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Who sold/replaced them? Dave, the standard has been set in this league. Gareth Barry was def. an exception. For the most part when a top four club wants your player, they get him. It's sad but true.

When did Keegan say this? You'd figure Keegan didn't have much of a good look at him. Considering he abandoned ship the day Xisco was signed.

He looks far more of a 30m player than Berbatov so far. too cheap for robinho btw. that money consider berbatov cost. left sided player is very rare indeed. and robinho just a master of it. The only players in the history of football with higher transfer fee than Robinho are Crespo, Figo, and Zidane. I'm sorry, but Robinho is worth nowehere near 30 million pounds. He wasn't even on of the key players at Madrid.

Arnesen has done a poor job at Chelsea actually. Surprising considering he was top class at Spurs. The youth program at Chelsea has really not developed as well as they would have liked. The two biggest transfers really accredited to him are Kalou and Mikel John Obi. These two players have done well at Chelsea, but Kalou was not cheap, and Obi ended up costing them 16 million pounds, so it kind of defeats the point. I think the people crying the "death" of this director of football system are just fools by the way. It didn't work at this club. But let's be honest with ourselves, nothing much has worked here for a while now. This club has been a shambles for several seasons now. We haven't experienced a downturn this year in my opinion. We are just continuing the pattern of terrible teams, that has been set here. Things were actually looking up imo. We got in some nice players. Young ones too, but then in typical fashion everything imploded. This DOF system has nothing to do with the failure of a club that is Newcastle United.

You clearly have a vendetta against Cech. I can understand why though, he is a c***, getting his skull broken and all. But seriously goal was a nasty deflection. Chelsea didn't have anything today though.That front three was a disgrace to Abramovich's wallet tbh. Their midfield is the best in the world week in and week out, but even they were off today. Especially Lampard, he seemed off the pace to me. And they really could have used Ballack or Essien instead of Deco, who is not really meant to play the position he was. Nonsense tbh. Robinho doeds not look like the best player in the history of British football if you ask me.

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Or Keegan ? Would be a terrible appointment.

I assume Tony Adams becomes manager at Portsmouth? I mean I guess they wouldn't want to change much, things are going as well as they have for a long time at Portsmouth.

Keegan did the same until the penny dropped. Nonsense statement Mick. Both managers have selected these players out of necessity. (The highpoint of Keegan's reign, the Spurs match, featured goals from Butt and Geremi infact.) Luckily it seems that the days of Butt and Duff in the starting XI are coming to a swift end. I have no problem with Mr. Njitap.

It would make sense. Harry is fantastic at operating on a budget anyway. Great at finding obscure talent. I am amazed he would leave Portsmouth though. By the way, Sky Sports are carrying some story about Mourinho being in talks with United, that doesn't even make sense. We don't need Mourinho, we've got Kinnear. Should have specified Manchester, yeah? The thought of Jose at Manchester United is giving me nightmares. I need to go get pissed tonight honestly, just so I don't think about that s***.

What the hell are you complaining about? Harry Redknapp may be spastic but he is a good manager.

It would make sense. Harry is fantastic at operating on a budget anyway. Great at finding obscure talent. I am amazed he would leave Portsmouth though. By the way, Sky Sports are carrying some story about Mourinho being in talks with United, that doesn't even make sense.

By the way...what do they er...plan to do now. They have no sporting director, no manager, and have fired their two first team coaches. I mean unless they have something lined up, that seems awfully drastic.

Holy s***. Amazed at the way things have turned at that club. Really bet Ramos rues leaving Sevilla who are a better club anyway. You'd think they'd have let them play tommorrow though. I actually feel bad for Ramos. The real problem is Comolli. Ever since Comolli replaced Arnesen, things have started to go badly for Spurs.

f*** off man. This current Sunderland team would have raped some of sides put out in the last few years of Shepard's reign.

I don't think any of our current strikers will be here next year except maybe Alan Smith. Owen is gone for sure. This is Shola's last stand. I have an inkling that Martins is tired of this and will probaly want to go. Viduka should f*** off and play in the A-League, and Xisco didn't really sign up for all of this.

Why are we slating Kinnear like this after three games in a very tough situation? I think he is decent and should stay until the end of the season. We need stability more than anything else. Fans are so fickle and angry all the time. Probaly the same idiots who thought Keegan was useless last year after a string of useless results. Once we get this new owner, we will have had 3 different owners and 4 different managers in about 2 and a quarter seasons. That is insane. You think the fans would at least give people a chance ffs.

You think our strike force is week this year? Really? You must have missed Roeder's season at the helm, when we were regulatly starting Sibierski and Dyer next to Martins (Who was thrown into the deep end in an incredible way). Sorry but while on paper the quality looked poor, think you'll find they did a job, these boys simply aren't. Our last 5 goals, 1 striker 1 midfielder 1 defender scoring, thats piss poor, Martins needs to pull his finger out, watching them today it seemed like they were more concerned about getting away in time for his birthday. I'm sorry but I think you are wrong on that front mate. In the league that year we only had two players score five or more goals Oba (11) and Dyer (5). I think that squad is easily the worst of this decade. Besides Dyer, there is not one play gone from that side that we miss. At this point in that season Martins had scored once, and a crippled Ameobi (As opposed to the somewhat fit looking one now) was our main goal scorer.

I have to agree. I thought Oba did very well in the matches he had been able to play this season, but his performance today was the worst I have seen from him since his first two or three here, when he was the only striker we had. Really awful. Ameobi was alright. But even if both of them had played well, we still wouldn't have scored from open play (unless Oba or Ameobi did something sublime) because our midfield just provided nothing, at all. There really weren't any good passing movements from the center and our wide men provided very little. I thought Butt and Guthrie also did a terrible job moving the ball forward from defence. I always felt like we were right back under pressue after our midfielders received the ball. This is why we need Barton starting every match.

You think our strike force is week this year? Really? You must have missed Roeder's season at the helm, when we were regulatly starting Sibierski and Dyer next to Martins (Who was thrown into the deep end in an incredible way).

I wouldn't be surprised if Barcelona finish third or fourth this year again. Like a better version of Arsenal, they just seem too shaky for me.

it's a bit like international football then, this DOF system. the coach isnt in charge of what players he has at his disposal so can't tailor a plan and go and get people specifically for it. instead, he has to make do with what he is given, no matter how unbalanced or incomplete, in the same way england had to make do without a left winger for over a decade. No not really. Not at all.

Injured IIRC The club never mention him, he might as well not exist. Another inspired signing. Sign unknown foreigners, forcing out the current manager in the process, then bring in an old school English manager who is never going to pick them anyway? Genius. What the f*** does this have to do with the player being injured? It's amazing how people like you can insert opinions about the board in threads that have nothing to with it.

Should be more pissed off that his star player went missing for the majority of the game. Wish some of our star players would go missing like Robinho did on Monday. Got his side the penalty and made the assist. Read it again. Oh well fair enough yeah, he drifted out of the game when we were on top, but he was still productive.

Should be more pissed off that his star player went missing for the majority of the game. Wish some of our star players would go missing like Robinho did on Monday. Got his side the penalty and made the assist.