Lenny

i thought butt made quite a few mistakes yesterday

What i like about Martins is that he's getting better and better with each game, his link up play is starting to show, i wouldnt be suprised if he gets almost as many assists as he does goals. My only slight issue with him is that he opts to shoot early a lot when he could easily ruin the defender. He has been taking people on more now though.

I think we should only get him on loan if we are going to buy him at the end of the season because otherwise we'll end up losing a pissed off Milner as well as not havin swp! But then as u say, we do have other priorities! I personally dont think we should really sign him, although I wouldnt be disappointed if we did!

It's not about what's fair and what isn't. This is a football club and we need the best players playing wherever we can get them, if it means another decent player has to drop to the bench then so be it. Duff/Zoggy

I think Milner has got better and better for us, his end product is getting better all the time, after all the shit he's been through I think a little loyalty towards him wouldnt go amis since we dont need a player in that position! There should be no place for sentiment within the game but unfortunately that's one of our biggest flaws. i agree with that but hes been playin well and we dont need a right mid If it was on a six month loan deal and in no way harbored our chances of bringing in a decent left-back I'd be all for it. A player like SWP could be the catalyst to revitalise our whole team. The opposition would be shit scared of having SWP, Martins, Dyer and The Zog running at them at full pelt. This would cause opposition defences to drop a lot deeper allowing players like Emre more time on the ball to create things and give the back four a whole lot more breathing space as well. Like I said I see your point, and if it happened I wouldnt exactly be cursing because at the end of the day hes a good player, but I just think that spending time over the xmas period tryin to sign players for non essential positions is a bit risky, especially considering how we go about buying players, i.e. last day! I also think that in terms of work rate/effort, and consistency, Milner has probably been our best player this season, one of the few positives from the bad start we had!

I think Milner has got better and better for us, his end product is getting better all the time, after all the shit he's been through I think a little loyalty towards him wouldnt go amis since we dont need a player in that position! There should be no place for sentiment within the game but unfortunately that's one of our biggest flaws. i agree with that but hes been playin well and we dont need a right mid

I think Milner has got better and better for us, his end product is getting better all the time, after all the shit he's been through I think a little loyalty towards him wouldnt go amis since we dont need a player in that position!

I think Ramage is like Andy Obrien, never going to be great, but handy to have, works hard!

fuck off with picking on parker bullshit its gettin really boring!!

Kaka for 25M Lennon for 8 Puyol for 10 Parker still in the team. An even bigger bluelaugh.gif i reckon if Parker was told to be purely a DM he could be in a team like that!

With £100 Mill to spend you'd expect to be challenging the title, could you see that team challenging? i personally couldnt!

Baines, Borre, Upson, Ashton (or similar sort of player). prob be more than 20 mill tho!

Eh? Can you point out the quote that 'undermines' Shearer because I'm not getting that at all. He seems to be trying to be pretty diplomatic from where I'm standing. Although only hinted at in the interview, his point that the team needed to move away from purely focusing around Shearer was always fair (if slightly suicidal), and was something Robson also eventually struggled with. I just got the impression that he was talkin about shearer like he wasnt really anything special. "i played in europe at the highest level", is a kinda im more than he ever is or was attitude. I just think there is a bit of bitterness in what hes saying. at the same time tho the reporter did try and put the words in his mouth!

I personally think its fair enough to say your opinion but the way he talks about shearer (from that article) is soured by his dislike for him! I dont think its a very professional opinion and it appears to undermine Shearer.

agreed

From that it seems that Gullit does talk about Shearer as if hes just another footballer, like he didnt have the ability to achieve what gullit did, which to be fair is pure and utter bollocks!!!

a lot of people seem to be slating Duff but to be honest I dont think Zoggy has done much if any better than him this season. At this moment in time I'd pick Duff ahead of Zoggy anyway! Thats not to say that his injury isnt a severe kick in the nuts for us!

9? I thought he was f*cking horrendous tonight. he put one back tackle other than that he played well, definitly the best iv seen from him in a while

Sibierski header, remind me of any other shots please? i watched the game and we werent just sitting back absorbing, we were trying to put them under pressure and did so a few times!

Along with Perez Munoz Alfonso!!!!! lol

Nice pic!

I also thought it was nice seeing Martins run over to the away support when he scored to celebrate and then clutched his shirt!!

people people, wheres craig moore???

that is his best attribute, how he keeps the ball at his feet i dont know, like the goal we had disallowed for 'offside', emre had no right to go through those players on the left and come out with the ball! he has a lower centre of gravity which allows him to turn so sharply on the ball!

that sounded sarcastic, i was actually bein genuine!