Says who ?! And my point is that we have been after some players for a while then finally get them. J-Rod, Clyne, Sharp, Hooper, we have all been after for ages.
Be interesting to see if we go in for names we've been linked with previously. We courted JRod for a year or so before we signed him, same with Sharp, along with a couple of others.
Astori is the only name which stands out....Matt Phillips?
Here is who we were linked with in January...
http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?41776-Who-we-ve-been-linked-with-for-January-thread
Federik Sorensen? Zarate? Verdu? Biglia ?
We are though? The only player that could get in our side would be maybe Tomkins or Reid...possibly Jarvis but personally think Lallana and Puncheon are both better.
This, plus their arrogance is tuned down a bit due to them not being favourites for this game. They know we've been playing really well and deep down I would expect a lot of them are expecting a loss as we're far superior to them man for man.
JWP plays in the '3' though, he looked OK in his apps in CM before Cork was fit, but not quite good enough yet to play CM in a prem side IMO.
Flamini would be decent backup on a sensible wage, but he's not an improvement on what we have.
Would expect him to play. Cole always seems to cause us problems...not sure who I'd rather played. I guess it depends how the game goes. With Vaz Te, Diame, Jarvis and Cole they have pace to cause us problems on the break. Carroll has the touch of a rapist.
Interesting for you maybe...really quite dull and repetitive for the rest of us. I respect your opinon that you think we should have got him back in 2004, but to keep going no about it in 2013 is just quite frankly boring.
He was manager over 10 years ago. Get over it! This is the West Ham Build up thread...whats it got to do with this game? It's worked out for the best in the end so who cares.
The Norwich, Swansea, Fulham, Stoke, Wigan games were all 'dropped points'. Fulham away
You could argue that we expected to lose to Man Utd, City, and Everton.
Only that bit from what I've heard.
Still gobsmacked that Morgan doesn't have his name sung. Even if it's the sh!ttest song ever normally soem get their name sung !