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Spurs next year after they buy Arshavin, Gomis, Gomez, Owen, Arda, Dunne, and Diane. (Anyone else we've been linked to?)

Obviously they're all signing for Spurs. They'll even re-sign Lennon just to spite us.

nailed on signing for Spurs then

Well, young big four rejects are better than old big four rejects I suppose.

probably not true. No doubt Man City fans are reading this with the same reaction we have when we read the "OMG KEEGAN MEETING WITH ASHLEY HE IS GONNA BE SACKED!!!!!" stories.

Jesus, if we hadn't sacked Sam, Ferguson would have probably tricked him into buying Dong Fang Zhuo for 3m this summer. Rather have him than Smith tbh.

We made an offer for him in the winter, the player turned us down because he wanted to stay at Zenit another year and play in the Champions League. So unfortunately not happening. Not this window anyway.

And score a few more. Alan Smith (2007-2008), 30 starts 7 sub appearances, 0 goals, 10 yellows, 1 red, 60,000 p/w Lee Dong-Gook (2007-2008), 11 starts 8 sub appearances, 2 goals, 1 yellow, 0 reds, 5,000 p/w Bite their hands off!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/graphics/gallery/football/transfers2007summer/smith.jpg http://nownews.seoul.co.kr/img/upload/2007/08/30/SSI_20070830134636_V.jpg straight swap? At least the lad's on lower wages.

Having not been given any chances since moving to Chelsea shouldn't fool anybody into thinking Anelka is damaged goods. He was dominating while he was at Bolton during the first part of the Season and he's clearly one of the best strikers in the league. Heck, straight swap with Berbatov would probably be fair, never mind that crazy deal

I think Harper suffers from pretty much the same strengths and weaknesses as given. Good shot stopping but poor organizer etc. Although Given's shot stopping is (or was pre-Harewood, at least) superhuman compared to Harper's mere "very good," while Harper is slightly better in the air. I see no evidence whatsoever that tells me that Harper is better than Given at organizing the defence. This season Given lost his biggest strengths due to not being fully fit, and Harper was a better option. Harper's a good keeper and probably one of the top 3 backup keepers in the league, but I'd rather have Given if both were at 100% effectiveness. Whether Given will ever get back there again is another matter.

Hopefully soon to be followed by "Keegan kills Smith because he's shite.."

we're losing him to those fuckers again. I just know it. I swear, the one time we beat them to a signing, it turns out to be Damien Duff.

You got me wondering what the table would look like in terms of goals per minutes played.... Pos standard Pos/Player Goals Minutes Minutes per goal 1 1 Cristiano Ronaldo 31 2746 89 2 2 Fernando Torres 24 2533 106 3 2 Emmanuel Adebayor 24 2928 122 4 11 Jermain Defoe 12 1605 134 5 5 Aiyegbeni Yakubu 15 2303 154 6 4 Roque Santa Cruz 19 3187 168 7 5 Dimitar Berbatov 15 2689 179 8 5 Robbie Keane 15 2714 181 9 11 Wayne Rooney 12 2181 182 10 9 Carlos Tevez 14 2677 191 11 5 Mwaruwari Benjani 15 2897 193 12 17 Frank Lampard 10 1954 195 13 10 John Carew 13 2546 196 14 14 Michael Owen 11 2175 198 15 17 Dean Ashton 10 2001 200 16 Obafemi Martins 9 2051 228 17 14 Nicolas Anelka 11 2575 234 18 11 Steven Gerrard 12 2840 237 19 17 Dave Kitson 10 2522 252 20 14 Gabriel Agbonlahor 11 3278 298 And Owen is still 14th. Only really shines a light on Defoe. Benjani drops too. Is 14th supposed to be good? To me, yeah. Returning from bad injury, missed few games, played under BSA, our service (esp in 442, nowt from midfield and his partner was Smith) and all. Also, we ain't gonna get anyone better than him. That's for sure So, we MUST keep him. We aren't going to get anyone better than him? I hate it when a topic about Owen gets sidetracked but look at whose name is next to 16 and you'll have my opinion of someone who's more important to the team than Owen is. We need both.

Thing is the performance of individual players (excluding Smith, who was shit throughout) has fluctuated so much based on manager, form, confidence, tactics etc. that it's difficult to judge anyone based on aggregate statistics. Although I think it's fairly obvious regardless that Butt and Smith need to go.

I think Fulham's getting it, but we can hope, right?

17 million. mackems.gif Hah, that's probably more than somebody will end up paying for Drogba himself this summer.

Honestly the worst player we've ever had in the Premiership. At least Pattison was just invisible, at least Boumsong and Babayaro only fucked up when an opposing player came near them with the ball. Smith, aside from being invisible himself, somehow manages to drag down the preformance of the entire team by clogging up passing flow, giving away bad fouls, and moving into bad positions to break up the team's shape. You only need to look at how him coming on for Viduka against Chelsea completely changed the flow of the game. Utterly shocking that he was playing for Man United in the Champions League as recently as last year. Right now I don't think Roeder would have him at Norwich.

Why, so you could sniff the saddle? What's the point, you can get a good bike for much cheaper. Waste of money. I'm just a sucker for sports memorabilia. Besides, the "getting it presented to you at SJP by the man himself" part (I assume they're doing this at a game next season) may have something to do with it as well... But like i said, it's probably going for a bit higher than my current bank account can cover.

finished at 36th, guess that isn't bad.

I think I would honestly be willing to pay several thousand quid of my own money for this. Unfortunatley, it will probably go for much higher for that.

considering that he's been doing the business in the German leagues for a few years already now, you'd think he'd have moved already if he was big league material.

This is a pretty pointless thread, but we all know we're going to be aimlessly hitting F5 on this board and all major news outlets for the next three months so might as well speculate when we'll get anything. If I had to guess, I'd say we'll only get any significant moves in July after Euros.

Palacios and Valencia would be good additions Koumas and Scharner aren't good enough though. I think Scharner is very underated,can play midfield and defence.Has played in defence of late and played there very well so therefore an improvement on any of our defenders! Koumas is more of a creative midfielder than any of our midfielders besides maybe Zog who is prob leaving anyways,would be a good squad member and would get him prob cheap enough. That Palacios is a beast but I think Utd after both him and Valencia so no chance of getting them if true! Scharner is pretty good. Wouldn't mind him either.

Barnes and Zarate the obvious options, Shorey not bad at all, but we've got a good left back and I don't know if either of them would be happy with being backup. Kitson or Doyle worth a punt on the cheap as backup?