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I just love the way they word it "sky sports news understands" as though they are breaking the story. nah just ash got around to telling david craig whats going on

dont get why arsenal didnt try to sign him when it became clear he wanted out of here then again arsene seems to have something against signing good keepers

our only chance is keep things tight try and restrict their chances and hope we can catch them on a counter attack

doubt it as there is no certainty of us staying up and its unlikely ben arfa wants to play in the championship

I agree, but what else do we do? Play two strikers and don't let them come at us from the word go. It's absolutely pointless. Go defensive against ManU at Old Trafford and they'll pick us apart with ease. We're gonna have to retain possession in their half for atleast some points of the game, or it'll be a walk-over. That won't happen with one striker. and trying to attack and failing miserably against the man u defence they hit us on the break repeatedly.

I agree, but what else do we do? pray the entire man u first team come down with a 24 hour vomiting bug on the day of the match and they have to play their kids

harper perch/raylor williamson colo enrique routiledge barton guthrie jonas nolan carroll 2-0 loss ronney and scholes in their usual treatment of us with 2 30 yarders and rooney to be proclaimed back to his best

we could always resign nicky butt if that makes you feel better?

yup and without alonso to get the ball to gerrard and torres they were feeding off scraps, aqualini i suppose was the apparent replacement but hes a crock

they have busquets behind them dont they

the use of a holding player depends on the formation if you ask me, its a waste in a 4-4-2 system where 2 box to box midfielders would be more useful imo but in the new fetish for international sides the 4-2-3-1 you can see the value of having one or two players to mind things at the back while leaving the other midfielders to attack. barton can play the holding role if needs be i'd say and theres smith and perch so imo theres higher priority positions to worry about, defence I don't believe will be our problem scoring enough goals will be

That story is bollocks tbh. The bid (of 800,000Euros) has already been accepted. That is from NUFC sources and the OM president. The 1million thing has been drumed up by the same journalist (Sunday Sun) who has since said that the bid has been accepted, so nothing to worry about there. The curious thing is the wages. odd with wages alright can think of 3 possible things 1) we have yet to agree with om about covering his wages-unlikely if the bids been accepted 2) possibly ben arfa may want a top up on his wages 3) we've had a real transfer bid accepted for 800k up front and the rest over a period of time and haggling with ben arfa over wages-nah not likely is it

Never have the same points been repeated so much. I think thats how i stumbled across this forum actually same here

so if the power was in your hands who would you hire to replace him?

where the deuce did they get that from

the whole paul scholes love in that was on earlier and their gentle treatment of his complete inability to tackle

at a wild guess rtg? and saying hes crap?

found the article in question http://www.people.co.uk/sport/football/football-hotline/2010/08/08/chris-hughton-in-the-hunt-for-chelsea-s-michael-mancienne-102039-22472178/ says its a loan, what is his position exactly?

where then someone jumps on him to celebrate with him and breaks both of owens hamstrings

quotes from hulls chairman

or if he wants extra I can't imagine there's ever been a loan deal in the history of football where that has happened. bullard tried for it with celtic

im not sure i even want a positive result out of them, reading in august 2007 got a result early season result out of man u, went down, us in aug 08 went down burnley last year went down

or if he wants extra

agreed on pundits about championship, they werent saying us and wba were certs to go up last year as they are saying now that we were what are southampton wearing