Village Idiot

How much did Man City go for? It wasn't much, was it?

I'm confident you lot will get sold before Christmas. Thing is that the situation you were after getting relegated, losing all your better players, etc... was very bad looking. You had a lot of people even pointing you to drop like a stone and beating Leeds' run into infamy. With that kind of thing only chancers and cheap bastards were probably willing to invest on the club. Now with the ball rolling, you getting good gates and winning games... everybody can see you're not going straight into oblivion, so I'm sure that other investors will see you as a potential good investment. And you might end up with a better owner that if you got fire-saled during the summer.

I'm not sure Hughton has the steel to keep King on his tracks. Excellent signing if somebody like Shearer was in charge, can't see him taking that kind of shit. King rips up trees at this level.

If you manage to get promoted amidst this disgraceful mess, you surely will deserve a round of applause.

Let's be honest, Viduka has been crap for the past five years, he was only bothered enough to have a good last season with Boro, that was enough to trick you into buying him.

And Chelsea really don't generate enough money to sustain themselves, so he'll need to do it again. chelsea can just about sustain themselves, because of all the cash ambromvich's revolution has brought via new sponsership etc 76M loss in 2008 says they don't.

And Chelsea really don't generate enough money to sustain themselves, so he'll need to do it again.

i know what a nerve! i still feel he dived last week, even though people will disagree he booted the ball out of play then dived into aluminas hands, he was already fully into the diving motion before almunia got anywhere near him just watch the slow motion replay of it. even tho his hands actually touched rooney i still think this can be seen as cheating just as much as eduardo and rooney has previous like you said so for him to come out and tell people not to dive he needs to start with himself the cheating c*nt English players don't cheat, only us dirty latins.

Can't wait for him and Barton to pair up. (canny player at this level otherwise)

We already reached an agreement about it and dropped the case, years ago.

I think the biggest issue is that unless Abramovic is willing to splash the cash again, they just don't have the money to replace all those 30+ players themselves anyway. Still a great squad this season, mind.

You lot remind me of a bunch of moths circling a light and getting burnt time and time again, yet you still rush to it every time it lits. And I'm not saying this with contempt.

Actually I can see Downing as CM, he has showed some good passing in my opinion. But he signed him with a broken foot, and won't feature until Christmas.

They've spent a lot of money to probably finish in the same position though. But looking at things at the moment, Man City have spent a hell of a lot more money and won't break the top four... and if they do it will be at a very high cost (a very unrealistic cost for Villa) Was Barry even that good for them? I remember Brummie saying that he wasn't and tbh i can't remember anything special from him last season... I'm not saying that he was the cornerstone of the team, but surely one of their more important players. And he hasn't been replaced with a player of similar stature (not necessarily the same kind of player!).

They've spent a lot of money to probably finish in the same position though. Yeah, other teams will improve, so you have to improve too. This year it looks like Spurs and City have jumped above them in terms of squad. If Everton manages to recover they could have problems getting into Europe (not that MON seems to care anyway!)

I'd agree with that statement if Barry was still in the team.

Liverpool haven't spent that much, have them? Johnson - 18 Aquilani - 20 Greek guy - 1 1/2 Correct me if my figures are wrong.

So he's a mutant.

Works for me, Xavi will start to decline by then. But depending on how our (Arsenal and Barça's) seasons are, there's a good chance it will get done next season.

We know that, you know that, the papers know that yet it doesn't get put to rest. He will come at some point though. Fear not. Incidentally, Marca reporting Tottingham tried to sign RVN on deadline day, and he refused.

what absolutely stunning and beautiful name Pretty common Spanish name, my grandfather has it. Continuing with exceedengly tiresome transfer sagas, both Barça and Madrid "ITKs" claim that they will get Cesc and Ribery for Christmas. The Cesc thing, apparently, would happen if Arsenal doesn't make it past the group stages, which is as likely as me getting to practise bed gymnastics with Scarlett Johansson.

I was hoping Bendtner would leave Arsenal and thus guarantee our second CL title on the trot, now my dreams have been quashed.

Incidentally, highlights of the game were the two drunk Turks in Newcastle Emre shirts sitting in front of me.

For a moment I thought you just got sold.

Guess I am spoiled. Ibrahimovic, though, such good touches. Pity he's obviously off the pace, as he was really tired towards the end (he didn't even run to celebrate his goal).