Doctor Zaius

I think it is. Just because a player doesnt have an all round game doesnt mean he isnt worldclass in my view.

Whats the definition of world class here? One of the best players in the world currently? Or one of the best players in the world ever?

Of course Owen was worldclass when we signed him. He'd just come off the back a season as Real Madrid's top scorer. Having previously scored; 24, 28, 28 and 19 goals respectively in the previous 4 seasons before that. He'd also scored 30 international goals at age 25 by then. Cant argue with that like. Maybe he wasnt worldclass in terms of his generation, or throughout history, but he was definitely one of the best in the world out of the players playing at the time we signed him.

I'd take his Brother, Arouna Kone. Probably could get him cheap too.

Pfft, Milan only average 43K. We'll get more than that this season, someone tell him he's better off here!

Here here. Very tiresome. Where where? Xisco loves him already. Their, Their, Dave.

Here here. Very tiresome.

Martins relies on sheer athleticism, he's extremely raw. I always thought he lacked the footballing intelligence to make the correct runs, combine this with poor finishing and this is the reason he looked poor. A player with Martins' natural physical attributes should be playing on the shoulder of the last defender and generally using his pace to make life difficult for defenders, something he didn't do often enough here. Now this is clearly not the case for all Nigerians, or Africans for that matter. Just Obafemi Martins.

Marseille need the money. The team is looking to add a big name striker this close season (the likes of Gignac, Gilardino, etc.) and they need to celar space on the age bill. Ben Arfa is easily expendable as he divides fan opinion and is not liked by Deschamps who it seems will be manager for some time to come. Seeing as your a Marseille fan; whats Ben Arfas primary postion? Is it through the middle or out wide?

Maybe that could be the smiley equivalent of "say whaaaaat?"

Some Journalist on twitter reckons we're watching Mallorca's Pierre Webo. Dont know much about him, VI or any other Spanish league followers; whats he like?

Didnt realise Tal Ben Haim was still playing for them like. What a one season wonder that lad was.

Aye, his preferred position is left wing. We dont need a left winger nad we're crying out for a centre forward and a centre midfielder. Another reason why us signing him doesn't make sense. especially at that fee.

Because he's shite, thats why. Though not as bad as Heskey like.

It's bollocks man. It's clearly obvious bollocks. Marseille need to sell to buy so they're pretty desperate to get him shifted. This fella has come out and confirmed they've had interest from us in an attempt to drum up some offers from other potential suitors. While all along we still haven't made any contact with them because Hughton hasn't got 5M to spend on 1 player.

1 player doesn't make a team you know Did last season in their case. without him, they'd have been relegated. simple as.

teach I say learn and I know plenty of others that do too

To be fair to Kinnear we were 19th when he came in with Everton, Villa and City next up and 17th when he took ill and left. Maybe he would have kept us up.....

Hope they get sued to fuck. That'll learn the sad cunt

This 25 man squad thing is a bit stupid imo That celebration is absolutely fantastic too!

Not many. The only time we get good crowds for friendlys is if we've got a few new signings to show off, and James Perch is hardly going to drag people through the door.

I vote new thread. Good signing. Kadar clearly isnt ready to potentially start for a long period of time in the premiership, Taylor out for god knows how long leaving us with only 2 centre halves that are good enough. Campbell proved last season he can still do a job at this level. Get him in for a year as cover first and foremost, no doubt he's probably good enough still to rival Colo and Williamson. This is not to mention his premier league experience, something we haven't actually got in abundance along the back line. Pleased with that, nice little piece of business.

It's not going to happen.

I absolutely love the OP's username like.

He's young and has potential/sell on value. He is nothing like what we would have signed towards the end of the old board's time. I was talking in terms of price. Can you seriously see us spending 5M+ on 1 player?