Loki679

Impossible today? Well, yes, it's the last day of the window. Maybe if we'd sorted it out sometime in the last three months we've had to do it then we wouldn't be in this situation.

Wonderful.

It's bollocks. He wouldn't take a seventy five percent pay cut to come here. He's on about 150k a week at city.

Steve Bruce? Was quality in his day.

Ronaldo looks like he's on a tube train and two teenagers are making out next to him. It's the vacant, eyes straight forward 'I can't see it, i'm not looking, ffs, when's my stop?' look.

Michael Owen. 5 year deal, ninety grand a week.

They are all over the board since yesterday. About 10 pages or more back in this thread It's a load of wank. Like any club is gonna get on the phone one day before the deadline saying 'hey, come get this guy, we'll give him to you really cheap'. It's just bollocks, we're done for this window.

Danny Guthrie's bulked up a bit. More worried about the psycho looking guy in glasses who appears to be indicating he's going to cut something off one of them.

What does that actually mean? If they move, how can we be triggered? He's not the most eloquent English speaker. This is in relation to his comment about our targets being secure at their clubs. If that changes, we'll make our moves. I think it's like Jurassic Park when they're in the car and the T Rex is wandering around. Just stay still and they can't see you. If they move then they suddenly appear to us and we can chase them down and crunch their bones.

All much better than what we have. Have you seen Shola's injury record? He's injured now actually. First part is obviously debatable, especially with the players we could play off Shola in comparison to them. Outside of that, you're basking in negativity. Best got injured all the time aswell, would you want a 5th striker then? Lets not consider the injury records of our other strikers in comparison either, because everyones going to get injured regardless obviously & we need to throw money at it. Again, read what I've posted. I've said we need a replacement for best only 2-3M not a 12M striker hardly throwing money around. Basking in negativity, if we go through a injury crisis upfront I'll be reminding you of all of this. Replacement for Best suggests you were happy with Best, a guy who you just said earlier was out for the 2nd half of the season. But to you Shola isnt a solid enough option as he has a dodgy injury record. Solid talk as always. A replacement for a player that's left the squad shows I was happy with Best. Laughable. Here's a tip, search google for the word SQUAD. You need to learn about it. Be careful when you type though. Without safesearch you'll get some disturbing results if you accidentally put 'SQUAT'.

Nobody has said to sign players just for the hell of it. Taylor or Colo gets injured and we're back to Williamson so it would be nice to have another decent CB in. Simpson is the weak link so we needed a right back. We've lost Best and Lovenkrands so our third choice striker is now Shola, we could have strengthened there. Sensible squad strengthening, nothing football manager about it.

This transfer policy only works if you actually sign players. It was great last summer because we got a lot of our targets 'over the line'. When it means we sign only one player who could maybe be considered a first team regular then it's failed and we've gone backwards relative to the teams around us who have strengthened.

Should have had this one done weeks ago.

Carlton Cole

that would be cattermole as the holding player behind 5 players with no defensive intention at all ? Artie will have the irish lad whose name i can never remember tracking back to help out, he's got a good engine on him. Johnson should also drop back to cover ahead of the full back too. Sessegnon and Dempsey as normal central mids when they don't have the ball, effectively playing a standard four-five-one without the ball and a sort of four-three-three with it.

Dempsey would be a cracking signing for them. Their defence is still a bit shoddy and old but up front and in midfield they'll have the makings of a decent outfit as long as Artie uses them properly. Can see Dempsey and Sessegnon playing advanced midfield behind Fletcher with Johnson and the irish lad up the wings. Catts for me like as the holding midfielder behind them. Not a bad setup really.

The food might be good but what's the chef's record on pelanties like?

The scousers are ok as a bunch I find, it's the plastics that piss me off. I know three liverpool fans, my brother who was born in newcastle and lived down south most of his life, an irish guy and a bloke from hertfordshire who supported everton until he was about twenty four and then switched to livepool. The everton fans I know, on the other hand, are all scousers.

I don't think the injury is a smokescreen, we all saw him make that challenge early in the game and struggle on thru the match, while he may have ran it off and managed to see out the game i think the knock on effect could see him missing a week or so. Yep, Pardew clicked 'keep on' and that always puts them out for a bit longer.

Ok, so what advantages does four four two give us over the other system?

look how fucking deep cabaye is

ryan taylor

So no arguments against as yet.

No, there isn't as long as you give it a good go but we're failing to do what even fucking wigan managed last week and that's to threaten them.

20 good minutes of 4-4-2 then suddenly people want a 4-3-3 after going behind. good? We were playing nice stuff right up to the pen. As much as I love the 4-3-3 I think 4-4-2 has been okay with us so far. We're being dominated. Cisse and Ba are isolated up top, our most creative player is more often than not picking up the ball within his own half and our central midfield is overrun. We have exactly zero penetration up the left hand side. We're sitting far to deep. Fine, we survived twenty minutes but i wouldn't say it was good. How many shots on goal have we had?