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Cole I was at school I think and a teacher told us, then we got the radio on hear it confirmed. Was gutted I admit. Was on holiday in Scotland when shearer signed, my Dad faxed the back page of the paper to the hotel, didn't believe it was true until I heard it on the telly. Remember that day really well, great stuff!

To be fair I think he's rated a lot more highly now than he was at the time.

I suppose it is, but you can only deal with the situation as you find it. Better to be climbing up year on year from the lower position than plummeting towards the bottom like we were doing.

Well we came 12th last season after being shambolic for the majority of the year, so I think the top 10 is definitely realistic. I'd be happy with 10th and building from there, as long as we do it strongly and don't scrape up there at the very end. Would basically just like to see a consistent-ish season without any sleapless nights over going down.

We can't assess a signing based on what he isn't. We should be focussing on what he is, a promising young player with some premiership exprience, in a position we're short on. The fact he isn't Deco or Arshavin is beside the point. People are talking as if the signings stop here, even if they did that woudln't mean this one was a bad one.

Pretty accurate, although I don't think many people actually believed that we lost the league because of Tino anyway.

Muamba is quality IMO, shame we couldn't have got him in.

Think the new extended bench will be good for the league next year, hopefully see some new faces getting their debuts. Also will encourage us to actually sign a decent quantity of players.

Think the Gunners will be in trouble up front unless they sign a couple of top players, I would be very surprised to see Adebayor leave unless a quality replacement is lined up. Although Arsene might just sign another couple of attacking midfielders... PS How is Diaby shaping up for the CM spot? I've got him on Pro Evo, rock in the center of the park!

Think there's more than a bit of press spin on this like UV says, the lad's obviously naive and his English isn't great - two ingredients that make him prime for these kind of quotes. I rather believe that than he really is a complete tosspot, we'll see what happens.

Not exactly the type of signings that are going to cause mass media intrusion are they? Fair point I suppose, we'll have to see what the next couple are like... but still think it looks positive so far.

And another one done on the down-low, no press until the deal's done, makes the fans nervous but very professional.

From youtube comments, good enough for me!

I've never seen him play so no idea whether he'll be the next big thing or a complete waste of space, but I'll keep faith with KK and the team until I see otherwise. Another body as well, we need those.

Arsenal won't be buying him, and neither will Spuds most probably. Despite what he's said (which is no worse than a lot of other young players from the continent when they're not in the team) I would still like to see him stay and KK give him a chance to redeem.

I don't see much evidence of that to be honest. I know I'd rather have a few years of solid rebuilding (if that's what we get) along the lines of Everton than a continued maniac rollercoaster of boom and bust. That way we might have a chance of building something sustainable that won't collapse at the slightest misfortune.

It's lovely.

Just thought back to GCSE business studies (!), something called 'Hairy Audacious Targets' that businesses set - basically a ridiculously high goal that is never expected but is used to drive the staff on to mad levels of productivity. Problem is if you make them too hairy and audacious everyone knows what you're upto and it never works. So a nice balance needs to be struck.

I don't think anyone is saying that 6th is the ultimate aim for the club in the long term, but to finish 6th next season is in my eyes optomistic, and I'll be having a street party if we've done it this time next year. Good on Taylor for aiming for it, if he'd come out and said we're aiming for the title he'd have looked like a moron.

I always though slavery was more to do with being held against your will for no pay, subjugated, beaten, humiliated and forced to work? Seem Sep thinks it means being paid unimaginable sums of money to play the game you love, fame, fortune and an endless string of hot women queuing up to bone you. Buffoon.

The league is very average except the top 3 IMO, we'll do OK if we flesh out the squad a bit more. Sick of articles like that, we could do with a FB but defenders definitely aren't our problem at the moment. It's like they copy and pasted some of that from every season preview for the last 10 years.

Any of those will do...

Well his fault in that he would have actually taken the drugs, but who knows what mental and other issues drove him to do it? We already know he had agrophobia and hadn't been outside for months.

Drivel, if Ronaldo wants to leave he should have to hand in a formal transfer request (that can be accepted/rejected by Man Utd), which I imagine would forfeit any bonuses etc he is due, and only be allowed to leave if Man Utd get a satifactory resolution. On the other hand, we know contracts mean nothing in football except to guarantee the value of the player when he does bugger off.

Fair points, they could employ the team on this magazine to produce some quality web content instead.