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Malouda is pretty ordinary. That being said, he'd do well in our squad no doubt, he just looks shit playing for in a squad like Chelsea's.

You can tell by the background colors - dead giveaway. In photoshop you can just change the hue of the entire image which is what they did until they got red instead of blue. The background of the boro image is all green instead of what it should be like in the Chelsea picture.

Really looking forward to seeing that, I hope it happens.

The recruitement process won't change just cos Wise has gone, the infrastructure and scouting network has now being set up. The recruitement will not be an issue compared to relegation, if we go down we won't have the PL reserve league to play in and will have to try and develop our young players against the likes of Barnsley, Hartlepool reserve side, whereas our kids play against similar aged players currently, god knows what kind of reserve players are in the championship and league 1 & 2 teams! If we go down, our reserve squad will be our first team squad no doubt.

Enrique's english is much better than it was only a few months ago.

Ashley will offer him the job and Shearer will turn it down. That's hardly Ashley's fault.

I agree with you. He's making all of the right noises to leave after eight matches. I really don't think he fancies it but understands what it means to the club in these eight matches. If I were a betting man I'd put money down on him leaving at the end of the season.

Shearer will use Xisco, mark my words. He rated him highly before he took the job and will do so now that he sees Xisco on a day to day basis. I feel like Xisco is made in quite the same mold as Shearer (with more ....you know), he works in quite the same way that Shearer does on the pitch. He holds the ball(s) (heyo!) up well and distributes well too.

There is a picture taken right before this one with his arm around Jonas and they are obviously joking with each other. I reckon he has just pushed Jonas in this picture.

Bring back Mort!

That's what SAF does. I read somewhere that SAF is rarely even at training sessions.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i285/cubaricho/85767031.jpg That's how I picture most of the training sessions will go.

I agree with everything in this. I think Wise got the shit end of the stick from the KK fallout (when none of us never will know what actually happened) and never recovered.

Two things about the US: 1) Bradley is a great player and I always thought he was. 2) Ching is seriously the best we have to offer up front?

Wish Newcastle had signed him instead of Xisco. Nothing against Xisco, as I don't think anyone here can judge him, ,but for about the same price, Altidore would have been awesome. Jozy + Nile = Champions League 2015 Jozy just makes sense for the EPL, possibly the first forward from the US that ever has. He's got the size, physicality, skill and speed to potentially succeed in this league. And he's still only 19. I think there's a very good chance he's here in a few years somewhere. With him and Torres, the younger Americans for the first time seem much much more like they could be world-class players than any in US history as far as I remember. I'll be very interested to see how the team does in 2010, it has a very solid mix of veterans like Landon Donovan, Tim Howard, Carlos Bocanegra and Frankie Hejduk, and youngsters like Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey, Torres and Jozy. Clearly the class of CONCACAF, not that that means much, especially with the general terribleness of Mexico. So it's time to see what this team can do against the top teams of the world. Would love for Altidore to have a good WC but unfortunately I doubt he will. He will be out classes by the world class players he will be up against - although mind, he is the most world class player to come out of the US.

Yeah but Shearer doesn't have to fix Owen, he has to fix the shit wingers we have.

And it's not on the telly! fuck! It is in the US.

Cor blimey...he was a clogger...remember him...dirty bastard.He played in a Birmingham defence that had Coton in goal and Mark Dennis at left back...fucking animals.That's without Kevin Dillon and Robert Hopkins in front of them. I dont remember him as a player, too young but, he was such a nice man, wouldnt think he was like that Seriously,having him teach youngsters football is like putting King Herod in charge of a creche. It was english he taught, he was a resident supply teacher. p.s. Who's King Herold? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great May be mistaken though. and a creche is a Nativity scene if I am not mistaken.

After I said "holy shit" that was my next thought. It never ends with us.

Yeah, everyone found out that the "Wise System" isn't actually that bad and he's done a great job with the youth/reserve squads and little to nothing with the senior squad. About as close as he got to the senior squad was Bassong whom they probably thought was going to be in the reserves (until he turned out to be massive). Probably the same with Xisco who has spent more time around the reserves than the senior squad to be fair. any proof of this ? Any proof of anything? Other than Keegan being a big baby and walking away leaving a s*** storm in his wake where all the blame went straight to Wise and "the system"? We'll never know what goes on behind the closed doors. we'll never know if keegan was a big baby or justified. pissed off abouth that really. Unfortunately it's part of football. And to be clear, I was just stating the opinion to muster some debate. Maybe things weren't nearly as bad as people have made them out to be? It will be hard for a lot of people to fathom considering the amount of energy I've seen spent, on this board and others, making Wise et al out to be the bad guys when maybe they weren't nearly as bad as they have been made out to be. Who knows.

Yeah, everyone found out that the "Wise System" isn't actually that bad and he's done a great job with the youth/reserve squads and little to nothing with the senior squad. About as close as he got to the senior squad was Bassong whom they probably thought was going to be in the reserves (until he turned out to be massive). Probably the same with Xisco who has spent more time around the reserves than the senior squad to be fair. any proof of this ? Any proof of anything? Other than Keegan being a big baby and walking away leaving a shit storm in his wake where all the blame went straight to Wise and "the system"? We'll never know what goes on behind the closed doors.

No way in the world would he get rid of Ameobi, they get on really well don't they? Wasn't Ameobi meant to be his little protege or something?

touche.

Would love to see them as a front pairing. I think they would compliment each other brilliantly with a bit of influence from Shearer.

Yeah, everyone found out that the "Wise System" isn't actually that bad and he's done a great job with the youth/reserve squads and little to nothing with the senior squad. About as close as he got to the senior squad was Bassong whom they probably thought was going to be in the reserves (until he turned out to be massive). Probably the same with Xisco who has spent more time around the reserves than the senior squad to be fair.