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I really want him to make the cut - will be brilliant to see him there.

He clearly isn't utter shit, as some are making out.

Kenwynes over the fans after breaking his goalscoring duck after 38 games.

Just having a look at some of the squads for the World Cup - what's happened to the Dutch? Their squad looks really average. Am I underestimating some of their players?

This.

Could have given Sissoko the same shirt as Debuchy and Remy.

That should have been obvious to everyone really.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2057715-southampton-manager-mauricio-pochettino-at-career-crossroads#articles/2057715-southampton-manager-mauricio-pochettino-at-career-crossroads Indicates we have approached Pochettino at some point.

I think the two with a proper AM worked very well. Throw in a real striker - some attacking wide men and we are laughing. Without a genuinely creative player (e.g. not Colback) it's too lacking I agree. I don't want to see Tiote-Anita-Colback in the same side. This basically.

:lol: As if Viera and Petit had no scoring or creative duties, man. They were most certainly primarily there as defensive midfielders. Sure they were both box to box midfielders but their primary function was to defend. Vieira and Petit scored a total of 4 goals in their double winning season. :)

Arsenal with Vieira and Petit. That's one PL example. I am sure there are others if I was to think about it. I still haven't quite worked out the point of this argument though. Having 4 attacking players can be enough (ie two wingers and two strikers). As I have said, it is likely that one of your strikers would play a more withdrawn role and play a more 'Beardsley-esque' role which would effectively create a 4-2-3-1 at times.

It depends if you are genuinely proposing that the two central midfielders don't create anything at all - which is highly unlikely. I think we are getting into comparing slightly odd variations of formations, but in any 4-4-2 formation with two defensive central midfielders you would have a set up with wingers and it is likely that one of the strikers would drop back into midfield. But as an example, I think Sacchi's Milan team used a 4-4-2 formation without particularly creative central midfielders. Atletico Madrid play a variant of 4-4-2/4-2-3-1 with two defensive midfielders.

It is viable if you were playing 4-4-2 and had two wingers and intelligent strikers. It could work if you were playing 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. It can work - you just have to get the proper personnel in to do it.

I am not sure what your point is - is your point that Anita cannot play alongside a DM or that, under Pardew, we would not play enough attacking players to make this viable? Because they are two completely different points.

Disagree, IMO he's better with a proper DM where his job is to keep the ball moving. A bit like Lucas and Allen at Liverpool. You can't have 2 out of the 3 midfielders having no goal threat or creativity whatsoever. It just doesn't work. Course you can, if you have an attacking midfielder and 3 forwards. Agree with this.

Yep - done a great job at Vallecano and plays good football.

How has Ketsbaia got on with Georgia? Have their results improved much?

I like Townsend as a player - he certainly has the attributes to improve with good coaching. Oh - I see the problem there.

I read a fair few articles saying he was a good player but wasn't a world beater. Bit different to 'nobody really rated him'. The Jonas we bought was a good PL player and an International. The Jonas of the last couple of seasons was not a reflection of the player we had at the beginning.

He was reasonably rated in Spain so god knows what you are talking about.

Because he's our best LB with Santon injured? Not ideal, obviously. Unfortunately he isn't.

Agree 100% with this.

2 goals in 14 matches for Blackpool. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in his goal scoring ability at Championship level.

Didn't he get such a run at Blackpool and did the square root of f*** all?

Going to say - he's not so old that he can't be on the training ground regularly. I don't see how that would be beyond his capabilities at all.