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Another day without a signing ladies. Barely a link of note. Less than two weeks to go and as it stands we are well and truly fucked.

KeithR ‏@keithrdublin Pieters gets straight red on return game for PSV. Punches window on way down tunnel. Breaks glass and gets sliced open.

He will start for West Ham ahead of that knacker McCartney or whoever other idiot they play there. Not gonna come here to bench warm over first team football.

Absymal transfer window. Fuck off.

He's only worth it symbolically as a way of closing the door on exiting players IMO. A good move in that sense.

Sacking Pardew for Adkins hardly proved to be a bad decision though.

:lol: amazing

Walcott worth the 100k a week?

Doing his first interview through an interpreter, doesn't speak any English.

Mint in the early 00s from what I remember. In his latter years lived off his reputation a lot, before a very commendable swansong with Schalke. Bet it absolutely sickens him how long he was the flag bearer for an underperforming national team and that they've had so much success since he packed it in.

Failed a medical in the summer and hasn't played a single game this season apparently.

Florian Thauvin is close to joining Lille. Another one gone.

The tax laws coming into France will give them a ridiculous advantage over the rest of Ligue 1.

£5 million sounds about right to me. Cost them £3.5 million, proven to be a successful gamble.

Napoli got their 2 points back on successful appeal. #deadthread

Can't compete with Norwich City.

It's all evolutionary, really. Rijkaard did do a lot, but Guardiola refined and took it to a new level. I credit Rijkaard with updating the classic Cruyff/Van Gaal system that had been found out by then and building our platform for success. It was Rijkaard, for example, who finally axed the "Guardiola role", and started playing with a proper DM and moved Xavi to CM - saving his career and letting him become what he did become. But it was Guardiola, on the other hand, who played Xavi and Iniesta together in midfield, while it had always been claimed that it had to be one or the other alongside a more box to box player like Deco. Rijkaard was fond of more classical wingers, he played Messi on the left so he could put crosses in FFS, while Guardiola did away with them and relied on fullbacks for width (Alves was a key signing of his), and thus overloaded the final third... Also, contrary to popular belief, Rijkaard's side did press all over the pitch, but we lost that quality as the seasons went by. In general, Pep was more radical than Rijkaard in creating an uniform possession-based strategy, while the Dutch was more direct. I'm not a heavy watcher of Barca, but I definitely agree with this. Only because I remember the sides under the Dutchman to be significantly more entertaining and less methodical than the current version. Barca's 06 CL winning team were much duller than the 09 and 11 versions IMO.

Maybe this whole thing is because he thinks he has more chance of making Argie WC squad playing back home.

They'll find enough to abuse him for in his footballing ability without needing to go racist.

If I could have predicted the two posters to respond to that.

Well, the bid might happen - but he's not going there.

Not gonna happen.

This guy is one of the '1 or 2 we need'

You travelling around, Vinkent?

It's all evolutionary, really. Rijkaard did do a lot, but Guardiola refined and took it to a new level. I credit Rijkaard with updating the classic Cruyff/Van Gaal system that had been found out by then and building our platform for success. It was Rijkaard, for example, who finally axed the "Guardiola role", and started playing with a proper DM and moved Xavi to CM - saving his career and letting him become what he did become. But it was Guardiola, on the other hand, who played Xavi and Iniesta together in midfield, while it had always been claimed that it had to be one or the other alongside a more box to box player like Deco. Rijkaard was fond of more classical wingers, he played Messi on the left so he could put crosses in FFS, while Guardiola did away with them and relied on fullbacks for width (Alves was a key signing of his), and thus overloaded the final third... Also, contrary to popular belief, Rijkaard's side did press all over the pitch, but we lost that quality as the seasons went by. In general, Pep was more radical than Rijkaard in creating an uniform possession-based strategy, while the Dutch was more direct.