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The Premiership is so drastically overrated. Beyond Newcastle this season i genuinely couldn't be fucked with the rest of it. It's turgid for the most part.

Taylor27 you're taking the fucking piss with this transfer like. Honestly, what the fuck do you want?

I just disagree. I could give you countless examples of foreign players failing in this country. We play different football but it's certainly not worse IMO. Of course it's f**king worse. The British blueprint is why we got mullered at the World Cup and played off the park by the first decent team we come across. Take a player out of a team in Spain and hoy them in a team in England and they'll struggle to adapt (for example Borja Valero), but put a lower English team against a lower Spanish team and they'd get played off the park. They're technically and tactically streets ahead of us. There's a reason why we've only won 1 out of the last 25 Uefa Cups (or equivalents), our middle to lower teams are so far behind the top echelons.

Atleast it would put and end to the inane transfer speculation.

La Liga dross would destroy Prem dross tbh. Same goes for Serie A. There's a reason Diamanti went from Serie B to West Ham's second best player last season. Lower teams in the other leagues are streets ahead ability wise.

With the dross we've got, so he fucking should.

I think we're gonna be offering him total freedom in this team to be the playmaker tbh. He'll see us as a platform to perform and earn a move elsewhere. Shame in that way but for us in the short term it's excellent.

Think him (Ben Arfa) starting behind Carroll is definitely the way forward like, but even so, atleast we should now have depth in wide areas!

It's overrated to fuck, tbh.

A quote from the Marseille forum upon his exit: Or, in English, I want to vomit.

Aye, not that they mean much if a bigger fish comes in though. Surely if there's a contractual agreement in place though? I guess then the player cna just worm his way out of it..

Would be brilliant if we had first option to sign him aswell.

We could do with that Caen lad aswell like...

Ben Arfa looks pretty class as far as this game goes tbh

He was on about the goalscorer. Ahhhhh

On loan to Valenciennes?

Lovely dinked pass.

Just made a goal.

I think they probably have a fair idea of how good he is by now Suppose

I hope he doesn't play too well or they might keep him.

Makes you wonder what we could do, with our current transfer policy, with a bit of cash.

Be a bit crap if it didn't happen like.,

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So true

Lampard should definitely be fazed out. It's one from him or Gerrard and he's two years younger...