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Neymar looks overrated to me, he was poor against the US the other day and has shown nothing so far against Mexico.

Hulk will be perfectly suited to Chelsea his diving is in the Drogba class. He's really a winger though and they already have Mata and Hazard so who knows where they would play him

He's very good the American left back, plays for Hoffenheim I think. Sign him up Pards!!

That was an appalling decision by the Ref, never a penalty

That's the way to hoof it, Jonas, you beauty.

We are working hard as usual, but nobody seems in a hurry to put their foot on the ball. Cabaye is as guilty as anyone, hoofing the ball long virtually every time

Lua Lua has actually really been very good, Brighton's best player and a constant danger every time he has the ball. He's far more dangerous going forward then the two wingers we currently have.

Well we regressed last week, look what a well organised Stevenage did today.

I bet you he will, might be a year, might be five, he'll be back.

It was a very nice finish you miserable buggers. Anyhow sooner or later he'll be back playing for us, so let's encourage him a little bit.

Letting him go was pretty strange I thought. He's still young, he's got lots of potential and he's very quick. I think we decided he wasn't good enough far too soon.

Apparently so, it hasn't stopped Cardiff from being in a play off position with a reasonable chance of promotion though. Anyhow a good manager should be exactly that and if he doesn't have a fortune to spend, then get the most out of the players you do have, be tactically adept, and try and bring the young and promising players in to the team when the opportunity arises.

Well at least if Lee Clark does ever become manager of us, he'll have learnt the hard way how to manage. Shearer on the other hand, obviously has no real interest in managing or surely by now he would have decided to go and learn his trade in one of the lower divisions.

A few people have touched on the point that playing two out and out strikers away to a top side is a luxury that our midfield and defence can't cope with. If Pardew really feels he has to start Ba and Cisse, one of them has to start wide in midfield. 4-4-2 against this Spurs side we absolutely do not match up. Pack the midfield, defend from deep and try to stop them playing. And people mentioned Pardew as a possible England manager. He is tactically weak, shown today with his team selection, and even worse what happened at Fulham in the second half when Jol changed his team's formation and we had no idea what to do.

Need to get Abeid and Gosling on, take the Dembas off, they really shouldn't have to play any longer in this game, and hope that we don't concede 7 or 8.

Playing a good team which Tottenham obviously are with such poor players as Simpson, Williamson, Perch and Obertan starting is never going to end any other way but in a thrashing.

There are only three half decent teams in the Premier League this season, Spurs are one of them, we aren't. The difference between them and us is enormous. Even with Cabaye and Tiote we'd be well beaten in this game with the weak defence we have.

It's amazing they haven't scored, defensively we are a shambles, fortunately so far there finishing is abysmal.

Actually to translate that would take a seriously long time. Cheick's french is also not that easy to understand and some of it is verging on Cote D'Ivoire patois or slang. Abeid and Ben Arfa and Demba are all much easier to understand. His wife is Senegalese and Demba occasionally gets invited to dinner. They sound afraid of him in training especially Abeid. They all sound pretty happy and all seem good friends, and have maintained their sense of being Africans. He sounds very religious. Good entertaining stuff.

I could translate it but honestly can't be arsed. There are better things to do in life, like gannin shagging.

Not surprising really. Any team with Perch (who played well), Best, Shola, Williamson, Simpson, and Ryan Taylor is never going to be very good, all of them are championship players at best.

Shola has been a lot more impressive than Best, he's held up the ball, won lots of headers and looks dangerous, whereas Best has missed two good chances including an awful header after Shola set it up to him on a plate.

Tits up.

All that's happening is that we are finding our true level and it's mid table mediocrity at best. We could of course go out and buy 3 or 4 players with the Carroll money and finish around 7th.

All that is happening is that we are now playing at our true level, and despite the good start to the season we all knew deep down that's it's not actually very high. We'll be 7th at the end of the day with a nice gap to whoever is 8th. I wouldn't put any money on us staying this high for very long though. We are short of CB's, week at fullback, poor in centre midfield as soon as we have the slightest injury, we have piss poor wingers and only one striker who can score goals. Don't tell me anyone is surprised?