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The squad is depressing as owt, all the same old out of form players who never perform for England. And Capello's level of English is a disgrace considering how long he's been managing us... herd him on the radio today talking absolute jibberish and needing a translator to understand the questions. Hasn't he got any spare time in his amazingly cushy job?

I have a feeling he might.

I don't see how we can make any argument (directly) that players wages are wrong or excessive. Our society isn't based on people getting paid what they are worth, if it was nurses would be on £50k a week and footballers would be on about £50k a year. The only way to control it is to have penalties for financial mismanagement built into our leagues. No club should be allowed to regularly operate at a loss and be propped up by gifts from its owner. If they need loans then fine, negotiate them with a bank at commercial business rates of interest. Maybe the financial fair play rules will help with this, but obviously they are designed with the current state of the game in mind, so I doubt they will actually reduce salaries very much.

I've called them that for my whole life.

I don't mind Collymore, if he has a normal presenter with him he's alright. I like the bloke who used to be on 5Live. I only listen to TalkSport when they have live games on mind, otherwise it's shocking.

It's not the players' fault that the going salaries are crazy. I can never understand how football clubs let it get so far out of hand. When you have a situation where so many clubs are running at a loss, you have to question how they decided they could pay these crazy wages.

me too. Me too, nothing to be ashamed of lads!

That's weird.

And the "player X is obviously leaving in the summer" people?

Will make me much less likely to listen to talksport TBH, it was starting to make itself almost respectable.

Numpties.

I don't know if Nolan drinks, but I think he adores pies.

Shola has elbow-seeking cheeks, he's just a total tosspot basically.

Does Paul Merson even know what year it is?

Yes I know, I enjoyed Montreal but it was very unique. I was confused about which language people would speak! I already have my BEN ARFA 37 shirt, so I'll certainly be giving him a lot of love!

Surely it's physically impossible to get a hamstring injury like that?

I love France and French people, really enjoyed my trip to Montreal as well, although French Canadians are weird. But have to say that Italy is the best country in Europe by far. But French players are excellent, Ben Arfa is the most exciting player we've signed for years.

The fact the US even exists proves that TBH. (Je blague)

I'd like to see him get a few run outs if he's able, but obviously don't rush him back.

That never happened!

Great that he's getting treated at Clairefontaine as well, sounds like everyone involved has looked after his recovery really well so far. Just don't let our physios get their hands on the lad.

Exactly, Barton just got there first. I guess there was a bit of disregard for Diaby's safety, but there always is in a meaty tackle like that.

I've thought about it more times than because of the game TBH.

I think the fact it came in a week when we'd sold Carroll and fucked up at Fulham also has to be taken into account.