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Rather he stays aloof, rather pathetic how wound up Ronaldo is about it, but competition is good in a way, Ronaldo is a brilliant player which often gets lost in how awful a person he is.

*cough*Stewart Downing*cough*

Am I alone in thinking all the time when I watch other teams play, "Cisse would have scored that" every 5 mins

If Jonas is playing more centrally and Santon cuts in Jonas will probably naturally drift out wide somewhat to compensate for any narrowness from santon. He's brilliant at passing, keeping the ball and carrying it on the ground up the pitch. If he stays fit next season he'll be brilliant I expect, clearly wasn't quite ready for the physicality of the league in his first few appearances but by end had caught up.

Heroin dealer is harsh Think he does the plumbing for my gran...

if in his last year....then we have to sell. 2 mill....think we paid less for him anyway. i would like him to stay as 4th choice....he seems to be happy with his role....especially with european football he would get his share of matches...even with competition from shola I'm not sure he is that happy with it but just not one to whinge in public and maybe understands why other strikers are ahead of him, I'll give him credit that he's not willing to just sit on the bench and collect wages if he want's to leave, in his situation don't blame him at all.

there's his rebel image back, doubt he'll get played again

Best should think twice before jumping on that sinking ship, could end up league 1 by next year, and wonder if the money is real. I think he could do well in premier league still.

He'd be a perfect upgrade on Nasri imo, and I suspect we may have had to worry if they hadn't blown money on Podolski already(not saying Podolski will be a failure but not as good as HBA imo) and suspect shoring up defensive midfield is a bigger priority now they got him and Giroud.

Wenger will just go and buy some 17 year old instead who will come good 200 years later

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I suspect RVP and Gervinho will be off, and Walcott isn't much cop so can see the plan being Giroud Pod Ox HBA Which is a pretty strong front line imo. We shouldn't sell though, and Arsenal aren't going to offer huge over the odds money

Bloody hell can see that much more than Chelsea, Wenger may well convince him he wants to build a team around him, and he'd fit right in. Still £16m is way too low. Should be able to fight them off...right...

At Real I suppose Ronaldo was always making those runs into the box

Do they even bother talking to the club about where he's been good?

Pards wants his teams to have 2 out and out goal scorers on the pitch at most time and injuries are possible with number of games so Ba and Cisse is not enough depth even with rotation. De Jong is young and will take time to get used to the premier league so I imagine would largely come off the bench for us to begin with, and with cups and europa will have plenty of game time. Assuming he comes good he may replace Ba who may be off by then if not this summer, and potentially (though hopefully not) Cisse. I don't see the issue really, we are going to be playing a lot of games, and we'd all like not only to do well in the Europa league but make better impact in cups. Pards has already said that for this season he will have to rotate the squad as he goes a lot more this season rather than just playing players until he has to change them for injury. Equally the club needs to accomodate for the possibiility of Cisse or Ba getting injured, or even if Ba's seeming confidence loss is more serious and he could become a Torres for one (albeit one we got for free). However doubt we'll get him for £8m.

Yes, they're the new Italy, and Italy are surprising fun to watch, they're the new Spain...

Did gerrard just completely contradict Hodgson lol

I expect we're waiting for Euros to end, and we're only buying full internationals from now on Actually rather hope we get some nice bargains (like we want to start paying premiums for someone who scored 1 goal in Euros) too though, but plenty of time. If it gets to half way through pre-season...

Tough start but if we can get some decent points out of it should give us some confidence going on after. Do need to hit the deck running

I bet he doesn't watch any other leagues

Redknapp has said he wouldn't trade England's front 6 for anyone elses in the tournament

Wow. Utterly ridiculous that even got to that stage, pretty much sums up what is wrong with football.