknames aren't they? So you're allowed nicknames but not first names? What sort of rule is that? Easy to get round as well. Just tell them your nickname is your first name.

Fantastic. Hopefully he'll be a brilliant acquisition, but the best bit of this is that it's a massive 2-fingered salute to the press, who we can hopefully now all agree know absolutely nothing about what's going on inside our club.

Not really. Mutu took drugs whilst under contract with Chelsea. We signed Barton after he'd already assaulted Dabo. 2 very different sets of circumstances. he was imprisoned for the leverpool city centre attack not the dabe one . as such we didn't know that one was coming . Yes, and we could sack him for that one for sure but the Dabo incident is the one currently in the news so I assumed (Perhaps wrongly) that people were talking about taking action over that one. The McDonalds incident is old news now and was discussed to death at the time.

In that case, you cut your losses for the night and go home. Comes with the territory.

Not really. Mutu took drugs whilst under contract with Chelsea. We signed Barton after he'd already assaulted Dabo. 2 very different sets of circumstances.

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So what exactly has he said this time? Can someone enlighten us non-Sky people?

Bearsley was no giant.

In the event of a tie after extra time, the winner should be the team that has had the most on-target shots from within the opposition penalty area. Unworkable, perhaps, but it would stop teams playing boring, negative football.

I watched him quite closely tonight because of the alleged interest, and can't say he did anything that makes me want to see him in our team. Obviously it's only one game but I wasn't terribly impressed with him.

Thought he'd be way older than 40. I remember him well from the early 90s. RIP.

Banned for the semi and I can't see them making the final, so it's effectively over for him this tournament. Hopefully. We just need to wait for Keegan to come back of his holidays now. Someone mentioned 2 weeks time?

I can't see him leaving unless it's to one of the big 4.

Sounds pretty damning tbh. He's gone.

I don't know how they cope on several thousand a week, I really don't. Let's have a whipround for the poor little buggers.

Chances of us being randomly selected to be away for boxing day 7 years in a row are 0.78% Draw your own conclusions.

No, when they're asleep is the best time to play them.

Yeah, only one player in it this year. More interesting would be who will be runner-up?

Looks a good player, very lively and good on the ball. Obviously his value has just shot up but I'd be delighted if we did manage to snap him up.

I'm glad he had a bad game. It doesn't make him a worse player than the one some of you were beating yourselves off over a couple of weeks ago but maybe for once a player who we're interested in will see his value go DOWN before we get them? If we're genuinely after him, I hope he plays in the next game and gets sent off after scoring 2 own goals. It might knock another couple of million off the value.

Another non-story from the Chronicle.

Easy choice for me: I've already seen us play in the Champions League. I've never seen us win anything. Give me the trophy please.

Yeah, my missus struggles to seperate nations from teams too bless her. I've heard comments before like "Why's Alan Shearer playing for England? I thought he played for Newcastle?" I keep explaining it to her, but she keeps asking the same questions: "Why's Michael Owen playing for England? I thought he played for Newcastle?"

Have you ever had car insurance before? It continues for another year unless you specifically cancel it. No excuses IMO. Throw the book at him. Preferably still in the book case.

We don't need to be finding understudies for Butt, we need to be making him the understudy. I'm not worried about transfers just yet, but the fact that Geremi and Butt are probably the only midfielders we have on the books (assuming Emre is sold and Barton sacked) is terrifying. I presume you mean central midfielders, otherwise I'd have to point out the continued existence of N'Zogbia, Milner and Duff for starters.