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I've never seen Gomis have a good game, and I've probably seen him play 15-20 times.

Busquets is important to the way Barca play. You just need to look at them 3/4 years ago when they had 3 midgets in midfield. The defensive midfielder/water carrier in the team is an important cog to the way they play even if Busquets is a horrible diving, playacting little runt.

good. we need our first team playing, not playing fringe players when we should be getting our best players match fit. i want to see us playing barton / guthrie in the middle, nolan behind carroll, routledge and jonas on the wings, and a half decent defence. It'll be Smith and Nolan in the middle with Guthrie playing LW or some shit.

Ben-Haim to West Ham on loan, pretty sure he had been released by Pompey though?

Xisco possibly, but absolutely no chance with Enrique. By a country mile our best player.

Is it more of a priority than a good central midfielder? Hmmm, tough one, but I'd say yes probably. Signing the striker we're crying out for would instantly double our chances of survival.

The first one in particular :lol:

Not signing a striker would be our death imo.

Krul Perch Coloccini Williamson Enrique Routledge Barton Guthrie Jonas Vuckic Carroll

Barca will win it, Mourinho wont be able to improve on Pellegrini's season imo - while Barca have just got stronger.

Messi

Mike Ranger man.. look at that head on that body :lol: Fucking genius you mental bastard.

Abdellaoue, not a bad game. Think he was the guy Kaiz mentioned when Parky was on his tirade against the German national team.

Keep 'em coming! :lol:

Lazio are shit and skint, though.

Holy fucking shit

Dietmar Hopp doesn't own the club. That's not allowed in the Bundesliga. He's only allowed to own 50 % at maximum. He just invests some money into the club. And they have changed their strategy over the last few years. They signed Hildebrand (who isn't a household name, but was well known before, at least in Germany), Simunic and Ibertsberger. I think they are interested in Ben Arfa. Ralf Rangnicks's statement would suggest so anyways. (he was praising Ben Arfa few days ago) Weren't Hildebrand and Ibertsberger both frees? And all of those players are Bundesliga based. I don't see them holding that much of an advantage over us tbh, money would be their only bargaining chip and they have never used it in the past really.

Hoffenheim are wealthy but this sugar daddy thing is being blown out of proportion. The guy that owns them (bought them when they were just a village club) has built them up not by throwing money at big name players but by investing in youth and a successful scouting system. You look at their squad and none of them are household names - they are all players that have been built up by the club. I don't really see them throwing money at Ben Arfa in order to outdo otherclubs because that's not the way they do things, and I don't see how they're anymore of an attractive proposition clubwise. They're a nothing of a club history wise and are just midtable interms of Bundesliga.

At 21 (?) he's already played in 5 different countries

Strange that when his own country is next door and pay a lot more. Over 1000 miles, only next door He's a designated player, so I doubt he'd be on more in Mexico tbh.

Aye my mate Sopcast has that one.

Planned ahead then, registering 6 months ago and posting in the Introduce Yourself Thread.

Nolan was woeful I thought. Guthrie was playing LW, he was never gonna look remotely comfortable there. It was no surprise when he shifted into the middle we started looking like an actual football team again.

Not gonna happen you deluded prick