LRD

I stayed up to watch St Etienne on the rare occasions too, although admittedly more for a look at PEA. Plenty of misconceptions this lad has.

Surely average is relative to the sample set being referred to? Therefore, in a league of 20, 5th is not average. And to be once place of CL spots is not average either. Chopey sure has trouble with the concept of 'relative'. Don't see anyone who proclaims to be an European expert here either. You can still watch the occasional match or see where they had been all season to have some ideas.

Of course it's relative. You can have someone more physical than our current options and that's what we are lacking atm. More steel if you would. I also doubt Zouma would be considered 'aluminium' nor Terry and Vidic considered 'diamonds' like. Way to miss the point.

I have to say it's all relative. Colo and MYM aren't the most physical of defenders, relying instead on a good reading of the game. Saylor while being the most hardened of the 3 has injury concerns. Zouma may not be Terry or Vidic levels but his physical game still brings much needed steel to our defence. Even Bassong in his first year had his moments.

Maccabi Haifa. http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/New-Maccabi-Haifa-Nike-Kit-2013-14.jpg From Left: Third, Away, Home And...

Imagine Marveaux in the middle, Ben Arfa on the right and someone like Remy/PEA on the left. The stuff of legends, that.

Re: Zouma, it might not be a bad idea going for him. He's young, has potential and offers steel to our defence. Taylor is injury-prone. Colo might still go homesick at some stage. We need cover at RB now that Simpson has left and don't have enough versatile defenders in our squad. Debuchy, Colo, Taylor, Zouma, MYM (covers at RB), Santon (covers at RB), Haidara. I'll be happy with that for our defence. The only concern is that it takes away from the budget we need for other key areas.

Barca should go for the 10-midfielder formation to keep them all happy.

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Anzhi-Away-Kit-13-14.jpg

Did they finish lower half?

Kinnear says it is.

He's going to replace our season saviour... :'(

http://www.marca.com/2013/06/26/en/football/national_teams/1372270490.html Now we know where MON got his idea of playing midfielders as fullbacks from.

Have to laugh some times.

Skirge wants Bony real bad.

Scheduled for mid-August reveal so yeah.

http://shop.fulhamfc.com/images/retail-splash/385x528%20takemehome.jpg Similar to: http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Schalke-Away-Jersey-2013.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Kl1AVSB.jpg Clearer look of the apparent saints kit. (no stripes, gold badge/not 125th)

http://images.nitrosell.com/public_html/8/1961/themes/kit_launch/7.jpg

http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/New-Green-Schalke-Kit-13-14.jpg http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/New-Rangers-Kit-13-14.jpg http://www.footballkitnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/New-Everton-Kit-13-14.jpg Lovely Schalke third kit. Everton unlikely to sell much of that with the new badge. Fans can just use a blue marker on last season's kit anyway.

http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/premier-league/transferuebersicht/wettbewerb_GB1.html

It has more to do with the questionable functionability of a Bent-Cisse partnership, both of whom are specialised lone strikers who don't work well in a front 2, and that neither are likely to want to sit on the bench which means a likely Cisse departure. We've been through that with Ba. Why give us a similar headache?

Dortmund in £19.5m bid for Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Hope they'll succeed.

Shola.