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Is there any reason why youngsters can't be offered professional contracts until a later age in Spain? Surely the Spanish FA can't be happy to see a lot of their youth talent being tapped up and going abroad like this

Caceres and Henrique (possibly) still have a chance don't they? Especially with Barcas lack of depth at the back atleast one of them might not go out on loan or be sold next season.

I don't think we'd spend 10mil on a player who isn't going to start for us, like.

I'd be pretty sceptical about anyone we signed from the Greek league.

Van der Sar?

I wouldn't want to pay 10mil for Cole, but for a bit cheaper and with the right supply he could bag a few like

Could be tempted to get the 95/6 away shirt from there, like.

Doesn't Assou-Ekotto play LB more than Bale as well?

Most of the stuff on there is about us. I'd say a lot of teams would have fans who display a lot of kneejerk reactions, just some teams fans do it more often/to a greater extent.

We all know he's not the best (pardon the pun) striker around, but to say that you'd take any striker in the league ahead of him, or you'd do a better job than him yourself, is utter s****. He's got 5 in 7 ffs, he's obviously doing a half decent job. I'm not saying we shouldn't try and sign some better strikers in the summer, because we should, but some of the posts in here are beyond belief.

Ronaldinho was the ultimate flair player, like. Watching Messi play is brilliant, but in a different way to how it was watching Ronaldinho play.

He's a poor mans Joey Barton.

No Bilbao? Zaragoza in at 13 and 17.

I don't think we'll get into Europe, top half finish is definitely on the cards though, which I would've certainly taken had I been offered it in pre season.

If nothing else, we've established Birmingham, Blackburn and Stoke are all terrible to watch

Are you implying Barca are as good as or better than Newcastle? Ridiculous man, utterly ridiculous.

If it was based over the course of the whole season then I wouldn't have had them up there, but the OP said judging each side in their pomp. At the start of the season they were incredible to watch. I can see where you're coming from though, at the moment they are pretty dull and lifeless.

I hope Barca rip them a new one tbh

1. Arsenal 2. Chelsea 3. Man Utd 4. Blackpool 5. WBA 6. Spurs 7. Newcastle 8. Man City 9. Bolton 10. Everton 11. Villa 12. Sunderland 13. Wigan 14. West Ham 15. Liverpool 16. Fulham 17. Wolves 18. Birmingham 19. Blackburn 20. Stoke

Took his goal well last night, like. Still shit mind.

Brilliant ball in for Bests goal yesterday.

Woodgate was amazing. If he didn't have his injury problems he would've easily been an England regular. However, I'd rather have Colo, there's no point having a quality player if they're going to be injured for the majority of the season, every season.

Noone could've expected that before the season started. Fair play to the man, he's doing a really good job for us at the moment.

Whoever discovered this bloke is a genius like.

Quality result.