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That's what I'd choose too. A CB that can play at right back comfortably (have we ever had one? Wayne Thomas perhaps), a striker and an attacking midfielder or winger. I'd actually say we could do without the extra CB/RB, but we definitely do need another attacking option, even if it's only the one and it's not a striker. (I do think we'll get more than one in though. Still a long time to go yet.

If you look into her eyes long enough, and squint a bit, she looks possessed. Go on, try it. Go on! Try it, it's awesome! Fine, you win. Keep looking at the bewbs.

If fit. And not suspended. And if he doesn't fatigue, tire or lose form. Having a replacement doesn't hurt. I'm surprised we don't look at the loan market though. I know loans aren't Cortese's favourite thing, we've not had any since League One except for Jos* (who we then went and signed anyway), but as short term cover, without taking away the opportunities from the up and coming youngsters, it's a 'fix'. Or, signing a talented lower league right back that would be happy just to be in the Premier League, fighting as much as he can to become first choice right back. And as has been mentioned, Trippier fits that role. It keeps Clyne on his toes too! *EDIT: I forgot Falque, but does he really count? :-)

Or minus £20million if your name's Andy Carroll.

So is there any news on the imminent, or not so imminent, arrival of Mr Ever Banega to this fair football club? Oh sorry, wrong board. Erm, who has a bigger willy, Banega or Wanyama? We only want big willied lads playing for us. It's the old 'giant tallywhacker' that could get us a deflection for the winning goal in the final of the Champions League in a couple of years. Every little helps, and all that. Or, to heterosexual it up a bit - what does his wife or girlfriend (WoG) look like? Answers on a postcard.

Does this mean the "vagina" page on Wikipedia is going to become popular with teenage boys? In all seriousness do things like Anonymouse work to avoid filters? Not that I'm looking for ways round the filters... :-)

I suppose because it means the next target will be AS big. Which is why now when we get linked to the, for want of a better word, "lesser" players, we feel slightly underwhelmed. Being linked to Damiao up front raises the media's eyebrows, and in turn influences the fans to do likewise. Personally I'm not concerned whether we sign a "name" up front or not, as long as he's been well researched and, most importantly, can come in, perform well and score goals.

Gave it a tweak...

Some big news from the Palace... ...Kevin Phillips has signed a new 1 year contract.

100% yes.

This - knowing Cortese, he'll have snuck something through and it will be announced at 11:23 tonight.

Dang, I'm getting closer. I believe Pochettino has said he's interested in signing Ever. There, it may be old news but it's on topic. ;-)

His middle name is Maximilliano. That's an awesome name 'cos it has an X in it. All names with an X in it are cool.

A baby born at St Mary's. I doubt OUR St Mary's will have any births, but I bet one or two may have been conceived there...

I wonder what chant we'd come up with for him - when I hear his name I immediately thing of "Whenever, Wherever" by Shakira. Just me? Ok.

Prince Cambridge CDAJFU Sign him up, he's young and probably hungry. (I bet he'll support Villa though...)

It's disconcerting that most of us will probably never see him become king...

Does this mean I'm going to have to start having sex with my wife again? Curses.

He's proved he can be an effective Premier League player that can score goals at this level. And he's a fans favourite. It won't happen. Even if it did the transfer fee would have to be near extortion for a player his age and we'd have to bring in one or two top quality replacements. I'm not concerned.

We'll have a 90,000 seater stadium to fill in five years, we could use the extra support from the ghey community...

Oh, the wife likes Kelvin Davis, but then she's always been attracted to weird looking blokes.

You tell me Artur Boruc is no looker - he's a stunner. (In a non-ghey, just observing someones attractiveness type of way.)

Not everyone makes it. John Welsh was on the 2001 article.

Having a look at Dejan Lovren's Wikipedia page, and found a link to Don Balon's 100 most promising youngsters in the world - dated from 2010. Lovren's on that list, playing for Lyon, and so is Mayuka. It could be Cortese's shopping list bearing in mind Coutinho is on there too. It's interesting to see some youngsters on there and where they are now plying their trade. The list: Dominic Adiyiah (Reggina) Toby Alderweireld (Ajax) Hamdan Al Kamali (Al Wahda) Jano Ananidze (Spartak Moscow) Andre Ayew (Marseille) Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina) Holger Badstuber (Bayern) Gareth Bale (Tottenham) Mario Balotelli (Manchester City) Ben Sahar (Hapoel Tel Aviv) Bojan (FC Barcelone) Bo-Kyung Kim (Oita Trinita) Ryad Boudebouz (Sochaux) Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City) Breno (Bayern) Sergio Canales (Real Madrid) Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez (Standard) Luc Castaignos (Feyenoord) Diego Contento (Bayern) Phillippe Coutinho (Internazionale) David De Gea (Atlético de Madrid) Alvaro Domínguez (Atlético Madrid) Giovanni dos Santos (Tottenham) Douglas Costa (Shakhtar) Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow) Gueïda Fofana (Le Havre) Paulo Henrique (Santos) Giuliano (Internacional) Maxime Gonalons (Lyon) Mario Götze (Dortmund) Antoine Griezmann (Real Sociedad) Eden Hazard (Lille) Jordan Henderson (Sunderland) Markus Henriksen (Rosenborg) Abel Hernández (Palermo) Ander Herrera (Zaragoza) Lewis Holtby (Mainz) James Rodriguez (Porto) Stefan Jovetic (Fiorentina) Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague) Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund) Gael Kakuta (Chelsea) Alan Kardec (Benfica) Simon Kjaer (Wolfsburg) Maksim Koval (Dinamo Kiev) Ismail Köybasi (Besiktas) Toni Kroos (Bayern) Manuel Lanzini (River Plate) Adem Ljajic (Fiorentina) Dejan Lovren (Lyon) Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht) Lukman Haruma (Monaco) Federico Macheda (Manchester United) Guido Marilungo (Sampdoria) Marko Marin (Werder Bremen) Emmanuel Mayuka (Young Boys) Thomas Müller (Bayern) Iker Muniain (Athletic Bilbao) Marc Muniesa (Barcelona) Ezequiel Muñoz (Palermo) Yann Mvila (Rennes) Tomas Necid (CSKA Moscou) Neymar (Santos) Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos) Nikolas N’Koulou (Monaco) Javier Pastore (Palermo) Alexandre Pato (Milan) Pablo Piatti (Almería) Miralem Pjanic (Lyon) Rafael (Manchester United) Yaroslav Rakytskiy (Shakhtar) Diego Renan (Cruzeiro) Marco Reus (Mönchengladbach) Emmanuel Rivière (Saint-Etienne) Jack Rodwell (Everton) José Rondón (Málaga) Victor Ruiz (Espanyol) Mamadou Sakho (PSG) Davide Santon (Internazionale) Georgy Shennikov (CSKA Moscow) Xherdan Shaqiri (Basel) Harmeet Singh (Vålerenga) Moussa Sissoko (Toulouse) Robin Soder (Göteborg) Miroslav Stoch (Fenerbahçe) Yannis Tafer (Toulouse) Thiago (Barcelona) Lacina Traoré (Cluj) Ricky Van Wolfswinkel (Utrecht) Carlos Vela (Arsenal) Jelle Vossen (Genk) Ante Vukusic (Hadjuk Split) Theo Walcott (Arsenal) Vladimir Weiss (Rangers) Georginio Wijnaldum (Feyenoord) Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) Danny Wilson (Liverpool) Siyanda Xulu (Mamelodi Sundowns) Andriy Yarmolenko (Dinamo Kiev) Sercan Yildirim (Bursaspor) http://www.thespoiler.co.uk/2010/11/02/don-balons-list-of-the-100-best-young-players-in-the-world/ Stoch is on that list too. A few were already domestic based, but there are others that now ply their trade in this country too, such as Van Wolfswinkel and Sissoko. Alderweireld is on that list too. Some will make it, some won't but it's interesting to see who has and hasn't so far. (Also this list would have been great for signings on FM2011!) Could they ALL DAJFU? :-)

So we have an offer in, still, and nothing's been agreed with where he's going yet?