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Having spent £5m on Xisco. The whole situation beggars belief. I agree on this by the way. We have spent this on a younger more promising player who can definitely take Shola's place on the bench if he is not up to first team. Now that makes no sense. Shola should really go to his real level and play for Wikki Tourists or something like that.

That's nonsense. Complete nonsense. Your blaming the recruitment team for the manager offering a contract to player that is already at the club and has been there since before they arrived?? I think he's blaming the recruitment team for being incapable of pushing Nicky Butt out of the first team with younger, better players. If we had better alternatives then we wouldn't need to offer him a contract. We have no depth at all, or real quality if we're honest, in the centre of the park. Indeed. It needed doing in the summer gone, everyone knew that, now it looks unlikely that we'll do it this summer either. He might be useful in the Championship I suppose. I just think that is an incredible assumption to make. If Butt's starting next season, then yeah, I will not be happy at all, but I have no problem with him being in the squad. I feel like he is a decent safe option, and considering his age, I feel he would accept being a squad player. (Though I do greatly prefer Geremi to him. Don't know why Geremi is always the forgotten man) I was assuming we'd be getting in a central midfielder anyway. Just judging from club statements and rumours, links, etc. We seem to be focused on central midfield and left back.

That's nonsense. Complete nonsense. Your blaming the recruitment team for the manager offering a contract to player that is already at the club and has been there since before they arrived??

After reading your first paragraph questioning Owen, I can't believe you've got the nerve to say that about Chelsea fans at the end. Typical of some of our supporters. Ridiculous why I can't question why the player who's supposed to be the team's top scorer only has fifteen shots? To me that shows the ability to create his own chance is lacking. I know this is an issue with the midfield, etc. as well, but the thread is about Owen. To me this is definitely an issue we need to address. Anelka on the other hand has done everything that could be asked of him, yet is criticised for not..er...not being Didier Drogba I guess. Uhm...just a minor point-of-order here. Owen IS the team's top scorer. In the league and overall. No "supposed to be" about it. Not this season, nor last. He may take about one-third of the number of shots that a striker like Martins does, but he scores more goals. Would love that sort of efficiency at my club, tbh. I think Owen has done everything that could reasonably be asked of him -- aside from his fitness, which I don't think was his fault as those problems were primarily two big injuries he couldn't do much of anything to prevent. When asked, the "poacher" switched to a 4-3-3, with himself the deepest-lying striker. When asked, he played in the midfield. When asked, he man-marked an opposing team's play-maker. His work-rate is among the highest on the team, iirc -- he apparently runs quite a lot, though it's hard to see if you're stuck watching on telly/the internet as I am these days . He scores vital goals (I still think his goal v. Birmingham may have been the most important one of last season, though it was only worth one point). Who cares if he's making his own chances, so long as he's still scoring more than the players who ARE (supposedly) doing that? I agree with Edd. Ok then yeah he is our top scorer and he is also supposed to be our top scorer. Credit to him. He's doing his job well enough. So are Oba and Shola really (neither of them that far off of Owen goal scoring wise anyway) Those three have performed pretty well this season in my opinion anyway. But no, I will not ignore the fact that there are some players in the league with nearly as many goals as Owen has shots. Just like our other strikers need to work on the other areas of their game, Owen needs to work harder to get more attempts off and to be involved in the game. I don't think he is free from criticism because of his pedigree.

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Clueless. In what way? Because I disagree that we should sign 29 year old players who have horrible fitness records and have been horrendous signings for their last two clubs? F***...I wonder if Blackburn fans are lobbying to get Damien Duff back? Time to move on. Actually West Ham fans love him. Rotated around like an arse at Liverpool didnt help. I sure they love him after the 4 or so goals he's scored for them. Carlton (How the f*** am I still in the Premier League) Cole has been more productive for them. Bellamy not a terrible player...it's just that all signs point to avoiding him. Stop now ok. Just stop. You don't know what your on about. Carlton Cole has scored 8 goals for them. Bellamy has scored 4. (Though, looking at it now, Cole has had one more season) I'm not saying Cole is better. He isn't. I'm just throwing out some statistics here.

Clueless. Aye, he's actually scored 16 goals in the last two and a half seasons. I counted 11. Unless you're including Wales.

Clueless. In what way? Because I disagree that we should sign 29 year old players who have horrible fitness records and have been horrendous signings for their last two clubs? F***...I wonder if Blackburn fans are lobbying to get Damien Duff back? Time to move on. Actually West Ham fans love him. Rotated around like an arse at Liverpool didnt help. I sure they love him after the 4 or so goals he's scored for them. Carlton (How the f*** am I still in the Premier League) Cole has been more productive for them. Bellamy not a terrible player...it's just that all signs point to avoiding him.

Clueless. In what way? Because I disagree that we should sign 29 year old players who have horrible fitness records and have been horrendous signings for their last two clubs? F***...I wonder if Blackburn fans are lobbying to get Damien Duff back? Time to move on.

No...the guy can't have scored more than 10 goals in the last two and a half seasons. We need to look for players that might actually play and produce in the year 2008, and not the year 2003.

After reading your first paragraph questioning Owen, I can't believe you've got the nerve to say that about Chelsea fans at the end. Typical of some of our supporters. Ridiculous why I can't question why the player who's supposed to be the team's top scorer only has fifteen shots? To me that shows the ability to create his own chance is lacking. I know this is an issue with the midfield, etc. as well, but the thread is about Owen. To me this is definitely an issue we need to address. Anelka on the other hand has done everything that could be asked of him, yet is criticised for not..er...not being Didier Drogba I guess.

He's hardly failed to settle. Played in Serie A for two years before moving to a bigger club for a nice fee.

1st place teams: Manchester United, Barcelona, Roma, Panathinaikos, Juventus, Porto, Bayern Munich, Liverpool 2nd place teams: Chelsea, Inter Milan, Sporting, Atletico Madrid, Lyon, Arsenal, Villareal, Real Madrid Got to be some great ties in the second round.

Apparently Aalborg wouldn't give that much as they are replacing him after this match.

second place teams will consist of: Chelsea, Inter Milan, Sporting, Atletico Madrid, Lyon, Arsenal, Villareal, Real Madrid. Not an easy draw available.

Why does he only have fifteen shots though? He's featured in twelve games. He's started eight times as well. That's not even two shots per start let alone appearance. Anyway, I guess it's good he's putting away chances, but this does seem to support the theory of him needing it on a platter for him to shoot, let alone score. Very crucial for us anyway. *Anelka has been ridiculous this season. Chelsea fans are always on his back, but the stats shows show he's been getting chances and taking them. Those spoiled fans should really learn to be grateful.

Everton can be horrendous to watch at times. I think I should like them because they have players I like (Arteta, Pienaar, Osman) and three Nigeria internationals (would have had another if not for work permit nonsense too), but your style of play is incredibly bad sometimes.

Gretna mark 2 I only hope you aren;t hoping to influence the deluded Ashley fans that this is the way forward for NUFC Of course. Signing fantastic young, enthusiastic talent is definitely not the way forward for this club. Anyone who thinks this would work is a f**** crazy Ashley supporter.

Doing transfers at Madrid is like playing FM with unlimited cash....."Oh no...Ruud's injured.....let's go buy Huntelaar!" Frankly, they are just as good as Barca, so the manager is the difference.

Rmoas was sensational in the Spanish league though, I think that's most important. Capello could crash and burn with England and go back to a top job in Italy.Same kind of situation in my opinion.

modric was very good today. Dictated the game and should have got a couple himself (jenas on the other hand was less impressive but he improved second half). Aaron lennon hasent had a bad game for us this season (except maybe against everton). West ham are a ridiculously bad team and will be relegated if they dont sign a good striker in january. My missus is a spurs fan so have seen a fair amount of you this year, and Lennon has been near enough the best player in every game I've seen. Why the f*** did Harry start him out of position to accommodate that tosser Bentley? Only watched the first half tonight, seemed fairly even from what I saw, but Spurs much more dangerous going forward. God knows. Think Redknapp is thinking that Lennon could still do a good job lm whilst Bentley would be non existant in that position. Bentley has been a poor signing so far and his set pieces are a joke. Still think he's a good player but he needs to get his act together asap. How long is Dos Santos out for? I recall him being one of the few bright spots during your horrendous start. Our you all still looking to replace Gomes?

Portsmouth are a very much differnt side then the last two seasons. They are more open now I think. The last two years they've been a team who were very compact and featured either (Drogba type player) or Kanu (Master of holding the ball up) upfront alone. Now they start two up front every match (Crouch and Defoe) along with losing Muntari/Mendes in the middle. They've lost some of their solidarity along with becoming a team with more attacking options. Honestly I don't see why we can't win this match. I refuse to be scared of a team that will start a 19 year old left back and Glen Little on either wing. Seriously, their main creative force has been f***** Glen Johnson. Sol Campbell turns slower than the goddamn planet Earth. I refuse to fall into this ridiculous self-fulfilling prophecy that we wil lose to them. So, Howay the Lads!, Forza Bianconeri!, Allez Allez!, Oba et Owen droit au but!! For this Sabbath day shall be a ghastly one for the citizens of Pompey!!! TO HELL WITH PESSIMISM!!!! 3-1 NEWCASTLE UNITED.

Brilliant saves by Gomes before the goal. I find it amazing that both Diego Tristan and Robbie Fowler are in the Premiership in 2008.

Jenas is a decent player in my book. I don't like him, but he is a good player.

You must be watching a different game mate. I'm talking in general. This season he really has looked a class player for Spurs. Been very influential during their best spells.