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I remember Wolves spending quite a bit last season too. Doyle went for 7m iirc, and they also bought Milijas and a few others. EDIT: Sewelly beat me to it.

Agree but dropping Lennon is never going to happen nor should it. I suppose we could play Luka as the amc and Ireland deeper but Ireland possesses a bigger goal scoring threat and gets him self in far better attacking positions. Luka can play cm without sitting. Just give him and Ireland freedom to interchange and it's all good. Plus Luka is better at picking passes from deep position than Ireland is. Just don't play two deep players. You dominate possession, play like the grownups

I think it works on the left given how good is Bale coming from deep and giving them width. Corluka I don't rate that much and it would be a crime to drop Lennon, up until his injury last season he was Spurs' best player.

Still, when I saw Modric playing deep under Ramos he really struggled to leave his mark in the game. But the whole side was pretty awful and he'd just arrived.

Also, KD, the reason Bale is not in your CL squad:

"FC Barcelona trainee" Ludovic Sylvestre It's like when they advertise a movie as "from the makers of XXXXX" and it's the guys that were in charge of sweeping the floors of the studio.

Weird signing. Guy has only played in the Portuguese third division and they already have a boatload of young strikers to test Old Trafford's new benches with.

David Sullivan sounding like a downright arse but in what universe is Yakubu worth 8m?

I know that but very strange he isn't included in the qualifying round. Sorry but What's actually funny? me wondering why one of our best players isn't included in our qualifying squad is funny? Village why has Arry got no intention of playing him though? our biggest game in years and he's resting him...i mean wtf. Are we really that arrogant. This is gonna end up like the Pompey FA cup semi...just watch. The way I see it, Bale has had fitness problems recently, and too many games during what essentially still is preseason is a bad way to go about it. Maybe Harry thinks he's just not match fit. You have a quality squad and certainly don't need him to beat Young Boys (which still sounds like a paedo team).

If Harry doesn't intend to play him, there's no need. Given the weakness of the opposition I can understand him preferring to put on the likes of Rose or Naughton on the list.

You submit another squad for the CL group stages, too. Spud noobs.

Ireland and Bellamy not on ManCity's EL squad. Neither is David Silva, mind, but you can submit another list for the group stages. Still it points to moves for both of them, in my opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C._Krulak An US Marine general, even.

Atlético looking for an accommodation for Diego Costa, which I think somebody liked around here.

Seems to me Remy has been linked with half the clubs in the Premiership. Welbeck on loan isn't really much, puts them an injury away from having the teeth of a newborn baby.

Have they been linked with some striker? That leaves them with Campbell and Bent only.

Or he's just baiting us into closing the deal by invoking the name of the Unspeakable. Would not be the first agent to do that

They have Marcelo, who's good going forward but a definite liability at the back. And Drenthe of course...

They needed a natural winger though, playing Kaká or Marcelo there was just utter waste (one of the reasons Kaká was so poor, too).

One of my favorite tactics when playing as keeper was fouling the forwards when I rushed out to catch a ball excusing myself with the momentum. It drove them mad and I was never sent off in all my career. Guess it comes with the latin genes

Carvalho is a very good player if he can stay fit. That has been a massive question the last few seasons though. Interesting how Chelsea go about replacing him. They've lost quite a few of their older players this close season. Always been a great fan of Carvalho. If he stays fit he'll do a good job for them, only short term but it will work. You'll grow to loathe him. He is the absolute master of the sly foul. Couldn't think of a defender more suited to the Spanish game. He'll wear the white shirt, that's going to make it easy. This is the first galáctico-less transfer window for RM with Pérez in charge, by the way (unless you count Mou as a galáctico signing). Casillas Ramos Carvalho Pepe/Albiol Arbeloa Alonso Khedira Kaká/Van der Vaart Cronaldo Higuaín Di María Can't see this side playing Inter football, to be frank, but they'll be solid.

Cannot stop laughing at this kid's face. Is that really the best shot the photographer got? http://estaticos02.marca.com/blogs/fuera-de-juego/imagenes_posts/2010/08/10/IMG_0392.JPG This one too

For achilles to rupture, something has to occur. Usually you are impactd from behind or it gives out when you push off to jump or sprint. There is no guarantee that this occurs on a different pitch at a different club. The achilles of Senderos as a Newcastle player exists completely seperatly from the achilles of Senderos as an Arsenal player. I see a Schroedinger cat somewhere in this.

I bet they have the money have a big accepted for Cesc That's a good question. They are only slightly ahead of us in terms of revenue but have been consistently spending more, yet we are the ones that apparently are broke.

Carvalho is a very good player if he can stay fit. That has been a massive question the last few seasons though. Interesting how Chelsea go about replacing him. They've lost quite a few of their older players this close season. Always been a great fan of Carvalho. If he stays fit he'll do a good job for them, only short term but it will work.