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Yeah may as well give Alan Smith a go on the left. PS/ even injured

Chelsea getting rid of Drogba, Bosingwa, Mikel, Malouda and Zhirkov this summer (if you believe The Sun). Wouldn't mind Bosingwa here.

Forgot about Marveaux. Yes, this would be an impressive signing which also leaves more money to fill the other positions. Lovely jubbly.

Ewerthon on a short term deal. He's not that good anymore, but we're desperate and he's 'cost effective'.

Aye, fucking shambles to be playing in the "best league in the world" at one of Europe's best all-seater stadiums in a prime, city-centre location every other week. We should be fucking scraping the Unibond Dr Martens Western Conference and looking up to the likes of Sunderland well of course things could be worse....they always can be. doesn't mean that we aren't a laughing stock though. and it doesn't mean we're a well run club either.

good point. whenever he'd finally remove his tongue from DBent's throat, he never said a bad thing about him.

finally got round to reading his comments and, in my opinion, what he said was disgraceful. it was totally uncalled for, knowing how sensitive the issue is at the minute. i'm very, very disappointed in him. also, "when we first heard about it" is on about the bid, rather than the deal being done. at that point, there was still plenty of time to influence carroll - who didnt know what to do and looked to his friend for advice. a friend that sold out and betrayed the people that pay his wages. so he's went right down in my estimation (tempted to post a keegan pic). has caulkin said anything about this?

Golfmag, I find it remarkable that you were composed enough to not twat the bastards. I'm a calm, polite man but I think I'd lose it in the vicinity of those imbeciles. One day - somehow - Ashley will leave. And so will Llambias. It seems like forever away but one day it will happen.

Yep I'm back to taking 17th again. Our defence is good and we have good midfielders but our strikeforce is the worst in the league (in a league that has Blackpool). But: 1. We're good at set pieces 2. Ben Arfa will be back soon 3. Cheick Tiote

All of a sudden we're back in trouble again. Tonight was toothless and pathetic but luckily we have Tiote back next and Ireland (whenever that is). That can keep us ticking over until Ben Arfa is back, but basically we'll have to play one up front for the foreseeable future. At least we can scrape the occasional set piece goal. What a joke of a club we are.

Was a great player, but is a cunt, innit?

Should look in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Buying directly from South America normally turns out badly.

I'm pretty sure every score in a round of games going your way is naturally going to be pretty damn rare, tbh. four games though! haha

OK, spent an hour thinking (WARNING: this may be a little bit sad of me!): RB: onuoha, santon CB: m jorgensen, subotic, douglas (twente) LB: masilela WINGER:barnetta, piatti, jarvis, legear, gervinho, shaqiri CM: defour, kranjcar, ilicic, miguel FOR: traore, wickham, gameiro, el hamdaoui, falcao, oscar cardozo YOUTH: jennings, henriksen FREEBIES: skjelbred, larsson, vaughan, elmander, trochowski (as a minimum can provide great backup) can also maybe get a loan or two (sunderland style) whilst only selling smith, routledge, xisco and campbell.

Absolute hero to me. Although his credibility took a huge knock with that Ben Arfa comment on MotD.....that really grated with me, for some reason. But he WAS my childhood and he's a great role model.

But how will we cope without Xisco's impact from the bench?

First time this season that EVERY score went well. Who'd have thought, eh?

OUT: Carroll, Nasri (while he's injured) IN: Barton, Bent then next week i'll use my final wildcard.

i'm on carroll's side here. that latest interview doesn't cover him in glory either, but i believe he was strongly told to leave. the contract situation does add an interesting layer, but carroll isn't a judas cunt like was proclaimed yesterday. so are there still add-ons to this deal? SSN stopped mentioning them after a while....

we've just sold our geordie #9. our icon. for no reason at all. its much, much worse.

theres just no hope for the future, is there? something moderately exciting will happen, but then tiote will go. then something good will happen, just before enrique leaves. hate to be a doom-monger, but theres no light at the end of the tunnel.

football can fuck off, right now.

We'll not go down, but we'll drop like a stone. Or maybe a rock wrapped in concrete.

Will we get any extra time to complete a deal 'Redknapp style'? Clinging onto hope here.....

A disaster of a day. The lesson learnt today is that anything 'good' that ever happens to us is only temporary....itll soon be replaced with catastrophe. And anytime you're tempted to have faith in anything or anyone in football, remember what happened today. Never forget.