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Excellent news.

Konchesky has gone to Forest on loan, that was a successful move to Liverpool then.

Alfonso Alves from Heerenveen

The logic must be, 'he scores so he can play as a striker.' If you watched him play, you'd know he doesn't belong up top though.

The fines for fielding weakened teams is ridiculous. The manager should be allowed to pick any team he wants.

Agreed, remember his disappearing act minus 5 minutes a season. FYP. In short, Martins was sh***

Thta means you are our new ITK. We are relying on you now.... are we or are we not going to sign Messi in this transfer window? We already have 2 Argentinians in our team, so it's pretty much a certainly that we'll get him.

He'll score past us

If he wasn't liable to get injured for 3 years after 5 minutes of play, I'd be delighted with that. The Sun is hardly a reliable source anyway, thankfully.

Modric is pure class. To say he isn't is ridiculous. Spurs main issue is the obvious problem of the striker, they need a top quality striker or atleast to play the best of the ones they've currently got, which they don't. The longer they go signing midfielders instead of strikers the better though as far as I'm concerned. I'd hate to see them improve.

Nolan as a second striker doesn't work. Ireland up top would make much more sense.

Dropping Nolan would be insane.

He was a canny player for us tbh. I was pretty annoyed when he left.

Does anyone else find that whole ranking system a bit odd? When Inter won it last year they got a coefficient of 34.09, the year before Barca won it and got a coefficient of 28.66, lower than what they got for reaching the semi final a year later and lower than Shakhtar who won the UEFA cup in the same year. Doesn't really make sense.

Given the number of midfielders Spurs have I imagine 'Arry will opt to play him as a DM in a 2-7-1 formation.

Would be the most logical place to play him

Well played sir

Nice shirt that like

It's a decent tour around the Nou Camp as well. Did it twice when I was younger when my footy team went to Spain on holiday and for a few matches against Spanish teams.

Isn't he actively being used in Chelsea's squad? Can't see it happening like.

I'm still confused as to why HBA was so set on joining us rather than the other options he had. Since he's joined it's like he's finally got to play for his boyhood heroes as well. Not that I'm complaining, it's one of my favourite things about the signing.

I'm worried that might be the case, yea. The hype surrounding him on here is incredible, sure he did well in the short time he did play for us but his total game time only equated to about 2 matches. I think he will have some matches where he shines a way above everyone else, but I think some people might be expecting these to come too often, and he may go missing in a few games for us, as a lot of players of his style do. Still, I hope I'm wrong.

That's why I thought it'd take a while to implement really, you couldn't just pick teams out of the football league and drop them down a division in order to allow to the reserve teams to take their place, the majority of the reserves in England wouldn't be up to the Championship/League One standard anyway, so you'd have to throw them into one of the lower non-league leagues. They'd then be playing a fair few games against some bruisers which the managers would be quite weary about and might send them out on loan anyway, and of course it would take quite a few years to rise up the divisions.