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Hard to believe we would let him go on loan to Birmingham. His development would be seriously harmed by the "coaching" of 'Arry.

So actually its not a recurrence, its the other knee. That really is **** bad luck.

Seriously doubt Cedric would agree to a move to Chelsea when it is known that Barca are interested. We won't sell now anyway, so its a moot point.

If he is withdrawing his labour completely he is on strike, strikes do not have to be made by a group, or at least the size of the group can be one. If a player refuses to do anything that is reasonably expected of him under the terms of his contract, which would include training at the club training ground and other PR duties, not just playing, then he is on strike. I doubt that Coutinho is actually doing all of this, just the playing part. Why would he stop training? Unless of course the Club have banned him from the training ground/facility, which would be very odd given that they want to keep him.

You're right, sorry, he was 21 on 1st January, I think, I was thinking it was 21 or under on 1st Jan that season starts. Makes it all the stranger in that case. We now have 2 players over and above the 25 player limit, and both keepers. Clearly just here for the PL2/u23s/FLT in that case. Bizarre.

Just to be pedantic, 8 years and 37 days actually, 8th July 2009. You should never forget that date, its Double VD's birthday (and mine as well).

I think he qualifies as u21 (born 31 Jan 1995) so can provide cover, assumes Gazza is going, as he hasn't been given a squad number. It looks like they have been hanging on until McCarthy is proven fit again. We certainly needed a keeper for the U23s.

If he was desparate to be involved in the Dutch squad he would be playing (for us) right now. He won't be involved in the Dutch games at the end of August, and after these games the likelihood is that the Dutch will be unable or very unlikely to qualify. Quite honestly all this stuff about him being desparate to play in the WC is rubbish - he knows that he won't be playing there whatever happens. The Dutch will (probably) not qualify.

One of the troubles with this particular "stat". We had several attempts that looked on target but were deflected away by defenders, they count as "off target", we also hit the crossbar, which is also "off target". We were so much better today than in most of Puel's games last season (there were a few exceptions, didn't we have 34 attempts against Hull or something stupid?), MP just needs to find a way to get Gabbi more involved, it needs someone playing closer to him (in my opinion). One of the most one-sided 0-0s you will see, nevertheless Tammy Abrahams should have buried us in the first half but fluffed his lines.

We got behind them many times actually, just couldn't do anything with it when we did.

Its not what I'm saying, its what linguistic experts say. Me, I couldn't tell a Portuguese from a Brazilian (linguistically). You don't really think I made that up do you? I checked it out factually and posted it. Anyway we all know now that Mario is Gabonese and speaks French. Don't know about Luigi. Think the laugh is on you really mate

Usually we wait two or three seasons and sign players who have won the Champions League (Bertrand, Hojbjerg, Romeu, Caceres), getting a runner-up may be a first.

Super.

Although Argentina's official language is Spanish, Argentinian Spanish is different from the Spanish spoken in Spain. In some ways it sounds more like Italian than Spanish. :mcinnes:

You'll wait a long time, we stopped the watch business 2 or 3 years ago. Eterna? are not sponsors these days.

That was a bit worrying, it should actually read (froim the English page of the same site) "His father will arrive from Gabon today and by tomorrow the deal will be official." http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/juventus-lemina-having-his-medicals-with-southampton-the-figures

Not exactly the worst team we ever put out. Jesus, Surman, Saga and Rasiak were decent on their day (depending whether Saga was due a new deal or not). Viafara was OK at times as well. OK some of the others were dire, but sure there were many worse line-ups.

Do the u23s have any pre-season friendlies? Unable to find anything on the OS or elsewhere.

Assist for Davis, good build up by Tadic

When did Long come on?

What about if Virgil doesn't want to go to Chelsea? We can't make him. He has said he only wants to play for Liverpool.

It wasn't just money though was it, he was also made Captain (which is more important to both player and club than some on here seem to think), and that at a time when we already had a captain. That was a big deal for the Club and meant that the Club were already planning to relieve Fonte of that responsibility, which could only mean by getting rid. Something happened between VvD and the Club (Les) during the months that followed, presumably after January. Liverpool's approach was not the catalyst for change, it was a result of whatever that catalyst was (in my opinion). Would love to know what it was that happened to sour the relationship.

Bednarek is u21 as are Sims and Hesketh, they do not count towards the 25 man squad. We have 25 over 21s, no gaps at present. Gardos, Gazza and Gallagher are the most likely to be shipped out, or we may have a gap if that Virgill chappy is sold.

and keeper