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Chelsea have gotten used to playing without Essien, tbh. They've gotten even more used to him being rather poor. The two other black midfielders will play more and Modric will fill the gap. Tiote will stay in Newcastle.

It should definitely be limited to English players. If you include foreign players than it holds no meaning in any way whatsoever? No one will take pride in Arsenal, Chelsea, and Tottenham producing better players than the "North". edit: Are Manchester even North? It seems pretty central to me. I don't know the cultural connotations.

The US immigration are complete bastards. Nothing about the depravity of their actions surprises me.

Was that a serious post?

It is always going to be difficult to get players from other clubs that do not have any intention of selling the player. We can either keep fighting for the player or move on, but do not act as though this is a simple transfer. His club have some sort of bizarre attachment to him. Nottingham didn't want to sell us Perch, either, but they acted sensibly and we got the player.

Cannot even understand the logic of Man City rejecting bids for players they are wanting to sell. They already have unlimited funds. Is it just a matter of principle in getting full value?

It alwas annoys me the way teams treat it. Montpellier used its reserves last time, ffs., What are the odds of them even making it again?

Yeah, not only did we have all of those rambunctious children in defence, Oba was our only legitimate striker for most of the season. IT was him Sibierski and Dyer for the most part. The corpses of Ameobi and Owen lay strikcen. Given was injured for a long period of the season, I think by Harewood, and our midfield was Parker spinning around with no one to pass to. It was so desperae that we bought in Bernard and Srnicek with the actual possibility of them staying. Outside of the Spurs game, my best memoryis Babayaro suddenly appearing and us beating Liverpool on a water logged pitch. Awful season, game by game actually worse than 08-09, imo.

Femi was very good at SJP, but he should have buried that 1 v. 1 against them. 5-2 and the tie is over. Huntington being rubbish shouldn't have mattered. Also, the handball against Taylor was complete nonsense. In recent years, that tie has angered me more than any other match, and in my opinion started that direct death spiral that lead to our relegation.

Hatem is this. We're not actually going to be able to carry a traditional #10 type player. Someone with Ben Arfa's pace and dribbling skills can that role fantastically.

I don't mind signing those types of players if it means we're top 10 come end of the season. That would mean we're in a great position, my worry is that it will all backfire and we will have to panicbuy in January when we got all our signings along with HBA and Gosling injured for another 5 months. As it stands we're going to be relying almost entirely on Ben Arfa as our creative outlet next season. Given that he's coming back from a massive injury and was known as a very inconsistent performer even before that, it's not acceptable at all IMO. Vastly untrue, imo. The team will already be much more creative than last season. Cabaye, Marveaux, and Ben Arfa are all rather creative, skillful players who didn't feature for us last season. A greater concern is the lack of a proven, clinical, non-injury plagued striker to replace the goals of Carroll and Nolan.

I do not understand how you can have so much vitriol for a 20 year old reserve striker.

Omitting substitute appearances for a substitute stirker is a far worse distortion of statistics.

What is a "proper midfielder"?

The top scorer in Ligue 1 isn't ready for English football? Yet Erding is?

If I was Sunderland, I would definitely play 4-3-3. Their personnel is suited for it. Cattermole Larsson Gardner Sessegnon and another behind Gyan. Still a lot of goals in that team.

What the hell has happened to Frazier Campbell?Surely an ambitious, successful, and well-regarded club like Sunderland will not start an unproven teenage striker every week?

I'd definitely take the Moroccan. He's a very good player, but not what Arsenal needed at all. The Moroccan has more quality than Bendtner.

He really needs to concentrate on his football. http://pageslap.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/photobombing.jpg 1,7,5,3,4,2,8,6,Nile Ranger. As long as he isn't drinking, smoking, or eating copious amounts of fat in his photos, they won't really trouble me.

N'Zogbia isn't English, though?

Ligue 1 has proven one of the most difficult leagues to score in over the past few years. It is not really an easy place to rack goals, like Holland. Not saying he'll be anything like these...but his record in France is better than Gyan's, Odemwingie's, Adebayor's etc.. who have all shone in the Premier League. Not always as simple as that as a barometer for how a player will do. Tbf, Gyan has produced the same output, Osaze played there four years ago (he's changed a lot since then), and Sheyi came over as a youngster.

Cissokho is generally talented, but he was rubbish last season. Extremely overrated player, who has never fully lived up to the potential shown at Porto. It would be a coup to get him here, but I would prefer Enrique, tbh.

Better than 3. Has youth and height at least. 3 looks like the worn down wife of a disgraced mafia leader. Neither are great, though.

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Tackles are not the sign of a good defender. Most of the world's top defenders and defensive midfielders rarely leave their feet to actually make a tackle. Even someone like Colo isn't flying around tackling people all match.