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They are paid far too much and are the main reason so many clubs are in debt. I understand that some foolish clubs have overextended themselves and raised the market, but regardless of this I actually think their pay is justified considering that they are the backbone one of the few universal Worldwide entertainments.

20 good matches in the Championship earns you 60,000 pounds per week? He's done nothing in the past two seasons to warrant any sort of payrise, never mind a 50% increase.

Ben Arfa is a quality footballer. I don't think anyone can deny this. That's not all that matters, though. Denilson was a quality footballer as well.

Footballers are paid too little if anything. It's probaly the world's biggest entertainment industry. God forbid the ones who are actually producing the product are compensatd well. This is probaly for another thread, though.

Good riddance. He's a decent player, and it is good for any club to have a few local boys in the first team, but he has done nothing to warrant such a wage increase. In fact, I do not see what he had done at the end of 2008 that warranted 40,000 a week. Since then he's been the third choice centreback on a relegated side and played half of a decent season in the Championship, where he was once more oushone by two other centrebacks.

Christ. It's just disgusting. The boy is a half-Russian born and raised in the country as well. Makes you wonder why he chose not to don their colours.

Entertaining game though! Weird to see Palop letting them down, though, he's usually great. Sevilla were just atrocious in the first leg. It's a shame this tie comes before the Spanish season has kicked off, because theydidn't look anywhere near ready or sharp.

Bremen-Sampdoria is brilliant. I think Samp will win on penalties.

Credit to him. He's improved himself, and made himself into a Premiership player, which I certainly didn't see occuring at this rapid a pace. I think we should sit and look on his performance this season instead of lavishin him with praise already, though. You never want a young player to get too high or too low.

Spurs put themselves in the CL by beating their more succesful rivals and the eventual champions in consecutive matches in April, and by going away to the club closest to them in the biggest match of the season and getting a hard earned victory. Full credit to them. They've progressed into a very serious team without the aid of a multi-billionaire. We should be emulating them. Maybe we ought to focus on our own failures before mocking the success of others.

Ankarngadünkatünk only took him on a 6 month contract then, clever . Pretty sure he was awful, so they didn't require a transfer fee to get rid of his wages. His contract was not expired.

Vassell was a failure as well. Between the culture shock and the stragely excessive expectations, I am not surprised by Vassell. Geremi is just finished, though. He should go play in MLS or something similar. Gourcuff seems to have moved from Bordeaux to Lyon. Stunned that no foreign clubs were in for him. Fantastic player.

We wouln't want to be shipping any central midfield players out anyway. The injury record for all of the players we have in that position is just stunningly awful.

He's not very good at all. Not terrible, just average. It's actually a shame he's spent all this time stagnating in Italy while being contracted to Inter, imo. Good enough for West Ham, anyway. He'll do something good every few matches, and fits well in England, imo.

He'd get one even if he had no caps, no-one get refused them now, you just have to prove someone else in who is a UK citizen couldn't do the same job in the same circumstances. I'm not sure of this. Last year Victor Nsofor Obinna was rejected for a work permit despite being a young player who was in and around the Nigerian squad for a few years and contracted to Inter Milan.

They have brought in Obinna. He's a completely different type of player, obviously, but I suppose he could be seen as a free replacement.

Brilliant humour here. Anyway, I don't see any reason Tiote wouldn't get a work permit. He plays for a highly ranked nation and has been a big fure in the team over the past year. Should get in easily.

Smith would fit in perfectly at Everton. Headless chicken who will run around fouling people all day.

Disagree with that Baba, Villa's performance may have flattered us but Barton and Carroll in particular put in performances that do them credit, show their potential and in Barton's case remind us of how well he can play. I thought both Barton and Smith were fantastic today and half the reason Villa didnt get a sniff, we wanted it more. The MOTD analysis showed a few examples of over-running them, then (and here is the good bit) actually one-touch passing and moving through Villa's midfield. I agree the scoreline was an anomaly but not the result. This is fair enough, but what I am saying is that none of these players will consistently perform at this level. Carrol CAN be very good on his day, as can Barton, Smith, and Nolan, but overall they are all average players and this will show itself over the course of 38 matches. However, we do have ability. People are underrating this squad because the one that went down was much more talented. However, that team was decimated by injuries, infighting, chaos, lack of leadership, and a collecive quitters mentality. If we can show this same kind of fight all year, I think we will be comfortable.

This game was an anamoly. A statistical outlier. We are no as bad as the media as the media would have you think, but if you simulate the result of this match 100 times, NUFC will win 6-0 less than one time. I'm happy with the three points and the ability to bounce back from a sound defeat, but let us calm down and look forward instead of celebrating small glories. Carroll, Barton, and Nolan are not as good as their performances today indicated, but there are some things we can take from this. Andy Carrol CAN successfully lead the line by himself in the Premiership. Kevin Nolan's skillset WILL translate to the Premiership. Joey Barton HAS the ability to still be a very effective player in this division.

Time for a little bio. Zinaldo has posed as a Real Madrid fan elsewhere (going on about Ribery in much the same manner as here) so I dunno why he keeps referring to NUFC as 'we'. Listed Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal as teams he supports too, not quite sure how that works. He also enjoys filth involving Lex Steele banging white lasses, the kinky b******. I am genuinely wary of Dave's panoptic abilities at this point.

1-0 Arsenal. Walcott. Nice goal. I remember when we were linked with Arshavin He laid a nice pass. Rosicky looks back from the grave.

Maloney would be a decent option if we fail to get Ben Arfa. Well, not really, but he is a professional footballer, so I'd have him here.

He's a good goal scorer, but he does nothing else. He also blows hot and cold and tends to not work hard/be selfish. Good player, not good enough for where Spurs want to go.

Think the bottom 12 clubs in the Premiership would stap Spurs' hand off for Hutton and Jenas. Both are good players, but not of a quality for a team challenging for the CL. Yeh we was linked with him. Harry went to the France game last week to have a look at him but i don't think we was ever serious tbh. Do you rate Remy? As for Fabiano, 18m for 1 29 year old is obviously a no go but i think they still owe us cash on the zokora deal so maybe something might come of it (prefer Forlan though). I think Remy is a very good player, though I'm eager to see if h can cut it at a biger club like OM. He's been class for Nice. Quick, strong player with a nice bit of technical ability as well. I'd love it if we can pair him with Gignac. Forlan would be an amazing signing for you, but I think him and Suarez will have highly inflated World Cup fees.