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He's a really excellent player, but he is *never* fit, so therefore a total waste of time. We've all been saying we have no RB at the club, even though Delaney is one, such is our conviction he'll never play again, and if he does, it will be one or two games and he'll break down again. He's our only RB and is on a month by month contract to give him a chance to prove his fitness.

According to Celtic supporters, he was like this every single window with them - having them in kittens until the last minute, then doing all his business then. One said to expect Sky to have a helicopter covering the procession of agents cars to VP on the last day of the window Good, now we'll have Jaaskelainen, a RB and a right side midfielder, too please.

I can not believe what is happening at Villa. In defence we have: - No RB at all - One LB, no cover - Only two GKs, and the only half decent one is injured for a month at least. We have no third choice keeper. - 4 CBs, including one of whom is excellent but incredibly injury prone, one who is an inexperienced kid, and another who is on the downward slope of his career ... and we're selling Liam Ridgewell to our vile local neighbours. What the FUCK is going on?

You mean the same James Milner who was seen on the verge of tears in our training ground car park when he got the call from Fat Freddie telling him his transfer was off? As Baron Von Thingy said, the playing for the shirt thing is largely an anachronism these days. I can think of a few Man United players who do, and maybe Gerrard and Carragher at Liverpool, but then again it is easy playing for the shirt when you're winning things. These days the major thing footballers give a shit about is themselves. Anything else comes a distant second. Observe the serial badge kisser Frank Lampard who will doubtless be off if he doesn't get pay parity with the other badge kisser John Terry.

I can guess whose head would be on the stamps.

I'd just like to say that Sean Bean is one of the worst actors I've ever seen. The gobby cunt. He even almost managed to spoil Ronin, the cunt.

I know, Dave, I was agreeing via the action of repetition (caused mainly by not bothering to read the post I was quoting properly tbh ).

I would, too. I wouldn't fancy going somewhere else I was going to spend half my time sat on my arse on the bench and the other half out of position.

Didn't he do the deal to buy the club overnight or something? Not a chance, have you seen Mort's CV? The guy is a top class M&A advisor, there is absolutely no way he would have advised Ashely to spend £133m without getting access to the books and being able to ascertain the debt position of the business. Given that it was an all cash deal, there wouldn't have been the pressure from a bank to get DD done but it would be truly amazing if he hadn't ascertained what the enterprise value of the business was before purchasing it. In that case, then, I summise that this entire story is a load of bollocks and not worth worrying about. I'm guessing that they've seen SA is slow in the transfer market, which leads to speculation about his relationship with MA, which is followed by problems at Sports Direct, which then leads people to the next natural assumption, that all is not sweetness and light at the club. Which incidentally also fires off those "Martins for sale" stories. A series of baseless assumptions.

Apparently, Radio Manchester are reporting this morning that he is signing for you. *wipes brow*

Didn't he do the deal to buy the club overnight or something?

If KK were appointed DoF, I'd expect Allardyce to be gone within the year.

I would expect he's probably got involved for the same reasons Lerner did - have a bit of fun, probably make a bit of money too. Incidentally, according to a board member today, Randy Lerner has recently had the Villa badge tattooed on his ankle, which for us has proved beyond all doubt the soundness of his motives. I mean, have you seen how fucking shit our new badge looks?

I really can't see SA agreeing to have a director of football appointed above him. Especially coming from a new regime, it smacks of not quite trusting the manager. EDIT especially not someone who raises such emotion at the club as KK

*stares at story over and over again* *shakes head in disbelief*

I agree, I think Bendtner will be interesting to watch. My Blues supporting ... errrm .. acquaintances rate him very, very highly.

The actress Sarah Miles was known for drinking her own urine on a regular basis, believing it was good for her. The horrid old pissguzzler.

You're right about your forward line (if they can play together) but you won't finish 5th with that defence, that's a fact. You've got to give him a chance to get things right at the back, and it isn't necessarily going to happen overnight. I would not be surprised at all if Portsmouth finished above Newcastle, Villa, and Man City. Like it or not, they're further along the teambuilding road.

Still European football I suppose, which is a bigger stage. Know what you mean though, most of the teams we've played in recent years were tripe. When we played anyone half decent we went out. The UEFA Cup ain't bigger than the PL, not by a long way. But if they're coming to this league anyway they might still opt for a team in the Waffa than one not. See, that's what I'm not sure about any more, whether that would ever really be the deciding factor rather than, say, money, or whether they get to live in London or several other things. When you look at the ridiculous format these days, it is enough to think that any player with half a brain would think fuck it, it is best avoided. EDIT of course they wouldnt really go out of their way to avoid it, but you know what I mean. Probably.

That's exactly what I was thinking. He looks like he's taken that green shit he writes about all the time in the Observer to ludicrous levels and started eschewing meat, the stupid treehugger.

Are players really attracted by the prospect of playing in the UEFA cup these days? Serious question. The current format ruins it.

Portsmouth have the best defence by some way, I think. Ours is fucked - Mellberg is starting to look past it, Laursen is excellent but injury prone, Cahill is possibly not ready, Bouma is solid, but at RB there is a big, empty void, so worrying that I'm starting to pine for Aaron Hughes. GA last year being a starting point that is.... Everton conceded 36 goals only 9 more than the Champions. We only conceded 5 more than Everton did, but that is misleading. Incidentally, I checked out Soccerbase to see how many we'd conceded and noticed something odd about last year's table, check it out (I'd post the link, but you need to manually select the season) You scored more goals away? No, the fact that according to their table "Brazil" and "Chile" finished below Watford, check it out.

In fairness, Rangers are just as bad. Both clubs have a sizeable, bigoted element. I've only seen a Scottish club play at our place once, and that was Rangers in 1976. A quick glance at the first few pages of this thread will give you an idea of what it was like: http://www.heroesandvillains.info/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=13346

I think Milner would be best on the right wing. Our right wing.

Portsmouth have the best defence by some way, I think. Ours is fucked - Mellberg is starting to look past it, Laursen is excellent but injury prone, Cahill is possibly not ready, Bouma is solid, but at RB there is a big, empty void, so worrying that I'm starting to pine for Aaron Hughes. GA last year being a starting point that is.... Everton conceded 36 goals only 9 more than the Champions. We only conceded 5 more than Everton did, but that is misleading. Incidentally, I checked out Soccerbase to see how many we'd conceded and noticed something odd about last year's table, check it out (I'd post the link, but you need to manually select the season)