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It doesn't seem unreasonable to expect someone who is getting paid 25m pounds a year to actually turn up and do his job, though, does it? Personally, i think he shouldn't be picked. He basically threw away any football credibility he had left when he agreed to go and play in a pub league because his wife likes it over there, and he gets to hang out with Tom Cruise. A serious case of getting his priorities fucked up. And as for all those people saying what a superhuman colossus he is for bouncing back ... he got dropped, he found some form, he got recalled. Big deal. He's hardly beaten cancer or something.

Any minute now, someone will gripe about picking up free transfers now there's plenty of money to spend. He'd be an excellent signing.

I doubt very much if the bulk of footballers money is paid PAYE, tbh. Footballers may be dim, but they tend to have decent accountants these days.

Fucking hell, I can't believe he even opens those shite FW! FW! FW! emails, let alone prints them off to inspire people.

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God, what a shite new badge that is. *hollow, nervous laugh*

Young's only problem is that he is sometimes too easily muscled off the ball, but he is a great prospect. He looked fantastic for the U21s the other night. I think Ridgewell will be sold, probably to Derby, tbh, but you are right about the rest. I'm excited about Gardner too. I like the fact that him, Moore, Agbonlahor and Osbourne are all local lads, too. We've got another Brummie born lad who has just signed a contract, who is 15 (or just turned 16) and a regular in the reserves, called Nathan Delfouneso, who is supposedly more promising than any of the current crop at his age. I reckon he'll get a game next season. Having loads of money is great, but I'd much rather invest plenty of it in the youth academy rather than turn into some pathetically desperate basket case of a club like West Ham are becoming.

Up front, in the middle, possibly playing off Carew, but I'd like to see his development slowed down a touch, he played too many games last season tbh. He broke all our goalscoring records as a youth, and scored over 50 goals in a single season, he has got real promise, but he needs to be handled carefully. His goal against Sheffield United was absolutely superb, if you can find it on a well known video site somewhere.

Howd'you work that out? He's played a hell of a lot more first team games than any of that lot! Except none of them were in the Premier League. He has a scoring record of 1 in (roughly) 3.5 in the lower leagues. Agbonlahor has played almost every match this season having only made a few sub appearances prior to that. He has scored 10 goals in 40 games, despite being played out of position wide right for 4/5ths of the season, a scoring rate which is only slightly worse than Nugent's lower league rate. For all we know, Nugent may turn out to be a modern day (yet less prolific) Guy Wittingham.

That's funny, but I was just thinking the same thing. If McClown got the bullet, who would the FA go for? SA and MON are either just appointed (SA) or barely started and already overlooked anyway (MON). They ignored Hiddink, who is doing well with Russia. They pissed Scolari off. We'd probably end up with Stuart Pearce, god forbid.

You'd also have Gabby Agbonlahor if he'd kept his phone switched on.

Yeah. £67,850 pa doesn't sound bad to me. He'd just have to use it wisely so that he has enough to live comfortably when he retires at 36 or whatever. Still, it shows the gap when there are dozens of players in the Premiership who earn more in a week than a League One player does in a year. Good salary for your average man on the street, but no way is that enough to retire on at 36, tbh. 67k pa is 3.7k net a month. That's not stratospheric by any stretch of the imagination.

You can add Lee Hendrie to that list of free agents. Although word has it he's taking his mutant orange face to Sunderland

Ah, my bad.

you could say that about practically every English player signing for anyone this year, mind

Indeed he did, in a roundabout way

3 in 11 games (although obviously that should be four, given the unfairly ruled out goal at your place). But that's only part of the story, his all round contribution is immense. I've seen him play more impressive passes with his chest than most of the rest of the squad can play with their feet. Baros was a shirking waster who contributed nothing.

Yes. Straight swap for the utterly fucking useless, diving nonce Baros. Very nice piece of business.

He's taken a lot of unfair stick last season. Alright, he wasn't spectacular after the previous season, but look at the basket case of a team he was playing in.

^^^^ and a goalkeeper, pref Boruc or Gordon

We desperately need a holding midfielder, a right back, and a poacher style goalscorer. Bardsley got sent back to Man United because he's not good enough. Sent back early, in fact, so he won't be our new right back. He was better than Hughes, granted, but that isn't saying a lot. We need to ship out McCann as soon as possible. That Luke Moore to Boro stuff is absolute fucking rubbish, mind.

How was that for quality work from Ashley Young getting the ball in there? Jesus, Peter Whittingham is coming on.

Word is the NRC deal will go through on Thursday, though it is all connected, Barton to you, Parker to them, NRC to us.

Pearce could have handled the Agbonlahor situation better, I think. It is all very well moaning in the press that he rang him 2000 times and his mobile was switched off, but if he'd just called MON he would have found out exactly what the situation was. Can't help thinking he opted for playing the big tough man by just leaving him out.

I agree, Speccy.