loki679

Could be something as simple as his passport being a bit knackered. I work with passports every day and french passports more than a year or two old are a total nightmare due to their extremely shoddy design. The pictures peel off at the corners making them look faked, the machine readable code is next to useless, they're just very poor quality and fall apart easily. We've rejected quite a few visa applications from french passport holders due to these reasons and a few others.

:mackems: :mackems: To be fair he didn't say it was a large distance.

With those teams it's actually North vs London. I'd agree on limiting it to english players and have them play for where they were born (or raised).

Think we would open negotiations in january too if that was the case, we just wouldnt tell anyone ;-)

Aye, alright then.

just seen the sky live fixtures, rtg mass tantrum commencing in 5,4,3.....

Least one of them can see it. No matter what actually happens in the real world some of them will concoct some fantasy to keep their delusions going.

What's he supposed to do? No-one seems to want to buy him and he can't exactly just resign and head off down the job centre. We've had some wasters and piss takers at the club in the last few years but I wouldn't bracket him with them.

I'm wondering if Sunderland might be setting up in a similar way to us in the last couple of years in this coming season. They've bought two big strikers, a wide midfielder who has a reputation for crosses from deep and set pieces and a midfielder whose focus seems to be goalscoring and little else.

This Sturridge lark is going quite well, he started at £20m going to a CL club, then down to £10m to us, now £6m to Stoke. If we just hold on a week or two we'll be able to pick him up for a bag of chips and a mars bar.

Or Zombie Nation. 'BA BA BA BA.. BA BA BA BA BA BA. BA BA. BA BA.' "Demba Ba" to the tune of Vindaloo by Fat Les would be good, "Demba Ba Demba Ba lala........." That would actually be pretty cool

I just had a horrible thought of 50,000 people doing that 'crazy frog' crap from a few years ago if he scores 'Ba Ba BaBaBABABABA BA BABABABA'

The Allardyce shipping company tends to specialise in deadwood in rather than out. Hope we can offload a couple of duffers to him this summer.

Getting some cash for Barton sort of makes sense if we've got Gervinho or another decent wide player nailed down. We do need to fill out the squad depth a but but if it's a choice of losing Barton and getting 3 new players in or keeping him for 1 season and only getting 2 this summer I think we'd go for the 3.

You know when you take over a team on FM and you bring in some bright new talent but still have 4-5 useless old cloggers from the previous regime on the books that no-one ever bids for and you end up having to keep them until their contracts run out? That's Campbell, Smith, Guthrie and Shola.

Yeeeesssss! There's only two Ameobis chant lol edit: balls :-[

Come on, Ameobi on for Lovenkrands please!

Is he a sicknote though? What's his record been like before picking up the injury at Villa? I like him, get's the ball down and along with Ben Arfa is capable of playing the type of football I want to watch every week. 138 Games in 5 years for City according to Wiki so not terrible I suppose. All these little niggling injuries one after the other makes me a bit uneasy about him though and he seems to have a bit of a weird attitude what with the dead grandmas thing, his falling out with, well, everyone and his attitude to the national team. Maybe i'm wrong and judging him prematurely but it doesn't give me a good feeling about him.

Forget him, doesn't matter how good he may be if he's a sicknote. With the baggage he seems to carry, his injuries and the money it'd cost us we'd be better off looking elsewhere.

Yes, he's a bit crap but at least he loves the club and tries when he's on the pitch. For that alone he deserves respect having seen so many wasters just going through the motions. It's not his fault he's rubbish