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Agree journalists speak much better about the game than ex footballers. Winter is a bit of a tosser though.

agreed. He also offers a different angle. Footballers just see the same thing. Not sure why the commentators are not used as pundits. They see hundreds of games, do **** load of research so have a real knowledge of the game, get up close with the current players and managers and beyond, plus....THEY SPEAK WELL. Another question, why on earth isn't BBC's chief football correspondent Phil McNulty used as a pundit? Much much mcuyh ratgher have himprsnet 606 than ****ing savage. Having sadd of that I do think Jemaine Jenas is excellent on the radio.

by man on the street he means a non ex footballer, but someone that speaks eloquently on TV or radio - not some random, guy dragged out of a pub. If you are employed to speak with insight on TV, the very least you should be able to do is, er, speak well. My point is that these footballers are robbing a living off better qualified people.

BBC has no advertisers to pamper to, so why would it need clickbait? Besides I'm talking about TV and radio. By the way, I am on the BBC website every day and I doubt I have ever read a Savage, Sutton or Shearer ghosted article. Couldn't give a **** what they think about the game to be honest. I don't take Savage or Clinton Morrison seriously, do you, but I do listen intently to the likes of Tim Vickery and guillem balague. They offer genuine insight and real knowledge. Shearer gets paid £400,000 a year by the BBC, but his knowledge of the world game is woeful. He just tells people what they already know.

why do pundits always have to be ex footballers? This job requires the person to speak well...about football. They don' have dribble, tackle, shoot or run for 90 minutes., So why do they get every single punditry job? Half of them struggle to put two words together, the other half just tell us what we know week after week after week. I know some people have multiple talents, but a good footballer doesn't necessarily equal a good speaker. Ok, so they have some insight into the game, but they all seem to see exactly the same things every week. MOTD for example tends to have two or three pundits that 9 times out of 10 agree with each other...on everything. I see no point whatsoever in employing two people to do the same job. By no means perfect, but when journalists are employed to speak on radio shows like the Monday night football, they bring a completely different opinion and angle to proceedings. In my eyes this job should be given to someone that firstly speaks well, identifies things that perhaps others have not seen and gives fresh input to proceedings, not simply telling us what we already know. To a degree the BBC has served up different opinions in the form of Savage and Sutton, but sadly they have gone down the route of employing controversial big mouths rather than clever thinkers. Certainly there are some decent pundits out there, but when I see people like Clinton Morrison being employed by Channel 5 to talk about the game I wonder if TV producers just lack the balls to say **** this, we'll get a man off the street that speaks well to be the pundit rather than just any old player they can get hold of to fill a sofa.

and Dier and Carter-Vickers...

I cant be arsed trying to find a player that can play in every position. Where does a 7 play by the way? Who cares? All that matters is finding a player that can play in an attacking role, which Gray can.

no idea what a 7,9,10 and 11 rolled into one is. I thought the aim was to replace Long, should he leave? Agree the ship has sailed on King, probably on Gray too.

My knowledge of European football is woeful, so forgive me for going for well known English based players, but Demarai Gray and Josh King would add some much needed pace back into our attack. Gray tore us to pieces, albeit demonstrating Long-like finishing in that game. I suggested him when he was at Brum and still think he has great potential, if not somewhat expensive. King is another that would cost the earth now.

fair point. What I meant was that, unlike all of those mentioned, I think he might believe he get a move to another CL club that pay the big wages.

Using my valuable time to read this post. Mistake.

wearing cycling shorts is a worry. We have had too many biggest signings with injury problems. He doesn't look like a defensive midfielder to me, not that that's a problem.

could not have put it better. Our failure to genuinely compete in games against the top sides is down to very average players in midfield such as Clasie. We must find better if we are to get back to the great days of Morgan and Wanyama dominating a midfield area/game. Hoj needs to pass to someone in the same team before he is of any use to us.

do we have to pay him £750,000 a week for the privaledge?

you'd have to search long and hard to find anyone with a good word about him other than that he speaks his mind.

hope he is better than Licka

fair point, but I'd of thought a move to a CL club that also pays a shed load of money is on the cards for him. He was linked with Barca earlier in the year, who knows if that interest was real, but I think it gives an indication of his level. What a signing that would be. The kind that would instantly ease the pain of losing VVD. Just noticed that Ajax went out of the CL qualifiers, so one less reason to stay at Ajax.

there certainly wasn't anything questionable about Nigel Quashie's display away at QPR a week or so before he ****ed off to WBA. He didn't ****ing care or try, simple as that.

Seemed a decent keeper to me, but it's been a while since I saw him.

He's not going to give up CL football for us. Looked tremendous last season. I think that boat has sailed, sadly.

Nothing, but a multi million pound investment is worth shouting about and if you want the club to increase its income from commercial streams then it becomes essential.

If one is not Krul then I'd like to know why.

But would a 21 yo Bertrand dispLace Target?

if we are to do that we need players with desire to do so, tremendous engines and can cover the ground quickly. The likes of JWP, Classie, Austin and Tadic simply do not fit that mould IMO.