fredbob

I dont buy into this Oba and Owen cant play together, i think that thees a decent chance that they could. From what i have seen of OBa he naturally likes to pick p the ball deep, under Roeder there was no chance of himbein allowed to go deep, as far as roeder was concerend he needed to play right on the back of the last defender. Thats not oba at all, however it is Owen. I knida see Oba as a very poor mans Rooney, which isn;t exactly disprectful. Rooney and Owen play well together. However, i cant see SA employing a 442 which kinda undermines this entire argument

dunno

Berbatov anyone??

Robbie fowler is precisely what we dont need, what would he bring to the strikeforce, i think we need more of a holding attacker, one whos gonna bring more people in the game. This reason alone, i dont think we need anyone other tan that. To be honest i can see kevin davies comin here, maybe even James Beattie, not that i would want either of emhere, but thats the kind of striker SA will want in his side.

Not good enough at leeds, not good enough for man city, not good enough for liverpool in the end, good enough for nufc?? Well we do now have jesus as a manager so why not??

his disappearing act when we're against big clubs or losing? the lack of actual end product? Never/very rarely used properly in his time here. Could be so good for us and i really hope Sam gets the best out of him. let me guess, you used to watch a lot of Italian league and Turkish internaitonal football, so you know just how fantastic he is. :lol: Erm, no mate. I've watched Emre the Newcastle United player for the past two seasons, and have managed to pick up that he is far better for us, and on the whole far more effective, when played in an advanced position - somewhere where he simply hasn't played enough. Rather than deep central mid or out on the left. Hope that answers your query. so you've seen him go missing agianst the big clubs, and when we were losing. And thats whose fault exactly? To say he 'goes missing' isn't really a very good observation, if he isn't in the game already. Which he very rarely was when Roeder played him - largely down to how he was utilised and the tactics used. Emre needs to be in a flowing, attacking, passing team, with him being in an advanced position penetrating the defense - not deep in a long, defensive team. so, surprisingly, its not his fault. he shouldn't have any responsibility to get into the game, or anything else. and th away games that he's never even seemed arsed? oh, and if you accept he has not been involved, to the point of it not being his fault he has not turned up against the big teams, how can you claim to have seen enough since he's been with us to know what a great player he is?? Answer me this, of all those game you saw us play against the big teams, was there a single attacking minded player who actually did shine out to you? Cos if it was the defenie minded players that seemed to have the better perfomrance, wouldn't that of been a relection of the game, i.e constantly defendng. Surely that isn't what emr is good at??

you build on strength, not medicority/weaknesses/potential. So why would you not want them in your squad?? Which one of those 3 players that i have mentioned is mediocre? parker. You think parker is mediocre?? Now, i agree that he isn't the best of players, and has hada poor season, but to call him mediocre seems a tad OTT, its clear hes a good player, how he fits into te first team am sure would have a lot of bearing on his performances. The only type of players i would want to see leave would be the bad ones, the ones causing all the discontent, the ones who aren;t commited and the ones who aren't actually good players. But parkers is a good solid player to have. in your opinion. from what i've seen, we could do without him. Well, then who exactly would you want outside the first 11, i think your missing the point. Parker = great squad player, Parker= 'good' first team player. Second one is down to opinion. To be honest, if i knew that my 1st team had the frst team talents to force Parker to the Bench or less, then that would be a measure of improvement to a squad. To say you rate him that poorly, that you would rather we get rid than accumalte, despite being aware of what he is capable of seems...well odd.

his disappearing act when we're against big clubs or losing? the lack of actual end product? Never/very rarely used properly in his time here. Could be so good for us and i really hope Sam gets the best out of him. let me guess, you used to watch a lot of Italian league and Turkish internaitonal football, so you know just how fantastic he is. :lol: Erm, no mate. I've watched Emre the Newcastle United player for the past two seasons, and have managed to pick up that he is far better for us, and on the whole far more effective, when played in an advanced position - somewhere where he simply hasn't played enough. Rather than deep central mid or out on the left. Hope that answers your query. so you've seen him go missing agianst the big clubs, and when we were losing. And thats whose fault exactly? To say he 'goes missing' isn't really a very good observation, if he isn't in the game already. Which he very rarely was when Roeder played him - largely down to how he was utilised and the tactics used. Emre needs to be in a flowing, attacking, passing team, with him being in an advanced position penetrating the defense - not deep in a long, defensive team. Agreed, emre needs to play in the oppositions half, hes the type of player who dinks through balls from 20 yards out etc. He needs to be playing in a team that can be relenltess when applying pressure on a oppositiontemas defence.

you build on strength, not medicority/weaknesses/potential. So why would you not want them in your squad?? Which one of those 3 players that i have mentioned is mediocre? parker. You think parker is mediocre?? Now, i agree that he isn't the best of players, and has hada poor season, but to call him mediocre seems a tad OTT, its clear hes a good player, how he fits into te first team am sure would have a lot of bearing on his performances. The only type of players i would want to see leave would be the bad ones, the ones causing all the discontent, the ones who aren;t commited and the ones who aren't actually good players. But parkers is a good solid player to have.

you build on strength, not medicority/weaknesses/potential. So why would you not want them in your squad?? Which one of those 3 players that i have mentioned is mediocre?

errr......why would anyone want Joey Barton here? The boy is a thug and is precisely what nufc dont need, if anyone is idiotic enough to write off any ofhis past mis demeanours on the basis that he' a good player, then they need slappin. It ridiculous, the boy clearly has no respect for anyone..his team mates, his manager, even players who are a class above him(although it was a fair point) it was extremely unproffessional. Why would anyone wqant nufc name dragged through the mud AGAIN with some idiotic thuggish behaviour that Barton would undoubtably bring? Isn't this exactly what nufc are tryig to avoid.??

Why are there so many Emre bashers about? In fact why are there people so willing to see the back of so many players, i.e Parker, Emre, Martins etc. Has anyone heard of squad building??

exactly Yeh, cos there are no racist connotations with calling a white person a monkey, whereas calling a black person amonkey does have racist connotations. Although, the context which NM used it in sows that there were no racist implications with what he said, i think he was just tryin to imply that Bramble was a primitive unskilled footballer.

How old is Krul? 19? 20?, surely there wont be many teams who would be willing to take a 19/20 year old keeper and give im a first team birth for a regular basis. As for all the harper bashers out there....is there a second keeper at a premiership club which has "ambition"??

anyone else got a bad feeling that titus is gonna come good next season?? Put him next to campbell and i honestly tink we'll be seeinig a new bramble. Campbells not gonna let him rest on his laurels for 2 seconds.

you a milkman or something?? i thought they were banned in the 90's???!!

What both Bramble and Taylor needed was a dominant very vocal defender, to be honest, my prediction is that if Bramble goes to pompey and Cmpbell stays there, then the bramble we all thought we would see will turn up to play. I cant imaigine Campbell letting bramble rest on his laurel for 2 seconds, a commodity that was in fruitfuls during 90minutes in an nufc game. The same can be said for Taylor, he possess alot of good qualitys, pace, anticiaption, bravery, strenght etc. When bramble played with woody, he was a good defender, becaue woody was the type of centre half partner who was 100% focussed on the game and would make sure hs partner was as well.

Aye, cause that's the only time he's been s**** And no, I'm not going to give you any examples of any other games, because I can't remember. To b fair, i think he gets a real rough shout, i honestly cant think of a time where he's made an absolute bramble-esque clanger.(Am sure he has) He seems like a solid consistently good (not great) defender. I'd go as far as sayin that he'd be nufc best defendr if he were here, not that that would be hard.

Heinze?! Are you serious? He's as bad as Bramble!! errr......you sure abou that?? Heinze has always been very good everytime ive seen him. What actually has he done wrong to get such a bad rep?? not the first time av heard him being referred to as "crap"

There are only 2 real problems with Viduka, 1 is his age which isnt a major one, he will still be class for a couple of years. His second is that on occasions he's lazy. Anyone who doubts this guys ability is nuts. His techniques is second to none. Perfect addition to the nufc squad. The link up play between th strikers and the midfiled hasn't beengood enough al season. Viduka would do the job nicely.

Paul Merton?

Cause they're s*** and are playing over their heads? On the other hand, I couldn't have told you much about Reading before this season. As s*** as the are, they'll stay up. Their home record will be canny next season. Fulham, Wigan and the play-off winners will go down. (Seems harsh to write them off before the season has started but can't see WBA or Derby staying up) As much as i hate saying this, but i have a sneaky feeling that scumderland will do well next year, i think that keane has them as a very well drilled organised side, i know they dont seem to have any big stars, but i think they more than make up for it in there organisation, add to the fact that there will be uprecedented transfers money for them this season, i think they have the structure to prosper. I know its "big test" time for Keane, but i think he will prosper in the EPL as well, he has that raw determination and never say die attitude which you only see in the better bosses, he seems to have moulded a team that would walk off a cliff for him similar to what Mourihno has/had at Chelsea.

So it wasnt Freddy Shepherd in his car moaning at Owen's agents trying to engineer a move, it was the papers! lol, idiotic remark!

"Players need to start honouring their contracts, especially players who have been backed by the club through difficult times." Max Cady Yeh mate, i'd agree with that, except he kind of would be honouring his contract if it(the contract) said that he can leave for £9m if we dont qulaify for europe, it was a condition of his contract. It's in his best interest not to say anything, because if the clause gets triggered is he supposed to turn down the prospect of CL football, Trophy aspirations etc...."becase nufc stuck by him" Its dog eat dog.....get wth reality.

Johnny2J, your avator is fucking quality, that 7 seconds clip shows more passion than any player has shown in a balck and white shirt all season.