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from what we've seen, just about anything's better than Italy no? Nothing against the Italians but this sends a clear message that they need to get their act together NOW.

Harper Solano Gooch Taylor Baba (where the **** is Baba, btw) Milner Butt Emre Zog Carroll Martins Subs Krul Carr Ameobi Edgar Luque

Maybe it's just me, but it seems kinda cute. Although I can undestand how it would get a bit tacky upon repitition.

I honestly like Liverpool better than any of the other "big 4." While I understand how it's easy to take a dig at the Scouse, the Liverpool fans I've met have always been nothing other than passionate, devoted, and good-humored. Much, much better than the arrogant ManU ****s or the nonexistant Chelsea fans tbh. Had a cracking time in the city too. Other than the fact that everyone feels compelled to say "five time champions of Europe" every five minutes or so.

Roeder's already dismissed him saying that he "isn't better than what we have." (what a put down!) Granted, I have to admit it is very difficult to think of realisitic quality options for left back right now. There just aern't many in Europe.

Half the amount of energy and bandwith wasted on this forum is a direct result of Luque. (THe other half probably being Parker) Sell plz. tks.

someone who actually knows how to play football and isn't in worse shape than the average college student.

I'd like to see that actually. Sounds fun, like.

Legithon Baines 7 mil -> duh Wes Brown 6~7 mil -> double duh Steve Sidwell Free -> triple Tal Ben Haim Free -> quadruple Lee Young-Pyo 1~2 mil -> sold attacking fullback who can cover for both sides and can also play midfield in a pinch. If he has any sense he probably hates Jol's guts by now so I figure we have a go for cheap. Get rid of.. Babayaro Bramble Carr Luque anything beyond that is probably a luxury may lose emre and zog though. <XI> Given Solano Brown Ben Haim Baines Milner Parker Sidwell Duff Owen Martins (Subs) Lee Ameobi Harper Emre Zog

From hollywood players to hollywood managers eh? I say go for him regardless of cost. He's been off of club management so long that I'm not sure if he's still got the magic touch, but we aern't going anywhere at the moment so any sort of roll of the die is a good idea I say. The money can't be THAT much, and if we don't use it on Sven, we'll probably just waste it on something else anyway.

Man U v. Liverpool. I'd rather no have either of them win, but it will still be so much fun to watch. Plus, although one side will have to win, the fans of the losing side are guarunteed to be sick about it forever. Fair trade I figure.

This just ocurred to me on my walk back home yesterday. Say an owner like Abramovich decides one day to buy... Let's say Fulham and use it at the Chelsea reserves. So he'd loan out all the players in Chelsea that don't play regularly to Fulham on year long free loans with recall clauses in the contracts. Even without spending more than a few pennies on actually buying players for Fulham, it would still be just about good enough to stay in the Permiership, so Chelsea could probably have an outlet with which to get players like Mikel/Kalou Premiership first-team experience indefinitely. So, besides the fact that it would be a ****ing c***ish ting to do, is there anything stopping any rich club owner from actually doing this?

Would personally carry him from London to SJP with you mate. Altough I'd have to swim my way across the atlantic first.

Well, there are no vacancies in the top four, so if he absolutely wants to stay in England and we offer him $$$$ I suppose it's possible... ...(sigh) who am I kidding.

80k or 110k! 80k or 110k! Michael Owen~! Should be a song tbh.

ok, whatever. Next topic please.

NUFC finances > Fulham finances NUFC transfer budget > Fulham transfer budget Our stadium=2.5 times the capacity of theirs. We have more, spend more, and have a larget support base than Fulham. By all logic we should be expecting more. It's not as if we're arguing that NUFC deserves better results because of some sort of.... Divine writ or anything. what a load of s*** we spend more so we deserve more. You saying you admire Chelsea or something? I f****** hate the c***s and everything they stand for. Tonight rammed that home for me, totally different feelings during both matches and as for [more fans = bigger club = more deserving], it's just Stevietastic bollocks tbh Mate, I have nothing against you... OK, that's a lie, I think you're a blatant WUM, but that just makes no sense. Of COURSE clubs that spend more deserve more. If spending has no correlation whatsoever with results, than why would clubs spend money at all anyway? the whole point of spending money is to improve. More fans = bigger club because more fans = more money = more spending = improvement. At least that's how it would work in a logical world, which is what makes supporting NUFC so ****ing frustrating. And oh dear me, how does this have anything at all to do with Chelsea?

NUFC finances > Fulham finances NUFC transfer budget > Fulham transfer budget Our stadium=2.5 times the capacity of theirs. We have more, spend more, and have a larget support base than Fulham. By all logic we should be expecting more. It's not as if we're arguing that NUFC deserves better results because of some sort of.... Divine writ or anything.

Before anyone else jumps at the opportunity to say it.... Pity he's not the fourth

Coleman was a master of small-money management, and really the perfect manager for Fulham. Absolutely shocking that they've sacked him. I'd place them as odds on to go down next season. Unless the board is planning some sort of massive cash injection, there's just about no hope for Fulham now.

Three up front will require an excellent playmaker and two commanding holding midfielders to get going. Assuming Parker gets back to being useful next season, that's still two players we haven't got.

So who's going to buy him for decent money and pay him 80k a week so he'll actually move there? With his wages, it'd be hard to move him for free, never mind for decent money. Good player, a bit inconsistent. We've got him and we're probably not gonna be able to offload him so might as well use him.

Butt did his job today. Emre did not. Yeah but if we're getting Sidwell in then may as well sell Butt he'll be 32 Is Sidwell a holding player though? I thought he was more of a Parker - ie no particular speciality. Parker is a very good holding player imo, if we played him like that; he's an excellent tackler. Sidwell I'm not overly familiar with but I've seen enough of him to tell you he'll make more creative passes in a game than Emre did in that one. Parker - tackling + passing = Sidwell from what I can tell Figure that Sidwell is actually the kind of player that Roeder wants Parker to be.

We were missing Parker! (ducks for cover)

College is school, no?