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... as knocked up by the Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4925923/Premier-League-Bargain-Team-of-the-Season-from-SunSport.html (Couldn't see this thread elsewhere...) Bargain team is: Jaaskeleinen (West Ham, Free) Riether (Fulham, Loan) Flores (Swansea, £2 million) Collins (West Ham, £2.5 million) Rose (Sunderland, Loan) Yacob (WBA, Free) Diame (West Ham, Free) De Guzman (Swansea, Loan) Lukaku (WBA, Loan) Michu (Swansea, £2million) Kone (Wigan, £2.7million) and the rip off team is Green (QPR, Free) Debuchy (Newcastle, £5.5 million) Samba (QPR, £12.5 million) Yanga-Mbiwa (Newcastle, £6.7 million) Monreal (Arsenal, £8.7million)0 Rodwell (Man City, £15million) Allen (Liverpool, £15million) Garcia (Man City, £16million) Ramirez (Saints, £12million) Borini (Liverpool, £11million) Johnson (Sunderland, £10million) I wonder if free signings are sometimes pot luck as to how good they become, but Allardyce, Laudrup and Clarke seem to have an eye for a bargain. The Sun gives an honourable mention to Lowton for the bargain right back slot at £3million - clearly they've overlooked Clyne at £2.5million? While our own personal bargain of the season could be between Clyne, Davis, Boruc and Yoshida, Clyne surely wins that. Cracking signing for the money. Sadly I agree with Ramirez in the rip-off list, he's not shown much of what he can do this season. Still, with a season behind him, if he stays (which I doubt), perhaps he'll be more influential next season. What are your thoughts on the above?

I hang my head in shame and no longer wish to be taken seriously when I am ITK. Which is never anyway! What a bell-end! He'd be sought after all summer but now he goes and does that and potentially ruins his career. If he did it. Which he probably did. But I am not ITK.

I believe his name was F***son but he had to change it to be more family friendly. This is probably not a fact.

I'd like to see a thread from after we lost to WBA - I wouldn't blame the doome and gloom merchants on that one - very hard to see from that point that we could stay up - but we have, and in style.

Another team to play in Europe when not in the top flight. At least they have something to look forward to next season.

Cazorla has been excellent all season. Weren't we rumoured to be looking to sign him last summer? Or was that HCDAJFU thread nonsense?

It is, it's like they're wearing yellow vests over green T-Shirts. I hope ours is better.

Meh, you think that's the most stupid thing I've said all day - earlier I told the wife that I'd be surprised if they stocked the new Norwich home kit in her size... She's ignored me since. She can't take a joke.

The only benefit of Spurs and Arsenal fighting for 4th is the teams they play. Otherwise it's like two old lions fighting for a carcass that three better lions have already mauled the good flesh of. Or some sort of analogy like that...

Saying things like THIS is basically asking for trouble.

All these weeks of 38 and 39 points and we'd been safe all along. When were we on/passed 35 points? Shame, the last day of the season is going to be nothing but a fight for places now. Relegation spots sorted, Championship sorted. Boring.

There was an Arsenal fan on TalkSport earlier giving it the biggun, saying that Arsenal could finish 3rd because they'd score tons of goals against their last two oppositions, easily scoring 3 or more tonight. Saying things like that is basically asking for trouble, especially with regards to a team that just won the FA Cup from giant killing the former League Champions. I won't deny Arsenal will go on and win this, they very well might, but not by the romp he was expecting I'm sure.

This is a good game. I can't help but think Wigan have left it so late to start playing well. If they'd played like this all season they'd easily be mid-table. Unlike relegated sides before them, if they go down, I can see them bouncing back quite quickly.

Wigan are looking good. Sod it, I'm sticking a grand on Saints 0 - Stoke 15.

Even if Wigan win tonight, I've got more chance of becoming an International Platinum-selling music artist in a long term relationship with Taylor Swift than Saints have of getting relegated on Sunday, such is the set of hugely improbable events that would need to happen. Wait, I've got de ja vu...

Ha! Though you think you would only need two bashes to get a ten...

One thinks that Bearsy may struggle...

I strive to write English perfectly, I prided myself on it at school and was always top of the class in English, but I hate to say I did that quiz, and only got 6/10. Ergo I'm not as talented as I thought, and as a result I'm not going concern myself with comma's in the right place anymore. :-)

It'd like to see us bring in Nick Powell on a cheeky season-long loan. The lad is class from what I've seen. From Crewe he scored some real MLTesque goals. I wonder if Moyes will let him leave though, what with wanting to see what all his new players can do at United.

Based on the final day fixtures, ANY win we get, even if it's 1-0 should see us finish 11th unless Newcastle or Norwich pull off a remarkable win. Sadly West Ham have Reading at home and I can't see them losing that. But we'll all need fresh underwear and therapy throughout the summer. We could lose 30-0 and it wouldn't matter, as Wigan's bid for safety will end tonight. IMHO of course.

I've got more chance of becoming an International Platinum-selling music artist in a long term relationship with Taylor Swift than Saints have of winning the league next season. Only the managers are changing, the squads will be pretty much the same. With the right players brought in, we can be top ten, or even top eight, but as for winning the league next season? No chance. Give it a couple more years of growth though and we'll see. I'm more interested in seeing if the long term spell of Manchester United dominance over English football dies with Fergie's retirement, but I do think we'll have a wait to find that out.

I do like the look of Lambert in a deeper role like that, dictating play from an attacking midfield point of view, and then having a pacier striker up front. Lambert has the creativity and brain to play that role in my opinion, and as he gets older I wonder if that will be the sort of position he ends up playing... or even deeper like Mark Hughes with us.

Without reading the thread in full yet, I jsut want to say I hope Cortese doesn't go, because surely the Liebherr's money will go with him. I like the club where it is, and we were all set to have an interesting summer of transfer activity. If he goes, who knows where the club will end up. Yes we're in the Prem, with all the new TV money that goes with it, and thanks to Markus the debts are largely paid off, but I wonder where this step leads us, if in fact, it does actually happen.