mrmojorisin75

that would be fucking hilarious - i like wenger and arsenal but that would be some sweet payback

They've had plenty of criticism for not talking to the media enough. i know that, but they just talk too much shit for my liking what kind of fucking prep work saw us 0-4 down at home to arsenal like? or maybe it was the analysis that got us 4 goals back? The players bottled it in the first half against Arsenal - no amount of analysis can prepare for that. Look at Real Madrid against Barcelona - do you think Mourinho didn't do everything in his power to analyse and prepare for that match? Sometimes things don't go to plan, but that doesn't mean it isn't encouraging that the management team are taking more thorough steps to try and get results. i was taking the piss man, of course it's good that we're actually preparing in this manner - what i don't like is that we're supposed to see it as new and revolutionary, we should be asking why haven't we been analysing our opponents and ourselves in depth for years

They've had plenty of criticism for not talking to the media enough. i know that, but they just talk too much shit for my liking what kind of fucking prep work saw us 0-4 down at home to arsenal like? or maybe it was the analysis that got us 4 goals back?

i'd prefer it if Pardew, and anyone else at the club just shut the fuck up tbh shut up, win some more games, repair the squad in the summer and then we'll talk - 'til then keep your trap shut boys

Which is why I said it depends on the timescale you use, gosh you really must be blind. Those 5 games should not be used to sessed Hughton's overall 'achievement' as a manager but is a sufficient yardstick to see where our form was going (it's called a trend Dave) and whether our form improved under Pardew. Can you fuck off following me around? Cheers.

He's twenty seven, it'd be an absolute waste of money bringing him in, might as well go for somebody young and cheap. 22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Perotti I'm talking about Carlton Cole. must read past first sentence, must read past first sentence

He's twenty seven, it'd be an absolute waste of money bringing him in, might as well go for somebody young and cheap. 22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Perotti

You don't think the best team in the world might just outplay them at somepoint?

no i know what you mean but i'm approaching it from a realistic perspective given who we have in charge of the club to say: "go out and find me an attacking midfielder" is a very different thing from saying "you have 3.5m go and find me an attacking midfielder" it narrows the search, or it should, it should change the parameters of what you're looking for and where you look for it - this is what the 'more tiotes, less luques' means to me, it's as much about where you go searching as what you're searching for depending on the money available to spend

They don't... Third biggest spenders over the last five year period: http://www.transferleague.co.uk/league-tables/2006-2011.html Nice try though.. read my reply to Wullie even then, within their spending up to say VDV they're usually signing 'potential', where they feel the value of the player will rise modric, hutton, bale, bassong, ekotto, dawson, hudd etc. being examples of when they've paid a decent fee for a player but would expect to get more in future and in most cases they will palacios, VDV, pavly, woodgate, keane being examples of big money where the value is unlikely to increase or decrease significantly when they signed them what i'm saying is they might spend 30m in a window but until the last one just gone (where they tried and failed) they're not spunking it all on one player who is the finished article are they?

mixed bag for spurs as they've obviously got more money than us behind them and definitely do reinvest the overinflated fees they get back into playing staff...they run this lower cost type of thing alongside their increasingly bigger recruitment drive where they've started spending more and more to try and break the CL spots fyi lennon, huddlestone, dawson were all bought for peanuts and they're pretty much regulars...sure i'm always hearing about them picking kids up from all over the place as well, rose springs to mind not that i've seen him play ashley is never gonna spend like spurs, the best we can hope for when he's in charge is what i've described i'm in no way saying this is how i'd run the club if i had 100's millions in my account but it's the best hope we've got under MA

disagree with this myself - spurs are an example of the way to play it: you're right to say that every player can't be a success, of course they can't, but if you buy 5 people well scouted from different leagues for 3m each you're more likely to end up in a better position than blowing 15m on a single player imo we need to be stable for it to be a success, not change the scouting team (as they appear to be doing a decent job at the moment) and give them the remit of scouting up and comers domestically and continentally as soon as they hit the radar and taking the ones we fancy for the lowest fees possible spurs problem now is pushing on as this approach will not take you to the top of the league anymore, well as we don't have to cash to propel ourselves there anywhere (who does?) i say take this and run with it

it was shite

Hardly, this is the first season he's been good enough to be anywhere near a Spain place. erm, eh? he was an u21 international when we bought him, he's played in dogshit teams under a succession of managers (some diabolical), been through a relegation and promotion and this season is the first time he's played in a team for us all pulling in the right direction, and he's flourished had he been in that environment the whole time he'd more than likely be a better player than he is now, imo

gave him his chance in the PL he didn't come from fucking moldova or summik man, if anything over the last 3 years we've held the lad back professionally and in any potential quest for international football

WTF agree he makes mistakes but he makes them in the right areas, recoverable areas where he knows he has the strength/pace to recover and make amends...i'd say exactly the same about the best fullbacks in the league though, Evra, Clichy, Cole (maybe not as much on the mistakes side with him) as for the bit in bold

maybe, aside from the whelan-ashley hate, wigan had enough about them to realise selling one of their best players minutes before the window closed would have pretty much nailed them for relegation and cost more than the sale of the player would rake in not taking the 12m and potentially banking their PL status ftw!

i'm for it

should never have left

priceless

i also wouldn't think he was referring to wages from that quote, comes across to me as referencing transfer fees tbh

granted

@ wullie & buzza not happening boys, minimal investment on players with potential that will either be the next tiote or the next nobody get resigned to it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1357726/Joey-Barton-urges-Newcastle-spend-summer-Jose-Enrique-says-aspires-more.html#ixzz1EARqMQ6t pretty honest then, fair play to him