Willow

Modric and Bentley as I've not seen Nasri. What happened to Arda Turan anyway? did he move yet?

Can we now change this thread title to "The Touchable Alan Smith".......?

Initially I'd say we may not be able to offer him 1st team every week but considering our tiny squad, he'll no doubt get plenty of games if we lose a defender or 2 to injury

We have nothing in this department, which worries me. Its the most vital piece of the jigsaw right now and we need to find it before the window shuts...

They're both still burning a huge hole in our resources. I know that, but all the same we've had 2 months to sort the problem and here we are still with it. And it's a bloody serious one What if the budget isn't there? Why isn't it there? We've got a small enough squad! Speculate to accumulate. As entered in two different threads. If Alan Smith stays for the remaining 4 years of his contract we will pay hime £10.4 million Shola has shown how difficult it is to get highe earners to leave. £10m would give us a huge amount of leverage to work with that just made me sick in my mouth a little........

HAY GUYZ ..maybe we could have some kind of reverse psychology type deal going on here, you know, like bigging up "Smudge" on here so rival teams read the forum and realise what they're missing.....they'll then stage protests around their club, demanding to sign alan smith... on the next clean page we should type how amazing Smith actually is. it might just......work edit: ^^ that rights, James has the right idea

give him away, pay him off, anything! just get him at another club....

8.5m, 50k a week and 30 yrs old - for a crockathon striker

YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING ARSE!!!! not again why oh why did I fall for it? :lol:

Can we have some sort of running countdown on the football forum main page? I'd like to see this too

A tiny squad like ours means this will happen regularly unless more bodies are in. Such a shame we're so far behind the top teams......makes me sick

Yep, heh, he better get a few more players in or this season will be anything but fun

Well said. My concern is creativity in midfield so I hope we fix that huge problem. I also feel a young pacey striker is needed too.

I would literally piss my pants if we got him in, or someone of similar talent. I'm really looking forward to having Collocini here, hes been immense every time I've seen him play. We shouldn't pile too much pressure on the guy, as the rest of our defence have to all perform too. I'm hoping he'll raise all of their games and give them confidence too.

I'm pinning most of my hopes on us getting a top quality creative midfielder. If we don't manage to do that then I'll be extremely worried about the new season. I also think we're underestimating our striker situation.......Owen can go for long periods out injured, Viduka has just booked his season ticket at burger king, smith and ameobi don't even count, carrol hasn't exactly done a thing yet...........only oba seems to be the most reliable one to me and he has his off times too. I really think we need a pacey young striker.

Awesomeness!

Hasn't he been a solid CB for the Argentine national team for years now? I know nothing of his club football, I just recall seeing him play internationals and noted how class he was

christ that front line makes me weep

This Gutted well look's like he will need to enact the webster ruling then can we get Jonas to do the webster ruling?

a mate jus told me that a spurs representative is now at the hospital looking to hijack the deal more as i get it

Yep. Does anyone also feel we need a young, pacey striker too or do you think Carrol will fill that striking role for now?

I know how you feelmate! I almost did, but I logged out of FB and refreshed the forum, solved. I've got a feeling Collocini is in the bag......if he is then all I think we'd need would be a creative midfielder (...and hopefully a young and hungry striker too)

Same here, although I'm going to ignore all these websites until its officially announced

ffs

You actually watch Look North? Shame on you. I fancy Carol.