The Prophet

Looks like we could have a bit of a French love in next year.

Watching this match, it's absolutely ridiculous how players don't get rewarded for honesty. Just because a player chooses to stay on his feet instead of lunging to the ground like an absolute prat, it doesn't mean it isn't a foul. No wonder they do it with such mugs officiating the game.

Aye, don't know how he gets by. I'd hate to be on a footballer's wage these days.

McGugan doing a Sergio, dirty cheat.

Camp keeping Forest in it, quality keeper.

...who on an absolutely unrelated note is out of contract this summer.

Germany played a similar system to great effect with Klose.

Now if only we had a big target man with an eye for goal, hmm...

Might see the return of 3-2-3-2 or whatever the hell it was.

Fact is we're going to have to have a decent squad to push on, you can never have too many quality players.

Mike, is that you?

We might see Colo back in midfield. Desperate times...

Taylor-----Smith-----Barton-----Jonas Barton-----Smith-----Perch-----Jonas ...are the options.

Nolan won't be dropped.

Shame, I'll miss him at left back.

Forum romance in the air?

Decent player.

...and if he doesn't?

Is it right that Albin is out of contract this summer?

Given that would more or less our entire budget, I doubt it.

It still amuses me that folk expect managers to slate players in the press. Do you really think he'd be getting a game if Tiote wasn't on the verge of a ban/Guthrie wasn't crocked.

1) It wasn't the biggest fee ever in British football 2) You don't know they wouldn't have sold for less if that's all that was offered. 3) It's nothing like that analogy at all He had no choice about the club selling Carroll. However he made a big song and dance when he joined about being given a guarantee that Carroll would not be sold. If he had any integrity he should have made a stand and threatened to quit if the player was sold (unless he was replaced immediately with a striker he considered to be better and was given a guarantee that all the remaining money would be put back into in the transfer budget). As it was we went into the second half of the season where we were doing okay, but were by no means safe from relegation with 1 striker who was proven to be adequate at this level, but who is very injury prone, 1 striker who was proven to be inadequate at this level, and 2 strikers who were completely unproven at this level. Newly promoted clubs are notorious for having a good start and nosediving in the second half of the season, the sale of Carroll with no replacement could easily have triggered that decline. It's risky management to the point of negligence from an owner who has supposedly learned from his mistakes, but the manager being the senior man in charge of the footballing side of the club should be doing everything in his power to try to stop it or at least try and compensate for the loss of the player with an immediate replacement, permanent or otherwise. For all we know he may have.